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Fantastic Four Animated Series
pillageplunder writes "CNN is reporting that Marvel Enterprises has cut a deal with Frances Antefilms Productions to make an animated TV Series based on the Marvel superheros.
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No doubt to capitalize on the film (2005). (Which will hopefully turn out better than an earlier try (1994) Of course, us late boom kids will remember this animated series and try to overlook this one (1978), when PC and non-violence destroyed Saturday morning TV ("Oh dear, children might see Johnny erupt in flames and try to emulate their animated role model and pour gasoline all over themselves and strike a match! Won't someone please think of the children!')
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Title says "four animated series".
Blurb says "an animated series".
When I first read this I was pretty excited... but to be honest I'm not so sure now. It seems like lately cartoon series' are really lacking. I mean look at the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles compared to the old one... They chopped out so much of what make the Turtles so cool. I think its because they tried to adapt them more to pop culture. Hopefully they won't do the same to the Fantastic 4.
Then again, maybe I'm just getting old.
Isn't this just like the Justice League series on Cartoon network, with Marvel characters? Wow, They're original.
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Sounds good... I just hope it dosent get delayed to death like the first version of the movie.
Maybe they'll go completely out on a limb and use Iceman or Spider-Woman.
It'd be even better if Stan Lee did the narration.
Boy, I can't wait!
I wonder will the Fantastic Car be the same flying bathtub I remember from the old Fantasitc Four animated series. Anyone remember that? Gawd it was lame!
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"What we are trying to do with our major brands is to support them in every way possible," Marvel Studios chairman and CEO Avi Arad said. "To support the franchise between sequels, we'll have the animated series, the video games (through Activision) and the merchandise licensing. We are just elated to be reintroducing this huge property." And by "support" they obviously mean "suck dry"
A Fantastic Four animated cartoon would be great -- tho no doubt the powers at be at Marvel will some how bastardize the TV version. Still, it's better to see the focus on characters other than the X-Men and Spiderman.
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"What we are trying to do with our major brands is to support them in every way possible," Marvel Studios chairman and CEO Avi Arad said.
This should actually read, "What we are trying to do with our major brands is whore them out to all suitors and make as much money as possible from them, thereby turning everyone's childhood memories against their pocket books, and allowing us to swim in the vast pools of money we have always dreamed of."
Still looks like editors don't seem to do their job. Shouldn't that be "heroes"?
Okay, there have been plenty of bad, and a few good, take offs of marvel comics. Is the proliferation of marvel movies because it's profitable or because they can't write a new idea.
I hope they actually kill people in the new animated series. If batman woulda just frick'n killed the joker he woulda saved gotham millions.(This is why Cowboy Bebop kicks ass)
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Turtles were bought by Archie Comics and when that happened you knew they were going to be cool and hip and utterly, utterly awful.
Imagine an animated version of "What The". Aelita and crew VS Warlock. How about Funky Cops vs Mojo?
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A few months ago (before I got rid of TV) I found myself watching (and enjoying) Justice League on Cartoon network quite a bit. It was on just before the switch to Adult Swim which was an ideal timeslot for me.
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they don't 'baby-ize' it like that godawful teen titans series.
Honestly, I take umbrage at that piece of crap. The comic I remember from back in the 80s was dark and ominous-- not cute and cuddly.
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Anyone else except me ever wonder about Mr. Fantastic and many ways his stretching power can be applied in sexual ways?
I dunno. I never could get into this series of comic books. X-men, Spiderman, Hulk, The West Coast Avengers...I liked almost every other Marvel series better than F4. Two of the four team members (Reed and Sue Richards) had lame superpowers and the plots seemed kinda hokey and dated.
Johnny was alright. And Ben Grimm/Thing was good in his own series...esp those times he faced off with The Hulk.
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No you have it all wrong. It's times like this when the Fantastic Four are needed more than ever to protect our liberty! At last a returning glimmer of hope on the horizon! Onward our brave superheros - Onward to freedom!
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other speculation at the time was that there had been a falling out between Johnny and the other three and left. There's plenty of other rumors, too.
It was iceman and Firestar, not spider-woman.
I liked the show, mostly because it didn't have the Hulk, and I don't like the Hulk.
It wasn't actually very good.
It seems nobody noticed, but the Mainframe version was pretty good, both in stories and technology. Too bad Mainframe never make cartoons in sufficient quantities. Hopefully this F4 series won't be a dumbed-down kiddie cartoon.
...an "animated TV series" used to be abbreviated as "cartoon?" Those were the days.
Tell your Tivo to grab "Spiderman and His Amazing Friends", the old cartoon series that (I believe) Fox Family is re-running. It's awesome. I don't mean awesome in that it's a good show; I mean awesome in an MST3K-type way.
Basically, Spiderman has 2 friends/ roommates. Firestarter is this hot chick that turns into a fireball at a moment's notice and burns everything in her path. As an added bonus, she has a permanent cameltoe.
Then there's Iceman, the other roommate who can (you guessed it) turn into a frozen bald guy that looks strikingly like Silver Surfer, and freeze everything in his path.
The best part about this show (besides the aforementioned cameltoe) is the shoestring budget it must have had. The voice of Iceman is the same dude that voiced Fred in the Scooby Doo cartoon. But what's funny is that he's also the voice of virtually every erroneous character in the show. He doesn't even try to mask it. New bad guy? Give him Iceman's voice. Shopkeeper at the local store? Iceman.
The show is great fun to watch, especially while drinking. I highly recommend it to everyone. Let's hope that this F4 cartoon is slightly higher quality... or if it sucks, let's hope it's the same level of sucktitude that envelops Spidey and his amazing friends. Either way, we win.
Is that the people making it will turn out another exceedingly crap version of the Fantastic Four. If they cater this to late teens / late 20's instead of 11 and 12 year olds they might actually have a story that is worth watching.
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Other cartoons of this period still make good money because they appeal to the adolescent male. The fantastic four just doesn't.
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Unbreakable?
There was also this little known art-house flick.
Roger Ebert seemed to like this film.
Firestarter is this hot chick that turns into a fireball
That's FireSTAR, you philistine!
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Am I the only one here who remembers a Fantastic Four series from about 10 years ago? Ran back to back with Iron Man usually? In my market it was on Sunday mornings at 6AM (great time slot). I just looked through this whole thread and I didn't see one mention of this cartoon, now I'm wondering if I'm the only one who remembers it.
Lets take a look.
You have a man who can stretch any part of his body
A man who is rock hard
and a man who is rather flaming
And none of the team can see the only woman because she is invisible.
Totally gay...
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What If, IIRC was crossover stuff, What the... was self parody. I've got several of the early What the... comics, which had some pretty funny send-ups. Once they got through most of the line it became a too much of a stretch other than an occasional gem later on. The Pulverizer was pretty hilarious.
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I would like to see cartoons of our favorite linux developers, authors, and basic nerds. Geeks in space only visual.
These movies are really ONLY for the established fanbase, and for those who feel a sense of nostalgia when they were in the fan base. That's why "Daredevil" didn't do so well - all four Daredevil fans watched the file, several times each, and two of them made webpages dissecting the plot and character changes made while bringing Daredevil to the big screen, but that just wasn't enough to carry the film. If you didn't already care about Daredevil (seriously, he's a third-string Marvel hero for God's sake, and except for the Elektra saga, hardly deserved his own book), you wouldn't bother seeing it. I went only because I know one of the actors in it (who, incidentally, did a bang-up job, but I'm not here to drop names).
What were the exceptions to comicbook films that suck? Superman (everyone loves Superman, but even the third film was really, really bad) and Batman (everyone remembers watching Adam West and Burt Ward on the TV show, but after a couple of films, this series went deep south too). Spiderman and X-Men (the first string Marvel books that everyone who has read comics has read). Every other adaptation has been a niche-market film. There are alot of great comics out there (Grant Morrison run of Doom Patrol, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Thieves and Kings, insert your own here), but only the comics with established widespread appeal are going to succeed in the theater.
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The first Fantastic Four was made in 1994 but never released because unbeknown to the cast and crew, the movie was never intended to be released, and was made only because the studio who owned the rights to make a Fantastic Four movie would have lost the rights if they did not begin production by a certain date.
The other day I was daydreaming about a Spiderman-like Silver Surfer movie.
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That would be cool.
Oh, that Chinese basketball player could play Galactus...
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That is still my favorite cartoon from when i was a kid. That and G.I.Joe (a real american hero, you know - and knowing is half the battle).
I was pretty impressed with the new Spiderman CG series that appeared on MTv after the first movie. Besides being voiced by some bad choices - Ian Ziering from Beverly Hills 90210 voiced Harry, and Jewel was MJ, and Peter Parker was voiced by Doogie Howser MD it was a good series that served as a good arc between movies.
However, they did have some fresh villians - one of the things that the first Spiderman series (with Iceman and Firestorm), and the animation was really cool - especially all of the self casting shadows.
If this new cartoon (let's face it, they're still cartoons) is as good as that.
I also think you can get the new series on DVD now.
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You'll be better off with the Mainframe's Spidey series. Too bad it was so darn short.
No matter what they do, the show won't be as cool as the spoof of the Fantastic Four on The Venture Brothers. Here's a thought: ever wonder what it would be like to be constantly on fire? They did. It'd suck.
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Am I the only one that remembers The Marvel Action Hour from 1994-1995? A more recent (than the 60's) Fantastic Four animated series was aired back to back with Iron Man.
I remember McDonald's or Burger King... I forget which, but some fast food place was giving out Fantastic Four toys in their Happy Meals. I remember The Invisible Woman would change from transparent to opaque when dunked in warm water.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0187635/
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Like Johnny was upset for being outed as a flamer ...
Why do you think Sue called him "Mr. Fantastic"?
Oh, man! I completely forgot about those two!
They were great - but didn't Iron Fist die?
" There's no coherence to most Japanese stuff." ... What? Have you even watched a decent Anime series? The vast majority of the ones I watch are very heavily plot based. As in, you don't want to miss an episode, 'cause you really *will* be wondering what the heck happened.
Not like most western series, where there is little to no continuity. You can run the episodes in any order, because nothing actually changes between them. Each is a neat little package, with some interesting/funny content in each, but the whole doesn't make anything meaningful in the least.
Good anime series are like TV mini-series; there are a limited number of episodes, possibly enough to make a single "season", in which each episode unfolds more and more plot. String all the episodes together and you have a (long) movie.
You need to start looking into better series if you think all of them are like Speed Racer. My experience is that they're just the opposite.
im surprised that no-one has mentioned the amazing artwork Jack Kirby did for the Fantastic Four in the 60's -
for me, the Galactus - Silver Surfer arc is perhaps the high point of Marvel comic-dom -
bringing Jack Kirby's vision of this tale to the large, or small screen has the potential, if handled properly, to be one of the greatest comic-based movies of all, imho -
http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/comics101/27.html/
so if they get the first movie right, (where we have another great character Dr. Doom, a super-villain with diplomatic immunity !) FF2 should be worth waiting for...
I hear it's on the march.
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I agree. They should come up with movies based more on realistic cartoons such as Hackles and User Friendly.
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Now is better to your health to be talking about the Fantastic Four.
Hey, do you remember when Doctor Doom conquered earth, and was actually a benevolent dictator? and solved problems like hunger and war and crime?
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http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour/ (circa 1994)
And maybe once more before that???
http://www.tvtome.com/NewFantasticFour/ (circa 1978)
But wait, there's more!
http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour_1967/ (circa 1967)
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Here's a couple links below about the mid-90s Fantastic Four series. I recall watching them on FOX, back to back with Iron Man. IMHO, the early/mid-90s Marvel animated series (X-Men, Spiderman, Iron Man, Fantastic Four) were the best that Marvel has pushed out so far, at least in my lifetime.
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http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour/
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I've seen the movie, and it is without doubt, the worst movie ever made. It was rightfully not released. Its pitiful. Pitiful bad but bad in an MST3k way. I recommend watching it with copious amounts of booze. It was leaked onto your favorite .torrent and file sharing app just last year. If you watch it, it only makes you wonder who had to suck whose member in hollywood for this film to be greenlit.
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are you sure you came to the right news area cause i mean come on... a nerd to old for comics, or are you lying so you seem cool to try and find a girl on here... once again wrong place no women
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What do you want? Another posting of the same article?
You must be new here.
Ever see the graphic novel where they both got kidnapped by an alien. They end up on a world where they watch news footage of Earth's superheroes as some kind of horror-reality series.
Grimm gets all dressed up as a disquise and keeps getting recognized, while Hulk just puts some unconcious squidlike alien on his head like a hat and nobody every knows him.
The Thing actually manages to conince Hulk that talking your way out of trouble is a viable alternative which leads to the Hulk putting a load of bad guys to sleep when he bores them for hours with things like "shiney brass buttons in the sun hurt your eyes."
Hilarious!
Reed Richards is elastic!
Sue can fade from sight!
Johnny is the human torch!
The Thing just loves to fight!
Oh call for more!
Fantastic Four!
I can second that. Definetly have at least 6 beers before hitting "play". It is B-A-D!
Then I guess that TMNT blanket I still have that's about 14 (a little less, like 12?) years old sucks. I still like TMNT even though I'm 21, but I don't like the new series. And yes, I'll post pictures when I get home. Check on my website for updates about 10 hours from now (8:00 p.m. EDT).
..it is actually a spoof of Johnny Quest.
I may be wrong, but I think the FF was, in fact, original in that it wasn't merely a bunch of superheroes who had started off with their own comics and had been thrown together. The FF is a family of superheroes and the emphasis in their comic was a focus on this family aspect. I'm not going to say that personal relationships between superheroes weren't mentioned earlier (look at Batman and Robin), but I can think of no comic in which it was the focus (at least not before FF).
Yeah, whatever. Cameltoe screenshot, please?
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So what happens to all those "ice roads" or whatever that Iceman has to make to slide around on? Do they just kinda melt making a big watery mess. Or as they melt do big chunks of ice fall on people and cars?
Always wondered about that.
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