What a mess “Fantastic Four” is turning out to be for 20th Century Fox. The movie failed to even surpass $30 million at the box office in its opening weekend — that’s the lowest grossing superhero film since 2011’s “Green Hornet," which is already only loosely defined by those tropes anyhow. You’ve surely read the pitiful “Fantastic Four” reviews (here’s ours, audiences gave it a C- Cinemascore), and you’ve likely heard the rumors earlier this year that director Josh Trank was allegedly fired from his “Star Wars” film because of his erratic behavior on the set of “Fantastic Four” (which Trank vehemently denied; he says he quit because of all the pressure and negative press he received this year and wanted to do something more under the radar).
There’s obviously more going on. Trank blew the doors off everything late last week in a tweet that he quickly deleted. But obviously, nothing is ever truly deleted on the internet, and Trank implied (though not outright...
