So when is the Fantastic 4 movie coming out?

Here you go, these Geeks have some good ideas:

http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42616

I'd have to go with either Clooney or Bruce Campbell for Reed. Campbell kinda looks like I pictured him.

Check out Auntie P's casting, looks pretty good.

http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44465

Charlize Theron would be good for Sue I think.

 

found this -

The Fantastic Four Movie You'll Never See


It's in the can. It has very nice special effects. You'll never see it.


By Sheila Muto

When The Thing roared "It's clobberin' time!" comic-book readers knew that The Fantastic Four - superheroes Mr. Fantastic, The Thing, The Invisible Girl, and The Human Torch - would pulverize whatever evil menace threatened humankind. But "clobberin' time" came for Roger Corman's movie version of the Marvel Comics classic before it even hit the big screen.

Budgeted at a paltry US$2 million, the special effects-laden film was set to premiere this year. Charity events tied to openings were scheduled. Trailers appeared in movie theaters. And along with director Oley Sassone, the actors embarked on a promotional tour for the film.

But The Fantastic Four disintegrated before film critics could whip out their notebooks.

German producer Bernd Eichinger and his Neue Constantin Films, which purchased the movie rights from Marvel, sublicensed the rights to producer and B-movie king Corman in 1992. Shortly after the film was completed, Eichinger paid Corman $1 million to repossess the rights.

The $2 million version was shelved so that 20th Century Fox and Home Alone director Chris Columbus could make a flashier $50 million-plus version with celebrity actors.

"They showed a total disregard for the people involved," said director Sassone. "We had a good film, for what we had to work with."

Since Corman's film was nixed (though bootlegged copies are sure to surface), here's a peek at the superhero movie's special effects, created by Mr. Film, a Southern California-based film production company considered a pioneer in computer animation.

The film's technically challenging scenes include one in which Johnny Storm transforms into The Human Torch and prevents Doctor Doom's deadly laser beam from destroying New York. To make it, the actor stepped into a full body suit complete with motion sensors - the same type used to track a player's movements in a virtual reality game. The sensors transferred the actor's movements to a computer-generated representation of a man ablaze.

Audiences may miss the flashy graphics, but they'll also be spared an insipid movie with sappy dialogue and an irritating Invisible Girl character whose role consists of sewing uniforms and making goo-goo eyes at Mr. Fantastic.

Flaws aside, Chris Walker, president of Mr. Film, still hopes that moviegoers will someday see and hear Johnny Storm utter the words, "Flame on," even if it's not his film. Says Walker: "The fans deserve it."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.09/fan.four.html

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also check here for the NEW movie info - http://www.upcomingmovies.com/fantasticfour.html
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1458473/20021101/index.jhtml?headlines=true

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http://www.eonline.com/Features/Features/InkTank/FactFiles/index11.html

 

I like her choices, except for one. Will Petersen is too fat to play Reed. I prefer Clooney or someone else. Kinnear maybe. Gibson is too much of a ham. She nailed Johnny Storm & Dr Doom though. That Walker guy & Geoffrey Rush are perfect. I'm a big fan of Tom Sizemore too, but as my little bro pointed out once - his character dies in almost every single film he makes. Let's hope this isn't one!

If you follow that Yahoo link, you shoudl also see that New Line has been toying with releasing Iron Man as well. That'd be killer. How about the Tony Stark becomes an alcoholic storyline?

Is a (Marvel) Avengers flick in the works too?

 

Ah yeah, I was talking to a friend about that when I saw X2. That was a great story with great art. I believe it was George Perez correct?

Silver what did you think of Daredevil? I liked it, I thought it was a good superhero movie. Nice to see a hero get hurt, you know. He's still only human.

 

I read where the plastic prison Magneto was held had a sign that said Stark Enterprises. I missed it, just one more reason to go see it again.

 

No offense, but I thought Daredevil was kinda lame. I didn't like the fact that Jennifer Garner's character got killed, I thought it was kind of a ripoff of Spiderman with her blaming Daredevil for killing her father, and the dialogue wasn't really all that good. Only good character was Bullseye and he wasn't in it enough. It was just too predictable I thought, and I'm not much of a Ben Affleck fan. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great. I'd give it a 4 on a 1-10 scale.

 

I actually saw that Roger Corman F4 movie and a Captain America film that he also made. They were both horrible (imagine fake stretch arms like the fake King Kong gorilla hand from the Fay Ray movie). I hope they redo the F4 film and I know they have been trying to get this stuff off the ground. Comic book characters are getting quite popular. I read somewhere that they are re-making The Punisher (Dolph Lundgren version was pretty bad too.)

Super Hero movies I've seen
All the Supermans
Supergirl
All the Batmans
Captain America
Spawn
Fantastic Four
Spider Man
The Punisher
X-Men (gonna see X2)
Judge Dread
Darkman
The Crow (just the first one)
The Rocketeer
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


Haven't seen Daredevil yet (have to eshcew my vow never to see another Ben Affleck movie unless they do Good Will Hunting Two)
alsohave not seen...
The Phantom
The Shadow
Power Rangers