Paul Walter Hauser Is Loving His Fantastic Four Research: Reading Lots of Comics

Paul Walter Hauser has precocious seen his prima rocket from “that guy” supporting roles (even aft his breakout successful 2019’s Richard Jewell) to a near-ubiquitous beingness crossed movies and TV. He’s played a fan-favorite quality connected Cobra Kai, voices Embarrassment successful Pixar’s existent container bureau smash Inside Out 2, has a Chris Farley biopic connected the way, and—most importantly for the nerdier fans among us—will play an as-yet-unrevealed role successful 2025 Marvel Cinematic Universe merchandise The Fantastic Four.

Speaking to Variety, Hauser—who besides has someway besides recovered clip to compression successful a broadside gig arsenic a nonrecreational wrestler—says he’s having a blast prepping for the Marvel project. Unlike immoderate large names successful superhero movies, his process hasn’t progressive immoderate benignant of exhausting carnal routine. Rather, he’s been reading comics. Lots of comics.

“Pre-production for maine has been speechmaking comic books and speechmaking the screenplay,” helium told the trade. “A batch of it is assessing wherever I acceptable into that communicative and however to champion utilize my clip successful it. You don’t privation to marque choices oregon bash things that are redundant successful a film. It’s important to cognize what the movie is and what everyone’s jobs are truthful that you’re bringing your ain unsocial instrumentality to thing … Whenever I’m successful an ensemble, I’m trying to fig retired however to beryllium unsocial oregon circumstantial without being distracting.”

The gig has turned his attentions distant from his DC Comics roots, it seems. “I didn’t truly work Fantastic Four erstwhile I was a kid,” helium went connected to explain. “I was precise Batman-centric. But speechmaking the Fantastic Four comics has been a blast. I emotion it.”

The Fantastic Four is slated to deed theaters July 25, 2025; it’s portion of Marvel’s Phase Six. The main quartet volition beryllium played by Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, with Julia Garner arsenic Silver Surfer and Ralph Ineson arsenic Galactus; Hauser’s successful that “we don’t cognize who they’re playing yet, but damn this formed is good” radical that besides includes John Malkovich and Natasha Lyonne.

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