10 Films That Suffered In The Editing Room

It's incredible to think that at one point fans were unapologetically excited about the prospect of another impending attempt to bring Marvel's first family, The Fantastic Four, to the big screen.

However, if rumours of Fox locking director Josh Trank out of the editing room are to believed, there's little wonder as to why the eventual release of Fan4stic was met with such confusion and overwhelming disappointment.

Epic shots from the film's trailers - which lured fans into the cinema in the first place - were dropped from the finished feature and the film's tone seemed to change on a scene to scene basis, going from an indie character driven piece to an attempt at a 12A slasher horror flick at alarming speed. Also, the decision to wait until over half of the film had passed to finally gift the titular characters their powers, led to the film feeling tired before the heroes even had a chance to properly strut their stuff.

Fox clearly weren't in the mood to entertain Trank's sole vision of the project and in doing so birthed a movie that suffered from trying to be too many things at once.

Trank did state that he had a 'fantastic version' of the film a year before its release in 2015, but confessed that we'd 'probably never see it.'

It's been an overriding theme of this list, but perhaps if the studio would have allowed their director to just do their actual job, this film could have been a little more Fantastic than Fan4stic.