10 Directors Who Slammed Their Own Movies

Josh Trank's Fantastic Four is one of the most fascinating blockbuster failures in modern memory. Not because of the film itself, of course - which is terrible - but because of the drama that surrounded it.

Midway through production, it was reported that the movie was in trouble, with Fox executives mandating reshoots in order to fix what they perceived was a "mess". It was said that Trank had also misbehaved on-set, another reason why Fox eventually decided to take the movie off him, and significantly rework it.

Jump ahead to the film's horrendous reviews in August 2015, and a frustrated Trank decided to hop on Twitter, lamenting the loss of his "fantastic" original cut, while throwing Fox under the bus by implying that the theatrical version was poor:

"A year ago I had a fantastic version of this. And it would've received great reviews. You'll probably never see it. That's reality though."

Unsurprisingly, the director slamming his own movie on the eve of its release did little to help its prospects, and it bombed, in every possible sense of the word.

All sequel plans were scrapped, and Trank later doubled-down on his dissatisfaction by saying that he would "gladly" erase the movie from existence. Us too.