For a period back in 2015, Josh Trank was Hollywood's wunderkind. Coming off the back of found-footage superhero flick Chronicle, the director was working away at Fantastic Four and was linked to a Star Wars movie centred on Boba Fett. As we now know, neither project worked out as expected, with Fantastic Four being critically panned and the Star Wars movie never coming to fruition.
Word quickly spread that Trank had been fired from the project due to his "erratic" behaviour on the set of Fantastic Four – claims he has denied. In a new interview with Polygon, Trank has since claimed that he was not fired from Star Wars but quit after finding that working within the studio system was proving difficult.
"I quit because I knew I was going to be fired if I didn't quit," he told the publication.
The filmmaker has previously said that he had not wanted to comment on the Star Wars situation because "it would blow over".
"But I was shocked," he continued, "it just hasn't blown over. People get so excited to raise their pitchforks. I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under scepticism as to why I left Star Wars, and it was hard."
