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Footage online

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Is there any footage online anywhere? Trailers? 72.67.35.214 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 23:29, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Found it on Youtube. Worst movie ever! I'm not at all surprised that it wasn't released. 72.67.35.214 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 03:46, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It just occurred to me, the 1994 The Fantastic Four (film) by Roger Corman was never released, yet it has an article (and I have a bootleg copy.... don't bother to get one yourself... it sucks). Maybe somebody should put a delete request in for that article because the film was never released and thus "never happened".--Dr who1975 (talk) 05:33, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The film did happen, but was never released. It's quite a shocking story - the making of it, not the film (although I'll take your word for it about it being awful). Did you mean to post this here, or over on the appropriate talk page? --SesquipedalianVerbiage (talk) 13:45, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think Drwho1975's point was that in reference to the deletion nominations for this article, just because something doesn't yet exist (i.e. hasn't been published) doesn't mean it can't have an article. However, this doesn't matter now anyway, as the result of the vote was to keep it. Blueblade0 (talk) 16:49, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Budget

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The budget is listed as an estimated $1.5 million. Another article Ashcan copy says the buget was $2 million and provides a source.

Rhoades, Shirrel (2008). A complete history of American comic books. Peter Lang. p. 264. ISBN 9780820488929.

This wouldn't be the first time a film budget has been rounded to the nearest million so I'm wondering what credibility the $1.5 million figure has and if it should be changed to $2 million, although I don't have the book and cannot WP:VERIFY that source either? -- Horkana (talk) 22:35, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

explain

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some explanation of why this was done should be added. background on copyright and their lapsing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.34.130.22 (talk) 17:04, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Reviews?

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How can there possibly be any reviews of a movie that no critic has ever seen? -- ♬ Jack of Oz[your turn] 22:11, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Plans at the time for release

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According to one of the sources already cited here, the film was indeed planned for release. Corman, in Terrence J. Brady's interview, says directy, "We were going to distribute it but he [Bernd Eichinger, the German producer] had a clause in his contract that he could buy me out at a rather substantial profit for me anytime up to ninety days after the picture was completed. During that time he raised his $40 million. He bought the picture out from me and he's making it for Fox. I was reasonably happy because I made a profit, but I didn't get a chance to distribute the film because I wanted to see how that type of comic book movie fared."

And Eichinger as well, in this Los Angeles magazine story, says, "[W]e wanted to release it." I'm going to work on appropriately updating this article, which is not well-researched — there are only two footnotes, and one of them is to a long audio interview without timestamps. --Tenebrae (talk) 01:33, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trailer For Doomed!, The Documentary About The Roger Corman Fantastic Four Movie

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Here is the Source — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.188.18.94 (talk) 01:40, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move (February 2014)

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:53, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]


The Fantastic Four (film)The Fantastic Four (1994 film) – Upcoming reeboot has the same title. Unreal7 (talk) 13:09, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose for now since filming has not started on the reboot, which means there is no guaranteed film. The hatnote should be updated not to imply an existing article but rather the current "Reboot" section at Fantastic Four in film. Besides, it does not seem like the reboot has an official title at this point. It's just being called "The Fantastic Four" or "Fantastic Four" as a simple general title. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 20:20, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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One source?

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I'm not sure that's accurate. Two sources, Los Angeles magazine and Film Threat magazine, supply some but not all of the production information, and there are six other cites for this short article. Unless a specific rationale can be given in the next few days for what seems to be a questionable tag, it should be removed. --Tenebrae (talk) 23:53, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

7 cites for Gore article, 6 for Ito article, and 6 other cites. "One source" is an inaccurate tag. No comments on this post for two months. Deleting tag. --Tenebrae (talk) 13:59, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 13 August 2015

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The result of the move request was: not moved per WP:SNOW. Taylor Trescott - my talk + my edits 18:25, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]


The Fantastic Four (unreleased film)The Fantastic Four (film) – No other film called The Fantastic Four. Lunchmeets (talk) 01:18, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose. As the person who moved the article in the first place, Erik described my reasoning perfectly. "The" is not a big enough disambiguation to warrant separate titles, especially since the other two FF films are frequently referred to with "The" in front of them. Sock (tock talk) 15:06, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Corman

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Intersting quote:

“It’s the strangest deal I ever made in my life,” Corman said, “the most profitable film I ever made that did not get released.”

Might be worth including it and expanding the explanation about Eichinger buying him out. -- 109.76.155.87 (talk) 12:00, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Magazine cover

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Film Threat magazine Issue 12 October 1993 had the main cast on the cover. An edited version of this image was previously included in the article but removed for copyright reasons. The image was included in a podcast about the film. content/uploads/2014/08/FILM-THREAT-12-COVER1.jpg Archived copy. I thought of maybe using Template:External image to included it in the article but it didn't look good at all. Maybe someone who better understands the copyright requirements of wikipedia can find a suitable way to include it in the article because a picture was worth a thousand words, particularly an image that showed the cast and creature makeup for the Thing.

It was a shame to lose the image, and the poster in the infobox is doesn't give a good impression at all. -- 109.76.135.145 (talk) 14:28, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Release soon

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This movie is gonna be officially released on Disney+. Thing is, will we change the title to "(2019 film)" or something? Enjoyer of World (talk) 10:35, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Or "(1994 film)" Enjoyer of World (talk) 10:41, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]