FANTASTIC FOUR Concept Art: Unconventional Designs For Dr. Doom & The Thing

FANTASTIC FOUR Concept Art: Unconventional Designs For Dr. Doom & The Thing

Hit the jump to check out Fantastic Four concept art of Dr. Doom and The Thing, created by artist Constantine Sekeris. It's early production artwork of character effects for Steve Johnson's company XFX.

By nailbiter111 - Feb 26, 2013 01:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four
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In the past, visual effects guru, Steven Johnson and his XFX studio, made a pitch to 20th Century Fox to be the special effects team for a Fantastic Four film. This was before the Tim Story film was made, and at that time Nicolas Cage was penciled in to play the role of the main villain, Doctor Victor Von Doom. Steve has now released has put these images up for sale on EBay. You can see Constantine Sekeris' designs for Dr. Doom and The Thing below, or click here to see even more concept art and a bizarre mechanical arm conceived for the ruthless ruler of Latveria.

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If you're a fan of Constantine's brilliant artwork I would suggest picking up a copy of his book, MetamorFX: Art of Constantine Sekeris.



Fantastic Four (2005) was directed by Tim Story, from a screenplay written by Michael France and Mark Frost. The cast included: Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic, Jessica Alba as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman, Chris Evans as Johnny Storm / The Human Torch, Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm / The Thing, Julian McMahon as Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom, Kerry Washington as Alicia Masters, Laurie Holden as Debbie McIlvane, and Stan "The Man" Lee as Willie Lumpkin. The film earned $330 million at the worldwide box office, against a budget of $100 million.

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Durf
Durf - 2/26/2013, 1:30 PM
DODGED A [frick]ING BULLET!
TheOneAboveAll
TheOneAboveAll - 2/26/2013, 1:30 PM
Why the hell does THE GREAT DOCTOR DOOM look like an alien?
Mucklefluga
Mucklefluga - 2/26/2013, 1:32 PM
WTF
thebearjew
thebearjew - 2/26/2013, 1:44 PM
lady face dr.doom?
number1hero
number1hero - 2/26/2013, 1:45 PM
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Tony93
Tony93 - 2/26/2013, 1:48 PM
I hate FOX so much..
Please someone Kill it! Kill it with fire!
TheDARKestKNIGHT
TheDARKestKNIGHT - 2/26/2013, 1:48 PM
Already worse than the first trilogy lol
lucio7lopez
lucio7lopez - 2/26/2013, 1:49 PM
Please, don't change the classic and great Dr. Doom!
Carl
Carl - 2/26/2013, 1:54 PM
[frick]ing fox, always fixing what isn't broken.
THRILLHO
THRILLHO - 2/26/2013, 1:58 PM
JMESS
JMESS - 2/26/2013, 1:58 PM
yikes!
OrgasmicPotatoe
OrgasmicPotatoe - 2/26/2013, 2:01 PM
The last Thing picture is not THAT bad. He looks a little more frightening, though he still wear boxers instead of shorts...

Looks like we avoided Nicholas Cage in a superhero movie once more ! Out of GR, Superman, Batman and FF, we only had to endure him in one role (but 2 movies...)I couldn't bring myself to watch Spirit of Vengeance after I witnessed the horror from the first one.
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 2/26/2013, 2:01 PM
Art straight from deepest parts of hell.
drfate
drfate - 2/26/2013, 2:10 PM
awful. creative, aaaaaand awful.
tattoo78
tattoo78 - 2/26/2013, 2:15 PM
what the hell is going on ... eeuurrkk !!
Luminus
Luminus - 2/26/2013, 2:23 PM
Why is Nicolas Cage's name attached to every failed superhero film project?
Fogs
Fogs - 2/26/2013, 2:23 PM
The lesser bad were the last Thing pics.
AlternateNo4
AlternateNo4 - 2/26/2013, 2:26 PM
it's worked for decades because comics are cheap to produce and only need to sell 50,000 copies... and it's easy to find 50,000 dorks like us, who are familiar with the characters and don't want them to change.

tentpole movies need to sell a hundred MILLION tickets, man. there are nowhere NEAR enough comic dweebs out there to break even. so they try to attract new audiences by shaking things up.

after all, if everybody LOVED the source material as much as WE do, they'd sell a hundred million copies of FF every month. and, um... they don't.
YakeTheSnake
YakeTheSnake - 2/26/2013, 2:39 PM
I like the design for Doctor Doom... only if it wasn't for Doctor Doom. It looks pretty cool.

As for The Thing... I dig that one as well. I think it would've just been cool to see that as part of his transformation instead of through the entire movie (which I hope was the direction they were going with that. If not, then: WTF?!?! It looks like a cross between Golem (Pokemon) and Brundle-Fly.)
randomizer9870
randomizer9870 - 2/26/2013, 2:45 PM
Believe it or not, this movie could have been much worse.
marvel72
marvel72 - 2/26/2013, 2:47 PM
they still could get used we've got a fantastic four reboot to look forward to.
Ace101
Ace101 - 2/26/2013, 2:49 PM
Dodged a bullet on this only to get shot by 2 more bullets which were those 2 movies
RaMan
RaMan - 2/26/2013, 3:01 PM
What was wrong with Dr Doom in the first 2 movies?

This art looks like a lady Doom. the Thing art looks pretty cool.
shamo
shamo - 2/26/2013, 3:04 PM
Doom looks pretty. i'd hit it.
thewolfx
thewolfx - 2/26/2013, 3:37 PM
[frick] that...
Super12
Super12 - 2/26/2013, 3:53 PM
Ew gross bad no. I thought the costumes for FF were the best part of that movie
AC1
AC1 - 2/26/2013, 4:14 PM
Pick up a comic book, concept artists!

@Levi Nick Cage would ruin Doctor Strange, he's lightyears past his acting prime.
UltimateTypeface
UltimateTypeface - 2/26/2013, 4:39 PM
these people have talent..a talent for BEING WANKY ASS PUMPERS WHO THINK THEY CAN COME UP WITH A GREAT MODERN NEW LOOK FOR WELL LOVED CHARACTERS!!!

Listen...if it aint broke don't fix it.
marckos
marckos - 2/26/2013, 4:56 PM
crap, crap, crap, mega crap
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