Little Caesars 4 with Josh Gondelman

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4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman, Positive Reinforcement) joins the 'boys to talk sports fandom, Boston eats, and New England comedy before a review of the Little Caesars Fantastic 4 Pizza. Plus, a new Snack or Wack.

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Sources for this week's intro:

https://movieweb.com/fantastic-four-director-josh-trank-landed-in-movie-jail/

https://weminoredinfilm.com/2015/05/02/fired-the-strange-story-of-josh-trank-simon-kinberg-the-fantastic-four-star-wars/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/inside-a-star-wars-firing-792933/

https://collider.com/fantastic-four-2015-josh-trank/

https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/5/21246679/josh-trank-capone-interview-fantastic-four-chronicle

https://www.ilitchnewshub.com/post/little-caesars-r-teams-up-with-marvel-studios-the-fantastic-four-first-steps

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.5	Want to watch this episode? Check it out on our YouTube channel by going to
0:09.1	YouTube.com slash doughboys media.
0:15.0	The three youngest directors to have a film open number one at the American box office are
0:19.4	James Cameron,
0:23.4	Stephen Spielberg, and Josh Trank?
0:29.6	Trank's 2012 Chronicle, a found-footed superhero film scripted by Neppo Baby Pariah Max Landis, was a surprise smash, putting him on a garden path to join former Wunderkind's
0:34.9	Cameron and Spielberg as a reliable box office hitmaker.
0:38.9	Trank was handed that opportunity with his next job. At just the age of 30, he was tasked with
0:44.3	helming the third cinematic version of Fantastic Four. Lose the the the, it's cleaner,
0:49.5	following Roger Corman's unreleased B-movie 90s version and Tim Story's two middling
0:54.0	efforts in the
0:54.7	odds. But the production struggled as Trank clashed with his cast and the studio, and also was a source
1:01.3	of offset drama. From the Hollywood reporter, quote, Trank had several small dogs who were left in a
1:08.1	rented house in New Orleans while the film was shooting there.
1:15.8	According to sources, as much as $100,000 worth of damage was done to the property.
1:22.3	Ultimately, the film was arrested from him by Fox, and in 2015, in a fit of pre-release frustration,
1:28.4	Trank tweeted, quote, a year ago, I had a fantastic version of this, and it would have received great reviews. You'll probably never see it. That's reality, though. Since then, his only film
1:34.9	has been 2020's Capone, starring Tom Hardy as the titular Ciphilitic Gangster, which was denied
1:40.5	theatrical release due to the pandemic. But Hollywood being Hollywood, the Marvel IP
1:45.7	Trank once steered as being mined yet again. Now fittingly, in its fourth iteration, the MCU
1:51.2	quartet has partnered with, fittingly, the nation's fourth largest pizza chain for one pie split four
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