Fantastic Four: Director of hated reboot gives own film two stars on movie review site Letterboxd
The film was panned by audiences and critics alike upon release in 2015
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Your support makes all the difference.The director of the Fantastic Four reboot, which flopped at the box office after being plagued with production troubles, has given his film a negative write-up on review site Letterboxd.
Fantastic Four starred Michael B Jordan, Kate Mara, Miles Teller and Jamie Bell, and was one of the worst reviewed films of 2015.
Now, Josh Trank, who also directed 2012 film Chronicle, re-watched his film and registered a two-star review on the film site.
“I was expecting it to be much worse than it was,” Trank levelled, adding: “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 Fantastic Four clearly wanted to be making THAT movie. But, ultimately, It wasn’t.”
Trank acknowledged that there are “two movies in one movie competing to be” the film he believes his actors deserved to be in.
“I was 29-years old, making my second film, in a situation more complicated than anything a second time filmmaker should’ve walked into,” he said.
Speaking about the film’s failure in 2016, producer Simon Kinberg said: ”I think that there were many decisions we made along the way that led to a movie that people didn’t like and a movie that I would do differently next time.
“I think the biggest takeaway for me, and there were many, is that the tone of the movie, while really interesting and ambitious, ran counter to the DNA of the source material.”
The Fantastic Four are going to be introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe over the next few years.
Rumours suggest that Ant-Man director Peyton Reed could direct the group of superheroes in their next standalone film.
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