Fantastic Four (sometimes stylized as Fant4stic) is 20th Century Fox's 2015 live-action feature film based on the Marvel comics of the same name.
Miles Teller and Jamie Bell play Reed Richards and Ben Grimm, young friends whose lives change when Reed is invited to work in the Baxter Foundation think tank, headed up by Franklin Storm (Reg E. Cathey). There they meet Storm's adopted daughter Sue (Kate Mara) and biological son Johnny (Michael B. Jordan) and his star protege Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell). Their research into reaching a parallel dimension results in a catastrophic accident, transforming them into the Fantastic Four and stranding Doom.
The movie was directed by Josh Trank, hot off the success of his indie super-powers hit Chronicle. It was written by Fox's go-to Marvel writer Simon Kinberg along with Jeremy Slater and Trank.
Fantastic Four is, bluntly, a disaster in every aspect. Stories emerged of a troubled production with questionable behavior from its director. The studio allegedly took creative control from Trank and reworked the ending considerably. It failed to impress critics, fans or any movie-goers at all and was a major box office dud.
