re: Official Fantastic Four Review/RT 9%(SPOILERS!!!)-(by Fox)

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If I made a movie called Superman about an Ethiopian immigrant adopted by a Mexican family who is struck by a bolt of lightening and gains powers that he has to use to fight a janitor named Lex Luther who got his powers from a radioactive toilet, people would hate the movie.

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FF isn't that far off from the original concept.

The problems began when they hired Trank based on his doing a realistic take on superheroes and then expected him to the usual comic book to film version. I can't put all of the blame on Fox because Disney had the same idea and hired him for Star Wars. Gunn went from Super to Guardians, so it's a process that can work. But Trank isn't Gunn and he didn't make the jump from indie to blockbuster.

It's similar to what happened with Marvel and Edgar Wright, only they were able to see the differing visions for the product and part ways prior to production. Whoever was monitoring Trank for Fox should've raised a red flag once the final script was handed in.