Fantastic Four: More details emerge from behind the scenes, "it was chaos" · 9:02pm Aug 12th, 2015
The saga continues in regards to the utterly disastrous Fantastic Four.
New details have come to life, and well, I'll let the article speak for itself:
According to sources speaking to the trade, the studio was "afraid of losing the rights so they pressed forward and didn’t surround [Trank] with help or fire him. They buried their heads in the sand,” and that the project was “ill-conceived, made for the wrong reasons and there was no vision behind the property.”
On the studio side, they apparently thought about letting Trank go from the movie before cameras rolled, but were left in a difficult position once shooting began and saw how things were turning out. “How do you ask someone to take over half of a movie shot by someone else?” a source said. “You either hire somebody desperate for work or you [start over], write off pretty much the whole budget and lose the cast.”
Meanwhile on Trank's end, on top of the rumors of the damage he made to a rental property surfacing again, it would appear that as the pressure mounted, the more he became insular.
“He holed up in a tent and cut himself off from everybody,” a source told THR, while another said, “He built a black tent around his monitor. He was extremely withdrawn.”
And as for that finale which was shot during reshoots slapped on by the studio, "It was chaos," with Trank effectively "neutralized by a committee." It's even unclear who exactly was involved — Drew Goddard and others may have been roped in to try and save the movie, but nothing is clear — it was so rushed and cobbled together, the sequence had to rely heavily on body doubles.
Like...wow
One question. I know that the movie is bad. Like "9%-Rotten-Tomatoes" bad. I even heard the word "lifeless" being used to describe it. But, when you know that and still watch it, can you laugh at how bad it is, like with The Room, Steel, or Wicker Man?
I hope one day someone makes a documentary about the making of this movie and it becomes a success.
3315355 Agreed.
Whoa.....I thought Warner Bros. was bad at handling things.
3315355 Ditto.
3315192 I haven't seen the film yet, but by all accounts, its the "So Bad, It's Horrible" kind of bad.
IE the bad that makes you sad to watch it
3315355 it would be really interesting
This is what I like to imagine working on that movie was like:
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From the multiple reviews I have watched, it is not even something you could go to to enjoy for how bad it is. The only circumstances I have heard people say it might be enjoyable to watch would be with a lot of friends and a lot of alcohol, and even then you'd have to throw in a good movie or a so-bad-it's-good movie to make up for such a horrible sit. It is that bad.
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I think Wicker Man was exponentially better compared to Fantastic Four. I can't laugh at this movie. Compared to this, I'd laugh at Michel Bay's Ninja Turtles before I'd laugh at Fantastic 4. And that movie was pretty freakin' bad. But at least in Wicker Man, we got to see Nick Cage dress up like a bear a punch a chick in the face. And let's not forget THE BEES. And I did enjoy the elevator scene in Ninja Turtles. And I love Shredder ' s armor. That was pretty cool.
I... I don't know what to say... I mean, I know some films can have behind the scenes issues (heck, I've heard rumors that Ant-Man had a few issues behind the scenes), but this... Like you said, the article speaks for itself.