Marc Spector
the 4'11 Cuban
the fantastic four (and superman for that matter but thats another story) only work if you:Fantastic four is probably gonna suck, because the characters themselves aren't that good. Reed Richards is like the most intelligent humanoid in all of comics in history, but at the end of the day, he's plasticman with a PhD. Johnny the human torch has a more inconsistent identity in comics than his lover ice man, and the thing is struggle hulk.
A good writer can do good things in comics with them because you don't need to tell their farkakte old tyme "gamma waves" origin, but I can't see it working in this era of comic movies.
Personally, i think they're the most overrated IP in all of comics.
1. embrace the fact that they are an antiquated concept along with
2. embrace the idea of them as "Imaginauts" the term Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo coined for their run on the book (one of the GOAT runs btw) to describe the FF as the great explorers of the Marvel Universe and their focus should be seeing the great wonders of existence
My quick pitch for a FF film is taken from the Sentry but.. have them be a team of Super Hero explorers who come home to a Earth that they never existed on. Maybe it was the snap that did it, maybe it was kang, maybe it was the Scarlet Witch or maybe it was something else entirely. But before they even have time to figure that out, they must think fast...because Gah-Lak-Tus is coming.