10 Directors Who Survived Huge Movie Failures

10. Josh Trank (Fantastic Four)

2015 was not a good year for young Josh Trank. His highly-anticipated Fantastic Four reboot bombed spectacularly, losing tens of millions of dollars for 20th Century Fox and earning one of the worst Rotten Tomatoes scores of the entire year.

But that wasn't the only piece of bad news for the filmmaker. Earlier in the year, it was announced that he would be leaving the production of an upcoming Star Wars spinoff, and while Trank said that his departure was amicable, follow-up reports indicated that his erratic behaviour on the set of Fantastic Four had led to Lucasfilm firing him.

Star Wars aside, it was the failure of the superhero blockbuster that seemingly tanked his mainstream career. Trank, reportedly, was wildly out of control on the film's set, and apparently caused around $100,000 worth of damage to a rented home. On the night before the movie opened, he also published a tweet essentially disowning the film, displaying a lack of professionalism that didn't help his reputation.

Four years later and Trank is by no means back to the heights of Marvel and Star Wars, but his upcoming film - Fonzo, starring Tom Hardy - is generating a lot of early buzz, fantastic news for a filmmaker who very nearly ended his career in the span of a few short months.