Fox, the studio behind 2005's The Fantastic Four, has finally found a director to assume the arduous task of rebooting the film: Josh Trank. Trank is thankfully no stanger to being the driving force behind a more than decent superhero movie; he directed the surprisingly good Chronicle (trailer below):
In addition to this, Trank was also rumored to be in talks for a Venom movie. The Fantastic Four reboot, however, is his next definite project.
The real question is how can you reboot a film that's only seven years old (five, if you count Fantastic 4:Rise of the Silver Surfer)? Is this a genre that needs rebooting? Are things really going to be that much more nuanced and different that they deserve a reboot? Or are studio execs just going to keep parading the reanimated corpses of superhero comics around every five years? Do the American people even like superheroes that much? (Answer: probably.)
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