9 Directors Who Only Made One Good Movie

Another debut success story, Chronicle released in 2012 as a critical and commercial triumph. Making $126.6 million at the box office with a budget of only $12 million, audiences couldn't get enough of Trank's first movie. Through a found-footage lens, it explored the idea of teenagers acquiring and slowly becoming corrupted by superpowers. It garnered praise for its smart upheaval of superhero conventions and well-developed characters.

It comes as no surprise that Marvel saw the potential in this first-time director and immediately snapped him up to work on 2015's Fantastic Four. Sadly, this was a move that didn't pay off for anybody. Adopting the same grim tone of his previous movie, Fantastic Four proved a dull, humourless and painfully slow outing that missed the inventiveness seen in Chronicle.

Trank did see slightly more success with his third movie, Capone, an Al Capone biopic led by Tom Hardy. 'Slightly' being the key word, as while it wasn't as egregious as his attempt to enter the MCU, audiences still noted a lack of any real emotional hook and glacial pace. Unfortunately, it would appear that a promising career kickstarted by a brilliantly inventive superhero movie was derailed by a deliriously sterile one.