FAN-tastic Four

I am adding another ‘film’ to my blog.

Back in December Jon Gabrus and I were asked to do a bit in a show at the UCB Theater. The show was a year-end award’s show called the IT SUCKED AWARDS. We had been asked to give an award for what sucked in comics or geek stuff.

Jon and I ended up going out as two comic shop owners who claimed that everything sucked for geeks in 2005. I was dressed as Green Lantern and Jon was dressed as Frodo and we lamented how mainstream culture has embraced so much of geekdom, that geekdom was no longer geeky enough. Lord of the Rings won oscars. Lost is a hit show. Internet phones are considered must-have gadgets.

Then we launched into lambasting comic book movies like X-Men, Batman, and the Fantastic Four. When asked what folks thought about the Fantastic Four movie the audience actually hissed. Which played right into our next bit nicely.

We agreed that the Fantastic Four movie was bad – and that is why we had made our own version (starring ourselves). And then we played them the clip.

FAN-tastic Four Fan Film

The bit went over really well – Jon and I were really pleased. And the movie clip rocked. We came up with the idea over a pizza at Patsy’s and during the subway strike I went over to Jon’s apartment building and we wrote and filmed the whole thing. It was super windy and freezing out – but the show was coming up fast so we couldn’t postpone until a better day.

David Lombard edited the whole thing in one morning. I gave him the footage the night before the show. He had family in town so was very busy. So I handed him some crude storyboard concepts and told him to have fun and change whatever he needed to make it work. He added in the fireball effect and the bad dubbed voice over on his own and I think those are both hilarious moments.

Overall this rapidly thrown together clip was a lot of fun. And now its online for the world to embrace. Enjoy.