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Fantastic Four reboot-- Casting, Rumors, Pix, ect;

Just checked Josh Trank's IMDB page, no upcoming projects post Fantastic 4. His career is pretty much dead at this point.

How can one man blow it so hard?
He wouldn't be the first young director to be handed the keys to the kingdom and find out he can't handle it. At least he got further than Troy Duffy or some of the other hot up and comers before him.
 
A rather odd set of statements - many directors have multiple years between jobs - that nothing on IMDB means not a lot at present - get back to me in 2017.
 
Well, uh, at least Chronicle was good. He'll always have that.

Honestly, I didn't like it as much the second time around. It had novelty going for it, but I'm not sure how well it holds up once the novelty fades.


He wouldn't be the first young director to be handed the keys to the kingdom and find out he can't handle it.

I'm not so sure that's the issue. I've felt all along that the FF was just the wrong property for him. Maybe if he'd been given something that played more to his strengths, he would've done better. Then again, see my thoughts above about Chronicle.
 
Its a nonsense anyway based on a weird linear idea of

Make film >>>> make deal for next film>>> make film>>> make deal for next film.

He will have an agent who will be making deals before a single frame has been filmed on FF and people taking a gamble that it is the next big thing.
 
He lowers his price, makes crappier movies, then tv, then music videos, then adverts, then live theatre, and then finally life coaching.

The fall to the bottom is much slower than you would think.
 
Just checked Josh Trank's IMDB page, no upcoming projects post Fantastic 4. His career is pretty much dead at this point.

How can one man blow it so hard?
He wouldn't be the first young director to be handed the keys to the kingdom and find out he can't handle it.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...articularly-cruel-surreal-and-unfair-20150605

“I want to do something original after this because I’ve been living under public scrutiny, as you’ve seen, for the last four years of my life. And it’s not healthy for me right now in my life. I want to do something that’s below the radar,” he explained. “I have a great relationship with everyone at Lucasfilm and with [producer] Kari Hart. And they all understood it because this whole experience for me has been very psychologically hard.”

Could be that it was all too much too soon for him, or he just doesn't have what it takes to make it big. Either way, the impending mega-failure of Fantastic 4 doesn't bode well for him.
 
Maybe Americans are not the target audience?

Maybe in Japan the Fantastic Four will make a billion dollars because it's 2 dimensional fluff comparable to nonpornographic anime?

Bollywood's market is 8 times the size of Hollywood.

Imagine.

(Don't laugh.)

Imagine if Dr. Doom was from some tiny splinter country neighbouring Pakistan that might as well be Pakistan.

An all singing, all dancing Bollywoodified Doctor Doom.

The complexity of the hinges his armour would need to allow Victor to still do that expressive head shaking thing they do would be impressive.

Maybe next time?
 
Congratulations FOX, with the release of this new FF movie, you have extended your hold on the Fantastic Four movie rights for 7 more years. :(
 
He could always move onto directing tv shows. Getting more experience may help him doing movies again eventually.

Maybe studio movies are just not for him. Once he gets his personal life in order (based on the rumors) maybe his future really is about making small budget independent movies. Many directors still have rich careers making quality, literate, artistic movies without the aid of the big studios.
 
Well, uh, at least Chronicle was good. He'll always have that.

Honestly, I didn't like it as much the second time around. It had novelty going for it, but I'm not sure how well it holds up once the novelty fades.

Same. What I considered atmosphere in the first viewing, turned in to vapid narrative in the subsequent viewing.

Now on to F4. I'm morbidly curious to watch a train wreck. Hopefully Friday is a slow work day and I can catch a matinee.
 
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I'm surprised all these RT reviews have been coming out since yesterday. Isn't there an embargo for this movie that lasts until noon tomorrow?
 
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