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In 1995, Marvel again tried to adapt the Fantastic Four. Writer-director Chris Columbus of "Home Alone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" fame was enlisted to adapt it. He brought his own team of writers, which included Sam Hamm ("Monkeybone"), Philip Morton ("Fire Down Below") and Michael France ("The Punisher," "Hulk"), and Columbus spent two years working on the project before leaving the director’s seat ; he worried in the press that the movie’s budget might reach $280 million.
Columbus took a producing role while Peter Segal ("The Longest Yard") was considered as an alternative director. Ultimately, Raja Gosnell, the director of "Big Momma’s House," took over in 2000 and set about adapting the material with yet another team of writers. Gosnell, however, outraged Fantastic Four fans by announcing plans to adapt the comic as a "sitcom." And although the comic publisher had initially supported Gosnell’s comedic take - and Marvel’s Arad trumpeted the director’s plans in the press - he and Marvel soon parted ways.
Michael France (GoldenEye) writing a script that aimed to be true to the Jack Kirby spirit. Unfortunately, there was no cheap way to make the FF's powers work on screen, and with talk of people like Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid starring in this film, it quickly started to look too expensive.
The film's technically challenging scenes include one in which Johnny Storm transforms into The Human Torch and prevents Doctor Doom's deadly laser beam from destroying New York. To make it, the actor stepped into a full body suit complete with motion sensors - the same type used to track a player's movements in a virtual reality game. The sensors transferred the actor's movements to a computer-generated representation of a man ablaze.
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