Thanks for posting this. 12 screen writers? That is not a good sign.
Management-by-committee of anything is usually a huge disaster. I
plan to see it anyway and judge for myself.
George
Captain
The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston)
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Said Kakese Dibinga
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fantastic Four's long trip
>
>
> Comedy thriller? Action flick? The Marvel Comics story has taken
more forms than its superheroes.
>
> By Chris Lee, Special to The Times
>
> In issue No. 1 of the Fantastic Four comic book, four astronauts
are bombarded by mysterious cosmic rays. In a few short pages, they
become superheroes, each a specialist of sorts: a human fireball, a
super-elastic genius, an invisible woman and an indestructible rock
creature prone to exclaiming, "It's clobberin' time!"
>
> While that transformation was relatively painless, turning
Fantastic Four into a movie has proven to be a herculean undertaking.
>
> On its way to the big screen, Marvel Comics' much-loved franchise
lingered in developmental purgatory and took on more incarnations
than David Bowie in the 1970s. Over the course of 11 years, many of
Hollywood's most comic-literate storytellers have been hired and
fired, to say nothing of the studio headbanging and tens of millions
of dollars in preproduction funds that have been poured into the
project, which finally lands in theaters this Friday.
>
> With the movie envisioned variously as a "Charlie's Angels"-style
comedy thriller, a meta-narrative examination of celebrity à la
the
Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" and a no-nonsense action flick, no
fewer than 12 screenwriters toiled on the "Fantastic Four" script
and at least five directors came and went. Indie maverick Roger
Corman even produced a low-budget version in 1994, which was
summarily shelved by Marvel and 20th Century Fox, the film's
distributor.
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