{"id":974,"date":"2007-05-06T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T03:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sterow.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T04:21:46","slug":"the-crudtastic-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"The Crudtastic 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the disappointing<em> Spider-man 3<\/em> there is a trailer for the next <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> movie: my possibly unfair assumption is that it will suck, which might  burst the recent superhero revival bubble somewhat (although there is  still the next<em> Batman<\/em> film to come).<\/p>\n<p>But it could be so much worse. For example, had you realised that in 1994, Roger Corman produced a version of <em>The Fantastic Four<\/em>?  The rights to the series were contractually tied to the production of a  movie by a certain date; if no movie was made, the producers&#8217; option  would lapse. So <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=The_Fantastic_Four_%28film%29&amp;oldid=128277062\">a movie was produced<\/a>,  on an absolutely rock-bottom budget, with no intention  of ever  releasing it (at least not through conventional channels). And of  course, it now circulates as a bootleg.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here&#8217;s the trailer:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r_X5C6e3ZeY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the ending. Spoiler and shonky rubber arm warnings apply:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fkmYw-SpAbA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The funny thing is, the costume for the Thing is actually not so bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the disappointing Spider-man 3 there is a trailer for the next Fantastic Four movie: my possibly unfair assumption is that it will suck, which might burst the recent superhero revival bubble somewhat (although there is still the next Batman film to come). But it could be so much worse. For example, had you realised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[219,119,107],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-film","tag-corman","tag-humour","tag-superheroes","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5190,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}