Welcome to the 28th installment of Page One Rewrite, where I examine genre screenplays that just couldn’t make it. This week, a ’90s attempt at adapting Marvel’s first family that has nothing to do with Roger Corman. And if you have future suggestions, please let me know on Twitter.Following the success of Mrs. Doubtfire and the Home Alone films, director Chris Columbus had a decent amount of clout in Hollywood and wanted to use some of that sway to adapt the Fantastic Four comics he enjoyed as a child. Joining him in this project would be another Fantastic Four fan, Michael France, the screenwriter of hit action films like Cliffhanger and GoldenEye.Even worse, from a studio head’s perspective, is just how expensive almost every page of that massive draft would be. Enormous, hi-tech sets, experimental aircraft that rivals anything in Star Wars, constant explosions, cutting-edge robotics, action sequences, and five characters with outrageous superpowers…most likely to be shot with practical effects, given the limitations of ’90s-era CGI. Considering 20th Century Fox’s notorious cheapness when it comes to superhero material (hence the ubiquitous “Canadian forest standing in for an actual set piece” of the 2000s Fox films), it’s easy to envision a studio exec only getting twenty pages into this draft before throwing it over his shoulder.
Welcome to the 28th installment of Page One Rewrite, where I examine genre screenplays that just couldn’t make it. This week, a ’90s attempt at adapting Marvel’s first family that has nothing to do with Roger Corman. And if you have future suggestions, please let me know on Twitter.
Following the success of Mrs. Doubtfire and the Home Alone films, director Chris Columbus had a decent amount of clout in Hollywood and wanted to use some of that sway to adapt the Fantastic Four comics he enjoyed as a child. Joining him in this project would be another Fantastic Four fan, Michael France, the screenwriter of hit action films like Cliffhanger and GoldenEye.
Even worse, from a studio head’s perspective, is just how expensive almost every page of that massive draft would be. Enormous, hi-tech sets, experimental aircraft that rivals anything in Star Wars, constant explosions, cutting-edge robotics, action sequences, and five characters with outrageous superpowers…most likely to be shot with practical effects, given the limitations of ’90s-era CGI. Considering 20th Century Fox’s notorious cheapness when it comes to superhero material (hence the ubiquitous “Canadian forest standing in for an actual set piece” of the 2000s Fox films), it’s easy to envision a studio exec only getting twenty pages into this draft before throwing it over his shoulder.
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