The ‘Fantastic Four’ Set Was Super Fun

By now you probably already know that Fantastic Four is a goddamn disaster. Currently sitting at 8% on Rotten Tomatoes and earning only $32M of its $120M domestically (thank God for the Chinese market), stories coming out after the movie’s release will make the eventual documentary about the making of this shitshow stream forever on Netflix.

Long story short, after directing his first movie, Chronicle, 31-year old Josh Trank was handed the keys to a franchise by 20th Century Fox. Trank then subsequently went full on Colonel Kurtz, suffering a complete mental break while caving under the pressure but still believing he was the only visionary on set.  From building a black tent around his monitor and not coming out his trailer, to telling actors when to blink and breathe, to causing $100K worth of damage to his rental house, to Fox trying and failing to fire him halfway through production, to Trank’s tweet basically saying “bitch set me up”, this movie should have been taken out back and shot in the head before cameras started rolling. Now today we learn that Trank and Miles Teller got in a fight on set.

Trank initially fought hard to get Teller cast in the film, winning out over Fox’s objections. But the director and actor’s relationship later turned sour. According to a story in this week’s Entertainment Weekly, Trank and Teller did not get along on the set of the film; Trank was allegedly withdrawn during production, and Teller is frequently sarcastic, making for a bad combination. Things got so bad at one point, in fact, that Trank and Teller’s disagreement brought them chest-to-chest, daring one another to throw the first punch (Teller didn’t have the benefit of Mr. Fantastic’s super-stretchy arms in real life). Neither man actually ended up throwing a punch, but it doesn’t seem as if the rest of the shoot went much better; previous reports from sources from the set have sources calling Trank’s behavior towards cast and crew abusive and cold, especially toward Kate Mara, who got the role of Sue Storm over his objections

The only thing I took fro this is that Josh Trank wanted Miles Teller but not Kate Mara. That would have been my first red falg. Second red flag? A dude named Josh.