Line #27 Creator/JoshTrank


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8	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/josh_trank_4.jpg]]
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10	Joshua Benjamin Trank (born February 19, 1984) is an American film director, writer and editor from Los Angeles, California. He has directed three features -- ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' (2012), ''[[Film/FantasticFour2015 Fantastic Four]]'' (a.k.a. ''[[Letters2Numbers Fant4stic]]'') (2015), and ''Film/{{Capone}}'' (2020) -- but is most well-known for the first two, with each film representing his meteoric rise and subsequent fall in prominence.
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12	''Chronicle'' put Trank's name on the map with its inventive take on the {{found footage\|Films}} genre and its ability to make [[NoBudget an inexpensive production]] ''look'' like it was expensive. However, he had actually been generating buzz as early as 2007, with the overnight popularity of his video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOwXIarEpzI "Stabbing at Leia's"]] (also filmed in a found footage style) making for his first big break. He filled the years in between with work including spin-off webisodes for ''Series/TheKillPoint'' and editing for ''Film/BigFan''.
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14	With ''Chronicle''[='=]s success, Trank had promise to be a big-time director, at varying points in time being attached to film adaptations of ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' and ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}''. He was ultimately chosen by producer Simon Kinberg (who produced ''Chronicle'') to go with a reboot of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' film franchise, making it his second collaboration with Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. Kinberg also convinced Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} that he could handle one of their then-recently-announced ''Franchise/StarWars'' spin-off films (which he executive produced).
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16	Unfortunately, [[TroubledProduction things went downhill from there]]. Trank found himself overwhelmed by the experience of working on ''[=Fant4stic=]'' and became unresponsive or outright [[HostilityOnTheSet hostile on the set]], at least according to various reports.[[note]]There are many rumors that cannot be confirmed; this makes it hard to discern truth from gossip.[[/note]] Around this time, he announced that he would be stepping down from the ''Star Wars'' spin-off gig in favor of his own smaller projects, though that stopped few from running with the story that he was booted due to his behavior helming ''[=Fant4stic=]''. Even with the film being significantly [[ExecutiveMeddling overhauled by Fox itself]], nobody was satisfied with the final product, least of all the critics and audiences who panned it, and the film [[BoxOfficeBomb lost Fox $80-100 million]]. Trank then distanced himself from the movie and quietly disappeared from movie industry talks.
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18	However, in the years since the ''[=Fant4stic=]'' debacle, Trank lived up to his promise to work on smaller projects, although the fact that [[CreatorKiller his chances of working on another studio tentpole for a long while are slim to none]] is undeniable. His first new effort, ''Capone'', focuses on notorious gangster UsefulNotes/AlCapone's descent into insanity in his last years of life, as played by Creator/TomHardy.
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20	He also appeared in an episode of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', "A New Start", which was -- [[HilariousInHindsight amusingly]] -- about a troubled attempt by that show's cast to make a ''Fantastic Four'' adaptation of their own.
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22	!!Directorial credits
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25	* ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' (2012)
26	* ''Film/{{Fantastic Four\|2015}}'' (2015)
27	* ''Film/{{Capone}}'' (2020)
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30	!!His works provide examples of:
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36	%%* BodyHorror
37	* {{Deconstruction}}: Strongly used in both ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' and ''Film/{{Capone}}''.

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