'THE FANTASTIC FOUR' Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans get key roles in comic adaptation

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Ioan Gruffudd and Chris Evans are about to embark on a fantastic voyage.
The pair will join Michael Chiklis as part of the quartet of superheroes in the movie adaptation of popular Marvel comic series "The Fantastic Four," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The project will center on four people who are mutated by cosmic radiation while aboard a spaceship. Gruffudd will play Reed "Mr. Fantastic" Richards, who can bend or elongate any body part, while Evans plays Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch, who can bend fire to his will, including bursting his body into flame. Chiklis is already set as Ben "The Thing" Grimm, a rocky misshapen monster with tremendous strength and a tender heart.
"Finding the absolute right fit has felt like a talent search," says 20th Century Fox president Hutch Parker. Invisible Girl
The final part, Sue Storm/Invisible Girl, has yet to be cast, although "The Notebook's" Rachel McAdams and "Honey" star Jessica Alba are contenders. A casting announcement is planned within the next day or so.
Fox hopes to mimic the recent success of another Marvel franchise property, "Spider-Man 2" -- which opened June 30 -- by scheduling "Fantastic Four" to be released the same date next year.
Evans, 23, recently starred in "The Perfect Score" and will star opposite Kim Basinger in "Cellular," which opens in September.
Gruffudd, 30, has starred in all three A & amp;E "Horatio Hornblower" miniseries and currently plays Lancelot in director Antoine Fuqua's "King Arthur."