Though it didn’t exactly excite the fans, the 2005 release of Fantastic Four did good business on its $100 million budget with a theatrical take alone of $330 million. The 2007 followup of Rise of the Silver Surfer did less with more as its $130 million budget brought in just $290 million and not exactly a lot of positive praise all around. Fox isn’t letting that property lay around too long, lest they lose the rights back to Marvel, and talk of a reboot has been going on for awhile and fits in with what they’re doing with Daredevil. After the success of Chronicle this year, the films director Josh Trank has been in high demand and Fox has nabbed him, for the moment, to be involved in developing the reboot while being clear that it’s just for that stage and doesn’t confirm a directorial chair as it depends on whether the script really motivates him to make the leap:
“Josh Trank who did Chronicle, I think this has been reported, is gonna come on and work on a take, or a vision, that he has for it, so we’re very excited about that,” says Fox’s Tom Rothman. “Well, I think there’s a possibility of [him directing]. I mean he’s gonna develop it now, and then it depends on the script.”
[Source: Collider]
�Please Fox… free the Marvel licenses and stop screwing up my beloved childhood franchises!� It drives me nuts that Marvel did this.� I get why they did it at the time, but, in hindsight, what a horrible horrible horrible idea.