
Chris Columbus shared during the Fade to Black podcast (as reported by Variety) that he found himself in an unusual predicament regarding the Fantastic Four. “I had developed a script, multiple writers were involved,” he explained. “The studio was preparing to produce the film, and I was serving as the producer. I proposed my ideas to the director, suggesting that the visual concepts should reflect the style of Jack Kirby, the creator of Fantastic Four, and the Silver Age of Marvel. After voicing these suggestions, I was summoned back home, only to receive a call from the head of 20th Century Fox shortly after, informing me that I had been let go and was considered too opinionated.