Update: February 13, 2015
David Cronenberg on Influencing FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot
A few weeks ago, director Josh Trank told Collider that he was a huge David Cronenberg fan and those films inspired his take on Fantastic Four. Trank especially wanted to bring Cronenberg's style to the transformation scene to convey "something horrible happening to your body and it transforming out of control." In a new interview, Cronenberg gives his thoughts on the fact that his work influenced the new Fantastic Four movie.
"It’s fine," Cronenberg told Collider. "Once you’ve contributed your voice to the cinematic conversation, it’s out there and it’s up for grabs, absolutely. So I don’t complain. In fact, I take it as a compliment." He later added, "When you come up with something original and it really strikes a chord in people, it’s going to imitated, it’s going to be appropriated, and it’s actually kind of nice when someone just flat out admits it. That’s actually pretty good. Not everybody does."
"As far back as Alien, for example, which totally ripped off things from my movie Shivers - Shivers featured a parasite that lives in your body, bursts out of your chests, jumps onto your face, and jumps down your mouth, and suddenly you see this in a studio film, which was hugely successful, Alien," Cronenberg said. "The writer of the script, Dan O’Bannon, had seen Shivers, we know that he had seen my movie and, shall we say, appropriated it. So this is not new stuff for me."
David Cronenberg on Josh Trank's The Fantastic Four Being Inspired By His Films
