《神奇四侠》将于本周末在影院上映，但它已经受到了一系列负面评论和批评(正如《边缘》的娱乐记者杰米森·考克斯指出的那样，这部电影目前对烂番茄的评价比像素差。）很多人对这部电影的缺点感到焦虑——甚至我们自己的一些缺点——都是针对大二的导演乔希·特朗克。昨晚，Trank在一条被删除的微博中暗示电影公司应该为电影的麻烦负责：

不久之后，臭名昭著的超人之死评论家、特朗克导演**作《编年史》的作者马克斯·兰迪斯（Max Landis）发布了一系列支持特朗克的推文，同时提出了一些建设性的批评。

兰迪斯谈到了一些非常突出的问题，即围绕着一部电影的**，不可避免地要争夺控制权。但所有这些电影都有一个总的主题，那就是——尽管好莱坞的趋势是越来越多地把控制权交给大量的特许经营权之外——电影制片厂主要关心的是赚钱和保护所描绘的知识产权。

有时双方会达成平衡，比如加雷斯·爱德华兹（Gareth Edwards）执导了一部惊心动魄的《哥斯拉重启》（Godzilla reboot），或者科林·特雷沃罗（Colin Trevorrow）将《侏罗纪世界》（Jurassic World）打造成史上票房最高的电影之一。其他时候，这场斗争导致了壮观的熄火，比如埃德加·赖特（Edgar Wright）出演《蚁侠》（Ant Man），或者我们现在看到的《特兰克》（Trank）和《神奇四侠》（Fantastic Four），“没有人想拍一部糟糕的电影。”—马克斯·兰迪斯（Max Landis）

兰迪斯说，特朗克很幸运地享受了他对编年史的控制，但他也应该为2015年**一部奇迹电影所需的看似不可避免的丑陋过程做好准备。

撇开这条微博不谈，也许Trank正在吸取教训；今年5月，他辞去了即将上映的《星球大战》衍生电影之一的执导职务他对《洛杉矶时报》说：“在这之后，我想做一些有创意的事情，因为我一直生活在公众监督之下，正如你所看到的，在我生命的最后四年里。”我现在的生活不太健康。”

这是兰迪斯的全部咆哮：

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.