Fant4stic: Reborn! - - - - - - - Part 41

[Drz]

FOX Producer confirmed to reject H.E.R.B.I.E and Fantasticar in the movie.

Watts turned up her nose at geeky elements, like adding the squad's flying car or comic-relief robot H.E.R.B.I.E. She deemed Trank's ideas too scattered; he felt she wasn't getting it.

 

[jaymes_e06]

What aren't you getting about Fox being the devil in this scenario?

 

[Eddie]

Leaked image of Josh Trank's H.E.R.B.I.E.!

 

[Angryfantasyfan]

Producer Simon Kinberg was brought in to work with Trank on a new script that was then polished by Scott Frank ("Get Shorty," "The Lookout," "Dead Again"). Fox chief Emma Watts was happy with that version, but Trank felt his story was getting lost, so he wrote yet another draft with more of his ideas put back in.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...-and-miles-teller-nearly-threw-fists-20150814

He wrote five episodes of a show I've never heard of and shares Chronicle writing credit with Landis, that's it.

 

[metaphysician]

I wonder how long it will be before they announce no sequel. Or have they already announced it, and I just missed it.

I've tried to stay away from this movie as much as possible.

Not until after it leaves theaters. They will pretend that everything is normal at least til that point, to minimize the amount of losses.

 

[Eddie]

IIRC, Sony's official stance is that Sinister Six is indefinitely postponed, not formally cancelled. Hollywood executives don't tend to acknowledge their own failures. They might not ever formally cancel Fantastic Four 2.

 

[Neno_Kos]

 

[Krystal]

Thank goodness the artistic purity of this movie wasn't destroyed by 3D.
Remember the ones who said that was no indication of trouble and they were glad the cash was used for reshoots to "make it the best it could be"--?
Remember the grape kool-aid Atlanta preview where we got the legendary 99 out of 100 scores and the "I'd definitely pay to see it again"---I wonder how many did so.
Remember "hedge your bets" day where several outlets said they " heard" the movie wasn't as bad as fesred and might actually be "good"--?
Those were heady times for the ostriches around here.
And then came reviewers who hadn't been treated to an evening out and people who actually DID have to pay instead of just saying so.

 

[Raiden]

So who was that NBA player who tweeted about how awesome FFINO is before the movie came out? I bet he is being shamed by his friends and family right now.

 

[Eddie]

So who was that NBA player who tweeted about how awesome FFINO is before the movie came out? I bet he is being shamed by his friends and family right now.

Dwight Howard. And his friends and family are probably cool with it. Howard probably took them to a five star restaurant with the money Fox paid him for that tweet.

 

[Quasar]

I've lost all respect for Dwight Howard as a movie critic.

 

[MadVillainy]

Well Dwight Howard has been an idiot so...

 

[Farren]

FOX Producer confirmed to reject H.E.R.B.I.E and Fantasticar in the movie.

To be honest I think she may have been right -- at least with respect to why (that she felt his ideas were too "scattered"). The final product feels like a mess of tone shifts and cliches as it is, and I think Trank is responsible for at least some of it.

 

[Drz]

The Thing vs. Terrorists was cut due to budget:

As production began, the final budget hovered around $120 million, about $30 million less than Trank expected. Team Trank says the director wasn't getting enough money to craft exciting action scenes, including one of The Thing dive-bombing a terrorist camp that was tease in the trailer but cut from the movie. - Entertainment Weekly

Fooox!!!!

 

[MadVillainy]

The Thing vs. Terrorists was cut due to budget:


Fooox!!!!

 

[ThePhantasm]

Oh so we missed out on seeing Thing kill some 40-odd people, and just heard about it second-hand instead.

 

[Kelly]

Well Dwight Howard has been an idiot so...

Just remember the owner and 2 admin on this site live in Houston.....

 

[kguillou]

Its possible Dwight Howard truly did enjoy the movie. Some people are just easily entertained. lol

 

[Zarex]

Oh so we missed out on seeing Thing kill some 40-odd people, and just heard about it second-hand instead.

It would have been such a cool action sequence that no one would have questioned why one of Marvel's greatest heroes was slaughtering human beings. When there was absolutely no reason for him to take their lives.

 

[MadVillainy]

Just remember the owner and 2 admin on this site live in Houston.....

I AINT SCURRED

I actually did like him when he was on the Magic back in the day

 

[Drz]

It would have been such a cool action sequence that no one would have questioned why one of Marvel's greatest heroes was slaughtering human beings. When there was absolutely no reason for him to take their lives.

All members of the Avengers have killed HYDRA soldiers in the movies, nothing wrong with the Thing taking down terrorists.

 

[ThePhantasm]

That would be terrific logic except for the fact that Ben Grimm isn't a killer.

So really its just a non sequitur.

 

[MadVillainy]

It's not the fact that he isn't a killer (isn't he an Ex marine. Was he in combat as a Marine or in the air force?)

but that whole logline of the Four being used to stop terrorism in that way isn't something I wanna see in a FF film

 

[Comicbookguy339]

The Thing vs. Terrorists was cut due to budget:


Fooox!!!!

Promoting the film with a scene that you know is unfinished and will not be in the movie is a really bad way to treat your audience, FOX.

 

[Drz]

That would be terrific logic except for the fact that Ben Grimm isn't a killer.

In the original comics from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, both Richards and Grimm we're war veterans, so Josh Trank simply used the classic source material and updated it to modern times. t: