Inside Josh Trank’s Director’s Cut of Fantastic Four

Taking a look at Josh Trank's original cut of Fantastic Four (2015).

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
0:00 Intro
0:32 Rebooting Fantastic Four
1:05 Hiring Josh Trank
1:36 Screenwriter Jeremy Slater
3:10 Slater’s Version
4:59 Black Sue Storm
6:02 Miles Teller
6:31 A Troubled Production
7:55 Reshoots
9:35 Fantasticar and HERBIE
10:02 The Thing Airdropped
10:38 Mole Man
11:13 Dr. Doom
12:33 It's Clobberin' Time
12:58 Johnny Storm
12:15 Planet Zero
13:52 Trank's Delusional E-mail
14:14 X-Men Vs. Fantastic Four
14:45 Boba Fett
15:07 Release the Trank Cut

#fantasticfour

[NYOlly]

Honestly, Trank's idea of a body horror Cronenberg-style superhero film would be really interesting, but Slater was the right guy to draft a Fantastic Four screenplay

[pixelbomb]

It's really funny that Trank correctly identified the correct writer in Slater, but couldn't identify that he wasn't the right director.

[andmicbro]

So basically Slater was the right guy to write it, but Trank was the exact wrong person to direct and hand over creative control to.

[roberttreacy]

Fantastic Four (2015) is one of those movies in which its behind the scenes story is more interesting than the movie itself.

[ravager]

The Incredibles will always be the best Fantastic Four movie (for now).

[TanmanC]

I feel like one thing people forget is while yes the Dark Knight Trilogy has darker themes, those movies have a good amount of humor and personality- I feel like a lot of directors just say the darker themes and did not see the humor and personality in those films

[Omar-wqdz]

Considering the state of the MCU now, if that F4 movie doesn’t deliver, then the IP is officially cursed in the movie format

[peterramirez]

I can understand keeping a real world feel to it, but that doesn’t mean it has to be gloomy or dark. You can still make a bright movie and make it relatable

[ImpulseKidEntertainment]

"While the Snyder Cut movement was an incredible thing, it's also something that doesn't need to happen for every movie that suffers from studio interference, as sometimes movie studios have no choice but to step in" - Wiser words have never been spoken.

[DinoDave]

Everything about this film's conception was doomed from the get-go. Making it dark and gritty, taking inspiration from Cronenberg, only kickstarting it just to maintain film rights. Nothing about it said anyone's hearts were in the right place.

In regards to Jeremy Slater's original treatment, it might not have been that good, but at least it sounded more interesting and entertaining than what we got.

[dangerchef]

Trank sounds like a nightmare. Why do the studios hire people who have contempt for the source material? It seems to happen often and usually results in a poor adaptation.

[Scotty-uxwx]

I'm honestly amazed Hollywood could never understand that Batman was appropriate for a dark and gritty film but other superhero franchises were not. You can have variety and do some dark and some light depending on the source material.

[Polar_Bear_Ron]

Honestly that script with Annihilus and Mole Man sounds fucking awesome. Just a shame this isn’t the universe that movie was made in.

[RedBeard]

Awesome video! This really opened my eyes to Josh Trank. I was aware about how the fox studio had heavy involvement in the film, but I had no idea about his behavior on the project. Guess this explains why he hasn’t done any big movies in while.

[ainanomena]

When whe movie began by presenting the mindset of a young Reed Richards, I thought I was in for a great movie. And that impression was enforced with the prototype scene in the basement. Then everything went south pretty quickly.

The team didn't felt like a family, the movie was esthetically so dark, a lot of the story took place inside the same facility or whatever, there was a whole 5 year time jump in between that wasn't as impactful as it should have and Victor turned into a villain simply because he has to.

This movie is like a nice mug that they broke and repaired using glue, with some pieces either missing or replaced, and no idea of what made it great initially.

[reservationatdorsias]

Goddamn, the industry shat out Trank as quickly as it welcomed him.

[safebox]

I know people don't like the portal thing from this film, but it's not completely out of nowhere.
It's more based on the Ultimate universe's Fantastic Four, where they got their powers via dimensional travel instead of space travel.

[dustingmyguitars]

I remember seeing the trailers for this and thinking it looked awful. Seems like the studio and director share the blame on this one. Being caught off guard by the tone of the film is entirely on the studio for not monitoring more closely though

[qweqqweq]

man, what a nightmare. I can just imagine having to deal with all those problems, both as trank, and the other people trying to cope with all that craziness.

[shainewhite]

This movie had a hellish production from start to finish.