Pictures of the Thing from the upcoming Fantastic Four movie

Looks like the very early Kirby lumpy version before he became more sharply defined. If they have s successful franchise they could evolve the look as they go along.
 
I doon't like it. It looks too human. He should be more orange and rocklike as in the comics. This guy looks more like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

They probably did him this way on purpose. To better display his inhumanity and suffering. But I still don;t like it.
 
This might not be the look throughout the movie. If you look back the Thing changed quite a bit in the first few years.

The standard version that has been around the longest would also be a bit of a challenge. They don't want to do a CG Thing the would be compared to the badly received CG Hulk but doing the Thing's rocky eyebrows in an animatronic costume is tricky. They help a lot to convey expression in the comics but coming up with a material that looks rocky has enough mobility would be tough. By far, the most difficult character in the movie. Coming up with a Dr. Doom that doesn't look silly is tough too but only in a design sense. It isn't a technical problem.
 
[quote name='Admiral Ackbar']I doon't like it. It looks too human. He should be more orange and rocklike as in the comics. This guy looks more like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

They probably did him this way on purpose. To better display his inhumanity and suffering. But I still don;t like it.[/quote]

There are 2 pictures of the Thing. One is the first one where he looks all veiny and shit; I am guessing this is when he is undergoing transformation.

There is a harder-to-see picture to the right where he looks Orange and rocky.
 
[quote name='Santurio']why is he so short?[/quote]

Because Michael Chiklis isn't tall at 5'9". You can only boost him up with the costume so much before he becomes hopelessly clumsy.

Ron Perlman of 'Hellboy' fame is 6'2" so he pulls it off a bit better. Chiklis is a better personaility match for the character.
 
[quote name='Alpha2']It jst looks like early stuff as if he's just starting to manifest powers.[/quote]

Right, but keep in mind, the Thing doesn't really MANIFEST powers. He was just transformed and that was it. Unless they've changed it, which they very well might have.

I've been following this project for awhile...still not quite sure what to think of it. There are things I like (Ioan as Reed, Julian McMahon as Dr. Doom)...there are things I'm iffy on (Chiklis as Ben, Alba as Sue)...and there are things that just confound me (Tim Story directing). But I'm holding out hope that it will come together. I haven't been disappointed by a Marvel film yet (that's right, I like both X-Mens, both Blades, both Spideys and even the Hulk and Daredevil...the Punisher was okay for what it was).
 
I saw the picture of him earlier today. He looks like a zombie or some shit. Did any of you guys see the concept Thing costume earlier this year? It was made by the people who did the Hellboy costume and it looked freakin sweet. Wish I had the picture, I'll try to find it.

The Hellboy costume designers made it cause they were suposively in the running to do the designing for F4. I guess they didn't get hired though, cause I think I read the X-Men costume/special effects people are doing F4. Things getting the Mystique makeover. I wonder what they'll do with Dr Doom and Human Torch.
 
Well Ice man didn't "ice up" yet in the Xmen movies but they did do a metal Collosus so I'm suspecting Torch will just go all CG when hee gets firey.
 
In my best Simpsons Comic Book Guy voice...

"According to 'The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Volume Seven: Stingray to Wendigo' published in 1987, Benjamin Grimm, also known as The Thing, stands at the height of a mere 6' and weighs in at an even 500 lbs. The creature appearing in those horrid photos may infact be tall enough to be The Fantastic Four's beloved rock-like hero, but he's lacking the shear mass, orange hue and crackly outershell that make The Thing so so loveable and thing-y."

I personally think he looks like balls. Some things you just shouldn't f' with because the people who are going to see a Fantastic Four movie want to see their favorite characters brought to life on film. They don't want to see some hollywood a-hole's idea of what these characters should be. Many of these comic book characters have gone through 40-50 years of many brilliant and talented artists tweaking and refining their designs and appearances. It just surprises me how some hollywood types are so quick to discard all of that work and history just because they're now making a "movie". :?
 
[quote name='bowsernieb'][quote name='Alpha2']It jst looks like early stuff as if he's just starting to manifest powers.[/quote]

Right, but keep in mind, the Thing doesn't really MANIFEST powers. He was just transformed and that was it. Unless they've changed it, which they very well might have.

I've been following this project for awhile...still not quite sure what to think of it. There are things I like (Ioan as Reed, Julian McMahon as Dr. Doom)...there are things I'm iffy on (Chiklis as Ben, Alba as Sue)...and there are things that just confound me (Tim Story directing). But I'm holding out hope that it will come together. I haven't been disappointed by a Marvel film yet (that's right, I like both X-Mens, both Blades, both Spideys and even the Hulk and Daredevil...the Punisher was okay for what it was).[/quote]

Keep in mind the stuff Stan and Jack did for a comic book back in 1962, back when Marvel depended on Westerns and Horror/monster comics (where Reed Richards first appeared) for their bread and butter. BenGrimm suddenly putting on well over a hundred pounds of new mass from nowhere was easily ignored. (No Pym Particles yet.) If most writers were given the same story to produce today they'd have the change be gradual and coupled with a voracious appetite to acquire the mass. It would provide lot of room for a cool subplot as the character evolves. Back when the series started such drawn out development was non-existent.

They acknowledged this problem a littles in the Hulk movie. In the scene in San Francisco when the Hulk reverts to Bruce Banner he gives off a cloud of steam and is eventually standing in a puddle. The idea was that most of the extra mass was drawn from the atmosphere and released back into when he changed back to human.
 
[quote name='CouRageouS']I saw the picture of him earlier today. He looks like a zombie or some shit. Did any of you guys see the concept Thing costume earlier this year? It was made by the people who did the Hellboy costume and it looked freakin sweet. Wish I had the picture, I'll try to find it.

The Hellboy costume designers made it cause they were suposively in the running to do the designing for F4. I guess they didn't get hired though, cause I think I read the X-Men costume/special effects people are doing F4. Things getting the Mystique makeover. I wonder what they'll do with Dr Doom and Human Torch.[/quote]

Not sure about the Torch, but with Doom, it's been altered so that instead of just wearing a suit of armor, these patches of metal start popping up on his skin and spread like a disease. He can also shoot electricity bolts from his hands. This, of course, is after he is also bombarded by cosmic rays because, in this version, he goes on the space mission too.
 
[quote name='Alpha2']Well Ice man didn't "ice up" yet in the Xmen movies but they did do a metal Collosus so I'm suspecting Torch will just go all CG when hee gets firey.[/quote]

Perhaps they'll start off with the early 'Snowman' version and work their way up.
 
[quote name='bowsernieb'][quote name='CouRageouS']I saw the picture of him earlier today. He looks like a zombie or some shit. Did any of you guys see the concept Thing costume earlier this year? It was made by the people who did the Hellboy costume and it looked freakin sweet. Wish I had the picture, I'll try to find it.

The Hellboy costume designers made it cause they were suposively in the running to do the designing for F4. I guess they didn't get hired though, cause I think I read the X-Men costume/special effects people are doing F4. Things getting the Mystique makeover. I wonder what they'll do with Dr Doom and Human Torch.[/quote]

Not sure about the Torch, but with Doom, it's been altered so that instead of just wearing a suit of armor, these patches of metal start popping up on his skin and spread like a disease. He can also shoot electricity bolts from his hands. This, of course, is after he is also bombarded by cosmic rays because, in this version, he goes on the space mission too.[/quote]

It simplifies the origin story a great deal but produces a radically different character. In fact, it sounds like a very specific character but the name evades me at the moment.

The Torch is pretty much a gimme for CG. It's something that should work well and probably the only approach any sane actor will accept.
 
[quote name='WhipSmartBanky']I've dropped piles of shit that look more like Thing than this does...[/quote]

And lived to tell? You must have made some proctologist an interesting case study.
 
[quote name='Xevious'][quote name='Admiral Ackbar']I doon't like it. It looks too human. He should be more orange and rocklike as in the comics. This guy looks more like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

They probably did him this way on purpose. To better display his inhumanity and suffering. But I still don;t like it.[/quote]

There are 2 pictures of the Thing. One is the first one where he looks all veiny and shit; I am guessing this is when he is undergoing transformation.

There is a harder-to-see picture to the right where he looks Orange and rocky.[/quote]

DO you mean the picks on the right where he's wearing a black cloak? He doesn't look orange to me. Looks fleshlike. Actually he looks the same to me. Except one's a close up and another you can only see the head.
 
[quote name='epobirs'][quote name='WhipSmartBanky']I've dropped piles of shit that look more like Thing than this does...[/quote]

And lived to tell? You must have made some proctologist an interesting case study.[/quote]

Not really. Take Taco Bell, add Gatorade, let simmer for a few hours...

BIGGiTY BAMF! THINGPOOP.
 
Ugh.... okay I can stand the stuff about Reed and Sue and such but "Latveria Industries"??? WTF? And Doom's "Organic Armor"? ....


NO.
 
The Thing looked way better in the 1994 unreleased FF movie

They even got his rocky eyebrows, he was the only cool one.
Everyone else kinda sucked.. dialogue was bad for every one too.

do a search... im sure you can download it somewhere.
 
[quote name='fasurfer05']The Thing looked way better in the 1994 unreleased FF movie

They even got his rocky eyebrows, he was the only cool one.
Everyone else kinda sucked.. dialogue was bad for every one too.

do a search... im sure you can download it somewhere.[/quote]

Is there a pic?
 
The 1994 costume looked OK in stills but was horible in motion. It's one of the reasons it's so hard to do the character.

Going farther back, there was a Saturday Night Live back in the 70's that had a sketch where a large assemblage of Marvel and DC character's gathered at a party. (This was with Margot Kidder hosting, of course http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-365/epid-116148 )
John Belushi was done up as the Hulk, but the point is they had a guy playing the Thing in a costume that really captured the classic look of the character but was extremely clumsy, looking like one of those sumo costumes Bill Murray and Tim Curry wore in 'Charlie's Angels.' (Can't seem to Google up any pictures.) Now that was a cheap costume but it illustrated the difficulty of the comic book character's proportions.
 
comics2film.com says those pictures of the Thing are only in partial transformation. Hope thats true. On the Torch thing, way back when they were just discussing this movie, the scripted called for Torch having X2 Pyro like abilities, rather than being engulfed in flames. Collosus turning into metal was pretty sick, in the previews I thought it was Iceman at first.
 
if that shitty makeup job is the finished product of the thing we may be looking at the beggining of the end of the new comic movie boom. A good thing can make the industry. But the pic i just saw may break the industry in pieces.
 
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