What on Earth is going on with the Fantastic Four reboot?

This article contains mild spoilers for 2015s Fantastic Four movie.

Over the past day or so, news surfaced about Doctor Doom, the villain in the forthcomingFantastic Fourreboot.

So what do we really know aboutFantastic Fourso far?

Things seemed to gather pace in 2012, when director Josh Trank came aboard.

Trank had just directedChronicle, a highly impressive debut that was like a found-footage fusion ofCarrie, Akira.

And its here that the first sparks of controversy began to emerge.

Then things started getting really weird.

At around the time of that casting news, in February this year, aFantastic Foursynopsis emerged.

Oddly, Josh Trank thencame forwardand stated that the synopsis was a fabrication.

At any rate, filming got underway in the spring of this year, and ran through to August.

And it was during filming that a few more morsels of information emerged from the project.

Its Josh, so it cant not have that feel.

Thats his talent, that what he does, and thats what excites him about it.

If I had to say, the tone of it would be somewhere on the spectrum betweenSpider-ManandChronicle.

The other movies were even further on the spectrum of being goofy and fun than Spider-Man.

So I chose to follow his instructions.

While that latest nugget of information was sinking in, another strange thing happened.

Whats most unusual aboutThe Fantastic Fouris just how little weve officially seen from its production.

I was there for pretty much the whole shoot.