Simon Kinberg says Fantastic Four's tone is between Spider-Man and Chronicle

News surrounding The Fantastic Four movie reboot has been peculiar to say the least, but it looks as though production will be getting under way shortly. This means fans can now look forward to news about the actual movie rather than the casting process, and writer Simon Kinberg has provided the first glimpse into the film's tone.

Kinberg spoke to Crave Online at WonderCon on Saturday and the site asked how Josh Trank's reboot would be different than Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

"It's a much more grounded, gritty, realistic movie than the last couple movies," he said. "If I had to say, the tone of it would be somewhere on the spectrum between Spider-Man and Chronicle. The other movies were even further on the spectrum of being goofy and fun than Spider-Man." 

The site asked him to clarify which Spider-Man film series he meant, and he responded that he was referring to the original Sam Raimi trilogy:

"Raimi Spider-Man, yeah, not Amazing Spider-Man. Josh Trank's instincts are to be as realistic and grounded and real with this stuff as possible. In many ways I would say it's definitely more of a drama than comedy." 

"It's still in the direction of Spider-Man. It's not like Dark Knight. And even Chronicle has a lot of fun in it," he added. "We're treating this as the origin of the Fantastic Four so in future movies you'd have them on sort of splashier adventures to some extent but in this one we tried to ground the science as much as possible and make it feel like it could take place in our world before it cantilevers into other worlds."

How does this approach sound to you? Do you think it will work with the characters and actors involved? Let us know in the comments below.