Monday, July 7, 2014

The Fantastic Four Series that never was

Making the rounds recently is a mock documentary web page about a imagined 1963 Fantastic Four TV series.

http://io9.com/if-only-this-history-of-the-1960s-fantastic-four-tv-sho-1596106086

The site itself, pretty funny if you've got the time to read it:

http://auntpetunia.com/

It turns out that the story of the 1990's Roger Corman B-movie that the photos on the spoof site are from is in itself a very interesting story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four_(film)

One of the sources for the Wikipedia article, a magazine article now on Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=SF8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA219&dq=%22So+what+happened,+really?+Arad%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=n7bjUNvtKLGQ0QHvyIGwDA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22So%20what%20happened%2C%20really%3F%20Arad%22&f=false

The movie itself is on YouTube, and it's astonishingly awful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbMaPdofB4

All of which leads to the possible conclusion that the spoof site is viral marketing for a documentary about the Roger Corman movie itself:
http://doomedthemovie.com/

http://comicsalliance.com/doomed-the-movie-fantastic-four-1994-roger-corman-documentary-video/