J. Michael Straczynski Developing A Silver Surfer Movie?

20th Century Fox must be expecting Fantastic Four 2 to make some big bucks this weekend. The bad reviews couldn't stop the first film from selling tickets, and it seems like the studio believes they have another box office winner. The LA Times is reporting that Fox has already put a feature spinoff starring The Silver Surfer into development. According to the story, Babylon 5 scribe J. Michael Straczynski is already hard at work crafting the screenplay.

But will The Silver Surfer be able to carry a whole movie by himself? His character is certainly interesting enough (more interesting than Fantastic Four at least), and I'm more than confident in Straczynski. But I'm not quite sure that the public is ready for a comic book film where the hero is completely computer generated.