Fantastic Four (2015 film)/Trivia

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Trivia about Fantastic Four (2015 film) includes:

  • Box Office Bomb: The film financially underperformed.
  • Creator Killer:
    • Josh Trank has stopped doing big scale projects since then.
    • The film's failure prevented 20th Century Fox from being a profitable company despite releasing some great films by 2019, the year of Disney's acquisition.
  • Disowned Adaptation: The people at Marvel didn’t like the film and considered it worse than Howard the Duck and Tim Story’s Fantastic Four films. They didn't even include the film on their website.
  • Executive Meddling: When Josh Trank left the production, the second half was reshot.
  • Old Shame: The cast and Trank regretted doing the film.
  • Production Nickname: The reboot film was nicknamed Fant4stic by the marketing department to help it stay separate from the Storyverse films.
  • Romance on the Set: Kate Mara first met her future husband Jamie Bell while filming.
  • Stillborn Franchise: There were plans for a sequel in 2017 but got scrapped.
  • Troubled Production: Between the executives at Fox and Josh Trank’s behavior, many believe that a documentary about it would have been more interesting than the film itself.
  • What Could Have Been: 20th Century Studios initially intended this film to be set in the continuity of the X-Men film series before they decided to keep it standalone.
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