The screenwriter returns to this nightmare

Ten years after the industrial accident. Moreover, screenwriter Jeremy Slater returned behind the scenes of the artistic crash The Fantastic 4directed by Josh Trank. In addition,

“A horrible experience”. Similarly, It was in these terms that Kate Mara spoke in 2020 the shooting of the film The Fantastic 4s from 2015. For example, And it is far from being the only one to keep a painful memory of it. However. For example. For example, the case seemed to be well committed: Trank had just signed ChronicleModest Found Found Footage Superheroic on perdition teenagers, which has become a global phenomenon ($ 126 million in revenue for 12 budget), and was on the rise. Furthermore,

Jeremy Slater, a young screenwriter noticed with The Lazarus Effect was in charge of the script. Similarly, And the casting, too, had something to screenwriter returns this nightmare new seduce with Miles Teller, Michael B. Furthermore, Jordan, Kate screenwriter returns this nightmare Mara, Jamie Bell … However, or a quartet of young talents promised to a brilliant career. However, But what should have been a new start for an unhappy license has turned into an industrial. Moreover, artistic and human disaster. Consequently, A few weeks before the release of 4 Fantastic MCU version. Consequently, entrusted to Matt Shakman, Jeremy Slater returned to the reasons for this failure.

The fantastic 4, 50% Avengers, 50% Batman, 100% missed

At the microphone of screenwriter returns this nightmare new ComicBook.comJeremy Slater confided in the painful experience that was screenwriter returns this nightmare The Fantastic 4 for him. Additionally. Consequently, Slater admitted that the project suffered from a deep evil that had sealed the project from its premises: a total incompatibility between its vision. that of Josh Trank. Slater had seen Avengers In 2012, and was fascinated by the film. He wanted to find this atmosphere…. And make the same box at the box office.

“Avengers had just released that summer or the previous summer. I loved this film. I found that Joss Whedon had accomplished the impossible by managing to balance all these tones … Furthermore, I said to myself: “Look, the public loves this film. The box office figures do not lie.” I thought we could really do something similar, with real magnitude and large fun action scenes.

But we must not forget the screenwriter returns this nightmare new secret ingredient of this film: the relationships between the characters … This is screenwriter returns this nightmare always what guides us. I said to myself: “Damn. if we manage to do what Marvel Studios is doing right now. that’s clearly what spectators want to see in a superhero film”. »»

Except that for his part, Josh Trank had a completely different stallion meter in mind: Batman Begins by Christopher Nolan. Trank wanted a very realistic and harsh film, while Slater wanted something much brighter and grandiloquent.

“Josh and I probably wanted to make very different films. I was rather a guy fan of the Avengers and-I don’t want to speak in his place-but he was. more a Batman Begins guy. something ultra-realistic, dark and rough. screenwriter returns this nightmare new »»

The result ended up uniting the worst of screenwriter returns this nightmare the two universes. namely the lightness punctuated by bank punchlines. worthy of the worst productions of the MCU, mixed with an ultra-realistic and cold aesthetic, as in the most austere DC films. A completely indigestible cocktail who lost criticism and the public.

Screenwriter returns this nightmare new

Screenwriter returns this nightmare

A crazy cash

In addition to these incompatibilities of approaches. Jeremy Slater. Josh Trank had to face the repeated incursions of the producers, and to a budget which, according to the screenwriter, decreased in sight as the shooting continued. Ultimately, the film would have received a budget of $ 122 million, far from the 220 million ofAvengers. And under these conditions, it is obviously impossible to make screenwriter returns this nightmare new a film of the same magnitude.

“The comic book aspect of a film like Avengers. which I was carrying in me and always adored, Josh did not have it in the same way. This film did not resonate for him as he did for me.

The other problem is that AVERGERS was a very expensive film. However, our budget has continued to decrease in production. It’s easy to say: “Yes, let’s do an Avengers”, but it’s much more difficult to make it happen. »»

The film was such a disaster that Josh Trank even ended up completely denying him. Jeremy Slater seems to live it better, and he has at the moment that it is very Mortal Kombat II. Asked about his feelings about the screenwriter returns this nightmare new film The Fantastic 4 From Matt screenwriter returns this nightmare Shakman. Slater was enthusiastic. but stressed how much He regretted not having been able to make galactus the villain of the 2015 film.

“I think they will succeed in their galactus. I wanted to make it our big bad guy, but there was internal reluctance … I was enthusiastic about bringing the classic galactus back, with this design like Jack Kirby. It seems that [le nouveau film] succeeded in this bet, so I can’t wait to see it in the flesh. »»

The film The Fantastic 4 From Matt Shakman, will arrive in French cinemas July 23, 2025.