Miles Teller Opens Up On Fantastic Four’s Failure

Mr Fantastic actor Miles Teller has spoken with perhaps surprising frankness about where things went wrong on 2015 superhero reboot flop ‘Fantastic Four.’

In some respects, director Josh Trank’s bold reimagining of the original Marvel Comics super-team seemed doomed from the start. Quite apart from causing outrage among some fans due to the youth of the cast, and in particular the changed ethnicity of Johnny Storm, ‘Fantastic Four’ was also dogged by rumours of a troubled production.

These rumours, it would seem, had a firm basis in reality, as Teller pretty much confirmed in an interview on podcast Happysadconfused (quotes via Slash Film). It seems a lot of the trouble was down to the constantly-reworked screenplay.

“I think it was Clooney who said you can make a bad movie out of a good script, you can’t make a good movie out of a bad script, and that’s very true.

“If they’re telling you maybe your part’s not as big and they say, ‘Oh you’re gonna be bigger in the sequel,’ or ‘Oh we’re gonna rewrite,’ and ‘Yeah, we’re gonna take in all these notes,’ if you’re in a position where you can say hold off I’m not signing off on this dotted line until this script is exactly where you want it, then you’re in a very fortunate position.

“Because I know actors that have been in literally Oscar-winning performances that told me that script was a struggle every day to get it to a place that [they] wanted it, and [they] were always fighting for the best version of it.”

The actor continues, “People think that when you make something like a ‘Fantastic Four’ that doesn’t do well, people think ‘Oh you phoned it in’ and it couldn’t be more untrue.

“You work harder on the bad films, or the films that turn out maybe not the way you intended, because something’s not working. And I thought it was kind of unjustly critiqued that way; there are even bigger bombs if you’re looking at how much money went into the production and what they reaped back.

“But I think it’s unfortunate a movie like that becomes a scarlet letter on a resume when so many talented people worked really hard and maybe a handful of people took it in a negative direction. But so many people worked really hard on that that are so talented.”

In the same interview, Teller also confirms he was among the actors to audition for the lead in Disney’s young Han Solo movie, although he is no longer in the running.

The $120 million-budgeted ‘Fantastic Four’ took only $168 million worldwide, after being met by unanimously bad reviews and indifference from audiences.

Whilst 20th Century Fox initially insisted a sequel would be made, this now seems highly unlikely.

Picture Credit: 20th Century Fox

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