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Julian McMahon Talks Dr. Doom Costumes in "FF2"
by Fred Topel | March 05, 2007
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Dr. Doom may be the comic book equivalent to Julia Roberts, trying on different outfits in front of a mirror in a romantic comedy montage. He seems to have more outfits in "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" than most divas.

"It's weird, man, because first of all, you start with Dr. Doom has been in a casket for a couple of years and wakes up a few years later," said actor Julian McMahon. "He's pretty pissed off, kind of just rips off his mask and all that kind of stuff. He gets very ugly."

Homecoming gives Dr. Doom a setting fit for his wardrobe changes. "Then he's got his lair set up in some castle in Latveria, right? We're talking comic book stuff so you have to kind of go with all this kind of stuff. With all these monitors and stuff, I don't know where he got 'em all from but they're pretty cool. He sees this kind of entity which is the Silver Surfer. Just knowing the comic books, Dr. Doom is Dr. Doom so what does he do? He goes and he tries to destroy everybody and get everybody's powers and all that kind of stuff. That's basically what the character's about."

Once the Surfer is off, McMahon gets to be himself. "Then Dr. Doom becomes me for a certain period of time which I think is very strange but let's not get into that."

For the grand finale, expect a big closer. "Then the final costume is this pretty amazing costume. It's a similar kind of mask. It's kind of a larger type of fit and probably a little more sturdy kind of look to it. The chest plate, it's a very heavy outfit. It weighed about 45 -50 pounds whatever without the cape and stuff but its pretty extraordinary. It’s a darker suit than the one he had last time its kind of more Batmanesque in a way, but with the mask its obviously very Dr. Doom, and it’s a great looking outfit. Look, I got so many outfits its ridiculous."

At least they're keeping him busy. With new characters like the Surfer and Galactus, Dr. Doom still has a vital role. "I had quite a lot to do actually, because he went through all these transformations, different to what happens in the comic or the cartoon but we kinda just had to make it applicable [to the film]."

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dylan21484nj
dylan21484nj writes:
on Mar 05 2007 08:11 AM

god, he sounds like a twelve year old when he describes this movie. either that's good because he's just in awe of the movie or FF2 is gonna be just as stupid as the first film. at least Aaron Eckhart approached his description of his role as Harvey Dent with more depth, mentioning how he wants to explore the similarities and differences between Harvey Dent/Two-Face and Batman. but McMahon is just saying "There's a castle! And there's monitors and stuff!"

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lrm8
lrm8 writes:
on Mar 05 2007 09:12 AM

that's exactly what i thought "he takes everybody's poewrs and stuff, destroys everything, thats pretty much what he's about"... ?

this piece of news aside, it seems that everybody is trying really hard to make FF2 alot better than FF1, so i'll give it a shot... i stil dont expect it to be great, but it could be a decent movie


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TortillaSoup
TortillaSoup writes:
on Mar 05 2007 04:56 PM

In reply to this comment (#857241)
he sounds like Shia beefboy from that interview trying to hype up transformers

fail.


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Jugger
Jugger writes:
on Mar 06 2007 10:22 AM

good, the Dr. Doom from the first FF movie looks like a enemy from the Power Rangers

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bribios
bribios writes:
on Mar 06 2007 10:35 AM

"With all these monitors and stuff, I don't know where he got 'em all from but they're pretty cool."

They need to work that line into the movie.


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dead.legend
dead.legend writes:
on Mar 06 2007 01:23 PM

Non of this is relevant at all. The first FF movie was horrible. People talk about how bad Superman Returns is (when that's not the case), but FF is one of the worst comic book movies in history. The sequel is being made on the sole basis that perhaps the Silver Surfer will save the movie from certain abomination. This movie will suck too.

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