Kevin Feige Confirms a Popular Fantastic Four Theory

The Fantastic Four, Marvel’s astir iconic superhero team, is yet coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and with them travel a clump of questions. Questions similar “Where the hellhole person they been for the past 2 decades arsenic heroes similar Iron Man and Black Widow dealt with Thanos and others?”

The film’s archetypal conception creation seemed to reply that. Everything successful the representation (that simultaneously revealed the film’s formed of Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn) screamed the 1960s. Could The Fantastic Four be a play film? The answer, we present cognize for sure, is yes.

“It is simply a play [film],” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed connected the Official Marvel Podcast, and helium didn’t halt there. “There was different portion of creation we released with Johnny Storm flying successful the air making a ‘4’ awesome and determination was a cityscape successful the country of that representation and determination were a batch of astute radical who noticed that that cityscape didn’t look precisely similar the New York that we cognize oregon the New York that existed successful the ‘60s successful our world. And those are astute observations, I’ll say.”

We cropped that section of the afloat image above. It surely looks much, much much futuristic than New York adjacent successful the mean MCU 60 years later. That’s not a straightforward confirmation of The Fantastic Four being acceptable successful a antithetic beingness than the accepted MCU, but seems astir arsenic adjacent arsenic 1 gets from the notoriously secretive Feige.

Feige besides explained wherefore The Fantastic Four, implicit everything other Marvel has coming successful the adjacent fewer years, excites him the most. “I’m incredibly excited for what we’re doing with The Fantastic Four close now. And what Matt Shakman, our manager who did WandaVision for us, is moving on,” Feige said. “He’s already moved to London and we commencement filming astatine the extremity of July. Funny story, we commencement shooting the Monday aft [San Diego] Comic-Con. The time aft Comic-Con is the archetypal time of filming connected Fantastic Four. And I’m highly excited by it due to the fact that I deliberation those characters are mainstays, are legendary pillars of the Marvel Universe that we’ve ne'er got to play with oregon research successful immoderate important mode isolated from [Doctor Strange successful the] Multiverse of Madness and a fewer amusive teases before, successful the mode we’re doing it successful that film. So, I’m highly excited.”

Again, buried successful determination is Feige powerfully suggesting The Fantastic Four formed volition beryllium unneurotic during Comic-Con, a information that, specified hours later, was confirmed by Deadline. Marvel Studios volition so beryllium backmost successful Hall H astatine San Diego Comic-Con, and you person to presume it’ll bring its Fantastic Four with it.

And, if that’s the case, we’re definite to larn overmuch much astir The Fantastic Four past and io9 volition beryllium there. But for now, we tin 100% corroborate Fantastic Four is simply a play portion that is astir apt taking spot successful an alternate universe. How volition that enactment up with what’s happening successful the mean Marvel Cinematic Universe? I conjecture we’ll person to spot The Fantastic Four on July 25, 2025 to find out.

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