Seth Grahame-Smith Did A Polish On Josh Trank’s ‘Fantastic Four’
By Germain Lussier/Feb. 26, 2013 5:30 pm EST
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The fact that this is being called a polish suggests that his work is minimal.
Grahame-Smith started as a novelist, adapting classic stories with fantasy and horror elements and building that into major buzz. Those books, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, got him lots of attention in Hollywood, specifically from Tim Burton. Burton produced Vampire Hunter and directed Dark Shadows, both of which Grahame-Smith wrote. He’s also attached to write a sequel to Beetlejuice 2. Whether or not that’ll actually happen, though, is anyone’s guess.
Of note, however, is that Grahame-Smith has written about Marvel before. One of his earliest books was The Spider-Man Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual, which has an intro by Stan Lee. Lee also created the Fantastic Four.
Back to that property, the Hollywood Reporter describes Trank’s remake as follows:
Sources say that the new reboot is taking a grounded superhero and sci-fi approach to the heroes and will tap deep into the comics mythology.
