The Fantastic Four became a popular super hero team after the release of their comic books via Marvel Comics in late 1960. Comic book lovers lost no time taking a liking to the four main characters, who gained super powers after being exposed to cosmic rays during a mission to outer space for the sake of science. Characters that would later be brought to life through live action in these movies.
Who is the Fantastic Four and why are they fantastic? Here's the who and why:
Reed Richards also known as Mister. Fantastic, who can stretch and reshape his body in inhuman ways
Susan Storm Richards also known as Invisible Woman, who is able to use light to make herself as well as others and objects around her invisible
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Johnny Storm also known as The Human Torch, who can both control and project fire from his body. Additionally he is able to fly.
Ben Grimm also known as The Thing, who is transformed and has orange rock-like skin and super human strength.
In the film adaptations (The original movie and Tn Nike its sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) the characters were portrayed by actors Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans, Micheal Chiklis and actress Jessica Alba.
The Fantastic Four movies were certainly long awaited by comic book fans that enjoy seeing their favorite stories come to Air Max life on the big screen.
Like most comic books, the Fantastic Four's success led to much media interest, bringing about animated television series, video games, action figures and other merchandise. Yet, the super foursome wouldn't hit the theaters until 2005; despite the fact that Constantin Film purchased character rights to make a film in the mid-1980's, and even released a low budget version of the Fantastic Four movies in the early 1990's, which would never receive an official release.
20th Century Fox Film Corporation would later pick up the rights to the film and attempt to give it the big budget adaptation comic book fans felt the characters and their story deserved. However, fans of the classic comic books and comic book based movie lovers, as well as critics gave mixed reviews to the first film and again to its sequel. The films were merely called decent in their best reviews. Still, there is talk of another film joining the Fantastic Four movies franchise. A reboot that may feature a whole new cast and give the fearsome foursome a facelift!
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