Why The 2015 Fantastic Four Movie Flopped, According To The Screenwriter

One lovely memory I have to watch the 2015 “Fantastic Four” visit in theaters was the moment in the end. At one point, the screen states: “Making this movie and authorized distribution supported over 15,000 jobs.” This inspired a guy behind the theater to say loudly, “Well, at least something Good came from this movie! “

The comment continued to laugh at the laughter of the people in the theater, because we were all quite agreement: “Fantastic Four” was not good. It wasn’t a big Bland any movie that once again served as an example of the 20th century fox for not being able to use any beloved cartoons They had the rights. With both critics and ordinary viewers, “Fantastic Four” flopped so badly that no one was surprised at all when the studio never continued. The Franchise of the “Fantastic Four” movie was quiet again on the shelf, fans had to wait Upcoming MCU ruling Find out if the third time is charm.

Jeremy Slater, a film’s screenwriter, who continued to write to “Moon Knight” and “Godzilla X Kong: A,” seems to be without illusion about the film’s failure. Internal- Recent interviewSlater talked about what he thought went wrong in production. The main question? He wanted to make “The Avengers” a little too much. As he explained:

“[‘The Avengers’] Had just come out, either the same summer or before summer. I loved it. I thought Jos Whedon made it impossible with the movie and balanced all these shades. … I was like, ‘Look – the audience loves this movie. Ticket revenue does not lie. ‘I thought we could really do something like a real scale and some giants, fun settings. But don’t forget the movie secretly sauce, which is the relationship. … it was always a northern star. ‘Man if we could do what marvel [Studios] Doing right now, this is clearly what the audience wants to see in a cartoon movie. “

Slater explained that director Josh Trans had no “Avengers” as his northern star and that this “cut” between him and Slater was what condemned the project.

“Josh and I probably saw only different movies. I was more” avengers “guy and I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but he was more” Batman Begins “like an ultra-based, dark and granular guy,” Slater said. The result was a mixture of both worlds: in the movie Quippining and general weightlessness From a bad MCU movie, combined with a bad dc movie hyperrealistic approach of the zero-Sensse message. As Slater continued to explain:

“The comic book like” Avengers “that I was absorbed and loved all my life, he did not have these same touch points, so the film didn’t land for him in the way it landed for me. Another thing” Avengers “was a very expensive movie. Our budget continued to shrink. The project continued. “

Although Slater may not be happy with how his “Fantastic Four” manuscript turned out to be, he looks optimistic for a new “Fantastic Four” movie that will release in theaters on July 25. “I like they take a great creative swing,” he said of a new entry. It is a sharp opposite to the 2015 movie, which felt like it was constantly limited by a studio that tried to play it safely.

However, the most interesting part of Slater is that it looks like this new movie really utilizes galactus, one of the fantastic four the most interesting thugs of cartoons–

“I think they would get the galactus right. I wanted to make him big bad and there was an internal push. … I was excited to bring back the classic galactus and get it Jack Kirby design. It looked like it looked [the new film’s] Do it so I can’t expect to see her in real life. “