Simon Kinberg Defends Josh Trank's Fantastic Four

Last week, news about the Fantastic Four reviews being embargoed led a lot of fans to believe that Josh Trank's movie sucks. Bad buzz for the film began when FOX waited for a long time to reveal any marketing material for the film, continued with the news of director Josh Trank's dismissal from the Star Wars Anthology film, so many of us expect this film to be terrible, but according to writer/producer Simon Kinberg, this film might prove us wrong.

Here's what he said to EW:

"What I do think we had was a very young director making a very big movie. And a director that, for whatever reason, people were either rooting against or his personality troubled the press. So it just got viewed differently than any other movie that's a tough movie. We came in on schedule, under budget, [with] a movie that was pretty true to the original intent of the film. Whether people like it or not, it was his vision, which was a more grounded, a much more real version of

Fantastic Four

. Was it an easy production? No. Was it harder than a lot of the movies I've been on? No. But I may also have a higher threshold. I think there was something about Josh's identity that made him a good target. I'm not sure what that is."

"I am proud of it," he says. "It's not a disaster. It's a

good movie

. I find

Fantastic Four

a hard book to adapt. I think the tone is very tricky it. It's deceptively simple. Figuring out the comedy and the drama and the powers themselves are hard to fit into a tone that is as grounded as we wanted to make it. But I'm happy with the way that it turned out. I really love this cast, and I want to keep making movies with them."

Those are nice words but he might be biased about the movie. Do you think this movie is going to rock? You can watch the international trailer here.

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