“I love walking into a trap, don't you?
I don't know, never done it before.”
Around 1983, German movie producer Bernd Eichinger met with Stan Lee in his Los Angeles home to explore the possibility of obtaining an option for a film based on the Fantastic Four. The option was not made available until three years later, when Eichinger’s production company Constantin Film obtained it for a price that the producer called “not enormous” and which has been estimated to…