Fantastic Four (2015)
- The original script for Fantastic Four was written over a decade before production finally began in 2015.
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Josh Trank's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
- During the filming of Fantastic Four, Miles Teller improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
Fantastic Four is a 2015 American superhero film directed by Josh Trank, a reboot that attempted to reimagine Marvel's First Family through a darker, more grounded lens. Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, and Jamie Bell star as Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm, young scientists whose experiment with interdimensional travel goes catastrophically wrong, giving them superhuman abilities while trapping their colleague Victor Von Doom, played by Toby Kebbell, in an alternate dimension where he becomes a vengeful, reality-warping entity.
Fantastic Four became one of the most high-profile disasters in superhero filmmaking history โ the production was plagued by widely reported conflicts between director Josh Trank and 20th Century Fox, with the studio reportedly demanding extensive reshoots that resulted in a finished film with visible tonal inconsistencies and a rushed, incoherent third act. The film earned $167 million worldwide on a $120 million budget, a substantial loss that effectively ended Fox's plans for the franchise.
