On the opening weekend of Fantastic Four (2015), director Josh Trank wrote in a since-deleted tweet: 'A year ago, I had a fantastic version of this. And it would have received great reviews. You’ll probably never see it. That’s reality though.'
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The studio granted director Tim Miller a small budget to produce test footage for the film. When the test footage was leaked online in 2014, it received an enthusiastic response from fans. Fox eventually gave the project the green light a few months after the leak."You can look back at an email chain from all of us, the core group involved inwith Yahoo."Saying, 'Hey, if this thing is going to stagnate, one of us should just say"Whoops, I slipped it online by accident.
with Vice, actor Jerry O'Connell revealed that the original vision for the film was completely different:"It started as a pretty dark spec script [titled] about two shitty mafiosos who have to go to the outback. A lot of cursing, a lot of sex, and it was really funny."were poor — except for the audience's positive reaction to a scene with a kangaroo. The studio then decided to completely rework the project and make it into a PG-rated, family-friendly comedy.
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