‘Fantastic Four’ Reboot Plot Spoilers: Director Josh Trank Will Have ‘Found Footage’ View! Young Cast Will ‘Come Of Age’ As They Gain Powers! Is This A ‘Chronicle’ Sequel?

Fox has great trust in their directors and they feel that it can spell the success or failure of a movie. Their choice for the Fantastic Four reboot is Josh Trank, and his trademark will reverberate throughout the film.

The producer of Fox, Emma Watts, was asked about her superhero 'tentpole' films. Fantastic Four is challenged, to say the least as the general buzz is weak.

From THR: "Are you concerned there will be superhero burnout at some point?

EW:"Not so far. Certainly the audience seems to still be really enjoying it. We're making a big bet for 2015 with The Fantastic Four and director Josh Trank. To me, the key is the originality of the filmmakers and the choices they make. Josh is another really interesting example, who is using the vision he gave us in Chronicle to reinvent a franchise he's loved his whole life. It's not that you can't make original ideas -- you can, and we did it with Chronicle. The director is the key to not letting superhero movies go stale. That's the truth."

Will the Fantastic Four reboot have any of the same found-footage feel that Chronicle did?

EW: "It's Josh, so it can't not have that feel. That's his talent, that's what he does, and that's what excites him about it. It is a really interesting young cast [Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell], and he is the magnet that's brought them all together."

Simon Kinberg, writer of Fox's superhero projects, also reiterates Trank's vision for the film, which is based on his past success (from The Daily Beast):

"We were shooting the Washington D.C. finale sequence in Days of Future Pastand I talked to Josh, and he had such a clear vision of what he wanted to do with the film that was so different from the other movies-it was grounded, real, gritty, and what it would really be like if you went through a transformation and lost control of your body. That, coupled with him wanting it to be a coming-of-age movie, felt fresh to me."

Will it become a "Chronicle" sequel but with familiar characters:

 "The tone of this movie will feel as unique as when you saw Iron Man, X-Men, or Batman Begins for the first time. It's not as goofy as the first movies; it has humor in it, but the humor is much more real and comes from character, not pratfall jokes. It's a much more dramatic film than it is a comedy. I would say it falls somewhere between Raimi's first couple of Spider-Man movies and Chronicle."

Josh Trank has his work cut out for him but one thing's for sure-he will not be influenced by the Fantastic Four movies a decade ago.