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would be an understatement that Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four film was one of the
worst comic book adaptations ever. The film was hated by critics and died at the
box office. Production of the film was in a word-troubled and when the film came
out it destroyed Josh Trank’s career. There were extensive reshoots with reports
of Trank having an emotional meltdown on the set that had him hiding in his
trailer. X-Men franchise head Simon Kinberg and others at 20th Century Fox
hijacked the film and forced Trank to make changes he didn’t want to. The day
the film opened Trank defended the film while telling fans to stay away since
the last act of the film wasn’t his at all but the studio’s. The director
recently posted a review of the film on The Playlist where he revealed: “The
movie is ALRIGHT. I was expecting it to be much worse than it was. I literally
haven’t seen it since like two weeks before it came out, and I was in a heavily
traumatized state of mind. Why? Eh, save that for another time. Great cast.
Everyone in the film is a great actor, and overall there is a movie in there,
somewhere. And that cast deserves to be in THAT movie. Everyone who worked on
Fant4stic clearly wanted to be making THAT movie. But…. ultimately… It wasn’t.
Did I make that movie they deserved to be in? To be honest…I can’t tell. What I
can tell is there are TWO different movies in one movie competing to be that
movie. Is there a #releasethetrankcut? Doesn’t matter. I’m not Zack Snyder. Zack
Snyder is a storied, iconic, legendary filmmaker who has been knocking it out of
the park since I was in high school. Me? Then? I was 29 years old, making my 2nd
film, in a situation more complicated than anything a 2nd time filmmaker
should’ve walked into. That said… I don’t regret any of it. It’s a part of me.
And I just hope Peyton Reed makes the next Fantastic Four and crushes it. And
that I get a cameo.” The film had a $150 million dollar budget but only made
$167.9 million worldwide. Trank has a new film coming out in 2020, the Tom
Hardy-led gangster film based on Al Capone.
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