The director of 2015's Fantastic Four reboot is fully away how terrible his movie was. Taking to film site Letterbox, Josh Trank took the 2015 film to task after it was slated by critics and flopped at the box office. But, at least he can laugh at it now.
"I was expecting it to be much worse than it was," Josh wrote, going on to reference a different cut of the movie that he'd made which didn't make it to screens.
"Everyone in the film is a great actor, and overall there is a movie in there, somewhere. And that cast deserves to be in THAT movie. Everyone who worked on Fant4stic clearly wanted to be making THAT movie. But.... ultimately... It wasn't.
"Did I make that movie they deserved to be in? To be honest? I can't tell.
"What I can tell is there are TWO different movies in one movie competing to be that movie."
He added: "I was 29 years old, making my 2nd film, in a situation more complicated than anything a 2nd time filmmaker should've walked into.
"That said... I don't regret any of it. It's a part of me."
Now that the rights to the characters have changed hands, the Fantastic Four will be coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe before too long, and there are rumours that Ant-Man director Peyton Reed will be involved in the film – something Trank fully supports.
"I just hope Peyton Reed makes the next Fantastic Four and crushes it," he added. "And that I get a cameo."
Like this article? Sign up to our newsletter to get more delivered straight to your inbox
