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Fantastic Four director Josh Trank takes Martin Scorsese’s side in Marvel debate and then quits Twitter

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Josh Trank, the director of Fantastic Four, has taken Martin Scorsese’s side in the Marvel debate. Martin Scorsese’s Marvel comments continue to cause debate among film fans and now director Josh Trank has entered the conversation. Trank has been in the news recently for a harsh but honest review of his disappointing Fantastic Four movie. It […]

Fantastic Four director Josh Trank reviews his own movie on Letterboxd (and gives it 2 stars)

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Having taken the somewhat surprising approach to promoting the movie by publicly disowning it on social media on the eve of its release back in 2015, director Josh Trank has now revisited 20th Century Fox’s failed superhero reboot Fantastic Four for the first time since its completion – and not only that, but he’s also […]

It’s time to #ReleaseTheTrankCut of Fantastic Four

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Anghus Houvouras with a call to #ReleaseTheTrankCut… In 2017 Justice League was released into theaters. ‘Released’ like a synthetic virus engineered to numb your senses and lull you into a state of catatonia. Ever since Joss Whedon took a dull hatchet to Zack Snyder’s original gonzo vision for Justice League, fans have been clamoring to […]

First image of Tom Hardy as Al Capone in Fonzo

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Director Josh Trank has taken to Twitter to share the first official image from the upcoming crime biopic Fonzo featuring Tom Hardy as the infamous mobster Al Capone; take a look here… Fonzo sees Hardy starring as a 47-year-old Capone who, with dementia rotting his mind, finds himself haunted by harrowing memories of his violent and brutal […]

Jack Lowden to reunite with Dunkirk co-star Tom Hardy in Al Capone biopic Fonzo

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Jack Lowden is set to reunite with his Dunkirk co-star Tom Hardy in the Al Capone biopic Fonzo, according to Deadline. He will portray FBI Agent Crawford as he attempts to put Hardy’s Capone behind bars. Fonzo is from writer/director Josh Trank (Fantastic Four). Over the past weekend the film added several actors to its cast, including […]

Tom Hardy to play Al Capone in Josh Trank’s Fonzo

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Josh Trank is looking to put last year’s disastrous Fantastic Four reboot behind him and has tapped Tom Hardy to star as infamous mobster Al Capone in his new film Fonzo, Deadline is reporting. Written and directed by Trank, Fonzo “centers on Alfonse Capone, the ruthless businessman and bootlegger who ruled Chicago with an iron […]

In (partial) defence of Fantastic Four

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One year after the release of the universally castigated superhero movie, Sean Wilson pops the question: is it really THAT bad? Amidst a disappointing 2016 blockbuster movie season I’m struggling to identify any genuine underdog movies, ones that received their fare share of critical bile but which I actually liked. (Case in point: Suicide Squad, […]

Toby Kebbell says Josh Trank’s original cut of Fantastic Four was great and admits that he doesn’t really play Doom in the movie

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It’s been nearly a year since the catastrophe that was Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four and we’re still learning more about it. When the director officially denounced the movie via Twitter, he noted that he had a “great” version of the movie which “you’ll never see”, and now one of its stars has backed that up. […]