This comment follows a couple of weeks after Josh Trank responded “hold my beer” to a tweet declaring that no superhero movie fails.
In any case, Trank appears to have made peace with Fantastic Four and doesn’t have a problem making fun of himself for it, though it doesn’t sound like we should expect more self-deprecating comments from him anytime soon.
It is true that for the most part nowadays, superhero movies are usually at least commercially successful, with a good portion of them also doing well among critics.
Fantastic Four was not one of those movies, and while much of the blame was placed at Trank’s feet for its poor performance, the director wrote in a tweet deleted shortly thereafter that the final cut of the movie was not the one he’d planned on giving to audiences, indicating studio interference.