The FFINO ZONE - Part 3

[MadVillainy]

Trank will not direct, be credited for writing, or be involved with any studio production any time soon. Columbo or otherwise.

 

[The Infernal]

In retrospect it would have been kinder to Trank's career if he were simply fired before or during production. At least that way he could have potentially sidestep this mess.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Wow, so Tranq has lawyered up. Interesting times still to come. This story is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[Orba]

Wow, so Tranq has lawyered up. Interesting times still to come. This story is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

And the film hasn't even been out a week, these sorts of stories often take months or years before this sort of stuff comes out.

 

[C. Lee]

In retrospect it would have been kinder to Trank's career if he were simply fired before or during production. At least that way he could have potentially sidestep this mess.

Yep....it's like the story of Admiral Kimmel who was in charge of Pearl Harbor when it was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941.....during the attack, as he stood at a window watching the carnage, a bullet came through the window and hit him in the chest....but it had lost all it's power as it travelled to him, so it just bounced off.....Kimmel said "It would have been more merciful if it had killed me."....he lived the rest of his life in disgrace as the man who was in charge during that terrible day. Trank will wish he had quit a year ago.

 

[Dark Raven]

Wow, so Tranq has lawyered up. Interesting times still to come. This story is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

So Trank does actually expect to be sued in the near future? People were saying that Fox probably wouldn't bother, but it looks like there might be a legal battle here.

 

[The Infernal]

On Columbo. I would like to see a reboot. Ruffalo as Columbo sounds cool even, but obviously hell no to Trank's involvement. lol

Apparently the Columbo play was touring England a good while back with the guy who played Face in the original A-team as Columbo.

 

[Dark Raven]

On Columbo. I would like to see a reboot. Ruffalo as Columbo sounds cool even, but obviously hell no to Trank's involvement. lol

Apparently the Columbo play was touring England a good while back with the guy who played Face in the original A-team as Columbo.

Dirk Benedict doesn't seem anything like Columbo. I could see Ruffalo, kind of, but not Benedict. But maybe if Trank gets his hands on it, it will be MBJ in the role.

And maybe one of the Trank dogs as Columbo's basset hound.

 

[The Infernal]

Yep....it's like the story of Admiral Kimmel who was in charge of Pearl Harbor when it was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941.....during the attack, as he stood at a window watching the carnage, a bullet came through the window and hit him in the chest....but it had lost all it's power as it travelled to him, so it just bounced off.....Kimmel said "It would have been more merciful if it had killed me."....he lived the rest of his life in disgrace as the man who was in charge during that terrible day. Trank will wish he had quit a year ago.

What a shame. Fate can be an ironic kick in the balls.

 

[Greenians]

What does FFINO mean?

 

[Eddie]

What does FFINO mean?

Fantastic Four In Name Only

 

[The Infernal]

Friends Feeling Into kNowing Others...



Ok. Maybe not. It's Fantastic Four In Name Only.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Yep....it's like the story of Admiral Kimmel who was in charge of Pearl Harbor when it was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941.....during the attack, as he stood at a window watching the carnage, a bullet came through the window and hit him in the chest....but it had lost all it's power as it travelled to him, so it just bounced off.....Kimmel said "It would have been more merciful if it had killed me."....he lived the rest of his life in disgrace as the man who was in charge during that terrible day. Trank will wish he had quit a year ago.

The one major difference is that Kimmel didn't really do much wrong. He was largely hung out to dry by his superiors and later turned into a scapegoat. A lot of Trank's problems are self-inflicted.

 

[Farren]

I don't want to sound like a gossip mag, but Katie Mara has been spotted at the airport after the FFINO weekend. Don't know if the article is making a fuss over what most celebrities do anyway, but she was avoiding eye contact wearing shades and supposedly looking glum, despite pictures of her with a little smile.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-airport-Fantastic-Four-bombs-box-office.html

The fact that of all the photos they must of had of her, those were the three "glum-est" they could find actually makes me think she was probably in a pretty good mood.

 

[Dark Raven]

Fantastic Four’ is ‘The Room’ of superhero movies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ntastic-four-is-the-room-of-superhero-movies/

It wasn’t like they threw out the baby with the bathwater, in the editing room. It’s as though they made an explicit point to keep the bathwater and lose the baby.

It was like the executives behind it asked themselves the following questions:

— What if we removed all the parts of superhero movies that people enjoy and just had a lot of footage of people staring at computer screens waiting for things to load?

— What if we made a superhero movie where we just SKIPPED the year when the team discovers their powers?

— What if we cut out the part where the protagonists bond, do you think the audience would mind?

— What if the big scientific discovery of the movie is something that an 8-year-old boy built in his garage in the first 10 minutes but I guess it took almost a full hour of movie time and more Movie Science to rebuild it bigger?

— What if we literally had a science teacher so bad that when the hero teleports something during a science fair, he says “YOU ARE KICKED OUT OF THIS FAIR BECAUSE WHAT YOU DID WAS MAGIC, NOT SCIENCE”?

— What if the hero got a scholarship to something called the Baxter Institute or Baxter Foundation but the movie never explains whether it’s a school or a lab or an orphanage or what?

— What if The Thing didn’t wear pants?

— What if the entire climax is fought in a CGI land where there are no clear rules or stakes, so much so that someone has to keep yelling what everyone is doing and why because otherwise you have no idea what’s going on other than there is a lot of blue flashing light?

— What if Kate Mara’s special genius skill in the movie was pattern recognition?

— Seriously, pattern recognition.

— What if literally someone goes to Kate Mara at a key moment and says WE NEED SOMEONE WHO CAN RECOGNIZE A PATTERN, would that be good? Is that the kind of drama people have come to expect?

— What if instead of having characters reveal themselves through action, we just had them tell each other what their motives were, saying things like “You look really in your element.” or “No, this is your home.” or “This is what you’ve always wanted.” or “I know why you’re doing this.” or “Let me tell you who you are.”

— What if the villain’s power is he can kill everyone just by thinking about it, but then when he gets to his home planet where his powers are strongest, he can’t?

— What if the final climax of the film is someone saying “TEAMWORK! THAT WAS WHAT WE WERE MISSING!”

— What if someone unironically says, “Please, Victor. We’re not gods.”

— What if the film includes a scene where Miles Teller carries a big stack of books over to Kate Mara in a library, pulls out “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” and says, “They have great books here. This is my favorite book. In it, a man named Captain Nemo builds a submarine! It goes deeper than anything has ever gone.”

— What if our main romance is two people whose chemistry could best be described as Two People Who Both Want To Leave The Room Because They Are Running Behind But Don’t Want To Be The First To End The Conversation Because That Would Be Rude?

— What if their most romantic exchange goes as follows:
“I’m adopted,” Kate Mara says.
“I know what that’s like,” Miles Teller says.
“You’re adopted?” Kate Mara says.
“No,” says Miles Teller, “but I wish I were.”

— What if nobody develops powers or does anything until about an hour has gone by?

— What if we made a superhero movie with all the urgency and stakes of your grandmother, on the phone, retelling her trip to the grocery while she putters around the house?

— What if the heroes had to recruit the assistance of a Clearly Evil person whose last name was Von Doom and who says subtle, ambiguous things like “I don’t think humanity deserves a second chance”?

— What if the basis for everyone getting powers was that they all got mysteriously drunk off a single tiny flask and Miles Teller decided to call up a friend whom he hadn’t seen for months (days? years? the timeline is never clear) and take him with them to another dimension and nobody blinked an eye? They all just nodded and said, “Sure, bring your non-scientist friend into our secret lab, slap a suit on him (we’ve got a spare suit, I guess!) and let’s travel interdimensionally.”

— What if their motivation for doing this was “everyone remembers Neil Armstrong but no one remembers the scientists who sent him”?

— What if Kate Mara brings them back by doing that “hacker” thing where your hands go clickety-clickety-clack over the computer keys frantically to “override”?

— What if when they come back some blue energy goes BOOM so she gets powers even though she did not get to go get space drunk with the boys, because perhaps she had seen “The Fly” and knew better than to just hop willy-nilly into a teleporter?

— What if Miles Teller just disappears for a year?

— What if the last word of the movie was someone about to say “Fantastic Four” but they cut to credits before he could actually say it?

— What if we made a superhero movie where one of the climactic moments was Miles Teller very slowly pulling his arm back into his sleeve?

“Fantastic Four” is the answer to all of these questions. I would call it a trainwreck, but “Trainwreck” was actually good. This was . . . something else. I’d see it again, at midnight, if they let me throw spoons at the screen.

 

[Quasar]

That is goddamn gold.

 

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

Hot damn, that was a great read.

 

[Docker2.0]

I'm going to guess that the member of the FFINO that told Trank that he doesn't think this movie is good was Miles Teller. He has already been on record saying he knows the fans hate him for ruining the F4, he is a rising star who's not really friends with Trank(which rules out MBJ)...........and that's it. I think it's him or Mara but with Teller's arrogance, I can see it being him. He seems to have the balls to not bite his tongue.

 

[Val_Zod]

 

[wobbly]

Lol t: Send that to to twitter #FantasticFour

 

[wobbly]

I'm going to guess that the member of the FFINO that told Trank that he doesn't think this movie is good was Miles Teller. He has already been on record saying he knows the fans hate him for ruining the F4, he is a rising star who's not really friends with Trank(which rules out MBJ)...........and that's it. I think it's him or Mara but with Teller's arrogance, I can see it being him. He seems to have the balls to not bite his tongue.

Teller also forewarned the critics were not gonna be gushing over this thing. Oh, how right you were Miles. Should have lowered the bar by about 60% though...

 

[AndrewGilkison]

It's clear none of the actors think much of Trank or else they would've come to his defense during all the months of negative rumors about his onset behavior and conduct.

 

[Docker2.0]

Teller also forewarned the critics were not gonna be gushing over this thing. Oh, how right you were Miles. Should have lowered the bar by about 60% though...

Seeing as how Trank fought for Mara to get the part, he was already friends with MBJ..........that kind of leaves out Teller. Not counting Jamie......dude hasn't arrived yet to put his foot down. I can totally see it being Miles Teller.

 

[Eddie]

Seeing as how Trank fought for Mara to get the part, he was already friends with MBJ..........that kind of leaves out Teller. Not counting Jamie......dude hasn't arrived yet to put his foot down. I can totally see it being Miles Teller.

You've got it mixed up. He fought for Teller. It's just that they ended up hating each other after they actually worked together. He DIDN'T want Mara, and he was awful to her.

 

[YoungBlood]

Inside Josh Trank's drugged out mind: "Maybe I can act like an extreme *****ebag to Kate Mara and verbally berate her to the point of tears, she might just quit the project. BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm such a genius. There is no way this plan will backfire. My movie will be the best comic book movie of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"