‘Fantastic Four’ director Josh Trank responds to bad reviews: You’ll never see my “fantastic version”

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Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot is getting terrible reviews, and currently has a 9% Rotten Tomatoes score. Looks like Miles Teller was right!

Fantastic Four director Josh Trank has taken to Twitter to respond to these bad reviews. Trank says that his version of the movie would’ve received great reviews but that we’ll never see it, suggesting that Fox or the producers stepped in and ruined his vision.

Trank has since deleted his tweet, but luckily Comic Book Movie was able to grab a screenshot before he did:

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What do you make of Trank’s tweet? Sound off in the comments below!

25 comments

  1. BringerOfRain Avatar
    BringerOfRain

    I would love for him to do a DC movie and have WB not be as controlling on him as Fox was.

    1. BROWN_KNIGHT 4 Trump Avatar
      BROWN_KNIGHT 4 Trump

      As someone stated above…for shazam..

  2. ColdSc Avatar
    ColdSc

    I totally believe it too. Josh Trank is a GOOD director, Chronicle was fantastic. With everything I’ve been hearing, they edited this film in a way where half of it is just missing. John Campea also cited a rumor that Fox stepped in in pre-production to take out 3 set-pieces to lower the budget. This movie is 120 million dollars, which is pretty hefty, no doubt. But Gambit is 150 million, freakin’ Gambit.

  3. SBHM Avatar
    SBHM

    I believe it. No reason not to. Whatever personal issues he had were irrelevant. It wouldn’t surprise me to know that Fox controlled him to the point where he no longer had a creative hand in the movie.

  4. Sergio Avatar
    Sergio

    this movie has officially gone down the toilet before its even released…

  5. 73oo73ie Avatar
    73oo73ie

    I doubt it would be that much better but from listening to the latest Fatman on batman I like josh.

    1. Vahn Gharakhani Avatar
      Vahn Gharakhani

      Yes me too!

    2. The_Foehammer Avatar
      The_Foehammer

      Agreed.

    3. Foomankru Avatar
      Foomankru

      Part 4 of that interview is next week so I’ll be interested to see why they talk about.

  6. Rob_wesb Avatar
    Rob_wesb

    Not that. The studio just got heavily involved in the project and ended up ruining the film because of it.

  7. Jesse Hernandez Avatar
    Jesse Hernandez

    Lol this movie got destroyed, Josh come over to the Dark side (DC comics) where you have creative control, I would love to see him do a Shazam Movie

  8. Mozts Avatar
    Mozts

    Feels like he’s throwing everyone else, and the studio, under the bus. I’m glad he deleted it.

    1. 73oo73ie Avatar
      73oo73ie

      I agree but as far as him deleting the tweet it’s too late. It’s now out there. Also by tweeting that I think he killed his chance to direct a sequel, which rumor has it is in the works. I think fox is trying to crossover f4 and xmen.

      1. Mozts Avatar
        Mozts

        After this critical and public response, he wouldn’t go back anyway, even if he was giving blowjob to studio execs. If FOX is anyway alive, they’re reconsidering that crossover.

        1. 73oo73ie Avatar
          73oo73ie

          If you put things into perspective fox is trying to compete with the MCU and DCCU. So eventually they would have to create a crossover cinamat

          1. Mozts Avatar
            Mozts

            Yeah yeah, everybody knows that. But they have a lot of X-Men coming out, 3 just next year, they don’t need to cross FF right now.

        2. 73oo73ie Avatar
          73oo73ie

          Universe if they want to stay relevant.

  9. 73oo73ie Avatar
    73oo73ie

    Universe if they want to stay competitive

  10. ❤ V /.\ N I T Y ❤ Avatar
    ❤ V /.\ N I T Y ❤

    E X A C T L Y!! And this is just him trying to save face. I’m NOT buying it! Just give the movie rights back to the Fantastic Four already b/c FOX sucks at making FF movies

    1. BROWN_KNIGHT 4 Trump Avatar
      BROWN_KNIGHT 4 Trump

      I disagree. Studios have a long history of mucking movies up. Green Lantern, asm2….so he is not wrong…especially dealing with fox…

      1. ❤ V /.\ N I T Y ❤ Avatar
        ❤ V /.\ N I T Y ❤

        k, you’re entitled to your opinion, which l don’t agree with.

  11. The_Foehammer Avatar
    The_Foehammer

    I’m not surprised by any of this. Predicted as much from the start, in fact. Screwing with comic book canon turned many of us off, we were told to shut up and be politically correct. Well, regardless, FOX can’t seem to stop themselves from messing up with this license, apparently refuse to let it go. Somewhere in there they must be making profits off these sub-par attempts and the higher ups are screwing with the vision of the directors way too often if Trank’s tweet is any hint. FOX has a history of not knowing when to leave well enough alone. They almost pushed Star Wars off the edge before it ever hit the theaters!

    Will we ever get a Doctor Doom on the Big Screen worthy of the name? Not until FOX stops producing FF movies. That much is clear by now. Wrong looks, wrong powers, wrong voice. Just plain wrong.

  12. SnakeJerusalem Avatar
    SnakeJerusalem

    I wonder if all this bad PR from the internet will actually hurt the box office performance, specially after this tweet.

  13. Fall Avatar
    Fall

    He can bitch as much as he wants to on social media as now he’s Troy Duffy 2.0 that’s pretty much all he’s got to look forward to in his future.

    I don’t doubt Fox took control of the movie any more than I doubt he had a tremendous ego (there’s just too many stories from too many sources that turn out to be verified). So really fuck it hope he enjoyed himself the last few years because that’s it as far as his career goes.

    Even the writer of Chronicle is saying his getting canned from Star Wars is “karma” so yeah gonna just take this as another ego that burned too bright.

  14. Nicolas Ahumada Avatar
    Nicolas Ahumada

    I will not to watch the movie (on internet later on of course). Why? I want marvel to have the rights, so I don’t want to give my money to FOX. It’d be great to see a Director’s cut in the future.

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