Rumor: Four 2 Has Silver Surfer?

Source SciFi Wire:

Variety reported that Marvel Comics' cult superhero Silver Surfer will make an appearance in the upcoming sequel film Fantastic Four 2. The character, a shiny alien who plies intergalactic space on his metallic board, is on course to becoming a linchpin in the sequel Fox is readying for a July 4, 2007, premiere, the trade paper reported.

Silver Surfer has evolved into one of Marvel's more sophisticated comic-book heroes, and a Surfer feature has been in Fox's arsenal for a decade.

A Fantastic Four 2 storyline is being finalized, with the studio about to choose between a script by X2 writer Mark Frost and another by Don Payne, who scripted Fox/New Regency's Super-Ex Girlfriend.

Sources told the trade paper that Payne's script has the nod, and the Surfer. But a studio spokesman denied to the trade paper that anything was set and added that the Surfer was one of several plot possibilities.