Home Alone’s Chris Columbus Nearly Directed Fantastic Four, And I’m Shocked By The Reason He Said He Was Fired From It

During an interview on the Fade to Black Podcast promoting his latest film The Thursday Murder Club (available on Netflix), Columbus reminisced about his connection with Marvel’s First Family – a memory from over a decade before the Fantastic Four movie featuring Ioan Gruffud, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, and Chris Evans hit the screens. At that time, it seemed that the director’s commitment to staying true to the original comic book source material was not favored by executives at 20th Century Fox. He shared:








