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Andrew Bitner
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Springing off a comment by Charles V., movie makers cull through comic book series to find great stories to adapt, in whole or in part.
If Marvel gets back the rights, what Fantastic Four story or story arc by JB would make the best movie?
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John Byrne
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Jim Shooter instructed me to write "FANTASTIC FOUR - THE MOVIE" for the 20th (!!) anniversary, and I did "Terror in a Tiny Town".Not sure that would work as an actual movie, tho.
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Brian Miller
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FF 242-244
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I never knew that, JB! It's a terrific story. If FF was to be launched as a TV series, it'd be an amazing two episodes.
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John Byrne
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"Terror in a Tiny Town" was based upon the eternal premise that "every Issue is the First Issue for Somebody!" But, given that it was the 20th Anniversary issue, I had to mellow this with the awareness that it was also NOT the first issue for a whole lot of people!So, I cobbled together a story based on all the required elements, such a retelling the origin, but shuffled around in such a way that new readers would get the information they needed, but long time readers wouldn't be bored. (Editor Jim Salicrup told me long after the fact that he had to fight the Code over my title, by the way. I'd forgotten that "terror" was one of the verbotten words. Fortunately, Jim won.)
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Andrew Bitner
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Having read it just this past year, it holds up extremely well. Balancing the need to tell that "first issue for somebody" against "yay, it's the 20th anniversary!" must have been an interesting challenge, to put it mildly.
Maybe this thread should be "movie or episodes of a TV series", since there's been some fan interest in the FF as a series instead of a movie franchise. IMHO, if they had the right team and the right budget, a TV show might be a better vehicle.
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Gotta agree with Brian. FF 242-244.
You can have all of the supporting characters (Thor, Cap, Ironman, Wasp, Spiderman, Daredevil & Dr. Strange) that appeared in that story without any issue of studio rights to the franchise creeping its ugly head.
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Although more of a Doctor Doom story I found #258 - #260 to be a very good read.
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JB: "Terror in a Tiny Town" was based upon the eternal premise that "every
Issue is the First Issue for Somebody!"
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I had the incredible good fortune of buying "Terror in a Tiny Town" as my first
issue of the FF. Everyone should be so lucky-- every title should be introduced
so well!
Some observations: Not really knowing the FF very well made the impact of the
disorienting, scary parts of the story really high and probably added to the
surprise and thrill of victory after utter defeat. I finished the issue and flipped
back to page 1 to read it all again.
And as an anniversary issue, it made me excited enough to buy the next 50
issues and to do my best to get my hands on the previous 235 as well! It was
reading this that "unlocked" my young mind's ability to appreciate Jack Kirby.
My experience with this as a "first" story convinced me this issue was surely
the way to "do" a Fantastic Four movie. The characters' "dreams" of being
superheroes would do a lot to allow the movie to have it's "realism" (a world
without superheroes) before the FF burst, fully formed, into the story.
Alas!
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The Galactus saga as mentioned up thread. That was the first actual American issues I bought of JB's run, having been getting the issues as UK reprints. The UK hadn't caught up and I missed the first issue. In fact, I don't think Frankie had transformed in the UK at that point so I was on a real quick learning curve.
And true to the 'every issue is a first issue to someone' I was fully caught up with all the changes and who Terran was by the end of the issue.
My favourite FF issues
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My inclination (for a movie) is toward a story that has epic scope by the end, which is more along the Terrax-Galactus side of things as well.
Should Doom be involved? Frankly, I could do without him entirely in the first movie--like Lex Luthor in Superman, he's become ubiquitous and thus way overused.
If it were a TV series, #267 would be a devastating mid-season finale.
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No brainer.
"Terror in a Tiny Town".
Perfection.
I think we are going to see some of JB's "Four Against Ego!" story, from Fantastic Four #235, in the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
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