Plainly speaking, the Fantastic Four reboot is a complete mess. After a promising start it gets gradually worse until the disjointed, haphazard final act is barely recognizable as the engaging sci-fi superhero movie it started out as. Director Josh Trank recently took to Twitter and suggested his original vision for the film was completely different, and the studio was to blame for how it turned out. Of course, Fox maintains it was Trank’s attitude and behaviour on set which caused the problems. Like most things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle – but the following report from Collider Movie Talk may help to shed some light on things. Here’s what John Campea had to say:
“I’ve got a source, fairly close to the production of this film, who had told me that the movie that Josh Trank and Fox had agreed on making included 3 really big action set pieces. That was all agreed upon, it was part of the flow of the movie. And a movie is like a puzzle, you have all the pieces in place. You start messing with pieces and suddenly the whole puzzle can look out of whack. And they had agreed upon this vision for a film. And days before production began, Fox came in and made him pull 3 main action sequences out of the film. I was also told, the ending of the film was not even Josh Trank’s. At some point they hijacked the editing bay from him. To the point that the editing of the film was done without him.”
Whether all of that is accurate or not, judging by the finished product it definitely makes sense anyway. Listen to Campea’s comments for yourselves at the link below. Have you seen Fantastic Four yet? What did you think?
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