Trailer Weekly: 'Fantastic Four,' 'Black Mass' and 'Suffragette'

This week’s edition is filled with a variety of science fiction, action, drama and crime. Fantastic Four is a reboot of the film franchise where four young scientists must harness the superhuman abilities they acquired through an experiment gone awry to stop a friend turned enemy. Black Mass tells the true story of Whitey Bulger, the most violent criminal in the history of South Boston. Finally, Suffragette is a film that centers around the British woman’s suffrage movement in the late 19th-early 20th century. Each motion picture has popular, top-drawer celebrities in their casts. Plus, each film’s plot has unique elements of its particular genre. With intense drama, incredible special effects, pulse-pounding action and emotional depictions of real-life events, all three of these flicks are sure to elicit a wide range of feelings from the large numbers of moviegoers that are sure to be heading to their local theaters on each movie’s opening day.

Fantastic Four is an action/science fiction reboot of the popular film franchise. This version stars the Divergent film franchise’s Miles Teller as Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic, Kate Mara from the popular Netflix series House of Cards as Sue Storm aka The Invisible Woman, Jamie Bell from the AMC original television series TURN: Washington’s Spies as Ben Grimm aka The Thing, Fruitvale Station’s Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Toby Kebbell. Together, these four young scientists must use their newly acquired superpowers courtesy of an experiment gone wrong against an old friend now tuned enemy and tyrant. The movie’s trailer shows off-the-chain special effects as these four brilliant minds use their superhuman powers against a former friend and to try to save the world. It opens in theaters on Friday, August 7.

Black Mass chronicles the true story of Whitey Bulger, South Boston’s most violent criminal. Johnny Depp plays Bulger, who became an FBI informant in order to take down a Mafia family attempting to invade his territory. Also starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Fifty Shades of Grey’s Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Exodus: G-ds and King’s Joel Edgerton, Maleficent’s Juno Temple, Corey Stoll from the FX television drama series The Strain, Adam Scott from the NBC television sitcom Parks and Recreation and Peter Sarsgaard from the NBC miniseries The Slap. The film’s trailer illustrates Depp’s total transformation into one of America’s most notorious gangsters and how he earned that title. It opens on Friday, September 18.

Suffragette is a drama starring Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter, The Great Gatsby’s Carey Mulligan, Ben Whishaw and Romola Garai, both from the BBC television series The Hour. The film revolves around the struggle of British women to earn the right to vote in the late 19th-early 20th century. The motion picture’s teaser trailer displays how these “suffragettes” were unrelenting in their fight for voting equality. It opens in theaters on Friday, October 23.