Toby Kebbell Has Been Announced to Play ‘Doctor Doom’ in ‘Fantastic Four’ Reboot

A couple of months back, it was announced that “House of Cards” star Kate Mara, “Project X” star Miles Teller, “Jumper” star Jamie Bell, and “Chronicles” star Michael B. Jordan had been confirmed to play lead Marvel’s Superhero characters Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, respectively, in upcoming ‘Fantastic Four’ Reboot. Fox studio was looking for a perfect actor to play villain in reboot.

Now, the final major part of the new Marvel’s superhero flick’s mystery has been laid down. One of the Marvel’s greatest villains, Victor von Doom, who is usually called by his somewhat more villainous name Doctor Doom, will be played by Young actor Toby Kebbell, who is known for various mega-budget films like “Wrath of the Titans”, “Prince of Persia”, and “RocknRolla”.

According to various media sources, the deal has been made without providing further details regarding how Doom will wind up on screen in upcoming reboot. Although there is still quite a lot criticism over the choice of cast of the reboot, but we all hope that this vERsion cannot be poorer as compared to the Julian McMahon’s Version in 2005 movie, right?

The film will be directed by Josh Trank, who started his career in Hollywood with highly admired debut film “Chronicles”. It will be based on the Marvel comic “The Ultimate Fantastic Four” AND Jeremy Slater’s script, which will be rewritten by Simon Kinberg, who is known for “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and “Sherlock Holmes”. All the lead characters are much younger as compared to the all traditional versions of Marvel’s comics and films. In addition, some specific origin details are expected to be changed from the imaginative story written by Stan Lee more than forty years ago.

In “The Ultimate Fantastic Four” version, Doom in fact has the normal name “Victor van Damme” (most of people spell out it as “von Doom”, which seems wrong). According to the story of this version, he is an aristocrat who is (without any doubt) connected by a blood relationship to Vlad “the Impaler” Tepes. He has started various scientific projects, including the same scientific program as Reed Richards, and is influential in the mishap due to which all characters start to develop unique superpowers in them.

How much this reboot will differ from the Ultimate version? We have no idea so far. Are you satisfied with Fox’s choice of Toby Kebbell?