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Directed by | Tim Story |
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Fantastic Four by Jack Kirby & Stan Lee |
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Music by | John Ottman |
Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
Edited by | William Hoy |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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106 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $100 million |
Box office | $330.6 million |
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Soundtrack album by Various Artists | ||||||||||
Released | June 28, 2005 | |||||||||
Recorded | Various times (2003–2005) | |||||||||
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Label | Wind-Up | |||||||||
Producer | Various | |||||||||
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IGN | 6.9/10 |
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Fantastic Four (stylized as Fantastic 4) is a 2005 American-Germansuperhero film based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name. It was directed by Tim Story, and released by 20th Century Fox. The film stars Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon and Kerry Washington.
This was the second live-action Fantastic Four film to be filmed. A previous attempt, titled The Fantastic Four, was a B-movie produced by Roger Corman that ultimately went unreleased. Fantastic Four was released in the United States on July 8, 2005. A sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, was released in 2007. A reboot of the same name was released in 2015.
Physicist Reed Richards is convinced evolution was triggered millions of years ago on Earth by clouds of cosmic energy in space and has calculated that one of these clouds is soon going to pass near Earth. Together with his friend, astronaut Ben Grimm, Reed convinces Victor Von Doom, his former classmate at MIT and now CEO of Von Doom Industries, to allow him access to his privately held space station to test the effects of a biological sample of exposure to the cloud. Doom agrees in exchange for control over the experiment and a majority of the profits from whatever benefits it brings. Reed brings aboard his ex-girlfriend and Von Doom's chief genetics researcher Sue Storm and her ex-astronaut younger brother Johnny Storm.