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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
Notice:	Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie!
Moderator:	VAXCPU::michaudo.dec.com::tamara::eppes

Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

312.0. "The Fantastic Four" by 6882::HANLEY () Wed Aug 25 1993 11:16

    
    Just when you thought it couldn't be done, the movie industry
    does it again. From the pages of Marvel Comics they have 
    brought to life. (long pause)
    
    The Fantistic Four.
    
    I saw a preview for this one last night.
    
    Anyone have any other infomation?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
312.1	Scheduled for limited release Oct. 29	QUARRY::reeves	Jon Reeves, ULTRIX compiler group	`Wed Aug 25 1993 20:11`	1
	That's all I know; I found out about it yesterday myself.
312.2		YUPPY::SECURITY	Security @LDO	`Thu Apr 07 1994 06:14`	3
	Did it come out? Was it good? Should I go see it? Huh? Huh?
312.3	Suppressed.	QUARRY::reeves	Jon Reeves, UNIX compiler group	`Fri Jul 01 1994 22:56`	11
	Hmm, should have followed up on this. This was produced on the cheap (as usual) by Roger Corman. Someone came along and bought him out after the movie was finished, with an eye to making a bigger budget version. There was a clause in the contract allowing this to happen. So, the cheapie is buried in a vault somewhere, and we may see a big budget version in a couple years -- or maybe not. I believe the identity of the purchaser has not been revealed publicly. I also believe there was speculation that director Chris Columbus was involved in some way.