Michael B Jordan and the 2015 Marvel disaster that taught him a brutal Hollywood lesson

Michael B Jordan says the troubled 2015 *Fantastic Four* reboot taught him that an actor’s effort cannot control a film’s outcome. The experience was difficult, but he said he came away without lasting damage to his career and did not regard the film’s failure as proof he had failed.

Jordan joined the film as Johnny Storm after working with director Josh Trank on *Chronicle*. The production was strained by disagreements between Trank and 20th Century Fox executives over the film’s direction, script changes and reshoots; Trank later accepted responsibility while saying others shared it. The article says he had only one further directing credit in the 11 years after the reboot, while Jordan continued his rise as a leading actor.