The convoluted, shenanigans-filled history of the never-released Fantastic Four has become the stuff of Hollywood legend. Long story short: In 1992, German producer Bernd Eichinger was going to lose the movie rights to the Stan Lee-created quartet unless he started work on a film adaptation before the end of the year. So he approached schlockmeister Roger Corman to make a $1 million version. Eichinger has claimed that he intended to release the result, but ultimately he sold the movie to Marvel exec Avi Arad. Arad then sat on the film lest it devalue the franchise, much to the chagrin of the actors involved. In 2005, Corman told Los Angeles Magazine that The Fantastic Four was ''the strangest film production I've ever been involved with in my life.'' Of course, this was before he made Sharktopus.