Fantastic Four (2005)

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Fantastic Four (stylized as Fantastic 4) is a 2005 American-German superhero film based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name. It was directed by Tim Story, and released by 20th Century Fox. The film stars Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon and Kerry Washington.

This was the second live-action Fantastic Four film to be filmed. A previous attempt, titled The Fantastic Four, was a B-movie produced by Roger Corman that ultimately went unreleased. Fantastic Four was released in the United States on July 8, 2005. A sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, was released in 2007. A reboot of the same name was released in 2015.

Physicist Reed Richards is convinced evolution was triggered millions of years ago on Earth by clouds of cosmic energy in space and has calculated that one of these clouds is soon going to pass near Earth. Together with his friend, astronaut Ben Grimm, Reed convinces Victor Von Doom, his former classmate at MIT and now CEO of Von Doom Industries, to allow him access to his privately held space station to test the effects of a biological sample of exposure to the cloud. Doom agrees in exchange for control over the experiment and a majority of the profits from whatever benefits it brings. Reed brings aboard his ex-girlfriend and Von Doom's chief genetics researcher Sue Storm and her ex-astronaut younger brother Johnny Storm.

The quintet travels to outer space to observe the cosmic energy clouds, but Reed miscalculates and the clouds materialize ahead of schedule. Reed and the Storms leave the shielded station to rescue Ben, who had gone on a spacewalk to place the samples. Ben receives full exposure in outer space, while the others receive a more limited dose within the station. Back home they soon develop superpowers: Reed can stretch his body like rubber, Susan can become invisible and generate force shields, Johnny Storm can engulf himself in fire and fly unaided, and Ben becomes a rock-like creature with superhuman strength and durability. Meanwhile, Von Doom faces a backlash from his stockholders because of the publicity from the space mission, and has a scar on his face that came from an exploding control console on the station.

Ben's fiancee Debbie cannot handle his new appearance and leaves him. Ben goes to brood on the Brooklyn Bridge and accidentally causes a traffic pileup while preventing a man from committing suicide. Ben, Reed and the Storms use their various abilities to contain the damage and prevent harm. The media dubs them the Fantastic Four. They move into Reed's lab in the Baxter Building to study their abilities and seek a way to return Grimm to normal. Von Doom, himself mutating, offers his support but blames Reed for the failure of the spaceflight, which has lost him his company's hope for an IPO.

Reed tells the group he will construct a machine to recreate the storm and reverse its effects on them, but warns it could possibly accelerate them instead. Meanwhile, Von Doom's arm has become organic metal, giving him superhuman strength allowing him to produce bolts of electricity, and he begins plotting revenge. He drives a wedge between Ben and Reed, who has rekindled his relationship with Susan Storm. Using the machine, Von Doom restores Ben to human form, while accelerating Von Doom's condition, causing much of his body to turn to metal. Von Doom knocks the human Grimm unconscious and captures Reed.

Now calling himself Doctor Doom, he puts on a metallic mask and a cloak to hide his disfigurement, Doom then tortures Reed and fires a heatseeking missile at the Baxter Building in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Johnny. Sue confronts Doom but is outmatched. Ben arrives to assist her, transformed into the Thing again by reusing the machine (speaking his signature line, "It's clobberin' time!" which used in Johnny's action figure). The battle then gets spilled into the streets and The Storms combine their powers to wrap Doom in an inferno of intense heat, while Ben and Reed douse him with cold water, inducing thermal shock and freezing Doom in the place, defeating him and preventing the destruction of the city. In an epilogue, Grimm informs Reed that he has accepted his condition with the help of Alicia Masters, a blind artist for whom he has developed feelings, and the team embraces its role as superheroes. Reed proposes marriage to Sue, who accepts. Meanwhile, Doom's statue-like remains are being transported back to his homeland of Latveria when the dock master's electronic manifest briefly undergoes electromagnetic interference, suggesting that Doom is still alive.

Cast

Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic
Jessica Alba as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
Chris Evans as Johnny Storm / Human Torch
Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm / The Thing
Julian McMahon as Victor von Doom / Doctor Doom
Hamish Linklater as Leonard, Doom's assistant.
Kerry Washington as Alicia Masters
Laurie Holden as Debbie McIlvane
David Parker as Ernie
Kevin McNulty as Jimmy O'Hoolihan
Maria Menounos as the Sexy Nurse
Michael Kopsa as Ned Cecil
Kenny "Cowboy Kenny" Bartram as himself
Ronnie Renner as himself
Stan Lee as Willie Lumpkin
Rachel McAdams, Ali Larter and Keri Russell were considered for Sue Storm.

As in almost all of the previous Marvel Comics-based films, Fantastic Four co-creator Stan Lee makes a cameo appearance. He is Willie Lumpkin, the postal worker who greets the team on their way to the Baxter Building elevator.

Production

In 1983, German producer Bernd Eichinger met with Stan Lee at his home in Los Angeles 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 Constantin Film company obtained it from Marvel Comics for a price the producer called "not enormous", and which has been estimated to be $250,000.Warner Bros and Columbia Pictures showed interest, but were cautious of Eichinger's $40–45 million budget. With the option scheduled to expire on December 31, 1992, Eichinger 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 1992 he approached B-movie specialist Roger Corman on the idea of producing the film on a $5 million budget in order to keep the rights, which he eventually decided to bring down to $1 million. In 1994, the adaptation, titled The Fantastic Four, had its trailer released to theaters, and its cast and director went on a promotional tour, however the film was not officially released. The film was accused of being an ashcan copy, meaning it was only made to keep the license. Lee and Eichinger stated that the actors had no idea of the situation, instead believing they were creating a proper release. Marvel Comics paid in exchange for the film's negative, so 20th Century Fox could go ahead with the big-budget adaptation, as well as a possible spin-off film starring the Silver Surfer for summer 1998.

Fox hired Chris Columbus to write and direct Fantastic Four in 1995. He developed a screenplay with Michael France, but decided to step down as director and focus on producing Fantastic Four under his 1492 Pictures company. Peter Segal was hired to direct in April 1997 and was replaced by Sam Weisman by the end of the year. Fox brought in Sam Hamm to rewrite the script in April 1998 in an attempt to lower the $165 million projected budget. In February 1999, with development taking longer than expected, Eichinger and Fox signed a deal with Marvel to extend the control of the film rights for another two years, with a summer 2001 release planned and hiring Raja Gosnell to direct. However, Gosnell decided to do Scooby Doo instead and dropped out in October 2000.He was replaced by Peyton Reed in April 2001and Mark Frost was brought on board for another rewrite. Reed departed in July 2003, explaining in 2015, "I developed it for the better part of a year with three different sets of writers. But it became clear after a while that Fox had a very different movie in mind and they were also chasing a release date … so we ended up parting company.”Tim Story was signed to direct in April 2004, after Fox was impressed with his early cut of Taxi. Simon Kinberg wrote uncredited drafts of the script.

Release

The American premiere of Fantastic Four was moved from July 1, 2005, to the week of July 8 to avoid competition with Steven Spielberg's motion picture War of the Worlds, during its first week. Fantastic Four opened in 3,602 movie theaters in the United States, and increased to 3,619 theaters in the following week.

Box office

In paid attendance, Fantastic Four was a commercial success, and achieved the top position in gross income, making $56,061,504 during its first weekend. By the end of 2005, Fantastic Four had accumulated a gross income of about $330,579,700 from theaters around the world, about $154,696,080 of this coming in the United States.

"The movie came to life every time you were on the screen." Stan Lee to Chris Evans.

Bob Moderator Posts: 3,105	Fantastic Four (2005) Mar 8, 2017 19:50:20 GMT karlacev likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Bob on Mar 8, 2017 19:50:20 GMT
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Bob Moderator Posts: 3,105	Fantastic Four (2005) Mar 8, 2017 20:24:19 GMT Picap, Zak, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Bob on Mar 8, 2017 20:24:19 GMT
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karlacev Junior Member Posts: 77	Fantastic Four (2005) Mar 9, 2017 9:48:56 GMT Bob likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by karlacev on Mar 9, 2017 9:48:56 GMT Where did you find the films and screenshots, B? Or did you do them yourself? Decent stills of FF are actually quite hard to find.
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Mar 9, 2017 9:48:56 GMT karlacev said:

Where did you find the films and screenshots, B? Or did you do them yourself? Decent stills of FF are actually quite hard to find.

I did do them myself. It didn't take 5 minutes (cough). I quickly found out that's it's hard to find decent stuff about FF so I ended up doing it myself. As usual, chrisevansfrance has a shedload photos.chrisevansfrance.net/index.php?cat=88 but I don't want to keep using theirs all the time. (still waiting to see if she'll follow us on twitter)

I realise that not so many people are as intrigued by this as by his lesser known films but the 'film reference library' doesn't seem complete without the Fantastic Four films. I'm working on the Silver Surfer now.

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olivia52 Full Member Posts: 138	Fantastic Four (2005) Mar 9, 2017 15:47:15 GMT Bob and leesilm like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by olivia52 on Mar 9, 2017 15:47:15 GMT Amazing detail and quality. Thank you very much!! It is much appreciated and I love his lesser known films.

olivia52 Full Member Posts: 138	Fantastic Four (2005) Mar 9, 2017 15:55:03 GMT Bob and leesilm like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by olivia52 on Mar 9, 2017 15:55:03 GMT I forgot how much I adore Johnny Storm. This just makes me want to watch it again. It was not a great movie but Chris was SOOO good. He made the whole movie.

leesilm Full Member You are a crappy artist, and you are wrong. Posts: 154	Fantastic Four (2005) Mar 14, 2017 7:05:51 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by leesilm on Mar 14, 2017 7:05:51 GMT Anyone know how to attach gif-files? I've got a few good ones of Johnny & Ben, particularly Johnny's pranks on Ben, but when I post them, they don't move anymore. THANKS! Attachments:
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Mar 14, 2017 7:05:51 GMT leesilm said:

Anyone know how to attach gif-files? I've got a few good ones of Johnny & Ben, particularly Johnny's pranks on Ben, but when I post them, they don't move anymore. THANKS!

I'm glad you mentioned that because I have had the same problem. It used to be OK because when I made the GIFS thread in Gallery I had no problems at all. However, recently I've found that any gif I attach will just loop once and then stop.

I did a bit of googling and saw this reference to a site called LunaPic along with these instructions

After that there is a save button and it gives your file a new name so that's quite handy.

I've been using it and it does work but I wouldn't like to have to do a big batch of them! Hope that helps.

Added Edit an hour later - it's weird, I just posted a gif in the Gifted thread and it posted first time OK without me having to re-do it at LunaPic. So it's obviously something weird and technical why it accepts some but rejects others.

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capsbestgirl Moderator Posts: 1,473 Member is Online	Fantastic Four (2005) Jul 8, 2018 13:46:20 GMT Picap and Bob like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by capsbestgirl on Jul 8, 2018 13:46:20 GMT I've just read that this was released 13 years ago today!!!
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Jul 8, 2018 13:46:20 GMT capsbestgirl said:

I've just read that this was released 13 years ago today!!!

13 years already ? WOW ! I rewatched Fantastic Four recently. I loved the film 10 years ago but now i have to say.... NOT a great film, but Chris was amazing, i really enjoyed his performance. I read the comics and watched the cartoons when i was a kid and i truly believe he did justice to the role

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Jul 8, 2018 19:03:23 GMT marius93 said:

Jul 8, 2018 13:46:20 GMT capsbestgirl said:

I've just read that this was released 13 years ago today!!!

13 years already ? WOW ! I rewatched Fantastic Four recently. I loved the film 10 years ago but now i have to say.... NOT a great film, but Chris was amazing, i really enjoyed his performance. I read the comics and watched the cartoons when i was a kid and i truly believe he did justice to the role

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Blows my mind, that it was THAT LONG AGO, as well. Someone said the other day that they were going to watch it, so I hopped on the couch with them, and they started to play the new one (one of my favorite actors is in it, still can't do it- Chris Evans/Johnny and Michael Chiklis/Ben are what made the movies for me), so I told them they were watching a pale imitation of a good FANTASTIC FOUR movie. These were really good.

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