My pitch for a F4 movie (bear in mind I'm writing this on my cell phone in a coffee shop):
(First 10 min) Victor is a young boy raised in a refugee camp in war-torn failed state in southeastern Europe. He never knew his father and his mother is sold to sex traffickers while he was a boy. When he turned 16 he leaves as a stowaway with a friend on a train to Scandinavia. His friend dies of a stomach flu and dehydration on the way there.
(10-25): Once there he enrolls in college under a pseudonym and becomes one of the most advanced students in his class. While at a tech conference in Switzerland he meets Reed Richards and the two bond over an interest in quantum mechanics and write an essay on multiverse theory. Reed finds Victor (and his creepy robotic assistant) working on a machine that is designed as a window/viewscreen to another dimension, but is more likely to destroy the entire city block, they have a falling out and part ways. Reed informs the authorities of the dangers of Victor's project.
(25-35): fast forward 10 years. Age 32, Reed has since returned home to New York where he's rooming with Ben Grimm. Though gruff and outspoken, Ben is an esteemed pilot in the airforce. The two are good friends despite being on completely different wavelengths. Reed works for Franklin Storm at the Baxter building. Reed is lead on a project working on the same sort of multiversal window as Doom was, but under much more rigorous scrutiny from the scientific community including Sue Storm (a 30-something yr old physicist) and Johnny Storm (a late 20s mechanical engineer).
(35 - 40): A now 30-something year old Victor is confronted in a Swiss prison by deportation authorities who have discovered his true parentage in the new sovereign nation of Latveria.
(40-45): After an unexpected powersurge causes a small amount of destruction at the Baxter building, Reed and Franklin discern this project is too dangerous in earths gravity and begin planning a suborbital mission to attempt to view this other dimension.
(45-50): Victor returns to Latveria and is escorted into a high security facility to find his father Werner von Doom on his deathbed and after a small moment of stifling any emotion, lashes out. Blaming his father for all the anguish in his life. As he watches his father die, he inherits a small nation for his troubles.
(50-55): Doom, now the leader of a nation, approaches his throne and starts to realize the power he's been given has. Having never had power before, he feels strange, but feels it suits him. He sits in the throne.
(55-65): Space launch is a success. (Using a space elevator maybe? This is the near future). They are now in a zero-g environment and the mission is a go. Ben is the pilot on the science vessel they travel on to get a safe distance from the space station.
(65-70): Doom, at a meal, being advised by several experts about strife and poverty in Latveria, he silences them and turns up the volume on the news where he learns about Reed and Storm's mission. Enraged, he destroys something, frightening his subjects.
(70-80): As Reed's team is igniting the portal, an unaccounted for blast of cosmic radiation sweeps through the ship altering the bodies of the four heroes (turning Reed's hair white on the sides) and killing anyone too far from the portal they opened. Including the rest of the crew and Franklin Storm.
(85-90): The next 5 minutes are a fight for their life as the science vessel is sent crashing into earth's atmosphere. The four are forced to come together as a team in order to survive the crash, discovering their powers in the process.
(90-95): A brief moment of calm as they attempt to figure out where they've landed. Their questions are answered by a squadron of robotic soldiers cloaked in green.
(95-105): They are accosted and brought before Doom at his castle. He orders them killed and they fight off the robots with their powers. Doom goes on a tirade about how he will study them to death in order to replicate his powers for his own gain. Ben and Johnny immediately despise him, not going down easy. And Sue attempts to reason with him. Reed realizes this is pointless and stays quiet. Here is where Doom names the four. "Find suitable containment for that "Thing" and the human torch." Sue is angry that her little brother is being mistreated, and yells something to insult Doom. "Take the invisible woman with them." To Reed: "You, you think you're above me. Mr. Fantastic with his money and his fame. But it was my work you stole. My work that gave you those powers. Well I am god here. And you are mine now."
(105-110): The team, trapped in very advanced cells are only able escape, once again through teamwork. Sue and Johnny are restrained together, if he ignites, she ignites. They battle their way through an army of Doombots and steal a ship.
(110-125): Confronted once again by Doom (now decked out in advanced tech armor) and his elite guard, the 3 fight him off. Johnny heats up one of Ben's fists and he uses it to tear off Dooms mask and clock him in the face, also scarring it somewhat.
(125-130): Stealing a private plane they return to New York and are finally able to relax.
(130-135): Seeing himself in the mirror for the first time after recovering from the battle, Doom notices a light scarification of his face. He then proceeds to permanently attach a mask upon his face (removed from the face of his creepy robot assistant from earlier) at great protest from his medical advisor. Who he kills immediately thereafter. He sees a hazy image of his mother in the corner of the room. She says, "Victor, find me," in an eastern european language and disappears.
Roll credits.
Mid Credits scene: Annihilus escaping the portal in space as it closes.
After credits scene: Something MCU related :P Stark or Fury or Strange show up to talk to the F4 about the dangers of interdimensional portals.
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