Most Pointless Remake, Reboot Or Adaptation - Fantastic Four
While the superhero movie continues to be the most lucrative genre in the industry, Hollywood has really struggled with adapting the Fantastic Four to the big screen. Tim Story's two efforts from a decade ago weren't exactly great, but compared to the cinematic trainwreck that Josh Trank delivered to theaters this summer they look like absolute masterpieces. Perhaps 20th Century Fox should just give up and let the rights revert back to Marvel Studios... Based on the critical and commercial success that greeted the Trank's breakthrough feature Chronicle and the casting of four talented young actors in the lead roles the rebooted F4ntastic... sorry, Fantastic Four definitely had potential. However, behind-the-scenes rumblings of disagreements between director and studio along with rumors of extensive rewrites and reshoots had severely dampened expectations. Which is just as well because the relentlessly dour tone, heavy handed dialogue and ill-judged deviation from the source material resulted in one of the most poorly-reviewed movies of the year. It says plenty about the quality of the final product that Kate Mara's incredibly distracting reshoot wig isn't even one of the worst things about it.
Scott Campbell
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