Surfer dude gets one 'Fantastic' gig

Surfer dude gets one 'Fantastic' gig | AccessAtlanta: "It's the sort of juicy creative development that can trigger what the comics geeks so eloquently term a 'fangasm.' As its title makes plain to the already-initiated, 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' delves into the story of a longboard-riding space enigma dispatched to Earth as advance scout for a planet-devouring entity called Galactus, with only our heroes standing in the path of the Earth's destruction.

The Silver Surfer is a true cult favorite in the Fantastic Four pantheon, one that quickly segued from misunderstood antagonist to breakout solo act after he was introduced by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby in 1966. What's more, his inclusion in the sequel to 'Fantastic Four' (2005) marks a rare instance of a movie depicting crossovers in a shared superhero universe, something that's long been a storytelling staple for comics publishers but usually a virtual impossibility on-screen because of divvied-up rights. Marvel regularly gets the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man together, for example, but film rights to the characters are respectively held by 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures."