To Be Galactus

Remember that planned movie spin-off flick involving Silver Surfer from events chronicled in the last Fantastic Four film?

While the project is itself going nowhere fast

The writer, J. Michael Straczynski recently talked to the folks over at Comics 2 Film about his script.

His plan was to have the movie offer a proper treatment of Galactus:

"I was writing it as 'Fantastic Four 2' was about to come out, and the theory was for it to pick up literally the next frame after the FF2 movie, where you find out why Silver Surfer was there and what happened to him. We would have seen Galactus, his home world, what happened and him trying to get back there, because now that he's betrayed Galactus, he's concerned his home world might be in jeopardy."

What would be done to bring Galactus to life?

"In the script I come up with some ways to visualize him that are true to the original, but take it one step further using the current CGI technology that we have. So we would have seen him as a character on numerous occasions in the second movie, not inconsistent with the first distant shot of him in that that's just a way of concealing who and what he really is. Believe me, he would be not at all silly looking."

There's little doubt that Galactus as pictured presents a challenge...cinematically but I'm intrigued by the story possibility....Ah what what might have been and may still yet be...