Before he took Scooby Doo and Mystery Inc. into battle against Scrappy, or launched a franchise with the long-dormant Smurfs characters, director Raja Gosnell almost made Fantastic Four–one of the properties that had been floating around Hollywood for years in search of the right set of hands before it finally fell to Tim Story to produce a pair of movies that were met with audience ambivalence but made hundreds of millions of dollars.Actually, Gosnell almost did it twice; the first time, he was set up to work with Batman writer Sam Hamm, and the second was when he was handed–and turned down–the script that Story eventually made.Gosnell, currently promoting The Smurfs 2, joined us for a long conversation (check back here at 8 p.m. EST), and part of it was to talk about the FF.
