The film bombed at the box office, Trank was subsequently kicked off a Star Wars anthology film, and now the Fantastic Four franchise is once again in limbo.
The studio was allegedly so dissatisfied with Josh Trank’s version of the film that they ordered alterations without his supervision, and there were allegations that Trank behaved erratically on set.
All of this reached a boiling point when just a day before Fantastic Four was released, and with the film having been savaged by critics, Trank took to Twitter to write, “A year ago I had a fantastic version of this.
Josh Trank’s attempted reboot of Marvel’s most beloved foursome was in trouble from the very get-go.