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

[Eddie]

I think they're doing a double feature with Paper Towns in some areas, actually. A double billing for those two came up on Fandango a day or two when I searched Fantastic Four.

 

[Krystal]

Or a triple feature---FFINO, Hitman and Unfinished Business. They could promote it by saying, "See why audiences stayed away in droves!"

 

[Spiderine]

This film is dropping fast like a looney tune anvil. Right on FOX's head. "Squeezing every little bit out of it to help" is like those others squeezing every little bit out to help GR2 and Jonah Hex. Its insignificant at this point.

Hopefully they are already looking at the calendar to make dates meeting with Marvel.

 

[CTFFFan]

maybe a double feature with Howard the Duck.

 

[InCali]

maybe a double feature with Howard the Duck.

You're liable to get run off the board making comments like that.

Some people LOVE Howard (not me and was disappointed with the GotG credits scene).

EDIT: some guy started to leave after GotG and I said "You shouldn't leave. Marvel always has these really cool credits scenes." So, the guy stayed. After the movie he sort of looked at me like I had 8 heads......

From now on, if people leave, I'm not saying a word.

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

You're liable to get run off the board making comments like that.

Some people LOVE Howard (not me and was disappointed with the GotG credits scene).

EDIT: some guy started to leave after GotG and I said "You shouldn't leave. Marvel always has these really cool credits scenes." So, the guy stayed. After the movie he sort of looked at me like I had 8 heads......

From now on, if people leave, I'm not saying a word.

I think you have to be a pretty big fan to get much out of tge after-credits scenes. After Ant-man, I found myself wondering if it was worth all the extra time. Next time I might look it up ahead of time and only stay if it's really worth it.

 

[InCali]

I think you have to be a pretty big fan to get much out of tge after-credits scenes. After Ant-man, I found myself wondering if it was worth all the extra time. Next time I might look it up ahead of time and only stay if it's really worth it.

I stayed for them all 3 times I saw Ant-Man. GotG credits scene??? Once.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

i always see the after credits.. i can wait 2 min and see it..

 

[Mysteryman]

Are you guys kidding me? No. I'm sorry, but I have ZERO sympathy for Josh Trank.

He used this "Fantastic Four" opportunity to make a sequel to his previous film Chronicle. It's as simple as that. He shoehorned actors from that film (Teller, Michael B. Jordan, etc.,) into this one, changed the very essence of the FF storyline into something dark, head-bursting and body horrific, changed characters around to fit the actors who wanted to play them, and then had the nerve to slap the title "Fantastic Four" on it. That's about the most mismatched concept I've ever seen in my life.

FOX used Josh Trank to suit their "Marvel rights" needs. Josh used FOX to get his Chronicle sequel in. And the Fantastic Four got ruined in the process.

So no, I don't wish him well. Directors who have real integrity will look at a property objectively and have the guts to tell the studio "You know what, I can't do this. Either we rename the movie to something else or I have to walk." Edgar Wright did that with Ant-Man. So did Ava DuVernay with Black Panther. Josh Trank stayed and tried to force a circle into a square.

That's greed.

The only way that I ever go to another Josh Trank film is if I have any friends in the cast or crew.

 

[Drz]

Unused HERBIE & alternate Fantasticar design:

Conceptual artist Fausto De Martini (Transformers: Age of Extinction, RoboCop) has shared unused concept art of H.E.R.B.I.E. and Fantasticar that he created very early on in the pre-production process for Josh Trank's Fantastic Four reboot.


Entertainment Weekly reported last month, director Josh Trank wanted to add a comic-relief robot and the squad's flying car, but Fox's president of production Emma Watts rejected those and other geek-friendly ideas. Thanks to Fausto's concept art we can now see what Trank had in mind.
The two H.E.R.B.I.E. designs feature a spherical base like the BB-8 droid from J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens. That's interesting. I wonder if Trank, who was attached to direct a standalone Star Wars anthology film at one time, was privy to the BB-8 and it influenced his H.E.R.B.I.E. design?


Then there's, the Fantasticar! They experimented with various makes of automobiles to be transformed into the flying vehicle. Fausto came up with designs that incorporated the exteriors of a van, Lamborghini and a Dodge Charger. At least with the Fantasticar we know they built one, which you can see in B-roll footage.

I really like the 1st Herbie design and the last Fantasticar design is pure camp hilarity, shame these had to be removed due to budget restrictions.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

The fantasticar designs are way too litteral... i hate everything about all of them

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

So... Trank wanted things like HERBIE and the Fantasticar, eh? Sorry ya'll... I think Trank was a victim of dumb suits here and the hate is unwarranted when it comes to where it should be directed.

 

[Drz]

So... Trank wanted things like HERBIE and the Fantasticar, eh? Sorry ya'll... I think Trank was a victim of dumb suits here and the hate is unwarranted when it comes to where it should be directed.

You can see the final designs for Fantasticar here:
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Yeah Trank does get a lot of unwarranted heat, but you can't blame the audience because people don't tend to read all the details about the news and then you have so much fake conspiracy things flying around the web.

 

[Angryfantasyfan]

So... Trank wanted things like HERBIE and the Fantasticar, eh? Sorry ya'll... I think Trank was a victim of dumb suits here and the hate is unwarranted when it comes to where it should be directed.

From Indie Wire:

Trank apparently had trouble forming his ideas into a singular vision, unable to decide on the extent of Doctor Doom's powers, and how to incorporate things like the robot H.E.R.B.I.E. or the Fantasti-car (though as b-roll footage shows, the latter was included at some point during the production).

EW and THR both claim that multiple sources place the blame on the studio and the director for this bomb.

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

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/07/fantastic-four-josh-trank-tweet

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fantastic-four-blame-game-fox-814764

The articles and topic were discussed in much more detail in this thread: http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=503343

 

[Flint Marko]

All of those Fantasticar designs are terrible.
Trank was clearly not the best director for this project, he wasn't prepared to take on a production of this magnitude, but I still think that the suits at Fox are more to blame in general.

You can see the final designs for Fantasticar here:
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Yeah Trank does get a lot of unwarranted heat, but you can't blame the audience because people don't tend to read all the details about the news and then you have so much fake conspiracy things flying around the web.

What "fake conspiracy things"? Are you really still going to argue that Trank wasn't fired?

 

[cheungcheung]

duff is making a fantastic four cake for the cast & Stan Lee on "Cake Masters" on food network right now....

 

[C. Lee]

Yeah Trank does get a lot of unwarranted heat, but you can't blame the audience because people don't tend to read all the details about the news and then you have so much fake conspiracy things flying around the web.

The only conspiracy theory that I keep seeing is yours.....the conspiracy of everyone in the world against God's gift to film making.

 

[Wheels]

Miles Teller isn't in Chronicle FYI. Just throwing that general info out there.

 

[Eddie]

duff is making a fantastic four cake for the cast & Stan Lee on "Cake Masters" on food network right now....

That cake was at Comic-Con. I think I posted a picture of it back then.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Deadpool walks up to Fox and Trank, he then stabs them in the heart...''Feige sends his regards.''

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

So... Trank wanted things like HERBIE and the Fantasticar, eh? Sorry ya'll... I think Trank was a victim of dumb suits here and the hate is unwarranted when it comes to where it should be directed.

NOTHING about this film was good. Herbie represented a terrible moment in FF animated history. Those Fantasticar designs are awful and nothing like what we've seen in the comics.

Trank had a terrible vision and created a story that was nothing like the Fantastic Four and Fox never put the brakes on to stop that terrible film. Both Trank and Fox deserve every bit of hate they get and then some.

I may die before ever seeing a good Fantastic Four film. That's Trank and Fox's fault and the idea tha anything in this film is excusable would be an extreme stretch.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

So... Trank wanted things like HERBIE and the Fantasticar, eh? Sorry ya'll... I think Trank was a victim of dumb suits here and the hate is unwarranted when it comes to where it should be directed.

not when both those choices are stupid... any of those fantasticars would have been god awful

 

[starscream22]

Yeah Trank does get a lot of unwarranted heat, but you can't blame the audience because people don't tend to read all the details about the news and then you have so much fake conspiracy things flying around the web.

By "fake conspiracy" do you mean that there was no conspiracy at all?

 

[Steyin]

duff is making a fantastic four cake for the cast & Stan Lee on "Cake Masters" on food network right now....

I saw this last night, geez it was painful to watch haha

 

[Drz]

The only conspiracy theory that I keep seeing is yours.....the conspiracy of everyone in the world against God's gift to film making.

So you believe Kate Mara shat herself on the set from drugs and that Trank physically assaulted Mara and insulted her?

There's too many random things people posted on various other forums that receiced attention even though there is nothing to confirm any of it.