Fant4stic I think this deserves its own thread...Josh Trank denounces Fantastic Four

[MydnightPhoenix]

Hmm...don't know how to feel. I wonder why he waited til now to say this but also wonder why he didn't wait til after the opening weekend.

 

[Tehmeh]

I just hope the guy doesn't OD or something.

 

[TheVileOne]

Looks like they nuked the story at yahoo for now.....

The problem is if Fantastic Four does not do well, Fox could sue Josh Trank for causing financial damages due to his comments online. And Fox would win the suit too.

I assume Yahoo printed that quote from above as legit and realized it was fake and took it down.

 

[Raiden]

Hmm...don't know how to feel. I wonder why he waited til now to say this but also wonder why he didn't wait til after the opening weekend.

Trank probably tweeted it after he saw how abysmal the RT score is.

 

[TheVileOne]

Don't celebrities know by know that deleting tweets is meaningless? Even if you delete it, it remains on the internet FOREVER.

 

[Darkraid]

 

[Duran Man]

That's a shame.

 

[TheVileOne]

"It wasn't my fault!"

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[I SEE SPIDEY]

Josh Trank is not a ****ing child, he is a 31 year old man who should shut the hell up already.

 

[Raiden]

Josh Trank is not a ****ing child, he is a 31 year old man who should shut the hell up already.

Well, it's the same 31 year old man who apparently shown up on set drunk and got fired by Lucasfilm.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The first one is 100% real. THR retweeted it and before I knew it the tweet disappeared.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Well, it's the same 31 year old man who apparently shown up on set drunk and got fired by Lucasfilm.

Yes, he is a pathetic cry baby whom is acting like he is the first director to get ****ed by a studio. I'm sick of his whining.

 

[Random490]

The problem is if Fantastic Four does not do well, Fox could sue Josh Trank for causing financial damages due to his comments online. And Fox would win the suit too.

Yeah it's surprising to see that happen. Usually it's well after the movie made all it was going to make do people start to denounce and explain it away.

That second quote may not be real, but it seems accurate none the less. The movie sounds like it reeks of studio over reach and directors of smaller films who then commit to a larger studio film and then have to bend to the studio's decision it can be very stressful. I don't envy trying so hard on a films just to know it's gonna fail. Chronicle was great so the guy has talent, just sucks to see him get a chance at a potentially big movie and blow it.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

"It wasn't my fault!"

[YT]AmsIf5aYkDM[/YT]

I like this one better. t:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvujknrBuE

 

[TalismanRing]

He burned his bridges not just with Fox but every major and minor studio. He'll have trouble getting a good sized Indie to direct. He's proven with this to be unstable, unprofessional, untrustworthy and unable to take any responsibility for his own failings.

Unless a production is micro sized, desperate or he raises his own capital there aren't many in the business who are going to work with a director who will trash his own product on opening day and throw the people he works with and for under the bus in a scramble to salve his own ego.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Where are the deniers? Where are they?

 

[lordofthenerds]

Well we've been suspecting this for months, haven't we? Not that Trank's original cut was actually any good (of course he'd claim it was), but that Fox haphazardly cut out a lot of his dramatic moments and packed in more action after reshoots.

It speaks volumes at how much everyone involved ****ed up that he's already resorted to this defense; right before the movie hit theaters domestically.

 

[TheVileOne]

The movie doesn't even have much action at all post-reshoots.

 

[lordofthenerds]

Which goes to show how actionless it originally was.

Even Fox should've known better than to give Trank the green light.

 

[WC Avengers]

Well, it's the same 31 year old man who apparently shown up on set drunk and got fired by Lucasfilm.

was that really the reason?

 

[Raiden]

The movie doesn't even have much action at all post-reshoots.

Just imagine what Trank's version would have been; probably no action at all.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Where are the deniers? Where are they?

They claimed that there was no trouble behind the scenes and that we were all just making it up.

I want them to apologize to, not myself, but to people whom always knew that this film would suck and had serious behind the scenes production issues.

 

[Harry Dresden]

He's full of ********. Movie was going to be **** regardless.

He still had the stupid idea of Sue and Johnny being adopted, Victor Domashev (before Fox stepped in and made it worst, but a different kind of bad), Reed warping space and time around him, etc.

He needs to be a man and admit that he messed up.

 

[Dasher10]

If the latter scenario was true, then it means that A. Fox greenlit a LOT of questionable decisions and B. Kinberg didn't believe in Trank at all and blocked nearly all of his ideas.

When you have two people who hate each other trying to make a film, nothing good comes of it. This could have been avoided if Fox hired a director with a better track record. Fox CBMs only succeed when they have a director with clout from making great films. Bryan Singer made The Usual Suspects before directing X-Men, James Mangold made Girl, Inturrupted and Matthew Vaughn made Stardust and Kick-Ass.

Tim Miller isn't a big name director but he's doing the film his way because he's worked on special effects for numerous films and knows what he's doing.

Trank just did one small indie film and as a result the final product is an abomination of two competing visions.

 

[Raiden]

‘Fantastic Four’ Director Josh Trank Slams His Own Movie

Looks like more news media sites are picking up the story. Should be an interesting weekend.