Methinks I'll give this one an El Paso....
I wasn't too sure to begin with, then I read an article about why Johnny Storm is suddenly black. The author (of the article)'s premise is that, if you take a formerly white character and make them black, you're striking a blow against racism, but if you leave them as is, or (HORRORS!) make a previously black character white, you're supporting racism in some way.
HUH????
My concern is that the Director holds the same view.
When Samuel L. Jackson was cast as Nick Fury, I think it was because he is BADASS, not because of his genetics, or some cock-eyed effort to "atone" for something-grow up, folks; it's just pigment.
That explanation, about Nick Fury, is as good as any as I have seen about why, where once a character was white, now he is black. Indeed, I must admit, when I see Nick Fury now as white, I am disappointed he does not look more like Samuel L. Jackson.
Like many people here, I--too--am going to give this a pass. Not because Johnny Storm is now an Afro-American, though I am afraid that is going to hurt at the box office, but because, except for the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, are some of my least favorite characters in the Marvel Universe.
There are other people, I am afraid, are hoping this film fails at the box office, because if it fails at the box office, maybe the rights to the characters, which are owned by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, would then revert to the Walt Disney Company, who except for the X-Men, has seemed to have the most luck with the most recent Marvel characters.
The same thought, the reverting back of the rights of a character, here to the film Spiderman, which is owned by Sony Columbia, after the relative failure of the last Spiderman film, would revert back to the Walt Disney Company, but . . .?! That does not seem to be the case, as it looks like Sony Columbia is going to take another run at creating a successful Spiderman film in 2017, with a rumored Asa Butterfield in the role of Spiderman.
And we shall see, what we shall see.