There are many things that are wrong Josh Trenck's 2015 superhero film Fantastic Four. Mostly, the film can't quite find its way to a solid tone and oscillates from fun and funny to dark or scary, often without a clear rhyme or reason to it. There's an element of wonder as Reed Richard (Miles Teller) finds a way to travel to alternate dimensions, but the film is also oddly sarcastic and self-deprecating, full of performances from its four leads (which, along with Teller, include Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell). The film even spends some time playing a Cronenbergian horror movie, as the Fantastic Four discover that their superpowers have mutated into their bodies.

A brief span of superhero deconstruction then ensues, as the Four realize that their powers are being used as military tools of death and destruction. Then, pretty quickly, the movie turns cartoonish and silly as Doctor Doom (Toby Kebbell) plans some sort of dimensional world conquest. Trenck, it seems, was pushed a lot by 20th Century Fox, and Fantastic Four was eventually torn from studio notes. While I have no problems with the Fantastic Four being reimagined as youthful prodigies or Doctor Doom no longer being a Latvian dictator, I do have a lot of problems with the fact that Fantastic Four is so poorly made.

Critics agree. The film had only 9% approval on Rotten Tomatoes (based on 259 views). It wasn't a huge box office hit either, grossing $167.9 million on a $120 million budget.

Also, did you recognize Chet Hanks in the mix? Probably not. Chet Hanks, the more troubled son of Hollywood superstar and classic sci-fi fan Tom Hanksmakes a brief cameo in Trank's film as Jimmy Grimm, the older brother of Bell's character. Jimmy, in this version of the Fantastic Four story, is an evil thug.

Chet Hanks, before we go any further, is somewhat notorious for some of his criminal activities. In 2015, he threw out a hotel in England under the influence of cocaine and entered rehab because of it. Then in 2021, he went through a very public and potentially criminal breakup when his ex-girlfriend, Kiana Parker, sued him for multiple counts of domestic abuse. He also sued Parker for burglary, assault and battery. That same year, Chet Hanks also spoke out against the Covid vaccination, for which he was scorned.

The younger Hanks has worked as an actor and even appeared in the movie Greyhound with his father Tom, but many may know him better for his rap career. He was the man behind 'White Boy Summer' and 'DAMN! in 2021.

In Fantastic Four, one can catch Hanks in the early scenes of the film. Future superhero The Thing, Ben Grimm, is only 12 years old (played by Evan Hanneman) and lives in a wasteland with his violent, poor family. His older brother Jimmy is seen playing baseball with his friends when young Ben returns home from school. Jimmy asks Ben to do a chore, and Ben refuses. Jimmy, enraged, chases him inside and angrily punches the younger brother several times. Fortunately, the boys' mother quickly comes out and puts an end to the violence. It's not a big scene for Hanks, but he effectively communicates that life is miserable for young Ben. It's understandable why Ben would want to spend time with aspiring engineer Reid Richards instead.

Of course, since interconnectedness is one of the core selling points of modern Marvel movies, it can now be accepted that Chet Hanks is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or at least has the potential to be. Perhaps his version of Jimmy Grimm will be one of the many, many characters that appear in the upcoming Avengers: Secret Wars ... but it's probably best not to count on it.