Fantastic Four is not a good movie and there’s absolutely no denying that, but does Josh Trank really deserve all this flak and backlash? He’s the director so he certainly needs to be held accountable to a degree, but it also wouldn’t be fair for Fantastic Four to ruin his career and after all that’s transpired over the past year, I fear that’s where things are heading.

HOW DID THINGS GET SO BAD?

When news broke that Trank scored the Fantastic Four gig, I was absolutely thrilled. Not only had he just wowed the world with a quality first feature that hit it big with critics and at the box office, but that first feature just happened to be a low budget superhero movie. Why wouldn’t Fox want him to helm a Fantastic Four reboot? As screenwriter Max Landis pointed out in tweets regarding the whole Fantastic Four debacle, the stars aligned for Chronicle, which rarely ever happens, but even if everything coming together was a total fluke, the movie still proved that Trank knows exactly how to deliver a thoughtful, riveting and highly unique narrative in an especially engaging manner.

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