Sue and Johnny Storm’s Father Cast for Fantastic Four Reboot

Well now we know the paternal heritage of Sue and Johnny Storm for Fox’s Upcoming Fantastic Four Reboot. For those of you who didn’t like ‘Rise of the Silver Surfer‘ you may soon be begging for a Fantastic Four that resembles it. Check out the latest news below and share your thoughts after the JUMP!

(Source: newsarama)

Yes, Sue and Johnny Storm are sister and brother in the upcoming The Fantastic Four, a cinematic reboot of the franchise premiering in June 2015. And now we know their father.

Reg E. Cathey has been cast as the elder Dr. Storm, and is specifically listed as both a doctor and scientist in the notice from THR. The actor has recently appeared on House of Cards and Banshee and starred on The Wire.

No further information about the character was given in the report. In the regular Marvel Universe, Dr. Frankin Storm was an M.D. After a car crash that killed his wife, he fell into an increasingly degenerate lifestyle, eventually imprisoned for murder. In the Ultimate Universe, however, Dr. Franklin Storm was the head of a child prodigy think tank, and a multiple PHD scientist, which it sounds like is more likely the character in this film. At the think tank he had a direct hand in mentoring his daughter Susan, herself an accomplished bioengineer at a young age, and eventually recruiting and mentoring Reed Richards and even the future Dr. Doom.