3. Peyton Reed - Fantastic Four
Peyton Reed directed Ant-Man, the Marvel Studios movie that came out earlier this year. This wasnt the first time he had been involved with a comic book movie project, though. He was for quite a while attached to the movie that became Tim Storys 2005 Fantastic Four film. "I went in, got the movie and I developed it for the better part of a year with three different sets of writers," he recently explained to
Yahoo. However, "it became clear after a while that Fox had a very different movie in mind and they were also chasing a release date, so we ended up parting company. I felt like I couldn't make the movie I wanted to make in that environment. They wanted to pitch it much younger than I wanted to, and I always felt like they were treating those characters like B-level characters. I never felt like they understood the real strength of that property." With Fox and Reed remaining professional, its never been fully clarified whether Reed was sacked or if he chose to walk away. Either way, it doesnt sound like the happiest working environment.