Josh Trank Recalls Secrecy Surrounding BOBA FETT And His Experience Working With Lucasfilm - EXCLUSIVE

Josh Trank Recalls Secrecy Surrounding BOBA FETT And His Experience Working With Lucasfilm - EXCLUSIVE

Josh Trank was once being lined up to direct a Boba Fett movie for Lucasfilm, and he's now talked to us about the intense secrecy surrounding the project and what it was like briefly working at the studio.

By JoshWilding - May 07, 2020 12:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars

Thanks to a fascinating profile over at Polygon, we now know a lot more about what Josh Trank went through with Fantastic Four. At the time, many of us were too wrapped up in the scandalous claims made about his work on the film to appreciate that he was a young filmmaker put in an unenviable spot by a studio system that's difficult for even the most experienced director to navigate.

It's clear that there was more to the story than meets the eye and, to put it bluntly, he was clearly treated terribly by Fox and prevented from making the film he wanted. The fallout from that was, of course, significant, and it led to him walking away from a Boba Fett movie at Lucasfilm.

That's all in the past now, though, and Trank is currently doing the rounds to promote his new film Capone starring Tom Hardy (which will be available on VOD on Tuesday, May 12). However, when we recently caught up with the filmmaker to discuss that movie, we had to ask what he had planned for the iconic bounty hunter and, unfortunately, NDAs mean he can't say much! 

"The simple answer is, I signed so many NDAs that there would be no possible way I could discuss that in a responsible manner," Trank admits. "What I would say is that as a filmmaker, why I'm so excited to be talking about [Capone] and why I'm so excited about everything going forward as opposed to where I was when I was working on Boba Fett and Fantastic Four and all of these other extremely high profile, very secretive projects, is the fact that I'm not a very secretive person by nature, and when you're working on those kinds of movies, you're not allowed to talk about anything you're doing."

"You also know that everybody who loves these movies and loves what you love, they want to know about what's going on and you want to talk about it so desperately because you want to share that with everybody and you don't want to close yourself off from the community of fandom that you relate to. There's no way I can talk about any of that stuff, except that it was something that obviously I was so excited about," he continues.

However, the director could talk a little about what it was like for him to be part of that Lucasfilm machine, even if it was only for a brief time.

"The fact that all of the people at Lucasfilm I had the honour to work with for a little over two years are really close friends of mine to this day. We had so much fun together. The people who work up there in San Francisco are just the most creative, cool people I had ever gotten to work with before I started working on Fonzo [Capone's original title]."

It's a shame to think that we'll never learn more about Trank's ideas for Boba Fett, but still fascinating to hear what it was like to be part of a Star Wars movie.

Next week, we'll have more highlights from our interview, focusing on why Hardy was the right choice to play Al Capone and the filmmaker's thoughts on potentially writing, directing and editing all of his future projects after Fantastic Four.

You'll also be able to read our review on Monday, and we'll have some comments for you on his ideas for Venom later today as well. In the meantime, we want to extend a huge thank you to Josh for taking the time to talk to us, and you can check out the trailer for Capone in the player below:
 


 
Once a ruthless businessman and bootlegger who ruled Chicago with an iron fist, Alfonse Capone was the most infamous and feared gangster of American lore. At the age of 47, following nearly a decade of imprisonment, dementia rots Alfonse’s mind and his past becomes present. Harrowing memories of his violent and brutal origins melt into his waking life. As he spends his final year surrounded by family with the FBI lying in wait, this ailing patriarch struggles to place the memory of the location of millions of dollars he hid away on his property.
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GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/7/2020, 12:16 PM
"I'm not a very secretive person"

We've all noticed this the last few days
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 5/7/2020, 12:21 PM
You definitely get that sour taste of being too secretive that just oozes over the top self importance sometimes.

For example take the news this past week that take away Taika Waititi is going to direct a Star Wars movie.

And that was it. It’s like...”so what.” Great you told us who the director is. Boring.

You know what the plot. you could come up with a synopsis All be it brief and release that.

It just creates the optics that you’re super over important when really you’re a nonessential business.

Come on now.

GreedoSarducci
GreedoSarducci - 5/7/2020, 5:25 PM
@IronGenesis - well, it was May The Fourth Be With You Day, so announcing a new director for a new film is to be expected. And there's no way they're gonna give us any story details this far in advance. Hell, with the current situation, who knows when it'll even happen?
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 5/7/2020, 5:33 PM
@GreedoSarducci - I just feel you can’t craft a three sentence tease synopsis is kind of joke and make your film look way more important than it really is
tmp3
tmp3 - 5/7/2020, 12:22 PM
He seems to love Star Wars, he got his start in Hollywood thanks to a Star Wars youtube fan film, but he didn't give a shit about the Fantastic Four so it's pretty ironic that the latter project got him off the former.
TheDarkPassenger
TheDarkPassenger - 5/7/2020, 12:22 PM
I mean...I can respect that, despite this guys attitude sometimes. That level of secrecy and discretion isn't for everyone.
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 5/7/2020, 12:26 PM
This got to be like the 10th article already
tmp3
tmp3 - 5/7/2020, 12:30 PM
@WakandanQueen - This is an exclusive though, so it justifies its existence unlike the other 9
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 5/7/2020, 12:45 PM
@WakandanQueen - Trank the new Snyder where Josh micro-analyses every word!
FleischerSupes
FleischerSupes - 5/7/2020, 12:34 PM
Josh Tranq

Floke
Floke - 5/7/2020, 10:06 PM
@FleischerSupes - Josh Trank and Hank the Tank?

Floke
Floke - 5/7/2020, 10:06 PM
Frank.. dammit..
ManDeth
ManDeth - 5/7/2020, 12:36 PM
Good trailer. I hate mob movies though.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/7/2020, 12:50 PM
@ManDeth - I enjoy them but a lot of them do hit the same beats.

Also, we've covered a lot of the mount rushmore mobsters already movie wise lol
tmp3
tmp3 - 5/7/2020, 12:50 PM
@BlackBeltJones - Well, Capone shits his bed in this movie. That's... different.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 5/7/2020, 3:00 PM
@tmp3 - gotta admit it makes even wanna watch it less
Goldboink
Goldboink - 5/7/2020, 1:07 PM
Never understood the fascinaiton with Boba Fett. I think it's time to start creating new characters and new sagas. That's why the Mandalorian is so awesome. Untilled ground. They have humped the corpse of the Skywalkers and related characters for years now. No Palapatine, no Darth Maul, none of that.
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 5/7/2020, 1:20 PM
@Goldboink - what if you had the same exact narrative in the mandalorian...but it was titled Boba Fett...so you think you would like it more or less?
Goldboink
Goldboink - 5/7/2020, 1:34 PM
@IronGenesis -
Due to the history of the character I would probably like it less. The mystery behind he character and the exporation of new ground is what appeals to me. Din Djarin is an orphan who was rescued by the Mandalorians and Boba Fett is a clone of Django Fett who seemed to spend a lot of time without his helmet and Boba was not trained as a Mandalorian as far as we know.
Goldboink
Goldboink - 5/7/2020, 1:36 PM
@TheJustinHammer -
Never read the comics so that may explain a lot. Boba Fett has a history though so unless the story included a turn from the dark side as it were I don't think I would be into it.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 5/7/2020, 3:04 PM
Why is it that when I think Trank says sonething sensible, he still strikes me as a douche? Anyway, I dont think I would've wanted to see a Boba Fett movie
Floke
Floke - 5/7/2020, 10:01 PM
"It's a shame to think that we'll never learn more about Trank's ideas for Boba Fett"

Well... We did get to learn more about his ideas for Fant4stic so I'm kind of glad we didn't get to see what he would have done with poor Boba.
Timerider84
Timerider84 - 5/8/2020, 3:15 AM
Didn't they film a teaser that was supposed to play at Celebration?
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