NIP/TUCK doctor may doom FANTASTIC FOUR

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

According to The Hollywood Reporter, NIP/TUCK star Julian McMahon is in negotiations to play Doctor Doom in the FANTASTIC FOUR movie. The role of Doom, the picture's villain, is the final major part that the 20th Century Fox film is left to fill.

In the comics, Victor Von Doom was a brilliant but arrogant scientific genius as well as a friend and rival to Reed Richards before the latter flew into space with Sue Storm, her brother Johnny and pilot Ben Grimm. The four adventurers were bombarded by cosmic rays, developed superpowers and became the Fantastic Four. Back on Earth, Victor was injured through one of his experiments and was horribly scarred. Refusing to let anyone look upon his now-hideous face, Von Doom encased himself in a suit of armor and his megalomania ran unchecked. In the comic books Doom has been the greatest villain in the Fantastic Four's side throughout the decades, returning to strike against the team again and again.

Production on FANTASTIC FOUR is scheduled to commence this month for a July 1, 2005 release.


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