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Josh Trank was nearly fired before Fantastic Four’s production

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As if the movie wasn’t getting enough bad press, stories of Fantastic Four‘s troubled production is starting to hit news outlets. One tidbit to come from The Hollywood Reporter’s great write-up, is that director Josh Trank was nearly fired from the movie prior to production starting. “Another source says the notion of firing Trank came […]

Fantastic Four screenwriter says there’s not much of his script in the final movie

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The bad press for Fantastic Four rolls in as many more stories about the film’s troubled production come to light. Not only have we found out that Josh Trank was nearly fired just before filming was about to begin, but there was the reveal that the final act of the movie was re-shot by various […]

Fantastic Four limps to $100 million worldwide after second weekend

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Well, if there was still any doubt after last weekend’s miserable box office debut, it’s now official: 20th Century Fox’s superhero reboot Fantastic Four has tanked hard, with the Josh Trank-directed film limping to a worldwide gross of $102 million by close of play on its second weekend. In the States, the film dropped to […]

Original version of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four had Galactus, Mole Man, Herbie the Robot, the Fantasticar and Doctor Doom as a Latverian dictator

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Like Tim Burton’s Superman Lives or James Cameron’s Spider-Man, we will never see the true version of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four. Among the many public problems the film has had in the last couple of weeks (see here, here, here, here, here and here), it was revealed by screenwriter Jeremy Slater that not much of his script was […]

Fantastic Four earns lowest ever CinemaScore for a studio superhero movie

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The bad news just keeps rolling in for Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four. The film has had terrible reviews (read ours here and here), it’s director has shamed the movie publicly, Fox have pointed the finger of blame at him (and apparently locked him out of editing the film), it’s bombed at the box office and […]

Details on a deleted action sequence from Fantastic Four featuring The Thing

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It’s safe to say that 20th Century Fox’s reboot of Fantastic Four is the summer’s highest profile casualty. Dying a horrible death across the globe at the box office, early word before the film was released was that it was a production that was filled with problems, many of which may well be true given […]

Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Five and Phase Six release dates delayed

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Disney has announced quite a shuffle in release dates for several of its films, but most notably the slate of Phase 5 and 6 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Among the new release dates only Deadpool 3 has been moved forward in its release while most have been delayed by a few months, though the MCU’s […]

Robert Downey Jr. was almost cast as Doctor Doom in 2005’s Fantastic Four

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Did you know we almost saw Robert Downey Jr. as a very different but equally iconic Marvel character? During a recent 15-year celebration of 2008’s Iron Man, producer Kevin Feige, and filmmaker Jon Favreau discussed the legacy that film created and gave fans insight into a very different MCU. Feige goes on to sing the […]

Rumored Fantastic Four cast includes Adam Driver, Margot Robbie, and Daveed Diggs

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The Fantastic Four are heading to the MCU soon, but we still don’t know who will play the iconic team. That is until now… Scoopers are all abuzz with some casting rumors as we head near production. It seems like Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios have found their Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and […]

Marvel Studios begins retooling planned slate: Fantastic Four movie gets new writer

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Kevin Feige never wants to face the issues he faced with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania again, and he’ll make sure Marvel Studios does anything to avoid that. As the most recent MCU entry fizzled at the box office and received the studio’s second-ever Rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes, we see the usually carefree studio […]