Why John Krasinski Would Be Perfect for ‘Fantastic Four’
The makers behind up and coming Amazon series based on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland, clarified why The Office and A Quiet Place star John Krasinski was the ideal fit for the main protagonist and CIA expert turned-legend — and incidentally presented the defense for Krasinski depicting the Mr. Fantastic on the big screen.
“When you do something like this, it was a very narrow target. I realized that as good as wrote the show, if we didn’t get the right guy, the show wasn’t gonna work.”
Cuse told EW when asked how the filmmakers zeroed in on Krasinski for the lead role:
“And you need to find a guy who’s a leading man, who is vulnerable, who has got a big brain — because that’s Jack Ryan’s superpower, is his brain — plus he’s gotta be a believable action guy, [and] we wrote the character with charm. I mean, the more characteristics you add, the shorter the list gets of guys that can do it. And John was the guy who we felt embodied everything we wanted in the character.”
Not at all like the exceptionally prepared, in fact, capable and all around oiled slaughtering machines played by Matt Damon and Daniel Craig in the Bourne and Bond establishments, Jack Ryan is a green, Khakis-wearing examiner, entrusted with venturing out from behind a table and into the field and exchanging pencils for guns. Roland said the following:
“One of the things that makes Jack Ryan distinct from, let’s say, Jason Bourne or James Bond, I think is this feeling that here’s a guy that his superpower is his brain, he’s not well-equipped to enter every single situation, he’s not an awesome fighter, that he sort of rises to the occasion. And so that’s kind of one of the defining characteristics of Jack Ryan, and we definitely wanted to bring that to our show. That this is a guy who everybody can kind of relate to a little bit, and gets in over his head, and will he or will he not rise to the occasion.”
Reed Richards, the huge brained pioneer of the Fantastic Four, is normally a defective and confounded however family-centred researcher who depends around brains over the muscle in spite of having the superhuman capacity of super-elasticity, enabling him to extend and change his body into extraordinary flexible states.
Krasinski, having already proved himself action hero-worthy as GRS member and former U.S. Navy SEAL Jack Silva in the Michael Bay-directed 13 Hours, has risen as the fan-most loved leader to expect that part when Marvel’s first family are fused under the Disney-possessed Marvel Studios flag following the finish of Disney’s $71.3 billion deal securing Fox, who have long held the movie rights to the Fantastic Four brand.
The star said in April he would “love” to feature Fantastic Four with genuine spouse and A Quiet Place co-star Emily Blunt, who is comparatively regularly “fan cast” as Susan Richards, the Invisible Woman, wife of Reed Richards.
