Great news for Marvel fans has just appeared the introduction of the Fantastic Four in the MCU has been announced.
The news was announced by Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios that he roped in screenwriters Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springe for Fantastic Four.
According to him, Fantastic Four is the foundation for everything that came after in the comics. “There have certainly been versions of it [on screen], but never inhabiting the storytelling of the MCU and that’s something that is really exciting for us,” he said.
In 2025, Marvel Studios will drop the Fantastic Four. The movie is made up of Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic), Sue Storm (Invisible Girl), Johnny Storm (Human Torch) and Ben Grimm (Thing). The foursome is said to jumpstart Phase 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Fantastic Four was created in 1961 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and the characters have appeared in various movie adaptations like the 2005 film directed by Tim Story along with its sequel in 2007 titled Rise of the Silver Surfer. In 2015, Josh Trank directed a reboot that was not well received.
John Krasinski made a cameo in the 2022 film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness playing Reed in an alternative universe.
