Fantastic Four
Does anyone else think there is a connection between this and FF?? I am curious...
shareYes. I had made the same observation. The scenes viewed from the camera aboard the doomed spacecraft were replicated by Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four #1. Many of the Marvel Comic heroes were based on scenes from movies.
shareI noticed this while re-watching the film today. In particular, the scientist who launches an experimental spacecraft WITHOUT getting clearance / authorization; the ship encounters something strange out in space; it crashes back to Earth; the survivor mutates into something not human.
Jack Kirby was a BIG movie fan! He could take any idea and put his own personal spin on it.
I believe only a Jack Kirby fan would catch the similarities, profh-1, as you certainly must be. I used to devour comic books and read them over and over (Wasted youth!). Since there were not many comic book heroes (Chapter Plays) on the Big Screen or the Boob Tube (The Adventures of Superman, Flash Gordon, a couple animated cartoons and later Batman ), I used to imagine what they would have been like in live-action portrayals as I read them.
When I saw this movie, around the same time as the Marvel's Golden Age. I thought, "Hey! Wait a minute! I've seen this before!"
Not having the advantage of a VCR back then there was no way I could check my thinking.
Over the years, I've seen what I believe are the cinematic inspirations that Kirby and the great Steve Ditko drew from.
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