Marvel Braces For a Real Box Office Disaster with the “Fantastic Four”

There are many things wrong with Fantastic Four, a failed reboot by Josh Trank, but the fatal flaw is that it squanders more time fashioning these familiar Marvel Comics heroes than it does motivating them. Given all the rumours around the film it’s probably best we take this with a pinch of salt.

The superhero blockbuster has been released to scathing reviews from critics, but its director is insistent it’s not completely his fault, claiming he had a “fantastic version” of the movie in mind.

“Fantastic Four” now has a 4.1 rating on IMDB and a 10 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. This is another case of a studio hiring a director who made only one interesting movie and then throwing them in the deep end of the pool where they drown.

He was handed the keys to important marvel property The Fantastic Four after showing he could make an intriguing, low-budget take on the superhero genre in Chronicle, but production was anything but smooth.

FANTASTIC FOUR focuses on the human drama of relatable characters that at first don’t perceive their new physical abilities as advantages, but as daunting, if not impossible, challenges.  “An insider”  describes the director’s reported behavior as “erratic” and at times “very isolated”.

And in the middle of all this, he was fired by Lucasfilm and Disney from directing a Star Wars Anthology movie. He later explained his departure, saying that he needed a break from high-profile movies. That’s right. A gifted young cast (Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Michael B. Jordan) has been hired to freshen the plot, like an old whore trying to pass as jailbait.