《神奇四俠》將於本週末在影院上映，但它已經受到了一系列負面評論和批評(正如《邊緣》的娛樂記者傑米森·考克斯指出的那樣，這部電影目前對爛番茄的評價比畫素差。）很多人對這部電影的缺點感到焦慮——甚至我們自己的一些缺點——都是針對大二的導演喬希·特朗克。昨晚，Trank在一條被刪除的微博中暗示電影公司應該為電影的麻煩負責：

不久之後，臭名昭著的超人之死評論家、特朗克導演**作《編年史》的作者馬克斯·蘭迪斯（Max Landis）釋出了一系列支援特朗克的推文，同時提出了一些建設性的批評。

蘭迪斯談到了一些非常突出的問題，即圍繞著一部電影的**，不可避免地要爭奪控制權。但所有這些電影都有一個總的主題，那就是——儘管好萊塢的趨勢是越來越多地把控制權交給大量的特許經營權之外——電影製片廠主要關心的是賺錢和保護所描繪的智慧財產權。

有時雙方會達成平衡，比如加雷斯·愛德華茲（Gareth Edwards）執導了一部驚心動魄的《哥斯拉重啟》（Godzilla reboot），或者科林·特雷沃羅（Colin Trevorrow）將《侏羅紀世界》（Jurassic World）打造成史上票房最高的電影之一。其他時候，這場鬥爭導致了壯觀的熄火，比如埃德加·賴特（Edgar Wright）出演《蟻俠》（Ant Man），或者我們現在看到的《特蘭克》（Trank）和《神奇四俠》（Fantastic Four），“沒有人想拍一部糟糕的電影。”—馬克斯·蘭迪斯（Max Landis）

蘭迪斯說，特朗克很幸運地享受了他對編年史的控制，但他也應該為2015年**一部奇跡電影所需的看似不可避免的醜陋過程做好準備。

撇開這條微博不談，也許Trank正在吸取教訓；今年5月，他辭去了即將上映的《星球大戰》衍生電影之一的執導職務他對《洛杉磯時報》說：“在這之後，我想做一些有創意的事情，因為我一直生活在公眾監督之下，正如你所看到的，在我生命的最後四年裡。”我現在的生活不太健康。”

這是蘭迪斯的全部咆哮：

HEY, it's 1 AM. You know what, **** it. Let's be real here.

Chronicle was an incredibly rare and easy ride. I loved writing the script. I enjoyed our producer, John Davis, and our exec, Steve.

I also loved collaborating with Josh [Trank], who I think is brilliant, and whose ideas inspired my script. I fought hard for him to direct.

But Chronicle was a complete fluke. We had so much control because the movie was, in relation to other movies that year, TINY.

Some holes opened up in Fox's slate and Chronicle was cheap and unique, so they were kind enough to make it. Only took 6 months.

At the time, I was like "THIS IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING." I'd sold scripts, but it was my first greenlight.

Josh, who'd been for-hire editor and whose only experience behind the camera had been a web series, was a **art, fun collaborator.

During the shooting of the film, I had almost no input, but I was lucky in that the studio and Josh stuck astonishingly tight to my script.

But again, even this is a fluke. It was an original idea, a dark character movie with a first time director. Fluke. Freak of nature.

But I didn't know that and I'm sure Josh didn't know that either. In the five years since I sold Chronicle, I've learned the hard way.

You take huge hits in this industry, creatively, but that's only after you've been given the opportunity to take huge swings, which is rare.

A movie like Fantastic Four, an assignment with a lot riding on it, was always going to have a tremendous amount of cooks in the kitchen.

People always ask me when I'm gonna write a superhero movie. I have. I've gotten those jobs. They're very intense and stressful.

As a writer, I've been lucky to work on many, many projects, and seen how different and how hard each road can be, for five and a half years.

Josh didn't get that chance, and his second major project, after one with total freedom, was one with intense oversight.

So I don't think anyone's wrong or right, necessarily, and I don't imagine anyone cares about my opinion.

But I do think it's important to say that if you're not prepared going in to not FIGHT like hell, but WORK like hell, it's gonna get ugly.

No one is trying to make a bad movie.

Okay, I sleep now, and probably delete these in the morning. Again, to aspiring film makers:

This job is only very occasionally romantic. Don't let it own you, try not to let it hurt you. Because sometimes it's so much ****ing fun.

But it's still a job.