FF gets new writer

E! Online reported back in March that "it may be back to the drawing board for the FANTASTIC FOUR screenplay. I hear execs at Fox are not in love with the current script..." I got a chance to talk to FF director Peyton Reed as he was out and about promoting his latest effort DOWN WITH LOVE and he addressed these rumors. He said that at this time there is very little movement because they don't have a script. The last version was submitted back in late-2002 and written by Doug Petrie. Petrie talked to MTV at the time and said of the script: "[The other scripts] were very big on 'these are astronauts that go to space' for the first, like, half-hour...It was something like ARMAGEDDON. I just kept saying it's got to be like A HARD DAY'S NIGHT." Perhaps Fox didn't like that angle either as director Reed confirmed they have hired former "Twin Peaks" writer Mark Frost to write the current draft. When I asked about a possible release date in 2005 or the possibility he might as his DOWN WITH LOVE star Renee Zellweger to play Invisible Woman, Reed said all those decisions were on hold until there was a script everyone was happy with. Now if anyone has a copy of Doug Petrie's draft and would like to send it along...just let me know. (Stay tuned later this week for more fun from the DOWN WITH LOVE junket.)

Source: JoBlo.com