Chris Columbus fired fantastic four after Harry Potter, home alone

Chris Columbus He directed some of the most longest blocks of all times, from “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “I’m home“Films of the first two”Harry Potter“Movies. But even with these movies under his belt, Columbus continued to find himself from the original century of the 20th century”Fantastic four“Film. The director is attributed to the executive producer in the film”, but had nothing to do with it, “he recently said Podcast” fading to black. ”

“We were in a strange situation,” Columbus said. “At the first” fantastic fourth, “I worked on the scenario. It was that there were a lot of writers. They were supposed to make a movie and that I made it. I met the director and I had some ideas. Basically, it would be basically considered more like Jack Kirby, and you should feel more like a silver year. “I left that appointment and on my way back from my house, I got a call from the head of the 20th century to be fired and had too much opinions.”

Columbus was in the phase of his career in which they were interested in Superhero movies. She was round “Spider-Man” before Raimi himself took the property himself, and he also wrote the “Daredevil” script. But the fire from “Fantastic Four” was a blow and “probably wrote me a little” from the genre, he said. Columbus There is no interest in Helming Strip book these days.

“Over the years, people did so well that I personally lost interest in making a movie superhero,” he said. “It started a little with” Spider-Man 2. “I thought it was a perfect movie” Batman ‘with Robert Pattinson, I didn’t want to make those movies anymore, because people can make them more at this time. ”

To an Interview with Blackfilm.com 10 years ago, Columbus said he was also on a chance with Studio for bringing Ben Grimma / a thing in life on the big screen. He pushed the “Fantastic Four” movie that used visual effects to revive the thing to life, you quarreled that “you can never get Ben Grimma if not CGI or something.”

The Team of the Story focused “Fantastic Four”, which introduced Yoan Gruffudd as Reed Richards, Jessica Alba, like Sue Storm, Chris Evans as Johnny Storm and Michael Chiklis like Ben Grimma. The film was a moderate box with $ 333 million around the world, but earned negative criticism critics. Chiklis is a recently tod Colliser Those critics misunderstood.

“They really abused our films and were very underestimated with consideration … The audience very much liked them,” Chiklis said. “It was one of those cases where critics weren’t great with those movies, but the audience was still remaining.”

Watch the complete Columbus interview on the podcast “fading into black” in the bottom video.