Last month just before the first trailer for Fantastic Four came out,
director Josh Trank revealed that he always viewed the Fantastic Four more like
a Cronenberg science-fiction story where something horrible happens to the
characters bodies, muck like The Fly or other of Cronenberg's earlier works.
Now, while on a phone interview with Collider, Cronenberg was asked what he
thought of his non-studio work influencing major studio franchises,
particularly Superhero films, of which he isn't very fond off.
It’s fine. Once you’ve contributed your voice to the cinematic
conversation, it’s out there and it’s up for grabs, absolutely. So I don’t
complain. In fact, I take it as a compliment.
The director was also quick to point out that this isn't the first time
this has happened, and compared the similarities between Shivers (1975), and
Alien (1979).
As far back as Alien, for example, which totally ripped off things
from my movie Shivers - Shivers featured a parasite that
lives in your body, bursts out of your chests, jumps onto your face, and jumps
down your mouth, and suddenly you see this in a studio film, which was hugely
successful, Alien. The writer of the script, Dan O’Bannon, had seen Shivers,
we know that he had seen my movie and, shall we say, appropriated it. So this
is not new stuff for me.
Finally, Cronenberg praised Trank's openness on using some Cronenbergian elements in the upcoming Fantastic Four.
When you come up with
something original and it really strikes a chord in people, it’s going to
imitated, it’s going to be appropriated, and it’s actually kind of nice when
someone just flat out admits it. That’s actually pretty good. Not everybody
does.
Fantastic Four opens
on August 7, 2015, while Cronenberg next project titled
Maps to the Stars hits theaters, iTunes, and VOD on February 27th.
Source - Collider
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