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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 705566" data-attributes="member: 505">The stories of it never being intended to be released have only come out the last few years.  I read about it in a magazine, but I can't recall if it was Wizard (which is about comics) or one of the many movie ones. Actually, from what I recall, when the film was being made, Roger Corman, one of the producers, talked about the great future the director, Ole Sassoon (not sure if I spelled the name right), had.  Sassoon later went on to direct tv shows like Xena, including the great musical episode.  Corman seemed proud of the film at the time.From what I understand, people are now talking freely about how it was never intended to be release.  I've also heard that more than one fx guy was pissed because he passed on a big film for this. My guess is that it was put into production in order to hold onto the licence (which is true...it started filming just before their rights expired), with the idea that they could use it to hold over the head of Chris Colombus (or whoever it was that wanted the rights) in order to be co-producers on the new film and rake in the cash from a big budget release.  However, I'm also sure that if Columbus declined they would have released FF, most likely on video in order to recoup their costs.  BTW, here's a little bit of trivia.  Back in the early '90's, Spider-Man's film rights were in much dispute.  Several different companies all somehow had a legal claim on it, including Jim Cameron.  One of the other companies that had it, and the one that seemed like it had the "real" rights was the same company that produced Captain America.  In fact, they were about to go into production of a Spidey film when Cameron, or somebody else, filed a lawsuit over the rights, haulting filming in the prepoduction stages.And do you know who was slated to direct this film?  Albert Pyun, the director of Captain America.Try and imagine what that movie would look like. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />I think the same company had the rights to Iron Man (Marvel used to unload licenses in bulk) and wanted to have him fight some non-comic book villain named, with much originality, Doctor Death (the Pyun Spidey film would also have featured a new bad guy).  In fact, if you saw that cartoon they did not too long ago, Iron Man had a briefcase which transformed into his armor.  That was an idea for the film and was put into the cartoon in order to bring the two in line (like how Penguin in the Batman cartoon looked like the character in Batman Returns).The funny thing is that Marvel Comics apparently sold the rights to so many of their projects for so little they didn't make a dime from the Blade or X-Men movies.  Not sure how they did on Spidey or DD. EDIT:  I should add that movie makers not being totally honest with the emploees about a project isn't uncommon.  I, myself, have worked as a storyboard artist.  While my contract was expiring on one show (which was being cancelled), another studio announced they were hiring.  For storyboard artists, they gave out a few pages of script along with model sheets in order to see if you could draw the characters as well as how talented you were (not sure what they gave animators).  The deadline was in 4 or so days (a pretty short time for people currently doing full time jobs).Now, all the artist at the studio that was shutting down were struggling to do these tests.  I did mine while suffering from the worst flu I ever had.  I mean I was sneezing so hard my nose was bleeding.Then it turns out the other studio had no intention of hiring anyone.  They just wanted a list of available artists in case they needed to hire anyone in the future.I know of many people who were angry that they spent their time doing these tests when they could have been looking for real work.Never dismiss the dishonesty in the entertainment industry.</blockquote>

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