There was a time before the MCU that Marvel films weren’t just bad, they were cult classic bad. From Spider-Man to Captain America, these films were known to be some of the worst adaptations made. Topping the list of bad Marvel films was Fantastic Four.
22 years later, they are telling their story. Released on Tuesday, Doomed: The Untold Story is a documentary based on Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four, the anticipated documentary will detail the drama behind the 1994 film. The documentary tells the tale of how the cast thought the rushed, low-budget film would propel them to stardom — with some of them going as far as spending their own money to travel the country and hire a publicist to promote the film.
As the documentary states, the film never hit the big screen, with its rise and fall becoming the stuff of legend. Doomed explores the long-reported assumption that Corman’s Fantastic Four was made so that Constantin Film could retain the rights before they expired and reverted back to Marvel. What do you think of this cult classic’s story being told?
