Down
With Love
Interview
With Director Peyton Reed
During
the press junket that was being held in NYC a few weeks ago our
own Radames Reyes got a chance to speak to Down With Love's Director
Peyton Reed, and here is what he had to say about the Fantastic
Four Movie.
 Are
you still attached to the Fantastic Four?
Peyton:
I am. We just hired a new writer, Mark Frost, who wrote Twin Peaks.
We’re just getting started.
Do you have any notions
of bringing the same 60’s throwback style?
Petyon: It’s
still in discussion.
There’s a rumor
that you wanted to do it like IT’S A HARD DAYS NIGHT, like
the Beatles. Where the fans are all around the Fantastic Four
but they’re just a family who is arguing at home. Is that
right?
Peyton: There
was a draft earlier that structurally was like IT’S A HARD
DAYS NIGHT. But to me it became to be only about their fame and
it didn’t really accomplish… there’s some great
stuff in it and there will be some of that aspect to it.
X2 just made $88M
this weekend. Does that make it easier now for you to bring the
Fantastic Four to the big screen?
Peyton: I’ll
mention it. (Laughter) Wow. $88M in 3 days? Wow, that’s
amazing. I think that proves that there is a market for that.
That can only help.
 What’s
your interest in it?
Peyton: I’ve
just been a huge fan for years. I grew up reading the comics.
But why the Fantastic
Four?
Peyton: I like
the Fantastic Four really because they’re daytime superheroes
in a way and they don’t have secret identities. They’re
very much a part of New York City, they’re part of a community.
You can run into them on the street and there is that kind of
thing, trying to get at the reality of what it would be like to
have actual superheroes in the city and setting them up in a pretty
realistic environment.
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