Fantastic Four, The

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The Fantastic Four
Credits
Title:	The Fantastic Four
Genres:	Superhero fantasy
Directed by:	Oley Sassone
Written by:	Craig J. Nevius; Kevin Rock
Produced by:	Roger Corman; Bernd Eichinger; Glenn Garland; Steven Rabiner
Music by:	David Wurst; Eric Wurst
Cinematography:	Mark Parry
Edited by:	Glenn Garland
Production
Distributed by:	New Horizons Constantin Film Produktion
Released:	1994
Rating:	PG
Running time:	90 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Budget:	$1,000,000
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The Fantastic Four is the little movie that never was, which is probably why so few people have heard of it. The movie is based on the popular Fantastic Four line of comic book titles that were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby and began publication in November, 1961. Sadly, the most enduring legacy of this unreleased film is that it begat a string of equally unwatchable live-action films based on the same property. The Fantastic Four was directed by Oley Sassone with a screenplay written by Craig J. Nevius and Kevin Rock. It was produced by Roger Corman with New Horizons and Constantin Film Produktion. It was scheduled for a 1994 limited release, but it never materialized. The movie features an ensemble cast which includes Alex Hyde-White as Reed Richards, Jay Underwood as Johnny Storm, Rebecca Staab as Susan Storm, and Michael Bailey Smith as Ben Grimm with Carl Ciarfalio as his mutated counterpart, the Thing. Playing the part of the film's antagonist is Joseph Culp as Victor von Doom.

Cast

Actor	Role
Alex Hyde-White	Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
Jay Underwood	Human Torch, Johnny Storm
Rebecca Staab	Invisible Woman, Susan Storm
Michael Bailey Smith	Ben Grimm
Joseph Culp	Doctor Doom, Victor von Doom
Kat Green	Alicia Masters
Carl Ciarfalio	The Thing
Ian Trigger	Jeweler
George Gaynes	Professor
Charles Butto	Weasel
Annie Gagen	Mrs. Storm
Howard Shangraw	Kragstadt
David Keith Miller	Trigorin
Robert Beuth	Doctor Hauptman
Patrick Richwood	Messenger
Ricky Dean Logan	Busboy
Mercedes McNab	Young Susan
Phillip Van Dyke	Young Johnny

Appearances

Characters

Main characters

• Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
• Invisible Woman, Susan Storm
• Human Torch, Johnny Storm
• The Thing, Ben Grimm

Supporting characters

• Alicia Masters

Antagonists

• Doctor Doom, Victor von Doom

Minor characters

• Hauptman
• Mary Storm
• Weasel

Locations

• New York

• New York City
• Manhattan

• Baxter Building

Items

Comet Cosmic rays Fantasticar

Force field Shotgun Shuttlecraft

Vocations

Artist Astronaut Doctor Henchman Pilot

Professor Security guard Scientist Soldier Superhero

Super-powers

Energy projection Flight Invisibility Elasticity Force field projection

Pyrokinesis Superhuman durability Superhuman strength Transformation

Miscellaneous

Castle College Crash landings Disfigurement Electrocution Exploding vehicles Falling from a great height

Gunshot victims Hospital Laboratory Scientific experimentation Spacecraft Suicide Wedding

Notes

• "Fantastic Four (1994)", "The Fantastic Four (1994)", "Roger Corman's Fantastic Four", and "Fantastic Four, The (1994)" all redirect to this page.

• This film was the subject of a 2014 documentary called Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's "The Fantastic Four", which went into detail about the production problems that ultimately prevented the movie from being released.

• This is the first of at least three live-action films based on the Marvel Comics superhero team. A big budget film, Fantastic 4, was released in 2005. A sequel to the movie, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, was released in 2007. In 2015, the concept was re-imagined as Fantastic Four by director Josh Trank, which was universally reviled by both viewers and critics.

• While this comic book adaptation of the Fantastic Four may not have come to fruition, there was a Fantastic Four animated series that began airing in 1994.

• Production on The Fantastic Four began on December 28th, 1992.

• The movie was shot on the Concorde sound stage in Los Angeles, California.

• The Fantastic Four was never intended to be screened at all. The film was made soley so that Bernd Eichinger could maintain licensing rights to the characters.

• There are a total of eighteen cast members associated with the producton of this film. Fourteen of them are male cast members with four of them being female cast members.

• Actor Chuck Butto is credited as Charles Butto in this film.

• Actor Robert Alan Beuth is credited as Robert Beuth in this film.

Fun Facts

• Actor Alex Hyde-White, who plays Reed Richards in this film, also played a young man in the 1979 television movie Captain America II: Death Too Soon.

Recommendations

Superhero films

Amazing Spider-Man, The Ant-Man Avengers, The Avengers: Age of Ultron Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame Batman Batman Forever Batman & Robin Captain America Captain America II: Death Too Soon Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America: The Winter Soldier Captain America: Civil War Catwoman Daredevil Deadpool Doctor Strange Elektra Fantastic Four Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Fantastic Four Hulk Incredible Hulk, The Iron Man Iron Man 2 Iron Man 3 Logan Kick Ass 2 KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park Man of Steel Spider-Man Spider-Man 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Thor Thor: The Dark World Wolverine, The X-Men X-Men 2: X-Men United X-Men: The Last Stand X-Men: Days of Future Past X-Men Origins: Wolverine

External Links

• The Fantastic Four at MDP
• The Fantastic Four at IMDB
• The Fantatsic Four at Wikipedia
• The Fantastic Four at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Fantastic Four at the Marvel Movies Wiki