{"id":2454,"date":"2020-06-05T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/josh-trank-says-he-should-have-left-fantastic-four-when-fox-didnt-let-him-cast-a-black-sue-storm\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:00:00","slug":"josh-trank-says-he-should-have-left-fantastic-four-when-fox-didnt-let-him-cast-a-black-sue-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/josh-trank-says-he-should-have-left-fantastic-four-when-fox-didnt-let-him-cast-a-black-sue-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"#Josh Trank Says He Should Have Left \u2018Fantastic Four\u2019 When Fox Didn\u2019t Let Him Cast a Black Sue Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Josh Trank Says He Should Have Left \u2018Fantastic Four\u2019 When Fox Didn\u2019t Let Him Cast a Black Sue Storm<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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In a recent profile of Fantastic Four<\/em> director Josh Trank<\/strong>, the filmmaker said he slept with a gun by his bed because of threats he was receiving online due to his decision to cast a black actor as Johnny Storm, AKA The Human Torch. Now Trank says he initially tried to cast a black woman to play Johnny\u2019s sister, Sue Storm AKA The Invisible Woman, in the 2015 movie, but that he encountered \u201cquite a bit of heavy pushback\u201d from the studio and essentially wasn\u2019t allowed to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a lot of controversial conversations that were had behind the scenes on that,\u201d Trank said to Geeks of Color (via The Playlist) when he was asked if he ever considered casting a black woman as Sue Storm. \u201cI was mostly interested in a black Sue Storm, a black Johnny Storm, and a black Franklin Storm. But also, when you\u2019re dealing with a studio on a massive movie like that, everybody wants to keep an open mind to, like, who the big stars are going to be. \u2018Maybe it\u2019ll be Margot Robbie,\u2019 or something like that. But when it came down to it, I found a lot of pretty heavy pushback on casting a black woman in that role.\u201d<\/p>\n

A certain section of fandom lost their minds when Michael B. Jordan<\/strong> was cast as Johnny Storm, and no offense to Kate Mara<\/strong>, but she\u2019s not exactly a powerhouse actor who you\u2019d move mountains to lock down in an ensemble. If the studio already had one black actor in a key role, casting another wasn\u2019t going to double the amount of online vitriol the film received from idiots online. But this type of situation sadly isn\u2019t uncommon in Hollywood, and Trank says he regrets not bailing on the movie altogether at that point.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I look back on that, I should have just walked when that realization sort of hit me, and I feel embarrassed about that, that I didn\u2019t just out of principle,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause those aren\u2019t the values I stand for in my own life; those weren\u2019t the values then or ever for me. Because I\u2019m somebody who always talks about standing up for what I believe in, even if it means burning my career out. I feel bad that I didn\u2019t take it to the mat with that issue. I feel like I failed in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to find a silver lining to this situation, and one idea keeps coming to the surface.\u00a0Fantastic Four<\/em> ended up being a notorious bomb, but its cast members managed to escape relatively unscathed. However, it\u2019s depressingly easy to imagine a scenario in which the black actress who theoretically would have played Sue could have been the only performer whose career would have taken a hit in the wake of the movie\u2019s failure. Now, that absolutely does not justify the Fox executives\u2019 decision, because the net good of young black girls seeing themselves represented on screen in that way isn\u2019t quantifiable. And even though this happ<\/a>ened in 2015, it\u2019s clear the industry still has not solved this problem\u2026but maybe the fact that the studios are making public statements supporting the Black Lives Matter movement might \u2013 might! \u2013 move the needle a little going forward.<\/p>\n

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