So apparently Josh Trank got on 4chan and had himself a little meltdown. Some Reddit guys quoted the texts, some of the stuff has been removed. He shits on Fox, Disney, Matthew Vaughn, Kinebrg(producer/writer), complains about deadlines,studio meddling, etc.

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Posted by Dr RC

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Posted on 5/25/15 at 5:58 pm to RonBurgundy

for those that think reading reddit is a major pain in the arse

(this might also just be highlights that somebody saved b/c the original post is gone)

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Seriously, admit you fricked up and stop being a ****. Seriously, you want to keep working I. Hollywood? Admit you created a streaming pile of shite and apologize for raping the Fantastic Four and take your justified criticism like a man and not a worthless pot smoking loser who can't even make his dogs not shite in the house

Apologize? frick you.

reverse image search this might actually be real How does it feel to be despised not just by an anonymous comic fanbase, but the entire movie and comicbook industries because of your arrogant incompetence.

Hated? I have fricking Fox begging me to sign on for another two Fantastic Four movies, another Chronicle, and WB offering a 4 year first look. Don't believe what you read online and just because something isn't accurate to a book doesn't mean it's not an interesting story. When I talked to Stan and Mark about the FF take they loved it, Simon loved it. The only thing stopping it is fricks like the CG guy and other haters and conspirators trying to tank this just to get some stupid fictional characters back.

Trank on being told his vision for the FF was bad:

You're right it's my vision, lets be 100% honest here, it is my vision Fox hired me to do my vision and to make sure they get a quality film and they're getting both; since day one people have created rumors and lies about me and my film going from found footage to me tearing up that house. Was I distant? Yeah. I was, if you were on the set of a huge film with Mathew Vaughn and half of Fox breathing down your neck to deliver a film on a specific date and to rush through everything you'd do everything possible. Yeah, I wanted to extend the boundries; FX supervisor got OTOY to do some good quality work which looked great in the dailies but not what I wanted. Look okay, here's what I'm trying to say if you want your fantastic four, if you want the real first family, if you want Doom ruler of Latveria, if you want Frank and Val Richards if you want the power cosmic or even the bombastic bagman then yeah my story isn't for you but at the end of the day they still exist in your heart and in your mind and in the pages of marvel comics I was hired to write and direct a film and to make it what I thought would be a new way to do it and so I decided instead of playing it safe to go all out to go scifi space and body horror because thats been done so few times. You can tell any story with these characters and some are light hearted and some are dark but honestly since issue one when they fought the mole man Reed Richards and Co were afraid of being freaks afraid of what to do in life and completely unsure of how to deal with it and I loved that aspect the people who have powers but are completely afraid; these are early days for the four they're not even the four yet and they never call themselves that but they for sure are the first family just a different one; this is Earth-Fox not Earth-616.

Trank on reports of Mathew Vaughn being onset:

He's not but as a producer, you have guys breathing down your neck to make it. Once you reach that level you stop noticing what it takes to make a film unless it's yours. Like I saw him do Kingsman and he was super chill and it was completely different because every night every wrap it was "How much did you get are you behind Why aren't you doing this" and honestly I swear if this shite ends up anywhere I'm gonna kill you people but I'm high enough to not give a frick. Vaughn is great when he's not your boss and Simon, well, Simon is a dick that just wants to hold onto "his" characters no matter what like this movie comes out he gets an extension for another two year automatically same with X-men, those aren't vaughns characters or Bryan's they're like in his mind they're his characters and even then when he wrote the first draft of the script it was like it was the first FF film all over it was all grounded and the only thing there was the teleporter then I wanted to do something cosmic or at least a bit different but no its just weird to deal with someone who thinks he owns these characters and who wants to keep them to himself honestly when I did my draft I removed that x-men I told him I wanted the Four to be on their own because honestly it's almost like telling him these aren't yours these are whoever creates this story and so there's the Chronicle crystals and Annihilus. Whoever does this after another four years will put their spin on it might be classic might be more extreme. I don't want to hate you guys but from day one Ive tried to tell simon and fox that they wanted my version they get and they aren't characters they own they're names they bought and that there's an infinite universe out there for these guys Reed practically discovered it; who knows he might even meet old Reed in something. Now I'm taking an xan and going to rush out. But seriously it just seems like all these fricking just want to take shite away and bash this and frick me.

Hey Trank, did you write the As for Johnny being the voice of reason he's Trank's friend and so has the best dialogue; and because he's black so he's already faced the discrimination that the others will now face going forward (actual explanation as to why he's much calmer about his disability than the others.) part of the script?”

That was written before; Johnny was always the voice from Simon on down because he was always supposed to be younger and appeal to the younger audience, I still feel Ben was the heart but they tried it once and it didn't work the racial part was added after Michael joined. Michael is/was my friend and honestly I wanted him to do a cameo as Philip Stross and basically make this fantastic four a big space adventure but also lovecraftian horror, think Batman Returns meets Buck Rodgers meets Roger Corman; however Simon decided Michael would be Johnny

If this is Trank, can we ask some serious questions? Trolling aside, Did you cause damage to the house they rented for you? Did you ever show up to meetings/the set while on drugs? Did you piss off the entire crew? Are you sad that you won't get to tell your star wars story?

I caused some damage, my dogs didn't do that much they tore up some carpet, but I'm not leaving my pets away from home while I'm Baton filming a movie. I drew on the on the walls the actually damage I don't want discuss but a new director on a big set there's a lot of issues and hazing

I never did coke i have a perscription for Alprazolam and luvox and honestly I started really dosing myself with the Alprazolam things were changing everyday are we x-universe are we not why am I not allowed to have it lit this way what do you mean this was too scary etc

if i pissed them off it was only because i had to do a hundred things in a row to get it right enough everyone to seem happy

I am but at the same time I feel like with my ideas about star wars as great as it’d be there's only one star wars for me and thats the original trilogy anything else while yeah it takes place in that universe its more or less just speculation I imagined it being a cool bounty hunter heist moving involving the Black Sun and focusing on some other minor characters because growing up when I was after the originals the only thing left was Shadows of the Empire and that left an impression on me that there was someone as cool as Han Solo who was "a good guy" like Dash Randar and wanted to like a big bounty hunt on Xizor's head with Dash and the Outrider after the fall of the Empire