Josh Trank Justifies Fantastic Four

With Fantastic Four getting a colonic irrigation by critics, the blaming game begins, and first the out of the gate is the director. Hours ago, Trank sent out a tweet essentially excusing himself from any wrong doing saying that a year ago he had a version of the film that was great and would have been received well by critics. Of course the message has since be deleted, presumably at the studio's request.

True or not, Trank's comments don't paint the studio in a good light, and it raises the question as to whether he had the film taken away from him or not, and if so, was it justifiable? Earlier rumors pin the fault on the director, who apparently was erratic and indecisive on set, but I recently heard (just a rumor) that Fox came in mid-production and cut a few action set pieces because of budget concerns.

Whatever the case may be, washing dirty laundry in public is never a good thing regardless of who is right and who is wrong. Trank's may very well be right but the moment he starts making public commentaries on how HIS version of the film was the best one, he comes out looking like as a resentful teenager who just got dumped by his girlfriend and decided that the best course of action was to go on social media and bad-mouth her.

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