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| Michael Chiklis.... Rockin' Your Way June 15th !
Michael Chiklis was born 1963 in Lowell, Massachusetts and grew up in Andover Massachusetts. His Greek American paternal family was from the Greek island of Lesbos. Michael Chiklis went to New York City early in his career, and is more widely known for starring in two popular, but highly different, police television series: The Commish (1991–1995) and The Shield (2002—). In 2005 he starred in Fantastic Four comic book movie as The Thing and will be returning in 2007 for the sequel. A fan of the comic book series, he informed his brother Peter when he was 18, that if there was ever a movie made of the Fantastic Four, he would play Ben Grimm, who is the alter ego of the Thing. I am a life long fan of the Fantastic Four, starting with issue #3 back in 1962. At one time I had a complete collection of the FF comics, including the other comic book series starring the individual members in solo series, such as the Human Torch in Strange Tales, the Thing in Marvel Two-In-One as shown at the bottom left picture, etc. The Thing is my favorite comic book character and I closely identified with him in my formative years. At the 2004 SDCC, (San Diego Comic Con International), I was privileged to attend the first public presentation of the newly signed actors that were to play the FF in the movie. I was delighted to see that Michael Chiklis was chosen to play the Thing. He definitely looked like Ben Grimm from the comics, and the audience was told that the Thing would not be CGI like the Incredible Hulk in the earlier Hulk movie. I figured the character of the Thing would be well presented. I was pleased that the Thing costume was made to look like the early Thing of the 1960's, it looked better on Chiklis. Don't get me into the choices of the other actors for the film! I already covered the choice of Jessica Alba as the Invisible Woman in an earlier blog! I am looking forward to the 2007 FF movie, The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. In the teaser trailers the Surfer looks similiar to what we saw in the Terminator 2 movie, and looks good for the big screen. For those interested in the Marvel Two-In-One comic books just click on the comic book cover to the left, for Fantastic Four comics we have listed them in our eBay Featured Store and eBay Pro Store. Michael
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