Fantastic Four’s Josh Trank and Simon Kinberg have finally addressed the comic book fans who went ballistic on them over the past several months.
Trank, Fantastic Four’s director, and Kinberg, its producer, drew the wrath of Fantatic Four purists when they made “controversial” casting choices for The Human Torch and The Thing. Trank said “I knew it was going to get ugly,” .
The pair have their reasons for re-imagining the Marvel Comics icons, whose appearances have remained relatively untouched in their fifty-plus year history. Kinberg said.” The change of Jamie as Ben being a smaller guy instead of a bigger guy, for example, was for a purpose,”
