Galactus Is Going To Be A Giant Storm Cloud

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Galactus-SmallAs soon as people hear that Silver Surfer was going to be a key character in the next Fantastic Four movie, the whole internet fan community has been buzzing with the question “Will Galactus be in it?”. I mean come on now… who doesn’t want to see giant galactic beings who eat planets! I do!

Then came the confirmation that Galactus would indeed be making an appearance in the film. “YAY!” shouted the fans. So then question then became “How will Galactus look?”. Everyone has been speculating weather he’ll have his classic comic book look, or perhaps a slightly updated look. But now it seems that question has been answered.

Galactus is going to be a giant storm cloud.

Let me repeat that. Galactus… is going to be… a giant… storm cloud.

The folks over at AICN give us the following:

And now… well, now Fox has finally locked down the look of Galactus in the film that is, I’m now hearing from people on the picture, “a heartbreaker.” And not in the good way. More in the “hates superheroes and plays more like a parody than a real film” way. Are you ready for this?

Wanted to let you know what Galactus is going to look like / be represented as in the FF2 sequel: A storm cloud.

Yep. That’s it. That’s the solution from the creatives. (clears throat)…..pretty lame.

Oh my sweet goodness. A storm cloud? Are the fucking kidding me? Look, any of you who have been reading The Movie Blog for any length of time know that I’m ok with changing the look of a character if it works better on screen. I don’t mind. The essence of a character is NOT in what color his tights are or shape his face is in.

But a CLOUD!?!?! That’s not just a total departure from what Galactus LOOKS like… it’s also a total departure from the essence of the character. At least thats how it strikes me. Look, maybe I’m overreacting here. Maybe this isn’t so bad. 1 single secondary character won’t make or break this movie… but I’ve got a feeling that if this story from AICN is correct, a LOT of comic fans are going to be furious at this new

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  1. I’m sure Galactus will appear in the sequel, while here he’s only just a cloud. We have to understand that the cloud could just be PURE POWER COSMIC controlled by an omnipotent and omniscient mind called Galactus. And as you surely know, what we can see of Galactus in the classic Marvel Universe isn’t his true aspect, but just an avatar adopted by the Devourer to be “seen” by earthlings, as He gets a different aspect according to the race He is going to devour. That’s why I think that this movie had the right concept for the character, removing from it all those stupid aspects link’d to that “robot-like” giant, whose look is too similar to X-Men Sentinels. That’s my opinion, folks!

  3. Where did they get a cloud from? The First Fastastic 4 was horrible. And when I say horrible, I would put it up there with catwomen, not as worse, but in the same category of bad, bad comic book movies I’d put Daredevil or Electra in…anyways I’m not really expecting much from this one, other then giving the best looking creature (jessica Alba) in this the last power I would of given her-invisibilty? That would be one change I wouldn’t argue with..

  4. Wow I this is true then their are some scenarios where it’s not as bad as it sounds.

    1. Galactus hides behind the cloud and is only being a sneaky little rodent.

    and thats all i can think of. If its bad then this is a plausible idea

    1. Fox is doing this to atract people other than geeks. Like the first film I would think attracted tons of kids and normal people, so maybe they dont give a rats flying @$$ about the real comic book franchise and are trying to just rake in the cash by attracting even more regula schmoes.

    Either way their being bastards by doing this to us. Giving us a peice of crap {even though we didnt accpect much} for a cool comic book character, or making as piss are pants by THINKING hes a fratzing cloud!

  5. In truth,

    Galactus can take on other forms.
    In the comics, he appears different to every life-form.

    On Earth, he looks like a giant human. On Alpha Centauri, he would look like a giant Alpha-Centaurian. And so on…

    I, myself, am still holding out hope that the cloud is just his “essence”, as others have said, and we get to see his true form (be it Ultimate or Classic, although I would prefer the Ultimate) in the Silver Surfer movie. (if that does indeed ever happen)

    Either way, like I said before, I still think it’ll be a fun movie.
    I’m not a fanatic purist or an impossible to please fanboy, so I thought the first one was Ok.

  9. I dont think this is fatal to the true character design. If they feel that fans really want to see Galactus in his familiar form, they can do it later on. The storm cloud could just be his “essence” or whatever, and he can chhose to take any form he wants, er something.

  11. I dunno, I am still holding onto hope that the storm cloud refers to the messages being sent to the Silver Surfer via Galactus (like, visages…) and that Galactus himself.. is still… Galactus…

  13. We all keep mentioning how much the FF1 was a let down, but has anyone bothered looking up the total Gross it generated?

    Production Budget: $100 million (Cost to make the film)
    Worldwide: $330,120,875 (Revenue it generated)

    Source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fantasticfour.htm

    So the movie made good money, enough for everyone involved to think that there was nothing wrong with the project and their formula.

    I’m disappointed with the decision they made about the form of Galactus just like everyone, but since the previous movie made good $, the party involved have no reason to feel that they need to make any drastic changes to their original formula. Like introducing Galactus the way feel. Plus, a good number of ppl going to see FF2 are not going to have prior knowledge of Galactus.

    To look into the past, Independece Day, the movie. The space ships were introduced as clouds when they came to Earth, but later showed their true form. Therefore, I believe this is not the final form of Galactus, he will be physically presented in the later movie(s).

    Or maybe if you wait after the credits in the end you “will see Galactus in his true form”. :o)

  16. Is that how Galactus devours planets? He emits a huge toxic gas fart cloud that kills everything on that planet and sucks it back into his anal canal?

  17. My “point” John is that (as you so ably put it) you don’t have problems with changing the look of the character, and yet you’re complaining. Since the essense is what matters, Fox has maintained that for Galactus’ character. Galactus will still be huge, still munch planets for breakfast, still have a herald named the Silver Surfer, and he’ll still fight the Fantastic Four. That IS Galactus. It sure as hell ain’t Doctor Doom.

    So what’s the problem? You should be cheering this. After all…”The essence of a character is NOT in what color his tights are or shape his face is in.” Well, if reducing a character from a gigantic man to a cloud isn’t boiling him down to his “essense” then what is? Lame joke, but you get the “point.”

  18. If they felt like they couldnt bring the classic design of the charactyer across on the big screen, then whatever. I personally think Galactus looks kinda silly anyway. With a cloud like this, who knows they could always leave the door open where he can “assume the likeness of a body” or something. How about that, a cloud that when he eats enough planets “transforms” into a guy with a big purple and glasses.

  19. He’s really not as gay looking as he is in that one pic used for this lil article. Check out how he looks in the Marvel:Ultimate Alliance video game. He looks bad ass in the short lil “movie” they show in it where they increase the graphics and shit. He looks tight.

  21. Galactus is a ridiculous character anyway. As much as it bastardizes the creator’s original work, having Galactus as a cloud might work. I mean, a giant dude who eats planets and wears some metrosexual get-up, storm cloud makes just as much sense. As cool as it would be to see Galactus on the big screen, it would be damn near impossible to portray him accurately, and I think this is not a bad idea. And Jessica Alba is a fox.

  22. Hey I got it!! If Galactus were a big gay storm cloud energy force thing, but created a semi-physical humanoid shape that looked like the original comic Galactus (but not purple and blue) just so he could get himself across better to all the little humanoids running around or whatever, than that would be fuckin tight. And then the cloud form of Galactus would just suck all the life and energy out of the planet and that would be how he devoured planets. But he could also shoot lil beems of energy and shit out of his fingers and eyes and all that in his “original comic book form”. Get it?

    Big dark storm cloud filled with lightning flashes and what-not covers the skies. It starts talking, saying “I am Galactus and I am going to devour” or “destroy your planet” Scary shit, okay?

    Then blasts of lightning and big “boom” sounds start coming out and clouds swirlies start coming down from the cloud almost like several tornadoes wrapping around each other and a humanoid shape starts to be seen and bright white or yellow eyes come out and a bright blast of light booms out and then sucks back in along with lighning and shit of course and there is this form of Galactus that looks like a god dressed in war clothing like in the comics and then he speaks with a booming deep voice.

    That’s that hotness right there. Whatcha think? Come on, somebody tell me what ya think. John? Doug? Guys?

    Boom! People are freakin out

  23. Even the black planet from The Fifth Element and the corn bugle looking planet smasher from the original Star Trek is a better concept. But I agree that the ‘real’ Galactus is hiding in the clouds..he has to be.

  27. To be fair, Galactus in the Marvel ultimate universe is a large group of robotic drones. Okay, not a cloud, but not so far a stretch…

    I cannot possibly imagine a live action version of the “classic” Galactus helmet not looking completely ridiculous.

  28. inside the cloud, they could still have a giant disembodied head… kinda like omichron. i think that actually might work a bit better than a giant humanoid body.

    if it’s just an evil cloud… that’s lame.

  31. LOL, yay. This has gotta be the worst character to film change EVER. I mean I can kind of understand if they wanted to change the character some, cuz a giant planet eatting “alien man” might look silly, but siriously, is a giant planet eatting storm cload really the answer?

    WOW, just wow. How dumb is that? Just boggles my mind. I hope it’s all just a bad rumor. I had a feeling the film would be just as cheesy as the first, but they just said “fuck it, lets go all out stupid with this one”. I had little intrest in this film as it was, now I might catch it some night on cable, who knows.

  33. Hey Jaysmack,

    May I humbly suggest reading my whole post before commenting. I CLEARLY said in my post:

    “Look, any of you who have been reading The Movie Blog for any length of time know that I’m ok with changing the look of a character if it works better on screen. I don’t mind. The essence of a character is NOT in what color his tights are or shape his face is in.”

    So what was your point exactly?

  34. What’s everyone so pissed off about? Who cares if Galactus is a cloud or a man or a giant power-saw, he’s still Galactus, right? John never gets tired of using the “a rose by any other name” logic to defend the changes Bay is making to Transformers. I hope he won’t abandon that rationale now just because it’s Galactus. I’m loving every second of this. LOLOLOLOLOL
    I think it’s a great test of John’s philosophy regarding changing adapted material from it’s original form.
    Awhile back I asked, “How many changes can you make to Transformers before it’s not Transformers anymore?” When asked about these unsolicited and often uneccessary changes, filmmakers predictably say, “Oh, the original idea was dorky-looking, and didn’t make sense, so we made the concept more realistic and made it look cool too!”
    Well how “cool” or “realistic” or “credible” can you make a property before it’s no longer that property anymore? Maybe I just chose the wrong movie to ask this question about, because at the time I never got an answer. Now I see what the answer is.

    Personally I think Galactus is stupid looking, especially that headpiece. With an amorphous cloud you get more the feeling that it’s a force of nature rather than some ominpotent being.
    Besides, as long as he destroys planets that’s all that matters? Right? It’s not like we should get too attached to the ORIGINAL concept, right? Give the filmmakers room to be creative so they can make it cool, because certainly they know what they’re doing. Right? It’s not mature of a moviegoer to complain about trivial details like how a character LOOKS. Right?

  35. Gene Roddenberry is now writing for FF2. And FF3 will be Mole Man leading a bunch of Jello molds that move through rock in an effort to take over the world.

    Seriously though, I can sort of see a cloud coming in and devastating a planet and sucking a planet’s energy. I never read many comics with Galactus, and none where he devoured a planet, but I always picture some big guy munching on a planet like an apple. That would be hard to take seriously.
    As for fighting. Galactus fighting anyone would be a whole lot more exciting if he were humanoid, or anything except a storm cloud.

  36. the thing is most people who go to this won’t give a fuck..
    .hell they probably don’t even know who galactus is….

    chances are if you give a shit about what galactus looks like you probably hated the first film anyway…..

    this is no big deal……there is a bigger audience of people who have not even heard of galactus so it won’t bother them then there is people who have…..

  38. I just wonder how a cloud will eat an entire planet. I really don’t see how a Cloud can be intimidating or strike any sort of fear into people like seeing a Giant Alien lol. Well come to think a Cloud that is dark and has lighting and can talk would be scary.

  39. Im thinking this is more like a “Galactus will not be seen, but rather at the very end of the movie (leaving a cliffhanger for FF3) Galactus will enter the Earths atmosphere and all we will see is a storm cloud”

    Much like the massive space ships did in Independance day, leaving us some suspense wondering what they were going to look like.

    I am hoping that is all it is. If they make Galactus a cloud, then it isn’t Galactus. Its a weather forecast.

  41. Interesting choice… to put it mildly.

    I bet all the people who said they didnt want the Ultimate version are wishing that it WAS the Ultimate version instead of this… cloud nonsense.

    oh well…
    Consider me bummed, but I still think it’ll be fun. Galactus being a cloud isnt really a deal-breaker for me.
    The Surfer’s still gonna be cool, and to be honest, he’s the main draw for this movie as far as I’m concerned.
    Plus, I’m one of the few that actually liked the first one. It was a fun movie… sue me.

  42. This is the problem I’ve had ever since i found out the Silver Surfer was going to be in Fantastic Four 2. Galactus is a giant humanoid lookin’ guy, that I reckon would probably look plain silly in a live action film (though if this ‘Cloud’ news is true we’ll never know) so i think turning him into some planet eating storm cloud is kinda…understandable on Fox’s part. And personally, though i feel it’s a bit of a cop out, it would look better in live action than the real Galactus. But on the other hand, Galactus just plain and simple ISN’T a storm cloud, and making him one goes against the source material and everything a fan expects and wants. I’m pretty sure it’s a kick in the crotch to Galactus’ creator (Stan Lee? I dunno) too.
    So, Galactus in a live action film is just one big problem. Both parties can’t be pleased, and since it’s Fox who’s shelling out the millions, they get the final say. I wonder briefly though, that if Galactus was his normal lookin’ self, but just like twenty feet tall, if that would have worked as a good compromise between both parties…But then how would he devour planets? Bugger. Y’know what? I’m glad I’m not making this movie. It’s a freakin’ headache just thinking about it.

  43. Some clouds are creepy. Big black ones like in Twister, or that cloud on Lost. Clouds are in baby! Long live the CLOUDS!!!!!!!!!!! Bow down before CLOUDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    What a great villain a cloud would make. Every time you set foot outside…clouds. When you look up….clouds. The weather channel…..clouds. My pajama pants…..clouds. They’re EVERYWHERE……………….

  45. I hope this is a joke, I really do. See, now here’s a strong argument for piracy. The Pirate – aaarrrgggghhhh – will not pay $10 to see the Silver Surfer obey a storm cloud. No freakin way. The Pirate does want to see the movie, but doesn’t want his friends to know that they saw the surfer take commands from a cloud.

  46. Tim Story is the name of the director right? Well he can’t tell a fucking story worth of a DAMN!!!! ( I know cheap joke)

    A storm cloud oh that is just perfect blahhh!!! Personally I really wanted to see the original form of Galactus or well in reality I wanted to see him the way humans see him in the comics not as some Storm Cloud. UGH… I am starting to lose my faith in this sequel….not that I had a lot of faith to begin with anyways.

  47. I don’t know what to say. I’ll just remain eternally patient and hope that Mr Fishburne gives the, snigger, evil cloud some class.

    In any case, the word is in on Spidey 3 and the word is goooooooood.

  48. lol….no surprise if its true….the 1st was horrible and this one will be no different….bad cast….bad acting….bad movie, and fantastic four is a classic franchise and its a shame how corny and bad the movie was…..damn…. grindhouse bombed but FF is getting a sequel and more than likely a part 3….god i love this country lol

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