The Fantastic Four (unreleased film) The Fantastic Four (unreleased film) The Fantastic Four is a 1994 independent superhero film based on Marvel Comics' long-running comic book and features the origin of the Fantastic Four and the team's first battle with the evil Doctor Doom, combining the superteam's origin from "The Fantastic Four" #1 and Doom's origin from "Fantastic Four Annual" #2 with original elements. Executive produced by low-budget specialist Roger Corman and Bernd Eichinger (who went on to produce a big-budget "Fantastic Four" film in 2005), the film was ultimately never released officially, but illegal copies began circulating after a few years. Reed Richards (Alex
Dark X-Men of Charles Xavier's X-Men, to which they had no official connection (much like Osborn's Avengers team was pretending to be the real Avengers). At the 2009 Emerald City ComiCon, writer Matt Fraction confirmed that the Dark X-Men would not be featured in a title of their own, but would rather be featured in "Uncanny X-Men" during the crossover with "Dark Avengers". In an April 16 interview with Comic Book Resources, Fraction explained the whole idea behind the Dark X-Men was to create three teams; Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers, Scott Summers's X-Men, and Emma Frost's new "Dark" X-Men. Comic book writer