Kevin Feige has revealed that the upcoming Fantastic Four film won’t be an origin story.
There was much hype surrounding the new Fantastic Four at the recent San Diego Comic-Con, with fans finding out that the release date for the highly-anticipated film is scheduled for November 8th, 2024.
And in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel Studios bigwig Feige offered more updates on the reboot. “A lot of people know this origin story,” he explained. “A lot of people know the basics. How do we take that and bring something that they’ve never seen before.”
“We’ve set a very high bar for ourselves with bringing that to the screen,” Feige added about the vision for the film.
Very little else is known about the Fantastic Four reboot. Spider-Man: Homecoming, Far From Home, and No Way Home director Jon Watts had been attached to helm the film, but surprisingly departed the project in April.
In terms of a replacement, Ant-Man director Peyton Reed is known to be a Fantastic Four fan having previously pitched a film version of the comic book back in the early noughties, but nothing’s been confirmed.
Casting is also still a mystery, with John Krasinski heavily rumoured to be taking on the role of Reed Richards. The Office icon, of course, played Reed very briefly in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as a member of the Illuminati, an elite group of heroes Doctor Stranger encountered in a parallel reality.
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The last time Fantastic Four made it to the big screen didn’t exactly go to plan though. The 2015 reboot starred Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan but it was a critical and commercial bomb.
At the 36th Golden Raspberry Awards, the film ‘triumphed’ in the Worst Director and Worst Picture categories, and director Josh Trank even voiced his displeasure with the final film, blaming studio interference.
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