10 Disastrous Movies That Actors And Directors Still Haven't Recovered From

6. Josh Trank - Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four Josh Trank
20th Century Fox

Following the breakout success of his debut feature Chronicle, Josh Trank looked to be cinema's newest wunderkind, and was fielding offers from almost the second his found-footage superhero movie landed in theaters.

Despite having no interest in either the source material or the wider comic book genre in general, he nonetheless decided to tackle the Fantastic Four reboot, which went so spectacularly wrong that it spawned one of the worst superhero movies ever, one of the biggest box office bombs in recent history and looked for a while that it might have ruined his entire career.

Tales of Trank's erratic on-set behavior and frequent disagreements with both his cast and the studio saw him fired from Star Wars, and only recently has he attempted to escape from Director's Jail. Capone might boast yet another transformative and oddly-accented Tom Hardy performance, but the general consensus is that the movie itself is more than a little underwhelming, and the filmmaker's potential resurgence is still far from a sure thing.

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