Kate Mara noted that she hadn't seen the movie a month after its release, and has been very unwilling to watch it due to the intensely negative reception.
In a quickly deleted tweet from August 6, 2015, Josh Trank said, "A year ago I had a fantastic version of this. And it would've received great reviews. You'll probably never see it. That's reality though." After seeing this version, the studio mandated heavy re-shoots. The newer scenes are easy to spot as Kate Mara had cut her hair and wore a blonde wig. Miles Teller also had facial hair that would appear and disappear between shots. Box office analysts have said that Trank's errant tweet may have cost 20th Century Fox $10 million in opening weekend ticket sales.
After the disappointing reviews, Josh Trank went on to tweet that he'll "never be working on a comic book movie again."
Marvel wasn't fond of the direction the film was going, and made mention of it in a Marvel Comic: "The Punisher" #12 has the Fantastic Four (in the likeness of the cast members of this film) get taken down in an explosion.