8 Things The Doctor Doom Movie Must Do
8. Actually Get Victor Von Doom Right
This would be a good place to start, wouldn't it?
It sounds like it goes without saying, but clearly it doesn't since we haven't seen a passable version of Victor Von Doom in three Fantastic Four films.
The doctor has been savaged on screen, stripped down to his most megalomaniacal traits and presented as yet another would-be world dominator.
Neither Tim Story nor Josh Trank appeared to realise it, but Doctor Doom is one of the most layered villains in the Marvel Universe.
He was a brilliant and respected scientist, but his obsession with perfection alienated him from his peers; and post-villain transformation he's a character whose desire to make the world a better place is forever at odds with his massive ego.
Then there's the tragic aspect of Victor, who lost his parents in horrible circumstances as a child and is forced to raise himself in a dictatorship he goes on to rule.
Later comics have even painted Doom as a hero, so if his solo film plumbs the depths, there are stories of pathos, internal conflict and moral shades of grey to tell - none of these things can be glossed over if they plan on getting it right this time.