UPDATE:
/Film just announced a new “Family friendly” version is in the works!
The Fantastic 4 (1994) was hidden.
Listen to the inside scoop on the infamous Roger Corman “Fantastic 4.” It was a movie no one was supposed to see. The prints were burned. Who leaked it? Why would a company want to make a movie just to shelve it?
Chris Gore was the editor of “Film Threat” magazine. He did a cover story about the production – not knowing the film was doomed. DOOMED! Chris give his insight on this blockbuster bootleg. Everything you ever wanted (or not wanted) to know about the early ’90s feature film. Gore is a movie/comic book nut. So he goes off on fun tangents about all things nerdy. Luckily for us, being nerdy is in now.
I know Chris Gore was on before talking about The Fantastic 4 movie, but I wanted him to get into more details. So to my brother who called me out on having Chris Gore talk about the movie twice, lean back and learn more.
Here’s some background onThe Fantastic 4 from Wikipedia:
n 1983, German producer
Bernd Eichinger met with
Marvel Comics‘
Stan Lee at Lee’s
Los Angeles home to explore obtaining an option for a movie based on the
Fantastic Four. The option was not available until three years later, when Eichinger’s
Neue Constantin film company obtained it for a price the producer called “not enormous” and which has been estimated to be $250,000. Despite some interest from
Warner Bros. and
Columbia Pictures, budget concerns precluded any production, and with the option scheduled to expire on December 31, 1992, Neue Constantin asked Marvel for an extension. With none forthcoming, Eichinger planned to retain his option by producing a low-budget Fantastic Four film, reasoning, he said in 2005, “They didn’t say I had to make a big movie.” In September 1992, he teamed with
B-movie specialist
Roger Corman, who agreed to produce the film on a $1 million budget.
Production of Fantastic 4 began on December 28, 1992 under music video director Oley Sassone. Storyboards were drawn by artist Pete Von Sholly. The 21-day or 25-day production was shot on the
Concorde Pictures sound stage in
Venice, California, as well as in
Agoura, California for a spacecraft-crash scene, the
Loyola Marymount campus for a lab-explosion scene, and the former
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