Josh Trank opens up about troubled Fantastic Four' shoot, losing Star Wars'

Director Josh Trank has opened up about the troubled shoot of Fox reboot of Fantastic Four in 2015, which he disowned in an angry Twitter post that put a pause to his promising career for a while.

The director, who is back with Capone, had earned the high profile job fresh off the success of his low budget sci-fi film Chronicle but things went swiftly downhill from there.

As part of a profile at Polygon ahead of the release of Capone, Trank recalled what happened with Fantastic Four and the tweet that he wrote and then deleted.

"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," his controversial tweet in 2015 had read.

The director said in the beginning he was promised freedom to create his own version of the film and he turned to his friend Jeremy Slater to write the script but unfortunately his and Slater's ideas about the story did not match.

Slater was a genuine comic book fan while Trank pushed back on these aspects, leading to a conflict in tone.

"The trials of developing Fantastic Four had everything to do with tone. You could take the most comic booky' things, as far as just names and faces and identities and backstories, and synthesize it into a tone. And the tone that (Slater) was interested in was not a tone that I felt I had anything in common with."