10 Overly-Optimistic Attempts To Launch A Movie Franchise
3. Fant4stic
Fant4stic Four 2, or would that be Fanta2tic (or Fant42tic?), was supposed to be released two weeks ago. Instead, a story broke the other day that the characters might be headed for a 'kid-friendly' reboot in the near future. It seems that Marvel's First Family are just a property that will get rebooted over and over again until somebody gets it right, just so Fox can hold on to the rights.
Which is a terrifying prospect, given how much this movie sucks. Josh Trank was clearly in way over his head, and ended up getting kicked off the project entirely before disowning the film completely. Clearly hacked together in the editing suite the flat acting, ropey CGI, obvious reshoot wigs and sheer misery of it all virtually confirm rumors of an unhappy set.
Fox hoped that a young cast and crew with a fresh take on the material would launch a money-spinning franchise, but all they got in the end was a production that will live on only in infamy.
Unsurprisingly, the movie failed to catch on with audiences and earned just $168 million against a budget of $120 million, and both nuked the latest attempt to turn the Fantastic Four into a viable franchise and landed Josh Trank in director's jail in the process.