TrollInTheDungeon — 10 years ago(August 10, 2015 02:29 PM)

Now that this crapfest is out, I'm going to do another one of these threads and reserve three posts, because I'm running out of room in the other thread.
PRE-PRODUCTION:

Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer
is a marginal financial success for Fox, but is a critical dud overall. Plans to create a sequel to that
Fantastic Four
movie and a
Silver Surfer
spinoff are both brought up between 2007 and 2009, but neither project goes anywhere.

• Disney officially acquires Marvel for $4 billion. After Disney announced its plans to greatly expand the then-fledgling Marvel Cinematic Universe with a wide variety of properties, Fox announces plans to reboot the
  Fantastic Four
  property. However, no real progress is made on the film until 2014.
• When Fox first alluded to the casting, which was when Bruce Willis and Kiefer Sutherland were alluded as potential choices for Ben Grimm, other top picks included Adrien Brody as Mr. Fantastic, Alice Eve as Sue Storm, Kevin Pennington as Johnny Storm, and Stephen Moyer as Doctor Doom. Prospective directors included James McTeigue, Joe Carnahan, and David Yates.
• Josh Trank is hired to direct the reboot after
  Chronicle
  proves to be a sleeper hit.
• The rights for Fox to make a
  Daredevil
  movie expire. Disney offers Fox an extension for their project - which has work on it underway - in exchange for the rights of certain Cosmic Marvel characters that Marvel Studios does not own, such as Silver Surfer and Galactus. Fox callously refuses the deal to part ways with Cosmic Marvel characters (even though they do not plan to use said characters again) and Disney gains
  Daredevil
  , which they turn into a critically-acclaimed Netflix series two years later.
• Fox announces plans to create a competing Marvel Cinematic Universe with the
  X-Men
  and the
  Fantastic Four
  after
  The Avengers
  is a huge box office success.
• Rumors that the role of the Human Torch is being given to Michael B. Jordan - without anyone else being tested for the part - spread. These are eventually proven to be true. Complaints about this casting decision begin. Aside from Michael B. Jordan, the entire cast was hired mere weeks before filming began.
• Miles Teller, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell are cast in the film as Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, and the Thing. Everyone and their mother criticizes these cast choices, and fans begin to express complete disdain for the reboot. However, anyone who criticizes Michael B. Jordan's earlier casting in the film - be it for the proof of simple nepotism, the unexplained relationship to Kate Mara's character, or simply not liking him in the part - is childishly labeled as a "racist" by the media, with supporters of the film following suit (and while there are
  some
  racists, that's not comic book fandom - that's just the world we live in).
• Right after the backlash against Michael B. Jordan's casting hits, Josh Trank tweets a picture of the FF's Human Torch meeting Jim Hammond, the Android Human Torch from the "Timely Comics" era. It is confirmed that the real Trank was the one who posted this.
• When asked about the role by the paparazzi, Michael B. Jordan tells them that complaining fans will "go see [the movie] anyway", while looking fairly smug.
• Word that team might not even be called "The Fantastic Four" in the movie also comes up.
• Bleeding Cool made a report suggesting that they were looking to fire Josh Trank, dump the cast he picked, and abandon his script shortly before production began. New directors were apparently sighted. Fox presumably kept going with Trank due to running short on time to reboot the property.
• Fox announces a sequel to the reboot in an attempt to silence concerns people may have for the project, even with the financial stability of the reboot left uncertain.
  PRODUCTION (EARLY WARNINGS):
• The production of the movie begins.
• Josh Trank returned to Twitter in a bout of frustration. Trank tweeted out a picture of his dog's anus in response to fan backlash against the film make the rounds. The post was taken down quickly before anyone could screengrab it. Trank's Twitter account is subsequently deleted.
• Doctor Doom is announced as the film's villain, with the only major difference being that this time around, he might use the Doombots. (Oh, and Mole Man is apparently in the movie, too.)
• The "grounded and gritty, found-footage feel" approach to the film is detailed for the first time. This pisses innumerable Marvel fans off, many of which claim that this defeats the entire purpose of one of the most unrealistic Marvel franchises ever written.
• Fox's plans for a shared universe are shot dead by their own admission. Fox keeps bringing up plans to try and cross their own properties over for PR purposes, although no real evidence that Fox is going to follow up on a potential crossover is brought up at all.
• Producer Simon Kinberg expresses enthusiasm for the 3-D conversion of the film that is being planned.
• Josh Trank is hired to direct the s