Michael B. Jordan shook off the haters who disagreed with his casting a Johnny "The Human Torch" Storm in the "Fantastic Four" reboot. He fully embraced his superhero status, but underestimated the snugness of his superhero outfit.
"I was like, 'This is a lot tighter than I expected,'" he told the New York Daily News about his Human Torch suit.
Jordan teams up with Miles Teller, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell to form the new "Fantastic Four" crew. The actor grew up loving comic books, Japanese animation and cartoons, and "fantasized" about becoming a character with super powers, according to the Daily News.
The film will premiere next August, but Jordan received the part two years ago, and is feeling "pretty good" about his role. He also appreciated Fox, the studio behind this Marvel property, supporting the film's decision to cast him in role usually portrayed by a white man.
"It's something that we kind of willed to happen, which was really important to me and Josh [Trank]," he said about the movie's director. "We're lucky we had a studio behind us that really supported our ambition and our want for change. Now we have something really epic."
The younger cast will bring a "more grounded approach" to the reboot compared to the critically-panned 2005 version, according to Vulture.
"It's different in every way," Teller told Vulture. "All those actor were a lot older, their characters were in different places. The tone of this film is completely different: We don't have Michael Chiklis is a big Styrofoam thing, and I think that [a more grounded approach] is what people are into... You're dealing with these character but you're making them real people in how they exist day-to-day."
"Fantastic Four" will premiere at the end of an action-packed summer that includes Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and "Ant-Man," "Terminator: Genisys" and "Jurassic World."
