--- description: "A year ago I had a fantastic version of this" title: Fantastic Four Director Blames Movie's Bad Reviews on Fox image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47f43849c05a92ae/69885177f887dc0e89e909b8/johnny-storm-michael-b-jordan-fantastic-four.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Fantastic Four_ Director Blames Movie's Bad Reviews on Fox by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 7, 2015 12:32 PM CUT  20th Century Fox by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 7, 2015 12:32 PM CUT The director of the new _Fantastic Four_ film says it’s not his fault the movie has been getting such poor reviews—it’s the studios. Josh Trank tweeted, then deleted, a post on Thursday saying, “A year ago I had a fantastic version of this. And it would’ve received great reviews. You’ll probably never see it. That’s reality though.” Another Twitter user [screen-grabbed](https://twitter.com/mikeryan/status/629474121177559040 "undefined") the tweet before it was deleted. Trank had apparently unsettled Fox executives with his behavior, [according to the _Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fantastic-four-director-josh-trank-813786 "undefined"), with people on set complaining that he was difficult to communicate with. _Fantastic Four_ opens in theaters on Friday; it stars Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell. \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fantastic-four-director-josh-trank-813786 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3988678/fantastic-four-fox/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3988678/fantastic-four-fox/"},"headline":"Fantastic Four Director Blames Movie's Bad Reviews on Fox","datePublished":"2015-08-07T12:32:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:59:50.340Z","description":"\"A year ago I had a fantastic version of this\"","url":"https://time.com/3988678/fantastic-four-fox/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47f43849c05a92ae/69885177f887dc0e89e909b8/johnny-storm-michael-b-jordan-fantastic-four.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47f43849c05a92ae/69885177f887dc0e89e909b8/johnny-storm-michael-b-jordan-fantastic-four.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"johnny-storm-michael-b-jordan-fantastic-four","caption":"johnny-storm-michael-b-jordan-fantastic-four","creditText":"20th Century Fox","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3988678/fantastic-four-fox/","name":"Fantastic Four Director Blames Movie's Bad Reviews on Fox"}}]}] ```