No need to buy your basement-dwelling cousin Sheldon that platinum embossed set of polyhedral dice, he’s already got the best gift a geek can get for the holidays.
The first of image of the Silver Surfer—a much anticipated new character from the Fantastic Four sequel, Rise of the Silver Surfer—has been released by Marvel Studios and appeared in USA Today.
While not looking much like a surfer, the dude is definitely silver. The character will be completely computer generated a la Gollum from Lord of the Rings, and will be voiced by Doug Jones. Marvel Studios CEO Avi Arad describes the Surfer as looking “somewhere between gun metal and fluid metallics so you can see the body motion, the breathing, the muscle tone, the mood.”
As you might have guessed from the film’s title, the Silver Surfer is essential to the plot of the big budget sequel. An extraterrestrial life form, the Surfer is the herald of the planet-devouring being, Galactus, in charge of finding worlds for the fat slob to chow down on. We have our movie when the Surfer’s job leads him to the very tasty looking planet Earth—and straight into confrontation with the Fantastic Four.
Did we mention the film also stars pants-shredding hottie Jessica Alba?
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer opens June 15, 2007.
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