Miles Teller praises Josh Trank and his 'Fantastic Four' movie reboot

The oft-discussed Fantastic Four reboot is moving forward with director Josh Trank at the helm. Miles Teller had been attached to the project for quite some time, and his name was recently a part of the official cast reveal. Now, the actor has publicly praised Trank and the script for the film.

Teller spoke with IGN to discuss his role in Divergent, but the interview turned to his role in Fantastic Four as Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic. He offered nothing but positive words about the director and the movie:

"Well, for me I didn't grow up really as a comic book kid necessarily," said Teller when asked what drew him to the project. "Fantastic Four is my dad's favorite superhero comic. And so for me I guess what attracted me originally was Josh Trank. I think Josh Trank is a very creative, inventive guy. You look at Chronicle, you look at what he did for that budget and just how he told the story was really well done. I want to chase directors at this point, and then the cast kind of came together -- Michael B. [Jordan], Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell -- I was very excited."

"I was joking around about a year ago, 'I guess I'll be playing a superhero soon' because that's just the world that we're in, but I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know?" he continued. "And I think what we're going to do with Fantastic Four is going to be very grounded and it made sense to me."

"When I read the script, I didn't feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale," he said. "These are all very human people that end up having to become I guess what is known as the Fantastic Four. So for me it was just a really good story and gives me an opportunity to play something different from my own skin. It's a proper character and that's my favorite stuff to do."

In a separate interview with The Nerd Repository during the Phoenix premiere of Divergent, Teller said he would be "leaving pretty soon to start filming." He said he did not know if Mr. Fantastic would have his gray hair near his temples in this movie, but revealed that he did a "full body scan the other day for...something."

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