Stan Lee Weighs In on The Fantastic Four Reboot!?!

When it comes to the on-screen failure of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four, Stan Lee Weighs In on The Fantastic Four Reboot.

The EPIC FAILURE has become a game of pointing fingers these days since no one wants to admit the obvious.

Trank, Fox and the cast all took a beating in the weeks following the film’s release, suggesting that something dubious happened behind the scenes to doom the picture. Nope that isn’t the case at all. The problem with The Fantastic Four is simple and now Stan Lee, who is the consultant for everything Marvel was NEVER shown a script or concept of the film before things were underway.

Lee keeps it simple reason for the movie’s EPIC failure saying:

“Well, it was probably because I didn’t have a cameo in it, and they didn’t discuss the story with me.”

When it comes to the on-screen failure of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four, there aren’t enough fingers in the industry to use to point out the blame.

CelebNMusic247.com has this report via CinemaBlend:

Lee points to a larger problem that Fox and Josh Trank had when assembling this story for an updated Fantastic Four. No one consulted Lee, when he is – without question – the world’s greatest expert on Marvel’s first family. Not that Lee needs to be consulted on superhero movies anymore. Marvel and Fox have had success with and without Lee’s guidance. But FF has proven to be a very tough nut to crack over the years when studios attempt to adapt the source material, and seeing as how Stan Lee created the team with Jack Kirby, you would think that Trank and his screenwriting team would pick up the phone for a short conversation that answered the important question, “Hey, what would Stan Lee do here?”

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Stan Lee doesn’t strike me as vindictive, but his next comments to Larry King cut the deepest.

He admits in the interview that he hasn’t yet seen the new Fantastic Four, so he really couldn’t comment much further on its successes or failures. Stan Lee hasn’t seen the new Fantastic Four yet?!?! Not that Stan needs to drag his 92-year-old frame to the movie theater for a matinée, but Fox couldn’t hand-deliver a DVD copy of the film to his residence? The man created the team! Without him, there IS no Fantastic Four, thereby, there is no movie. I wonder what Stan Lee would have thought of Trank’s movie. That’s one review I’d pay good money to hear.

Did you know that Doctor Doom was supposed to have had a castle lair on Planet Zero, which was originally titled the negative zone, which make 100 time more sense than Planet Zero.

Anyways, Steve Jung is a concept artist who worked on such films as Terminator: Genisys, Thor and Tron: Legacy. He also just so happened to be enlisted early on to draft designs for Fantastic Four.

Jung posted four pieces of concept art to Facebook, but none of his works made it in the film.

He writes:

“Might as well show some work from this movie called Fantastic Four lol. I was on this one early on before all the drama happened… none of my work made it to the movie (kinda glad) since it got changed many times after I left the project. Exploration of the Planet Zero and Victor’s castle ideation. BTW the texture of the terrain is cigarette buds from a picture of the director’s ashtray.”

If you thought that the fiasco was over, there is more evidence that Trank was the wrong person to direct the film as well as doing a reboot that was straight up BOOTY!

Here are more insights why the film SUCKED in EPIC PROPORTIONS, so thank you Trank for your horrible take on The Fantastic Four. You RUINED the film, the next time you point fingers make sure you are standing in front of a mirror so you blame the right guy.

The presence of Doom’s castle further reiterates that the character was meant to have a much larger role in the film than what we got. The theatrical cut only showed his villainy emerge at the tail end, while there were many other details that were originally meant to be included. Kebbell, for one, told Collider way back when that his character’s name was Victor Domashev, an “anti-social programmer” who goes by “Doom” on blogging sites. That, obviously, didn’t make it into the final version.

Furthermore, there are scenes in the original trailers that were cut, including a conversation between Reed and Victor after he was discovered alive on Planet Zero. Other details cut were the Fantasti-car, an attack by The Thing on a Chechen terrorist base, and a larger presence of Latveria, Doom’s fictional home country in the comics.

That is just the storyline, we already spoke on this in our review, but even the fans of F4 feel the same as we do. Michael B Jordan as The Human Torch was pointless, the dynamic was weak, and the brother sisterhood FAILED because the cast lacked chemistry.

One angered fan of Josh Trank Fantastic Four had this to say about the film being an EPIC FAIL:

“The film failed because they thought they were too cool for the room and needed to add PC casting and having a black human torch….Well where are all those black people that you pandered to by casting Michael B Jordan? They sure didn’t go see your movie now did they?”

He makes a good point, why did the Human Torch need to be black? Sometimes characters that were written in 1961 needs to stay to format. Which is the same argument that is going on with Idris Elba playing the role of James Bond.

Thoughts?