OMG! 😱 Jon Watts FINALLY spilled the tea ☕ on why he bailed on directing *Fantastic Four: First Steps*. Turns out, making movies during a PANDEMIC 🦠 is, like, SOOOO hard. 🙄 Who knew?!
So, Mr. *Spider-Man: No Way Home* 🕷️ director (as if we needed reminding) quit the project back in the ancient times of 2022, claiming the “emotional strain” 😭 of all those pesky pandemic protocols just, like, totally exhausted him. He had NO CHOICE but to quit! 🙅♂️ It’s not like directing a superhero movie is a dream job or anything. 😴
According to *The Hollywood Reporter* (because we ONLY get our news from reputable sources, duh 🙄), he whined during some fancy-pants storytelling masterclass in the Mediterranean 🏝️ about how “the emotional strain” (again with the emotions! 🙄) of all those COVID rules was just too much. I mean, imagine having to make sure your cast and crew didn’t, like, DIE 💀 or something! So inconvenient! And trying to be creative at the same time? As if! 🤯
But wait, there’s MORE! 😩 He went on and on about how doing visual effects is, like, SO complicated because you have to use “vendors from all over the world” 🌎 (gasp!). And the “supply chain” (whatever THAT is) was all messed up because of COVID. 😫 It was, like, REALLY hard to get those special effects done the usual way. Boo-hoo! 😭 Maybe he should have tried drawing them himself. 🖍️
Apparently, he committed to *Fantastic Four: First Steps* between *Spider-Man* movies (because, you know, he had NOTHING else to do 🙄). But when it was time to actually start, he was, and I quote, “out of gas.” ⛽ Like a car that needs premium unleaded. 🚗💨
He dramatically declared that “the COVID layer” (as if making a giant movie wasn’t already dramatic enough 🙄) meant he didn’t have what it takes to make the movie “great.” 🙄 So, instead of sucking it up and doing his job, he decided to quit. 🚶♂️💨 Because, you know, it’s better to not do something at all than to do it less than perfectly. 💯 That’s the spirit! 👍
He needed “time to recover.” 🧘♀️ From what, exactly? Sitting in a director’s chair and telling people what to do? 🤔
But don’t worry, everyone at Marvel “totally understood.” 😇 They’d been through it with him too, so they knew how “hard and draining” 😩 it had all been. In the end, it was “very satisfying,” 😌 but he just couldn’t go on. 💔 So brave! 🫡 He’s basically a superhero in real life! 🦸♂️
So, there you have it, folks! The REAL reason Jon Watts bailed on *Fantastic Four*. It wasn’t creative differences or scheduling conflicts or anything interesting like that. Nope, it was just good old-fashioned pandemic fatigue. 😴 The kind that only affects multi-millionaire movie directors, apparently. 💰 Must be rough. 🤷♀️
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