Whether you believe it or not, the Director’s cut of the Fantastic Four (2015) is not fully existing. In the early 2000s, two Fantastic Four films weren’t blocked buster. Since then, the property was rebooted and Director Josh Trank was given the charge as decided by Fox. When this charge was given to Josh Trank, he was only one film old. Chronicle wad the only film directed by him. And it was because of this movie Trank was on the Top list of most of the studio’s favorite lists.
But it went all opposite with Trank’s Fantastic Four and some issues behind the scenes surfaced. And finally, when the film got released, everyone said severely critical reviews and it was just a disappointment. Trank’s Fantastic four could only make a business worth $167.8 million globally.
Did Fantastic Four 2020 go well with the Audience?
Before the release of Fantastic Four, Trank tweeted “A year ago I had a fantastic version of this… You’ll probably never see it.”
Fantastic Four like any other Superhero megahit undertook many reshoots and it ended up in eliminating all the original vision that Trank had. Many believed that his tweet was regarding the Director’s cut of the film. But later it was found out that it wasn’t the case though.
Trank on his verion of Fantastic Four 2020
Trank in a recent interview with Polygon told about his experience operating on Fantastic Four 2020. He mentioned in the interview that Trank had to cut his version of the movie for a deal he had with Fox and at the same time studio had eliminated some of its version and then both the versions were screened to be tested by audiences. But this never happened and Trank edited his cut himself. It’s still not clear as to where the Cut went. After Trank’s pre-release tweet, Polygon said “He went out swinging to defend a ‘fantastic version of Fantastic Four’ — a version of the movie that no one, including Trank, can really say existed.“
This falls in place with a review that Trank wrote for Fantastic Four 2020 as he said “Did I make that movie [the cast] deserved to be in? To be honest? I can’t tell.”
It’s not new for the director’s cut to be called out by fans. And it will only increase shortly as well as there is an increase in studio influence reports. For example, for the release of the J.J. Abrams Cut of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, so many fans had to say so much about it only to realize later that no such thing that they said ever existed. The only version of Fantastic Four that exists is the Trank’s Theatrical version.
