Fantastic Four Josh Trank deserved honest failure

By Drewsch
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It’s hard to find many people who are willing to talk dearly about Fantastic Four (2015). Directed and co-written by Josh Trank, this one-and-making trip with Marvel’s first family is remembered so little more than punch these days. It was a disgraceful failure that is supposed to irrelevance, especially after the success of the MCU The Four Fantastic: First Steps.

So, I suppose I have to be one of the only idiots out here arguing for it. But, I don’t even do that. Instead, I recognize that Josh Trank Fantastic Four He was never going to go over with audiences, but the existing version is perverse of what the film wanted to be.

Cowardly creative changes

Josh obviously tran Fantastic Four want to take the Wonders A comic book concept and filtered through a very bold and bold genre reef: horror film. Watching the original trailer suggests more in the original desire of co-writer Jeremy Slater and Trank to use the Fantastic Four in a “scientific examination has gone too far” The fly or Changed states.

Unfortunately, the cool feet studio with this took it right, and began to try to “repair” the film with re -home and cuts. Leave (behind) Fantastic Four Like a broken mess with large tonal shifts and weak characters. Of most accounts, Josh Trank had no good relationship with the studio after they still changed the film.

To be honest, I’m on his side. The studio wanted Fantastic Four to take a dark, severe path after seeing the huge success of Nolan’s gracious Batman. They stacked that horse and supported Josh Trank’s vision, but then decided to cling their hungry fingers in the pie because they feared it was too hot.

Great failure for the correct reasons

I wish we could see what Josh Trank’s true version is Fantastic Four It would have been, because the pieces that remain in the final mangled version of the film are things I really like. I have no accusation to any comic book property as long as the taking you think feels excited and interesting on its own. So when Fantastic Four have DOCT DOOM riff on Scanner By exploding some heads in Delekinetic? I’m here for it!

But, as I said, I know that that kind of taking with large, dear property like the Fantastic Four is always going to fail to a wide audience. Josh Trank had a cool iteration to someone like me who loves horror movies, David CronenbergAnd he doesn’t care about the Fantastic Four. That’s more specialized than the studio wanted, so they raced the project in an erroneous attempt to put wings on a pig.

So I would like Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four was the version he wanted to be, releasing in theaters in that form, still rejected by the mainstream, but had a much better chance of being re -evaluated and embraced over time. That will never happen because the studio has left us with a mislamed patchwork of a panic job that no one feels strong enough about it.

It may not be a popular view, but Fantastic Four and David Ayer Suicide Squad deserved that the committed characters they were going to be. At least their perceived failures would be honest.