[Movie Script]Fantastic Four

                                    FANTASTIC FOUR


by
Mark Frost and Michael France





based on the Marvel comic book by

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Shooting Script




               FADE IN:



               CLOSE ON A MASSIVE STEEL HEAD



Our first thought: DR. DOOM?  But it's not moving.  A

welder's torch sparks into frame in the hands of a sculptor

on scaffolding.  This is art, an epic 20 foot statue going up

of a business mogul (VICTOR VON DOOM) in whose generously

extended hands sit two intertwined columns of DNA.  His face

is chiseled, angular, perfect (too perfect).  Past sparks, we

MOVE down to pick up...
               EXT. STREET/VON DOOM INDUSTRIES TOWER - DAY



REED RICHARDS and BEN GRIMM head toward the soaring glass-box

atrium of VDI Headquarters.  Designed to inspire awe, it

does.
                                   REED


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