DES MOINES, Iowa —

Oh, the tumultuous journey Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four has had to reach the big screen. It all started with the ill-fated Roger Corman-produced version back in 1994, a film made for the sole purpose of retaining the rights purchased during the Marvel bankruptcy years. It was never meant to see the light of day, but has lived on thanks to bootlegs and a nice documentary called Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four .

Then 20 th Century Fox acquired the rights and, after years of development, the 2005 version was released. It was actually pretty good, and it did well enough at the box office that a sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer , came out two years later, with a plan to maybe give the Silver Surfer his own f

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