Kinberg is made of teflon it seems. His hands have been heavily plunged into a good few of the sh#tiest Fox efforts but it never sticks.
Maybe he will surprise us with his director debut but if his writing is any measure I'm not considering that the likely option.
I can't think of a single person I would trust less with a Superhero film. Not only is his writing resume' abysmal, but his only directing experience (Fant4stic) speaks for itself.
Fant4stic was Kinberg's baby. There's no other film on which he has had nearly that level of involvement. By his own admission, he was on-set from the start writing and getting involved in all aspects, and reports indicate that when Trank lost it, Kinberg was the one who finished the film (and that fits with the odd situation we saw in which Kinberg was the one out talking about the film while the actual credited director was rarely heard from).
He said he was
proud of Fant4stic. He said the critics were being unfair. That alone should tell you the level of delusion and incompetence he brings to the table, but we have more than that to judge him on. Nearly everything he said about Fant4stic from the start was off-base. None of us were surprised by the complete failure of Fant4stic because we had been reading quotes from Kinberg for a year and a half and we knew how clueless he was.
Given the choice between Josh Trank and Simon Kinberg directing another superhero film, I'd take Trank without a second thought. Trank may have been misguided, but Kinberg is talentless and clueless.
Trank has done something that Kinberg hasn't. Trank has actually directed a good film.
And I'm willing to bet right here, right now, that Trank's Capone film is a much better film than Kinberg's Dark Phoenix.
I think Kinberg had more power and more say on Fant4stic than Trank did, and I think Fant4stic tells anyone who cares to pay attention quite a bit about Kinberg's ability to put together a film.
), SS was a tremendous hit. 
