Dr. Doom Signs on for Sequel
Plus, it looks like the film will have the July 8 weekend all to itself.
Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon, who plays Victor Von Doom in this summer's highly anticipated Fantastic Four movie, has already signed on for a sequel, he told Comics Continuum.
"I'm signed on to do the sequel, but I really have to be honest with you, the way that I would look at it if I was Fox and those guys, it depends on how well Von Doom is received and how well you could fit him back in again," McMahon told the Web site. "It if works storyline-wise and if the audience liked him, I'd say they should bring him back. It would be a no-brainer.
"But if they feel like you kind of have done Von Doom and they need to bring in someone else, I can understand that as well. But we'll see."
FX supervisor Kurt Williams added this about taking Victor into full Dr. Doom mode:
"When he fully escalates into full Doom, he has this power that he sort of controls the energy in the room and the electricity, so there's a lot of scenes where he drains the energy in the room and the lights come down," Williams said. "At the end, that power is sort of his own doing. He grows just like the other characters do.
"One of the events of the movie that's kind of important is that he's a big threat in the movie to the Fantastic Four. And he¹s got a lot of power that really threatens them, as well as the public in New York. So we're treating him with an electrical field. We'll generate some light sources that come from under his skin, that gives a topical electrical effect with him, it makes it organic, it's coming from inside him."
Meanwhile, it looks like the FF film will have the July 8 weekend all to itself after all. After initially conceding the June 24 "Fourth of July" weekend to Stephen Spielberg's War of the Worlds, the FF film was going up against Bewitched starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. Now Sony has moved that film to two weeks earlier. The Kate Hudson supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key also got moved to Aug. 12.