It’s not often you hear a director talk about how good a movie might have been but wasn’t, as Josh Trank did on the eve of this weekend’s box-office belly flop of his “Fantastic Four.”
Indeed, the “Chronicle” director’s tweet, quickly deleted, may have helped sink the box office for Fox’s $120 million Marvel superhero reboot. The film, which had been tracking for a $40 million opening weekend, pulled in a feeble $26.2 million, finishing behind the second weekend of Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.”
The savage reviews of the film, which was at an abysmal 9 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, were the primary culprit.