Director Josh Trank Reviews His 2015 FANTASTIC FOUR Movie
Remember that Fantastic Four film that Fox released for some reason in 2015? That film was an absolute mess. I’ve only met one person that actually enjoyed what it tried to do. Thankfully, the rights to Fantastic Four are back in the hands of Marvel, and they will eventually finally give the fans a Fantastic Four movie that the fans will love.
Well, the director of the film, Josh Trank, recently posted a review of it on Letterboxd, and he’s pretty honest about how he feels about it. He also reflects on his life at the time that he made the movie. Remember, the guy went from a low-budget directorial debut with Chronicle, to this big-budget project that he obviously was not ready for.
Here’s Trank’s review:
Fant4stic… Huh.
Okay first of all, I thought it would be GREAT if I searched FF2015 and the shit wasn’t even on here. Low key I kinda was hoping it wasn’t. But it was! And I’m here. Anyway. Where to begin…
The movie is ALRIGHT.
I was expecting it to be much worse than it was. I literally haven’t seen it since like two weeks before it came out, and I was in a heavily fucking traumatized state of mind. Why? Eh, save that for another time.
Anyway, movie review:
Great cast.
Everyone in the film is a great actor, and overall there is a movie in there, somewhere. And that cast deserves to be in THAT movie. Everyone who worked on Fant4stic clearly wanted to be making THAT movie. But…. ultimately… It wasn’t.
Did I make that movie they deserved to be in?
To be honest?
I can’t tell.
What I can tell is there are TWO different movies in one movie competing to be that movie.
Is there a #releasethetrankcut?
Doesn’t matter.
I’m not Zack Snyder.
Zack Snyder is a storied, iconic, legendary filmmaker who has been knocking it out of the fucking park since I was in high school.
Me? Then?
I was 29 years old, making my 2nd film, in a situation more complicated than anything a 2nd time filmmaker should’ve walked into.
That said… I don’t regret any of it.
It’s a part of me.
And I just hope Peyton Reed makes the next Fantastic Four and crushes it. And that I get a cameo.
Anyway, that’s it.
Fant4stic.
PS: My girlfriend said I should’ve reviewed more of the film and less about myself. My answer: ?????.
It would be interesting to see Trank open up even more about his experience on directing Fantastic Four. There were so many rumors and reports coming from the set of the film. It would be interesting to get a tell-all interview or book. A film based on the making of this movie would be more interesting than the actual movie.
Via: Vulture