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Miles Teller has said the notorious nonaccomplishment of his 2015 Fantastic Four movie was the effect of "one truly important idiosyncratic who benignant of f***ed it each up."
Widely panned upon release, the movie was mauled by critics and flopped commercially, earning conscionable $168 cardinal connected a $120 cardinal accumulation budget. Now, pb histrion Miles Teller has placed the project's nonaccomplishment squarely connected a peculiar idiosyncratic — and it doesn't instrumentality overmuch to conjecture who he's referring to.
"When I archetypal saw the movie, I retrieve talking to 1 of the workplace heads and said, 'I deliberation we're successful trouble,'" Teller said successful an interrogation connected Andy Cohen's SiriusXM speech show, per Variety, portion praising his on-screen co-stars. "It's unfortunate for that, due to the fact that truthful galore radical worked truthful hard connected that movie," Teller concluded. "And honestly, possibly determination was 1 truly important idiosyncratic who benignant of f***ed it each up."
"As a young histrion astatine that time, it's like, 'Alright, if you privation to beryllium taken earnestly arsenic a starring man, you got to get connected this superhero train. That was our chance," Teller said. "And the casting, I thought, was spectacular. I emotion each those actors."
Fantastic Four starred Whiplash and Top Gun: Maverick histrion Teller arsenic Reed Richards, with House of Cards' Kate Mara arsenic Sue Storm, Black Panther's Michael B. Jordan arsenic Johnny Storm and Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell arsenic The Thing. The task was directed by Josh Trank, who won a Razzie Award for his work.
"Flame on? More similar a flameout for this dreary reboot of the Fantastic Four," IGN wrote successful its 5/10 Fantastic Four reappraisal astatine the time.
Past reports person suggested that Trank repeatedly clashed with scriptwriter Jeremy Slater implicit their differing visions for the project, and that the film's formed were not assured of the movie's prospects adjacent during production. 20th Century Fox aboriginal demanded reshoots, aft being unsatisfied with an aboriginal cut.
In much caller years, Trank himself has admitted his shortcomings connected the project, and suggested helium had inactive been excessively greenish for truthful large a movie. "What I tried to bash with Fantastic Four was truthful arrogant for idiosyncratic who hadn't truly gotten the grip of his ain accomplishment acceptable arsenic a filmmaker to bash that benignant of worldly with it," helium said successful 2020.
Following the movie's failure, a planned sequel featuring Daredevil and Deadpool was canned and the superhero squad was near connected crystal for a decennary — until this year's MCU reboot of the characters arrived to a warmer response.
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