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"The Fantastic Four reboot is reportedly on the verge of securing screenwriter Jeremy Slater. Josh Trank (Chronicle) was signed up as director of the comic book film earlier this week.    Fox is in final negotiations with relative unknown Slater, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The writer currently has Lionsgate and Primal Pictures involved with his horror spec Tape 4, which centres around the mythology of writer HP Lovecraft.  He has also written a teen spy comedy spec called My Spy, which has Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher) attached to direct. Fox&amp;#039;s previous two Fantastic Four movies, directed by Tim Story, featured Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis as the superhero quartet. The studio will only maintain the film rights to the franchise if it continues making movies based on it, creating pressure to make the reboot. Photo gallery - best and worst movie superhero costumes:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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