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13 May

Josh Trank Talks Where Fantastic Four Went Wrong

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In 2015, 20th Century Fox released Fantastic Four, allegedly both a reboot and a brand new take on the popular Marvel Comics superhero team that, back in 1961, launched the modern Marvel Universe as we know it and changed the course of pop culture history. Despite the Four’s importance and success on the page, the property had yet to land a definitive screen incarnation despite several attempts. The 2015 film was not necessarily meant to be that version: instead, it was conceived and positioned as a dark, almost horror-like approach to the material — not unprecedented but also not quite…
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12 May

How Josh Trank and Tom Hardy Brought Capone to Life

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Capone is the last movie you’d ever brand as a “traditional gangster pic.” While the infamous mobster’s seven-year reign of terror as head of the Chicago rackets in the 1920s has been chronicled in movies like The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and The Untouchables (1987), the final stages of Capone’s life — addled by dementia and neurosyphilis at his Palm Island, Florida estate after his release from prison — have been explored less than his earlier, more colorful exploits. Enter Josh Trank. After bursting onto the Hollywood radar in 2012 with his found-footage deconstruction of superhero and comic book…
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06 May

Josh Trank Slept With Gun by Bed After Fantastic Four Death Threats

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Josh Trank says that he was so deeply paranoid during the making of Fox’s comic book reboot flop Fantastic Four that he slept with a gun on his nightstand. In an explosive new interview with Polygon – conducted over four years and published in the week before his new movie Capone hits VOD – Trank has described the nature of his work on the 2015 movie, which suffered from significant studio interference, and the volatile relationship he had with Fantastic Four‘s co-screenwriter, Jeremy Slater, who had seen the success of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers preceding their attempt at the Marvel…
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