Fant4stic - Josh Trank cut (partially lost deleted scenes of superhero film; 2015)

Film poster.

Status: Partially Lost

Fantastic Four (also known by the film's marketing title Fant4stic) is a 2015 American superhero film following the titular comic book heroes. The film was met with harsh reception, earning a 9% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 27/100 Metascore on MetaCritic. In particular, the film was heavily criticized for its overly dark tone in contrast with the other Fantastic Four films, poor plot and its slow pacing, undeveloped characters and lackluster special effects.

Production and Deleted Scenes

The film had a lengthy and troubled movie shoot, starting when Trank expected $150 million from 20th Century Fox, but only gave him a $122 million budget on the first day of shooting. Trank also envisioned the film's length to be two hours and ten minutes, which was cut down to one hour and forty minutes in the final film.

After numerous news stories began to emerge of Trank's "erratic" and abusive behavior on the set to the film's cast and crew, Fox responded by taking Trank away from post-production and editing process and began to cut out numerous parts of the film that were still advertised on the film's trailers including:

• A major action scene where The Thing dives down from an airplane to camp Humvee, where he is invincible to the bullets fired by the terrorists at the camp. This scene was cut from the final film due to budgetary restraints.
• A scene of cut dialogue between Reed and Victor Von Doom where Doom's body is strapped to a table when Reed decides to visit him.
• A scene where Johnny was shown fixing a car, establishing his character trait of being a resourceful mechanic.
• A cut shot of The Human Torch lighting his body on fire after learning about Doom's murderous rampage after his return from Planet Zero.
• A scene of Ben Grimm playing baseball and in another trailer, a shot of him hitting the baseball at the sign of his family's junkyard.

Availability

Director Josh Trank has openly stated his dissatisfaction with the final cut of the film, announcing how his cut of the film was rejected by 20th Century Fox in favor of a "dumbed-down" version.

It is currently unknown whether or not this cut of the film will be officially released or if it even exists anymore.

Gallery

Trailers

The first trailer.

The second trailer.

Images

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  The Thing preparing to jump out of a plane.

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  The Thing emerging from the debris.

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  Johnny Storm working on a car.

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  The Fantasic Car?

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  The Human Torch in a hallway.

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  Ben playing baseball.

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  The Grimm junk yard sign hit by Ben.