While promoting his new movie Capone, director Josh Trank has been upfront on his difficulties and shortcomings in directing the 2015 film Fantastic FourHis newest comments have revealed that he originally planned to have the movie's Sue Storm be black, like her brother Johnny Storm, only for studio executives to nix the idea.

Trank explained in a video interview with First Cut that, early on in Fantastic Four's production, he was "mostly interested in a black Susan Storm, a black Johnny Storm and a black Franklin Storm...but when it came down to it, I found a lot of pretty heavy pushback on casting a black woman in that role."

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Trank also expressed regrets about not doing more in response to this casting plan being nixed.  "When I look back on that, I should have just walked when that realization hit me," he explained. "I feel, like, embarrassed about that, that I didn't, just out of principle. Those aren't the values that I stand for in my own life and those weren't the values then or ever for me."

Trank finished up the discussion by stating, "If there's one regret I have...it's that one issue."

Fantastic Four, directed by Josh Trank and written by Trank, Jeremy Slater and Simon Kinberg, was released in August 2015 to disastrous reviews and box office performance.

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(via Geeks of Color)