Kevin Feige announces Fantastic Four’s filming start date and confirms its period setting
Jun. 26, 2024Marvel boss confirms major Fantastic Four details
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Marvel boss Kevin Feige has given a positive update onThe Fantastic Four rebootat long last, confirming the film will indeed be set in the ‘60s and announcing an official filming start date.
“We start shooting at the end of July,” revealed Feige in the first episode of Marvel’s newThe Official Marvel Podcast. “The day after Comic-Con [International: San Diego] is the first day of filming on Fantastic Four.”
Later in the interview, Feige finally put to bed some major fan speculation over the movie’s setting following rumors it would take placein an alternate universe in the ‘60sdue to its retro-looking poster announcingThe Fantastic Four cast.
“Yes, yes, very much so. It is a period,” confirmed Feige. The Marvel President then praised fans’ investigative digging surroundinganother Fantastic Four poster, adding, “There were a lot of smart people, who noticed that that cityscape didn’t look exactly like the New York that we know, or that existed in the ’60s in our world. Those are smart observations, I’ll say.”
Feige commented on the Marvel classics finally joining the MCU, “I’m extremely excited by it because I think those characters are mainstays, are legendary pillars of the Marvel Universe that we’ve never gotten to play with or explore in a significant way outside ofDoctor Strange: Multiverse of Madnessand a few fun teases before, in the way that we’re doing it in that film. So I’m extremely excited for that.”
The Fantastic Four, directed by Matt Shakman, stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards AKA Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm AKA The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm AKA The Human Torch, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm AKA The Thing, Julia Garner as The Silver Surfer, and Ralph Ineson as Galactus. John Malkovich, Natasha Lyonne, and Paul Walter Hauser have also been cast in unknown roles.
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The interview above is from the first episode of The Official Marvel Podcast, out now onSpotify,Apple Music,YouTube, and more.
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