Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four Movie Sequel

James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Friday, December 22, 2006

The Silver Surfer will make his live action debut in the second installment of the Fantastic Four movie franchise, USA Today’s Arienne Thompson reports.

Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four Movie Sequel

In June, the Silver Surfer jumps from page to screen in The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

With computer-generated imagery techniques similar to those used to create Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, the slippery Surfer, voiced by Doug Jones, “will look somewhere between gun metal and fluid metallics so you can see the body motion, the breathing, the muscle tone, the mood,” says Marvel Studios CEO Avi Arad.

The Surfer’s mood is key to the story. After striking a deal with the evil Galactus to save his planet, the once-human Surfer wreaks havoc throughout the cosmos. “He is a highly emotional being, trapped inside fluid metal,” Arad says.

Audiences will get a first look at the Silver Surfer this weekend in trailers before Night at the Museum.

Cool. The Surfer was long one of the more interesting Marvel supporting characters, although not one able to carry a book (or movie) on his own.

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