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Rise of the Silver Surfer, June 2007.

Starring Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards, Chris Evans as Johnny Storm, Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm and Denise Richards as Susan Storm.

Wait.. what? No.. is it Denise Richards? That’s Claire Forlani isn’t it?

Well there you go.. it’s actually Jessica Alba. I had assumed it must have been, seeing as Alba played The Invisible Woman in the first installment of the F4 series, but you’d never know it to look at the promotional posters released this week.

You think the people photoshopping and airbrushing the original photo would have eventually taken a step back and gone ‘ahhh.. **** it, it doesn’t even look like Jessica Alba anymore, we better start over!’. Especially when the first trailer for the film looks incredibly awesome and - after all - it is Jessica Alba. Any movie can sell when it has Jessica Alba in it, boys will go see it simply because Jessica Alba is in it. Personally it wouldn’t worry me who played The Invisible Woman; hell it could have been Denise Richards or Claire Forlani for all I care - I just want to see another wicked Marvel comic brought to the big screen.

Whatever the case, it just surprises me that somebody… anyone… along the production line didn’t stop and go ‘Wait, you can’t release that, it looks like a wax doll of someone completely different’. Sometimes airbrushing really does go too far.

That aside, I really can’t wait to see this one. We saw the first teaser trailer the other night when sitting in for Disturbia and it looked great. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw how awesome Silver Surfer looked.. I must admit I was a little skeptical as to how they were going to pull off the CGI.. but it looks convincing.

Spiderman 3 is just around the corner. The Iron Man film announced and ready for next year, its all very exciting.

Source: Marvel.com