The 2015 film was a disaster all around.

Capone, from director Josh Trank and star Tom Hardy, is a strange film. It follows the last moments in the life of famed gangster Al Capone (Hardy) as his body and brain are ravaged by the debilitating effects of syphilis and dementia. It's aggressively grim, borderline experimental, and features several scenes of Hardy pooping the hell out of himself. And per an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Trank was encouraged to fly his freak flag by some of your favorite filmmakers. Filmmakers showing each other cuts of their films in progress is not a new trend (anyone else remember …

Josh Trank has a reputation for being a great many things, with “no bullshit” being right at the top. Trank famously directed the 2015 reboot of Marvel’s Fantastic Four for 20th Century Fox, back before the studio got eaten by the mouse. The notorious flop was seemingly plagued by difficulties from day one, not the least of which was the toxic fanboy meltdown over Trank’s casting of Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm, a character who is white in the comic books. (Personally, I would watch a Fantastic Four reboot in which Jordan plays every single member of …

A lot of people did not like the Chronicle director's latest flick.

Director Josh Trank has spoken on the idea of a "Trank Cut" of Fantastic Four: "No trank you."

From writer/director Josh Trank, the indie drama Capone is a look at the most infamous and feared gangster of legend, at a time in his life when he was suffering from rapidly advancing dementia caused by untreated syphilis. After serving 11 years for tax evasion, Al Capone (Tom Hardy) returns to his life with his wife (Linda Cardellini), as his memories drift between his violent and brutal past and his present, at the age of 47. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actor Kyle MacLachlan (who plays Dr. Karlock, a fictional character based on Capone’s …

From writer/director Josh Trank, the indie drama Capone is a look at the most infamous and feared gangster of legend, at a time and age in his life when he was suffering from rapidly advancing dementia caused by untreated syphilis. After serving 11 years for tax evasion, Al Capone (Tom Hardy) returns to his life with his wife (Linda Cardellini), as his memories drift between his violent and brutal past and his present, at the age of 47. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, filmmaker Josh Trank got candid, talking about how happy he is that …

Filmmaker Josh Trank is back in a big way with the new film Capone, but it appears the indie drama may not be the end of his working relationship with Tom Hardy. The director behind the smash hit Chronicle notably followed that relatively low-budget film up with 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot, which was plagued by production problems and saw Trank butting heads with the studio’s vision for this superhero property. Capone is something of a reset for Trank—there are no superpowers or high-flying effects, just Tom Hardy delivering a no-holds-barred performance …

Josh Trank joins us to discuss his return to the writer/director chair, Capone.

One filmmaker helping out another.

Remember when Josh Trank was going to do a Star Wars movie?

Director Josh Trank finally opens up about why he left the Star Wars spin-off movie featuring Boba Fett.

Back in September 2017, Deadline announced that Leonardo DiCaprio would play President Theodore Roosevelt in a biopic that Martin Scorsese would direct for Paramount. DiCaprio's old buddy Scott Bloom, who co-starred with the actor in Don's Plum, had been tapped to write the script, and the project hasn't made headlines since. Until now. In a delicious profile of embattled filmmaker Josh Trank, Polygon's gifted feature writer Matt Patches drops a fascinating nugget about the Fantastic Four director -- Trank was hired to rewrite the script for Roosevelt. You know the phrase down-and-out? Well at …

One of the more storied productions in recent memory is that of 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot. The 2015 film floundered at the box office and received scathing reviews, and mere hours before it hit theaters its director took to Twitter to basically disown the cut that was being released. Rumors and reports swirled over what had happened. Josh Trank earned the directing job hot off of making the low-budget sci-fi film Chronicle, but clearly something went wrong. Until now we’ve only heard reports and rumors about what happened, about who really directed the reshoots, …

In 2012, director Josh Trank exploded onto the scene with a wonderfully inventive picture combining two genres many folks thought had no invention left in 'em. Chronicle, a found-footage superhero (or is that supervillain?) film, was a surprise low-budget hit for 20th Century Fox, giving Dane DeHaan and Michael B. Jordan star-making turns, and giving Trank the keys to the kingdom for just about any property he wanted. Trank went with Fantastic Four, and, unfortunately, we all know how that turned out. But will Trank ever return to the Chronicle well and give us a sequel? In …

Merely a couple of hours ago, we reported that Josh Trank's (Chronicle) long-in-the-works Al Capone biopic starring Tom Hardy recently changed titles (from Fonzo to Capone), found a distributor, and had digital release plans ready to go. Now, we can do you one better. Trank took to Twitter to straight up post the Capone trailer and reveal its digital release date through Vertical Entertainment. How's that for a Tax Day surprise? The trailer looks gritty, dark, occasionally (and loudly) violent, and promising to interrogate a part of Capone's life we're not as familiar …

For those of you wondering when you will finally be able to see Tom Hardy as infamous gangster Al Capone in writer/director Josh Trank's Fonzo, an answer may finally be crystallizing. If you can believe it, Fonzo was announced all the way back in October 2016, with filming beginning in spring 2018 and some behind-the-scenes looks at Hardy's transformation into the Chicago-area crime boss dropping onto the internet throughout 2018. Well, consider today's update, which is happening in April 2020, the first official one we've gotten since filming began two years ago. …

The battle over Marvel movies continues.

The true story behind the making of the 2015 reboot Fantastic Four may finally be coming to light at some point in the near future. Maybe. The production of the 20th Century Fox reboot was certainly one of the most publicly troubled of the past decade, as extensive reshoots significantly reworked the film while rumors swirled about tension with director Josh Trank, who was hired to revitalized the comic book franchise after first making waves with his debut film Chronicle. Ultimately the finished film was a box office flop, bringing in just $167.8 million worldwide, and the reviews weren’…

"Is there a #releasethetrankcut? Doesn’t matter. I’m not Zack Snyder."