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Project: Fantastic

Spyder Todd 2008

18:38 / 13.01.04

To help a friend of mine (who knows nothing about this), I'm performing an experiment. This person has recently started a very difficult class, and because they are a busy person, they're only having time to start homework at around 10 pm. This becomes a problem, because the class usually has about 2 hours worth of homework a night, and this person has to get up at 4:30 every morning.
So, to help them study faster, and perform better, I contacted a person from a different fiction verse, to use their skills and transfer onto this person. The man I contacted was one Dr. Reed Richards (If you don't know who that is and are under 60, you've lived a pathetically sheltered life, and obviously must be a one eyed, crippled, bright green gnome. Either that, or you don't read comic books.)

Project: Fantastic is designed to summon up the essence of Reed Richards, the cosmic water of the four, and use it to increase the learning ability and ease for this person. To help me under take this project, I'm trying to raise awareness of Reed Richards and the Fantastic Four.

So, what I'm asking everyone to do is to think about the FF. Re-read books starring them. Draw pictures of them. If you'd like, and have the time, make up a ritual to summon up the essence of Richards your self. Eventually, I hope that Project: Fantastic evolves into a sort of magical science pool, where in one can access not the just Richards, but all scientists (fictional or otherwise) to help them in wisdom and knowledge. Of course, this goal is a bit unrealistic and huge, but that's fine.

Anyway, thoughts and comments are welcome. And, if you want to help, that would be great. Barbelith is a community, so I think community projects like this are

19:39 / 13.01.04

The upcoming (if the rumours are true) Fantastic Four movie ought to help - even if it's just in production and not yet fueling public awareness, there would still be a large and dedicated body of people who are living and breathing the Fantastic Four the whole time they're making the movie.

///research break///

Actually, the movie is already completed -- HOWEVER, it has been bought out, shelved, and is now being re-made with a different cast and crew. So, there ought to be plenty of FF-awareness buzzing around in some circles...(!!!) The new movie release is projected (I think) for Summer 2005.

Good luck!

~L

20:49 / 13.01.04

f you don't know who that is and are under 60, you've lived a pathetically sheltered life, and obviously must be a one eyed, crippled, bright green gnome.

For the one eyed crippled bright green gnomes among us (including myself - Egads! How will I ever fit in? I've wasted my whole life! I'm not a comic dork!):

The Fantastic Four

15:14 / 15.01.04

Verrry interesting, Young Spyder, and very cool indeed. There has certainly been a resurgence of FF interest lately in the comics world, what with Mark Waid's quite good writing on the book (and his BS firing and subsequent instant re-hire), the new FF series "4" by the playwright newcomer (the art looks really polished in the previews), the Ultimate FF book (which I thought sucked and was the first Bendis-written thing I thought was piss-poor - I don't think those characters work as reimagined teens/twentysomething at ALL), and the talk of the upcoming movie.

The "old" FF movie is supposed to be awful, and is not even available direct-to-video. You can only get it as a bootleg. Hopefully the new FF film, if it ever gets done, will carry the level of quality that most of the "New Marvel Films" have.

But I'll be happy to take part in this experiment in what ways I can - thinking about the FF, getting psyched about the FF when they're done well, even drawing some FF sketches. Consider me Reed Richardsizing!

15:37 / 15.01.04

And I just noticed this over in the "Eye in the Pyramid" thread:

Johnny/fire/volition/cytosine/electromagnetism
Sue/water/compassion/guanine/strong nuclear force
Reed/air/analysis/adenine/weak nuclear force
Ben/earth/manifestation/thymine/gravity

and someone opined that Reed should be water, and Sue should be air.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

17:14 / 15.01.04

Heh. Wow. I have useful rumors now.

The FF movie IS in production out in British Columbia, Canada. One of the SFX guys is the same guy that did Stargate SG-1. From what I was told, its in production.

17:44 / 15.01.04

word. im in. i've also got a greuling schedule starting up, but find that I cannot get through a good days work without at least a comic book read or two. i'll be working as a double agent.

18:15 / 15.01.04

If anyone would like some little fantastic four painted figures, give me a shout, I allready use 4 on my altar and have loads more

Pot.

17:27 / 16.01.04

There's been no casting and no word of a final script - I guess that means they're in pre-production as opposed to actual production/shooting? (sorry, I know this is more film-related but now you've got me curious, and my curiousity is fuel for the magickal fire too!)

It seems that if it were really in production, the story/rumour would be all over the comic movie news sites, aintitcoolnews, etc. Or maybe I'm not defining 'production' correctly.

17:37 / 16.01.04

Just saw this on superherohype.com:

Sean Astin to Direct Fantastic Four? Source: Agalaxia.com.br Friday, January 16, 2004

How's this for a scoop? Check out what 'Gelogurte' from Agalaxia.com.br has today for us about Sean Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy!

For The Return of the King release, brazilian journalist Rodrigo Salem from SET Magazine, the biggest movie magazine in Brazil, went to New York and talked a bit to Sean Astin about his next projects. Can you imagine what it is? I tried to translate part of the interview. You know, the part that really matters. Here it goes:

SET: You were highly praised over your short movie The Long and Short of It which is in The Two Towers DVD. Do you have any plans of directing something bigger?
SEAN ASTIN: Oh, yeah! I always wanted to act and direct with the same intensity but only now I've found the way to get to directing. Right now I'm running to be the director of this US$ 100, US$ 130 million movie which the studio wants to release in the end of 2004 and it has a huge effect in pop culture. I got a meeting scheduled but I can't talk about it yet.

SET: Is it a comic book adaptation?
SA: You figured it out, huh?

SET: You're running for the director's chair of Fantastic Four, right?
SA: Yes.

SET: You've got some pretty heavy competition ahead of you. I heard Steven Soderbergh is interested and that he was offered the job by the studio specially because he could bring George Clooney as Reed Richards.
SA: Yeah but I'm a friend of George Clooney too (laughs). I think he would make a perfect Reed Richards.

SET: And who would be your Human Torch?
SA: Oh, he's right over there. Orlando Bloom.

Innnnteresting...

Spyder Todd 2008

14:31 / 26.01.04

Alrighty, after waiting a while to see how things went, I can now successfully state that Project: Fantastic is starting to have the positive effects I had originally intended it to have. So, I hope that this project will continue to have the effect I wanted it to have. Last week the person I'm trying to help did remarkably better on a test they took than on an earlier test in the plan. Now, there's another test today, at around 1:40 Central Time, so I'm hoping I can get some people to focus on assisting them then. Myself, I'll be focusing on them and maybe drawing some FF-related stuff at the time.

On the cosmic bit, I always assumed that Reed was cosmic water, because he's completely malleable, Sue was cosmic air, invisibility and mild telekinesis and such, and Ben and Johnny were Earth and Fire, obviously.

To the success of Project: Fantastic!