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Fantastic Four Get Animated in 2006
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
October 5, 2004


The Hollywood Reporter says Marvel Enterprises has signed a deal with France's Antefilms Productions to produce an animated TV series based the Fantastic Four comic book characters. The deal is expected to be announced today at the MIPCOM international TV sales convention in Cannes.

The trade says the companies would produce 26 half-hour episodes targeted for premiere in the United States and other countries in late 2006.

The series is envisioned as another prong in the elaborate campaign to revive Marvel's Fantastic Four franchise that will kick off in July with the release of the live-action feature from 20th Century Fox.

yay!!

I just hope it is alot more faithful to the comics than the new movie and that the animation isn't done like the new Batman cartoon either.

I hate it when they make new series, it always sucks. The old F4 cartoon was perfect in every way, why not just pick up on that?

Same goes for batman, which i loathe and despise will all my heart.

I agree completely. They always "think" they know what the people want in a series.

nah, they're not that ignorant. Problem is; back in the day they were making this for the comic fans, who were very large in number. At least 2 to 3 times as big as now. So they packed a waaaay bigger punch.

Current day; they're making it for kids, not specific groups, the rise of stuff like Fox kids and Cartoon network has dumbed down the general kiddie rating capabillity, and they will like everything with nifty special effects. Like "The Batman' which is a HUGE succes among 8 to 14 year olds.

Its no longer about the fans, just the money and the group that packs the most power, the kids. The creator of "the batman" even said it himself. WB does not care if none of the comic readers like it, its not aimed at them.

also; Check meh reply in the F4 movie thread

Yeah once again I agree. I remember the old X-Men series being like the X-Men comic books come to life and the same goes for the rest of the shows. The old X-Men series was successful because the creators themselves said it was directed towards teenagers. A great comic book animated TV series is very faithful and targeted at teens and adults. The old X-Men series was brave enough to show praying and death in their show with and until now it has yet to be matched. X-Men:Evolution and the new Batman series are directed at little kids who don't know any better. Their main goal is to profit off of the comic book films being made and nothing more. They don't mind killing the character's image and how he/she is viewed in the process.

Well i think its about time Marvel set about making new series for their old ones. New Hulk, Xmen, F4 and maybe the Avengers or SS. They cant be that bad i mean, in the old cartoons the animation was a bit craptacular and the sfx were just horrible. Personaly i cant wait to see F4 revamped and hopefuly many more marvel cartoons.

i read of an avengers animated movie coming out straight to dvd, so far i've read its teen related and the writers are keeping it as close to the comic as possible, but we wont really know for sure till it comes out

a fantastic four cartoon is just being made for the rise of the fantastic four movie, just as the batman aired a few weeks ago with the movie being ready for next year, same happened with xmen:evolution, but nothing happened for the hulk heheh

i remember an old SS cartoon that i thought was pretty cool because its a character i always wanted to see in a cartoon, it was pretty good but i dont know if it followed the comics or not, either way it bombed and was off the air that same year

Yea the SS cartoon was good, his origin and where he came from was the same. And Thanos was in a few episodes!

Yeah SS was great but it was cancelled after only 13 episodes. They never got the 14th episodes they originally planned or a season finale. I actually read the script for the 14 episode and it was really good. The Reruns were never shown either.

sadly enough, yeah

i was so angry when they took it off, because it was so good and i guess other kids didnt like it much, but even spiderman 2099 got more run time and i thought that sucked compared to SS

Actually Spider-Man Unlimited didn't get much more run time on TV either. It had less than 20 episodes made. Although the reruns for Spider-Man Unlimited still air today. I still don't understand why there was NEVER any SS reruns, since most of the Marvel cartoons at the time were made by Saban Entertainment.

topic please

Sorry about straying off with Spider-Man. But SS or Silver Surfer is in some ways a part of FF. His first appearance as a comic book character was with FF and has been with them since the very start. He will undoubtfully be featured in the new cartoon as well. So SS is not off-topic but Spider-Man is so sorry for that.

it ok