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Julian McMahon visited this year’s WonderCon to talk about his upcoming role as Victor Von Doom in the Fantastic Four movie, now slated to premiere on July 8.

McMahon called the role a “childhood dream” and said he was honored to play the “greatest arch-villain of all time”.

In researching for the role, McMahon cited both the comics and the old Fantastic Four cartoon, which he used to watch on Saturday mornings as a boy growing up in Australia.

On acting behind a prosthetic mask, McMahon pointed out that the mask makes Doom a different person.

A clip was aired showing previously-unseen snippets from the movie. The clip reveals a source of Doctor Doom’s power that is different from his well-known comic book origin.

The scene shows Victor Von Doom after the incident in space which transforms both him and the FF. The doctor says that Von Doom's tissues are changing from flesh into a substance that is harder the diamond--in three weeks, his entire body will be transformed. The clip shows Von Doom murdering the doctor and making a flippant remark that he needed a second opinion.

Apparently in the movie version, Von Doom is a self-obsessed billionaire, "not unlike Rupert Murdoch" (the Fox exective cringed when McMahon said that). Also in a different take from the comic, Von Doom has dated Sue Storm in the past, and this creates romantic tension between him and Reed Richards. McMahon spoke about trying different accents throughout the film to approach an Eastern European flavor, yet in the clip shown, he spoke with an American accent.

McMahon spoke about seeing the Fantastic Four cartoons as a kid in Australia, then later reading the comics upon which they were based. It was quite amusing when a fan asked if Galactus was going to be in the second film, and McMahon had no ideawho
this was. "Yes, bring Galactus, I'll kick his ass in the next movie!"

In the movie, Doom has a “progressive illness” that slowly turns his body into living metal.

Also gone will be Doom’s Eastern Europen monarch status.


November 6th, 2012: Americas new Independence Day.