The Fantastic Four (1. The Cast of Characters: Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic (Alex Hyde- White). The movie’s implied resident genius scientist.
For reasons never really explained, he spends most of his life chasing after a comet- like energy source named Colossus, and as a result, causes an accident in space and gains the power to hold a very long—and very fake—rubbery arm next to his shoulder. Madly in love with his daughter. Oops, sorry, that’s not his daughter, just someone the same age. Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman (Rebecca Staab). Madly in love with Reed since she was prepubescent, most likely due to a really bad Daddy Complex.
Goes along on his mission to intercept Colossus in space, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but to be fair, the comic didn’t do much in the way of explaining Sue’s presence on the mission, either. After the accident, she gains the ability to hide half of her body behind a cheap split- screen effect. Johnny Storm/The Human Torch (Jay Underwood). Sue’s younger brother. Judging by his performance, Mr. Underwood was on a strict diet of cocaine, methamphetamines, and Mountain Dew for the duration of the shoot.
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He too goes along on the mission for unknown reasons, and after the accident, he gains the ability to be totally useless for 9. Ben Grimm/The Thing (Michael Bailey Smith/Carl Ciarfalio). Reed’s old college chum, who somehow gets convinced to pilot the spacecraft that intercepts Colossus.
After the accident, he gets permanently trapped inside a cheap rubber suit that’s the same texture as the bottom of a fish tank. He grows despondent over being the only one in the group who’s an around- the- clock freak, so he goes out for a little Me Time and ends up falling in with a bad crowd. Not bad as in “criminal”, mind you, just bad as in “boring” and “pointless”. Another one of Reed’s old college buddies. In the comics, Victor called Reed a “na.
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While in college, Victor and Reed conduct an experiment in their boarding house to harness the power of Colossus. Things go horribly wrong, leaving Victor with a scarred face and a bad case of Gesture Overinflection Disorder. Alicia Masters (Kat Green). A blind sculptress, she literally bumps into Ben one day and falls in love with him. Even after his transformation into the rocky Thing, she still loves him, which for one reason or another causes him to change back into his human form at the worst possible moment.
The rest of the time, she’s just a hostage with a gun pointed at her head, helping the bad guys motivate Ben into doing all sorts of dumb things. Thanks for existing, Alicia! The Jeweler (Ian Trigger).
Yes, it’s that legendary Fantastic Four arch- nemesis, the Jeweler. What, you mean you’ve never heard of him? Why, he’s the leader of a group of street vagrants, and he has a keen eye for big fake diamonds. With his Irish accent, fuddy- duddy mannerisms, and stunning ability to defeat laser security grids, it’s a wonder he didn’t pull a Mr.
Freeze and make the transition from the screen back into the comics. In the early 1. 96. Stan Lee was the managing editor for a comic book publisher known sometimes as Timely Comics and sometimes as Atlas Comics (and would soon be known only as Marvel). Timely/Atlas had had some success during WWII publishing the adventures of superheroes like Captain America, the Human Torch, and the Sub- Mariner, but was now running on fumes with Westerns, horror stories, and romances. That same year, National Comics (then the parent company of DC Comics) was having a huge success with its Justice League of America super- group title, so Timely/Atlas’ publisher assigned Lee to come up with a super- team in a similar vein. What he came up with totally redefined the superhero genre.
The article continues after this advertisement.. Thanks, Sue!”The super- team that Lee dreamed up with artist Jack Kirby broke with tradition in pretty much every way. The Fantastic Four had no secret identities, no tight costumes (at least for a few issues, anyway), and didn’t operate in a fictional city (after a couple of adventures in the non- existent “Central City, California”, the Four moved to New York City). But most of all, they had none of the hunky- dory camaraderie that made most comic book superhero teams distressingly conformist.
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Lee and Kirby introduced real character interaction to the genre for the very first time, with conflicts between members of the team, conflicts between the Fantastic Four and their neighbors, and conflicts between the Four and the rest of New York City. The series took off, and set the stage for even more pariah- like (and more popular) superheroes like Spiderman, the Hulk, and the X- Men. Despite the popularity of these characters, it wasn’t until the release of 2. X- Men that a Marvel screen adaptation could be called anything but shameful. There were some animated series, some theatrical films (like the megabomb Howard the Duck) but mostly, there were bad TV movies: two of Captain. America starring Reb Brown, one of Dr.
Strange, and a whole series of woefully cheap Spiderman movies back in the ’7. And then came the bad direct- to- video movies: there was a Punisher with no skull logo on his chest, and another horrid Captain America adaptation. The only bright spot in all of this was the weekly TV series The Incredible Hulk starring Bill Bixby, but even that descended into campy nonsense with several TV movies in the ’8.
Stan Lee and Spiderman meet their greatest nemesis: A low budget! Then X- Men came out, and somehow, Marvel’s movies got good. I humbly submit that a large part of this was due to the influence of the Internet. For the very first time, studios had a direct line to comic book fans, most of whom are extremely vocal about what they want to see in an adaptation and how much they want to see their favorite characters Done Right. Once you get past all the crackpots and nutters, several themes emerge from any online discussion of comic book movies, most notably the general feeling that filmmakers change important details about the characters randomly, and for no apparent reason. So it’s no surprise to me that the latest slew of Marvel comic book adaptations have been more or less faithful to the source.
Of course, after those successes the studios rushed to adapt any comic book they could get their hands on, leading to lackluster adaptations in the past few years like Daredevil, the spin- off Elektra, the awful (but still better than the ’9. Punisher, and the direct- to- Sci Fi Man- Thing.
And at long last, we’re getting a live- action movie based on Marvel’s very first super- team, the Fantastic Four. Lay your bets now on whether fans will group this together with Spider- Man, or toss it on the same trash heap as The Punisher. The trailers certainly don’t seem promising, but the fact that this is being released in the middle of summer and not dumped in the doldrums of February like Daredevil means the studio must clearly think it has the potential to be a blockbuster. Me? While I appreciate the stars of the FX network finally getting big paychecks these days (particularly The Shield. The deal breaker for me, I think, is Jessica Alba as Sue Storm.
Not because of her looks or her talent, mind you, but simply because they dyed her hair blonde. I know this is the kind of comment that gives movie geeks a bad rep, because people are always joking (and rightly so) that Internet fans focus on the totally inconsequential stuff.
But for me, it’s not so much the hair color itself, but what it says about the filmmakers. After all, they could have made Sue a brunette. Kristin Kreuk plays Lana Lang without a strand of red hair, and that hasn’t hurt Smallville one bit. The producers of The Fantastic Four simultaneously seem to be saying that hair color isn’t all that important, by casting Alba in the first place, and saying that it is important, by making her dye her hair an unnatural color.
These type of mixed messages are the obvious symptom of a movie made by committee, and as such, I think I’ll be waiting for the DVD. But did you know that this is actually the second time the Fantastic Four has been adapted to a feature- length film? No, this earlier film was never released to theaters. And no, it never went straight to video. And no, it didn’t go straight to basic cable, either.
In fact, it was never released at all, and for years has only been available as a bootleg at comic book conventions. The story of why this movie was made and never released depends a lot on who’s telling it. What we do know is that a German production company called Neue Constantin optioned the rights to the Fantastic Four, intending to make a big budget adaptation.
For whatever reason, the money didn’t come through. The option was just about to expire, so the producers decided to shoot a movie quickly and cheaply, on a paltry budget of just $1.
Given such a tight budget and schedule, there was really only one person they could turn to: Roger Corman. Back in the early ’6. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were revolutionizing comics—Corman was revolutionizing the drive- in movie industry. Working for American International Pictures, Corman churned out dozens of grade- Z cheapo films, most of which turned a profit. Roger Corman has a little something for the folks at Neue Constantin.
All totaled, Corman has produced over 2. Night of the Blood Beast, The Navy vs.
Honestly, I have no idea why it took this long for a Corman picture to show up on this site. Maybe it’s the fact that a Roger Corman movie, good or bad, is almost always what you expect it to be. Looking at his track record, it’s obvious why Neue Constantin went directly to him to make their Fantastic Four movie. The Thing reacts to news of the Fantastic Four movie being shelved.
After a month of shooting under the direction of Oley Sassone (a former music video director, and allegedly the son of celebrity hair stylist Vidal Sasoon), the actors went on promotional tours. Interviews with the filmmakers appeared in print.