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Fantastic Four
Character: Johnny Storm/The Human Torch
Directed By: Tim Story
Written By: Mark Frost and Michael France
Release Date: July 8, 2005
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Co-Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington

Sypnosis


Reed Richards is a brilliant scientist who along with friend, muscle-man Ben Grimm seeks funding for a experimental space mission to study cosmic radiation, from rich and powerful businessman Victor Von Doom. Agreeing, Victor sets up a space station in orbit around Earth for Richards to begin his experiment. Joined by cocky Johnny Storm and his sexy sister, Reed's ex girlfriend Susan who is Victor's girlfriend, Reed and Ben arrive on the space station to begin the experimental space mission, which goes wrong, when they exposed to a cosmic radiation which alters their D.N.A. Returning to Earth, they find the cosmic radiation has given them superhuman powers. But the disaster of the space mission has caused Victor to go bankrupt and he vows vengeance on Reed, where he bids for world domination and sets out to get unleash hell by using his powers by controlling electricity that are slowly turning his skin into metal. With Victor out for vengeance and world domination, Reed, Ben, Susan and Johnny combine their super-powers and become a team of super heroes known as "The Fantastic Four" and are the only ones who can defeat Victor Von Doom and foil his evil plans.

Trivia


• Paul Walker was considered for the part of Johnny Storm.

• A one-minute sequence showing Johnny Storm morphing into a ball of flames and soaring over Manhattan took 4 months to create. The entire background was an entirely digitized rendering of New York City.

• A replica of a part of the Brooklyn Bridge was constructed on-set in Canada.

• While Sue Storm is unpacking in the Baxter Building, in the background a signed photo of the band Devo can be seen.

• To get through the long arduous make-up, Michael Chiklis spent the time in the make-up chair watching the Boston Red Sox, his favorite team, who happened to be breaking the "Curse of the Bambino" winning their first World Series since 1918.

• Inspired by his role on "Nip/Tuck" (2003), it was Julian McMahon's idea to have Victor's scars sealed by surgical staples.

• It was Ioan Gruffudd's idea that Reed should continually be taking notes: "On a good day, I'd be writing formulas that I remembered from my algebra class in school, and on a day when I was really concentrating on the other actor, it would just be gibberish."

• As part of his costume for The Thing, Michael Chiklis wore prosthetic teeth. To prepare himself to speak with the prostheses, Chiklis wore them when reading to his children.

• Although Stan Lee has made cameos in many Marvel movies, this is the first time he has played a character from the comics: Willy Lumpkin, the Fantastic Four's kindly old mailman.

• Jessica Alba had a kidney infection during the filming and nearly fainted when she was with Julian McMahon in the space station scene.

• Was shipped to theaters simply under the name "Bug".

• At one point Susan Storm looks at an issue of People Magazine with her face on the cover. Also on the cover is James Marsden with the headline "James Marsden eyes next superhero role" and Rebecca Romijn with the headline "The Mystique of Rebecca Romijn".

• According to the actors in the DVD commentary 'Stan Lee' , who makes a cameo appearance as the mailman, was supposed only to say, "Welcome home, Dr. Richards." Instead, Lee says, "Welcome back to the Baxter Building, Doctor Richards!"

• The scene on the bridge took about 5 weeks to shoot.

• In the very last scene of the film, the now inanimate Dr. Doom is being shipped on a cargo vessel with the word "Latveria" on the aft. In the Marvel Universe, Latveria is the country that is consistently under Dr. Doom's control.

• 'Michael Chiklis ' got to fulfill a childhood fantasy. He was an avid reader of the Fantastic Four, and his favorite comic book character was The Thing.

Quotes: Johnny Storm


Susan Storm: It's too dangerous for you to go out into public.
Johnny Storm: You've been saying that for years.

Reed Richards: I'm trying to figure out why we each ended up with different symptoms.
Johnny Storm: Oh, well that's easy: I'm hot. You're... well, you're a little limp. Sue's easy to see through. And Ben's always been a hardass.

X Games Reporter: Is it true what they say? That he can expand *any* part of his anatomy?
Johnny Storm: Actually, I've always found him to be a little limp.

Johnny Storm: Come on, come on, come on. Flame on!

Chief Fireman: Who's the leader?
Johnny Storm: That would be me!
Chief Fireman: No, really.

Susan Storm: You don't want to walk around on fire for the rest of your life, do you?
Johnny Storm: Is that a trick question?

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Outside Links


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- Official Soundtrack Site
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