Could be a rumor. A really, really ugly rumor.For those of you who may have missed the news, there's been a rumor about a significant change to Doctor Doom in the upcoming FF reboot movie in that he's somewhat less a magic-wielding, armored, evil genius dictator of an entire country and more, well, an angry blogger, as Silas says. And the rumor is somewhat less a rumor and more words directly spoken by Toby Kebbell, the actor playing Doom. According to Kebbell, the character's name will be Victor Domashev, and his internet handle will be "Doom."
It… it doesn't look good. I can explain why Fox made this decision, although it's not going to make you feel any better.
Fox makes the first Fantastic Four movie; it does okay, but fans everywhere bitch about it not being comics accurate enough. So Fox makes the second FF movie, thinking they're appeasing comics fans by adding Silver Surfer and Galactus, although they turn Galactus into a cloud so mass audiences aren't turned off. The movie bombs, and they don't see the fact that it sucks, they only see that they tried to appease nerds and the movie failed. Obviously, that's the problem, they think.
Then Josh Trank comes around and makes a small, found-footage superhero movie called Chronicle; even though the budget is small, it's super-popular and makes a lot of money. Fox sees this and says: "This works. People like this. If we do Fantastic Four like this, people will like it."
Fox hires Trank to make a "grounded", "lo-fi" version of the Fantastic Four, never once considering if perhaps this take is actually suitable for the characters and the franchise. (Hint: It's not.) Obviously, Doctor Doom is the FF's main foe, but Doom is just too comic book-y for the more realistic movie Fox is supremely confident the public wants. Thus we get Doom, the angry blogger.
I'm sure some of you are thinking "But Fox makes the X-Men movies. The X-Movies are pretty comics accurate and they're good movies and they make a lot of money! Why don't they learn from that?"
The answer is because that's not how a Hollywood executive's brain works. Traditional movie executives can't associate things. While you or I can watch other superhero movies and extrapolate what the public enjoys based on a wide variety of data, execs can only assess one thing at a time, take one lesson from it, and never, ever build upon that knowledge because as soon as they "learn" something new, the old memory is lost forever. How the hell are they going to learn from Marvel Studios' successes when they can't even apply the shit they should have learned making the X-Men movies to their other superhero franchise? They're not, and they couldn't if they wanted to.
As for why Trank or Fox or whoever chosen to make Doom a blogger as opposed to, say, an angry grocery store clerk or something, I'm going to take a wild guess and say somebody is fucking sick and tired of nerds. Call it a hunch.
http://collider.com/doctor-doom-new-ori ... our-movie/
Or maybe not.TOBY KEBBELL: I’m excited to see it too, and my nerves really…The only thing I can tease you about is what I worked on most was the voice because nobody—even in the cartoons, when I was watching them I was like, “So where’s he from?” There’s a mild change and I’ll tell you because of our history.
KEBBELL: He’s Victor Domashev, not Victor Von Doom in our story. And I’m sure I’ll be sent to jail for telling you that. The Doom in ours—I’m a programmer. Very anti-social programmer. And on blogging sites I’m “Doom”.