|
Fantastic Four is an unreleased low-budget film, produced by Roger Corman and Bernd Eichinger (who also produced the 2005 Fantastic Four movie), and was set to be released in 1994. The film was based on the popular comic book by Marvel Comics and featured the origin of the Fantastic Four and their first battle with the evil Doctor Doom and a mysterious Mole Man creature. Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American producer and director of low-budget films; as such, he has apprenticed many now-famous directors, stressing the importance of budgeting and resourcefulness. ...
Bernd Eichinger (born 11 April 1949) is a German film producer and director. ...
Fantastic Four is a 2005 movie based on the Marvel Comics comic Fantastic Four, directed by Tim Story and released by 20th Century Fox. ...
A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...
Marvel Comics, sometimes called by the nickname House of Ideas, is an American comic book company. ...
The origin of something (from the Latin origo, beginning) is where it came from, in the sense of a physical location or a metaphysical source. ...
The Fantastic Four are a Marvel Comics superhero group. ...
Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) is a Marvel Comics supervillain. ...
Cast & Crew
Mister Fantastic is a Marvel Comics superhero who is the leader of the Fantastic Four. ...
The Invisible Woman, real name Susan Richards, née Susan Storm, formerly the Invisible Girl, is a fictional superhero who is a member of The Fantastic Four in the Marvel Universe. ...
The Thing (Benjamin Jacob Ben Grimm) is a fictional character from the Marvel Universe, a founding member of the superhero team the Fantastic Four under the guise of the superstrong Thing. ...
There have been two Marvel Comics (including that companys predecessors) superheroes called the Human Torch: Human Torch (Johnny Storm) is a member of the Fantastic Four and is about to appear in the movie of that team Original Human Torch is an android superhero from the Golden Age of...
Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) is a Marvel Comics supervillain. ...
Controversy The low-budget film was never released, despite the fact that the production had been completed, the marketing campaign and posters created and the Motion Picture Association of America had even given the film a PG-13 label. To this day, there is some dispute as to why the finished film was shelved, available to the public only through bootleg copies. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA, originally called the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association) is a non-profit trade association formed to advance the interests of movie studios. ...
The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ...
Following the annoucement of the cancellation of the film's release, a rumor spread that the studio intended this version of the Fantastic Four to be an ashcan copy: they had the legal rights to create a film based on the Fantastic Four, but they were not ready to produce a big budget film. However, they needed to produce something or else they would lose the legal right to the characters. So, the rumor goes, the studio misled to everyone involved in the making of this film by letting them believe it was going to be genuine release rather than a way to maintain their license on the property. Captain Thunder, soon to be Captain Marvel, on the cover of the ashcan copy of Flash Comics #1. ...
The Fantastic Four are a Marvel Comics superhero group. ...
There may have been more to this production than simply keeping the right to the characters: Chris Columbus was set to make a big budget version of the comic. However, in order to do that, he had to wait for the existing option on the rights to expire. The producers would have rushed this film into production hoping that the makers of a big budget version would not want a cheaper version of the same story to be available immediately before their expensive blockbuster. That strategy worked, and the film was bought for many times the cost of the option and production, just so that it would never see the light of day. Christopher Columbus (born 10 September 1958 in Spangler, Pennsylvania) is an American film maker. ...
Another theory is that the film was never released because it was a low budget film (with a two million dollar budget), and Marvel Comics was in no mood to see another film released, based on their popular characters, to be a financial flop, as had been the films based on Howard The Duck (1986), Captain America and the Punisher (1990). Marvel Comics, sometimes called by the nickname House of Ideas, is an American comic book company. ...
Howard the Duck #8 (January 1977), art by Gene Colan Howard the Duck is a comic book fictional character created by Steve Gerber for Marvel Comics and featured in several comic book series of the same name. ...
1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Captain America, the alter ego of Steve Rogers (in some accounts Steven Grant Rogers), is a Marvel Comics superhero. ...
The Punisher (Frank Castle) is a Marvel Comics anti-hero. ...
1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
DVD release Only illegal copies of the film are availiable on VHS and DVD, most of which are of poor quality. There has been some unoffical discussions on the Internet that an official release will arrive sometime after the big budget Fantastic Four film hits the theaters in the Summer of 2005. Some comic book and science fiction fans have speculated that the film may be included on the DVD edition of the big budget Fantastic Four film. Yet, rumors from within the comic book industry suggest that an official DVD edition of the Roger Corman version will be released when the big budget version hits the theatres. Top view VHS cassette with US Quarter for scale Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed The Video Home System, better known by its acronym VHS, is a recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by JVC (with some of its critical technology under lucrative...
// DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...
// DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
// DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
External links - http://www.stomptokyo.com/otf/Fant-Four/Fant-Four.htm
- the agony booth : THE FANTASTIC FOUR Review
|
Feeds |
Contact