Everything to Know About Marvel's “The Fantastic Four”

Marvel recently announced the official cast list for 'The Fantastic Four'

Marvel is finally assembling the cast of The Fantastic Four.

After many casting rumors and speculations, Disney confirmed the official cast list on Valentine’s Day with a fun graphic featuring Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm.

The upcoming Marvel movie has been in the works since 2019 when Disney first acquired the rights to the characters through their Fox deal. Marvel president Kevin Feige later confirmed the film during San Diego Comic-Con.

The new film will be the third movie adaptation of the Fantastic Four comic, following the 2005 film starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis and the 2015 film starring Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell.

Marvel previously teased the introduction of the Fantastic Four in 2022 when John Krasinski played an alternate version of Reed Richards in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (who was quickly killed off).

Here’s everything to know about the new Fantastic Four movie ahead.

Who is in the cast of The Fantastic Four?

On Valentine’s Day, Marvel officially announced the cast list for The Fantastic Four by sharing a cute graphic of the actors in characters.

Pedro Pascal will lead the cast as Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mister Fantastic, the leader of the Fantastic Four. The rest of the superhero group includes Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, a.k.a. Invisible Woman; Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm, a.ka. the Thing; and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, a.k.a. the Human Torch.

What is The Fantastic Four about?

In the comics, the Fantastic Four centers around a group of astronauts who get exposed to cosmic rays in space and gain superhero abilities.

Though Marvel hasn’t revealed the official tagline for the film, Feige previously teased that the movie would not center around how the Fantastic Four got their powers as previous iterations have.

“A lot of people know this origin story. A lot of people know the basics. How do we take that and bring something that they’ve never seen before?” Feige said during San Diego Com-Con in 2022. Acknowledging that the superhero group launched the Marvel Comics universe back in 1961, he added, “We’ve set a very high bar for ourselves with bringing that to the screen.”

Who is directing The Fantastic Four?

Matt Shakman, who previously worked on Disney+’s WandaVision series, is slated to direct the upcoming movie.

While speaking with Collider in October 2023, Shakman gushed about working on the upcoming Marvel film, teasing it would be very “different” from past iterations. “We are doing things very differently from a story standpoint, from an approach to the filmmaking standpoint, that really fits the material,” he told the publication. “I think it's going to be unlike anything you've seen before, and certainly unlike anything at Marvel that you've seen before.”

Who is writing The Fantastic Four?

In September 2022, Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer were tapped to write the script, however, in March 2023, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Josh Friedman, who previously worked on Avatar: The Way of Water, would be reworking the script.

When does filming begin?

Per Variety, filming for the new movie is expected to begin by summer 2024. Shakman previously told Collider the movie would film in London at Pinewood Studios, where many other Marvel projects have been filmed, including The Marvels, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and the Loki series.

When will The Fantastic Four be released?

The Fantastic Four will be released in theaters on July 25, 2025, and will be part of Phase 6 of the MCU.

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