Comic book films are ALL the rage right now. Superheroes are
coming at us from all angles: comics, film, TV novelizations… everywhere.
Arguably, Marvel Comics has been the most successful. The Avengers, Iron Man,
Dr. Strange, Captain America, Spider-man… all of these titles are in the vernacular
of American conversations. The family that started the Marvel Comics Universe
the 1960s has had their share of film versions. The Fantastic Four: Mr.
Fantastic, The Invisible Girl (now Woman), The Thing and The Human Torch have
had multiple animated television shows and, to date, four feature films. The
most recent, from Fox, have been critical and financial failures. It was a
1990s production by Roger Corman that has been called the BEST Fantastic Four
film made to date and on a very low budget. That film has never been released.
In Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four, we finally learn
what happened to the film that never saw the light of day.
