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Here's the problem: Previously, black actors (Eartha Kitt, Michael Clarke Duncan, Samuel L. Jackson, Idris Elba) were hired because they were right for the character, and the fact that they were black was never addressed or mentioned in-story; they just happened to be so and it was no big deal. By race-flipping Jon Storm, and casting his sister as gleamingly white, the makers of Fantastic Four have to explain it in-story, which makes *it* the story. So it won't only be a bad movie, but a step back in superhero racial portrayals; comic books have enough of a problem with racial portrayals and can't afford that, but these are movie people making these choices, and they don't care so much about comic book problems.
This is stunt casting. This is hiring a black actor to play a traditionally white role to make the movie makers seem racially sensitive (especially to the more ethnically-diverse Millennials) and to get their movie talked about. This, plus hiring the Chronicle guy to do that kind of movie, plus basing it on the ridiculous "Ultimate" interpretation of the characters, plus it being so soon after the previous two movies, plus it being rushed through production, plus taking ten or twenty years off the characters' ages, plus hiring the youngest, mousiest looking nerd they could as Mr. Fantastic, and a thin, short dancer as the Thing, means this movie is going to su*******.
Suck, like Green Lantern suck. Really bad suck.
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