>Developing the script was a similar clamber. Slater was a badge-carrying nerd ready to convert comic book lore into bombastic, CG-ready set-pieces. Trank was the opposite, having seen a few episodes of the Fantastic Four cartoon from the mid-’90s and having a general distaste for comic book movies. “The first Avengers movie had recently come out, and I kept saying, ‘That should be our template, that’s what audiences want to see!” Slater said. “And Josh just fricking hated every second of it.”
>Early on, he insisted to Fox that Chronicle star Michael B. Jordan was the guy to play Johnny Storm, a character traditionally depicted as white. “For the world I grew up in, a racially intense Los Angeles where we were used to seeing white superheroes, some of my friends who were black should have seen a black superhero [...] so I felt that while being in a position of power, I could change the system a little bit.” Miles Teller (Whiplash), Jamie Bell (Jumper), and Kate Mara (Shooter), as Johnny’s adopted sister, rounded out the cast.
>Teller’s I’m-a-movie-star-now approach to acting, which involved questioning even the most low-impact performance requests, caught him off-guard, but a tussle that “nearly became physical,” according to an Entertainment Weekly story from August 2015, was a moment of miscommunication between two Type-A personalities. As for The Hollywood Reporter piece that suggested “he built a black tent around his monitor” and “cut himself off from everybody,” Trank said that was a traditional video village, and sometimes “you can’t actually be out standing next to the camera because the camera’s on a fricking dolly.
>Casting Kate Mara to play Sue Storm.
come to think of it, the casting was great in that one, shame about the script
Liberal cucks ruin everything they touch
Surely not everything, well now wait…
black people: ruined
lgbt rights: ruined
feminism: ruined
renewable energy: ruined
Tech: ruined
film and tv: ruined
science: ruined
medicine: ruined
You’re right its everything
Imagine being Miles fricking Teller and having an ego about that lmao.
>self-sabotage
Trank wasn't a director for a Fantastic Four movie, he could have worked in darker sci-fi movies, live actions of Akira, Ghost in the Shell, the Dark Tower something like that, blame the guy that hired him, also this
His career nosedived after Fan4stic and a disastrous interview. Top Gun 2 could save him.
Chris Evans was good as jock Johnny. It's hilarious as Fantastic Four almost cost him the Captain America role with Feige.
Read his wikipedia. It smells like self writen.
Liberals are truly a shit midas
Casting a black man, but not a black woman for his sister tells you everything you need to know.
Josh Trank and Miles Teller deserve each other.
Casting a black man was a huge mistake
Johnny Storm was always a loveable moron and completed the group well. Nowadays you're not allowed to depict a black man as stupid or even remotely not a genius
>Casting a guy who doesn't like comic book movies and has never read the source material to direct this shit
What the frick is it with Fox and Sony execs.
I seriously think their boardrooms must look like SEN classrooms and every day someone walks in and tells them it's opposite day.
That used to be normal and only started to change after Raimi's Spider-Man. It was still not unusual when Fantastic Four came out. And now it's becoming normal again.
Those empty suits dont get it. And most likely are too old and out of touch.
They probably saw hype behind Nolan batman and thought what they needed was to move away from colorful cringe super hero stuff.
In that setting. That hiring makes sense 100%
Classic example of go woke go broke
Dude threw landis under a bus for woke points
Now his career is dead
frick off max you israelite
>“And Josh just fricking hated every second of it.”
This right here is everything wrong with adaptions in Hollywood.
A combination of ego and believing they're more intelligent than they are.
>I don't like thing, so I will recreate thing in my image, not what the audiences expect to see with thing
Always reminds me of that comic of the guy going to the cinema to watch "BLUE" or whatever it was, sitting down then the screen changes to the title screen "BLUE" but the screen is red and the guys reaction is a sad shocked face.
Always makes me laugh.
>A combination of ego and believing they're more intelligent than they are.
When in reality they have room tempeture IQ. Im convinced only idiots will survive Hollywood's corporate culture.
not idiots, but psychopaths
They are idiots. Read those leaked sony emails. Room tempeture iq on all of them.
Whole saga behind them is most pathetic thing ever.
>This right here is everything wrong with adaptions in Hollywood.
the frick are you talking about? Hollywood's problem is the EXACT opposite
>Oh shit, this exact, specific formula was a big hit with this movie/franchise? RIDE THE BANDWAGON! FRICK CREATIVE VISION! FRICK ORIGINALITY! Audiences want quippy, cgi bukkake superhero flicks? Give them 50 more!!
I recall threads about this when Fan4stic was in production/post. I think there were rumors that Trank was super drugged out due to the stress, maybe someone remembers the details.
I'm upset with Top Gun 2 for saving Miles Teller's career.
>That should be our template, that’s what audiences want to see!
Gay
He's talked bout it (and Venom and Boba Fett) openly now
https://www.businessinsider.com/josh-trank-interview-capone-fantastic-four-2020-5
>Guerrasio: But have you seen "Venom" or "The Mandalorian"?
>Trank: No. I just never got around to seeing "Venom." But I am curious to watch it now because I made my own Tom Hardy movie. When it comes to "The Mandalorian" it's a little tricky. It's not bitterness it's just sad because that was a surreal experience. Two and a half years shuttling back and forth to San Francisco working at ILM and Lucasfilm and working on the Boba Fett movie, it was so cool.
THIS IS NOT SPAM YOU MACHINE
>I made my own Tom Hardy movie
movie was roughly made at parts, but Hardy is on a Bronson-tier level in it
The Capone movie?
>A sense of loss sank in during reshoots. The contention left Trank defeated, and his new goal — to appease the producers, who might incorporate as many chunks of his personal cut into the finished product as possible — went against his artistic tenets. “It was like being castrated,” he said of being on the set, which was overseen by Kinberg and producer Hutch Parker. “You’re standing there, and you’re basically watching producers blocking out scenes, five minutes ahead of when you get there, having [editors hired] by the studio deciding the sequence of shots that are going to construct whatever is going on, and what it is that they need. And then, because they know you’re being nice, they’ll sort of be nice to you by saying, ‘Well, does that sound good?’ You can say yes or no.” This time, Trank said yes. He wanted to keep his job.
https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/5/21246679/josh-trank-capone-interview-fantastic-four-chronicle
trank's career is so dead
The new fantastic four will make Tranks look like a kinopiece
>“The first Avengers movie had recently come out, and I kept saying, ‘That should be our template, that’s what audiences want to see!” Slater said. “And Josh just fricking hated every second of it.”
Trank was right all along
Unironically, casting a Black person to play a moronic hot-head with no empathy and the ability to set everything on fire was the correct choice.