Earlier today, we shared a recent tweet from filmmaker Josh Trank, who wished Taika Waititi good luck on his work on the upcoming Akira movie. Given that Trank’s breakout hit, Chronicle, was very much overtly inspired by the source material, it seemed like a fitting tweet of well wishes, but the filmmaker then went on to mention that he “died” three years later…which was when the film Fantastic Four came out.

Obviously, it’s easy to look back on Fantastic Four with a whole lot of negativity. The movie wasn’t so hot, and the way Trank handled may not have been so hot either. But people are never just their mistakes or their failures. Creatives always take kicks in the shins, and it’s about how they rebound from those hits that matter. in a recent couple of tweets following up that previous one, Trank mentioned how much of a positive thing his failure was.

“Failure was a gift.” “It forced me to walk an honest path, and I’m way happier today than I ever was before.” “I have a film out later this year, starring Tom Hardy, called FONZO that I wrote, directed, and edited.” “We had so much fun making it & it’s my best work as a filmmaker.” “When you lose your cushion & heat of success & no longer have offers coming your way, & no cache to collab with established writers, you are left w/ just the stories in your heart; the challenging/uncomfortable ones you were ignoring & you must write them alone. It’s a blessing.”

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Trank has essentially been in director jail for the past few years. He lost his gig with Lucasfilm, and from the sound of it, he really had to start again from the ground up. The interesting thing here will be to see where he ends up next. How will Fonzo do, and if it isn’t any good, how will he handle its failure?

I’ll certainly be looking his way and hoping it works out, regardless.

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