| “ | A few days in space. What's the worst that could happen? | „ |
| ~ Reed to Ben. |
Reed Richards, also known as Mr. Fantastic, is the titular main protagonist of Tim Story's Fantastic Four film series.
After being affected by the cosmic storm, he has the ability of stretching his body to maximum length and any shape.
He is played by Ioan Gruffudd, who also played Harold Lowe in Titanic and Henry Morgan in Forever.
Biography[]
Fantastic Four (2005)[]
Reed Richards is a scientist who believes that evolution was triggered by cosmic clouds that hit the earth millions of years ago and believes that the cloud is coming back to Earth. He and his friend astronaut Ben Grimm go see his old friend and MIT classmate Victor Von Doom. He explained his theory to Victor, who reveals about how he knows that that his believed of this theory has made him bankrupt and how NASA doesn't trust him. Reed explains to Victor about how the shields on his space station could protect them from the cosmic storm. Reed's ex girlfriend, Susan Storm then came into Victor's office, who is now the chief genetics researcher for his company and Victor's girlfriend. Victor then agrees to help Reed for 75 percentage for the profit if he proved right. When they left to Earth for the space station, with Sue's show-off younger Johnny, Reed discovered that the cosmic cloud were arriving showing then he calculated.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer[]
Accustomed to being pulled in different directions, Mr. Fantastic works to realize his potential as boyfriend to Sue, scientist to humanity, and leader to the Four. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, the Fantastic Four unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Elasticity: Reed has been shown to able to expanding any part of his anatomy at least 1000 feet. He is able to stretch, deform, expand, compress, flatten and inflate the structure part of his body. This has granted him enhanced mobility by shape-shifting his body via stretching or springing his body. He is capable of shape-shifting himself into anything. This makes it impossible to restrain him as he can easily slip out of seemingly form of any restraints.
- Shapeshifting: Reed's elasticity grants him shape-shifting, he can wrap himself around people (such as Ben and Dr. Doom) shape-shift into a ball or just simply shape-shift his hands into fist like weapons. He is capable of stretching far to prevent the London Eye from collapsing.
- Contracting: Using his elasticity; Reed is capable of contracting at least his hand under a doorway with it was locked.
- Superhuman Immunity: Due to the nature of Reed's powers; he is almost completely immune to striking and submission holds and can even turn submission holds against his opponents as seen when Ben tried to beat him and couldn't.
- Superhuman Flexibility: For obvious reasons, Reed is flexible; capable of twisting and bending his body in an superhumanly fashion.
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Trivia[]
- Ioan Gruffudd came up with the idea for Reed regularly taking notes.
- Gruffudd reprised his role in the 2005 game, with Robin Atkin Downes voicing him in bonus levels.
- Reed was originally going to ask “What happens when you supercool hot metal?” Gruffudd instead asked in the film “What happens when you rapidly cool hot metal?”
- His dialogue with General Hager was based on Ultimate Extinction, where he said that monologue to Nick Fury. General Hager was originally going to be Nick Fury but didn’t happen because of licensing issues.
- During the pier conversation between Reed and Sue, not only were the actors not together (which is relatively common in filmmaking), they weren't even in the same country. Jessica Alba was filmed in New York City, while Ioan Gruffudd was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Ioan Gruffudd's efforts to keep an American accent continually were hampered by the fact he would receive new script pages on a regular basis, forcing him to learn new lines at short notice.
- Ioan Gruffudd was very excited about showing off to his Welsh parents that he was working on a major Hollywood production. Unfortunately, the day they came to visit him on set, he was filming an elevator scene.
- In this film, the cosmic rays that give the Fantastic Four their powers also create the white streaks in Reed Richards' hair. In the comics, Reed just has white streaks naturally.
- The scene where Reed stretches his arm under the door was the first visual effects scene that was completed.
- The animators made a system of tools for Reed Richards' stretching abilities.
- Cash Warren hitting an animator named Mark with a pylon served as a visual guide for the shot where Reed Richards dodges the lightning bolt.
- Reed was mentioned in Deadpool & Wolverine by the Human Torch, whom said, that Reed called the Void “a metaphysical junkyard”. Thus, it's currently unknown if Mr. Fantastic was pruned just like the Human Torch and killed by Cassandra Nova's Crew or if he remains safe in his universe.
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