‘Fantastic Four’: ‘WandaVision’ Director Matt Shakman in Talks to Helm


Veteran TV director Matt Shuckman, who ushered Marvel Studios into the era of TV, is in early talks to make the leap to MCU features Fantastic Four, the sources tell Hollywood Reporter.

Shuckman becomes Marvel’s favorite with Emmy-winner wandavision, the first MCU series released for Disney+. He came on as a director on FX’s long-running comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia before graduating to tell the story with the event game of Thrones, In July 2021, Paramount tapped him to direct the next film. star trek The film, which is currently dated for December 22, 2023. It is not clear whether he will continue to be involved.

Other filmmakers met on the project include love and monster Director Michael Mathews and dog Filmmaker Reed Caroline. According to sources, the two finalists were ultimately Matthews and Shakman.

Fantastic Four With the film on November 8, 2024, Phase 6 of Marvel’s storytelling will begin. No casting is known, but John Krasinski, a longtime fan in the role, appeared as Reed Richards/Mr. great in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Released in May. However, this was an alternate-universe version of the character, meaning it is unknown whether Krasinski would continue in the role.

Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby posed in the pages of the team of Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch and The Thing Fantastic Four Number 1 in 1961. The comic rediscovered the publisher, then known as Timely, and launched the Marvel Universe as a shared storytelling canvas.

The Fantastic Four is a cornerstone of the Marvel mythos, but the big-screen adaptation has never been adopted by audiences. In the 1990s, Roger Corman produced a low-rent film that was never released, while 20th Century Fox released films in 2005 and 2007, starring future Captain America actor Chris Evans as Human Torch. were shown. (In 2010, there was also talk of Paul Greengrass-helmed Fantastic Four vs The X-Men crossover film). Filmmaker Josh Trank headed to disastrous 2015 Fantastic Four Reboot, scuttling plans for more. A few years later, Disney acquired the rights to Superteam when the company bought 20th Century Fox.

Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige is the first to announce a new Fantastic Four With the film in December 2020, during a Disney Investor Day Spider Man Director John Watts joined the helm. (Watts later announced his departure in April 2022.) Feige has said it will not be an origin story, telling heart At San Diego Comic-Con in July, “A lot of people know this origin story. A lot of people know the basics. How do we take that and bring something they’ve never seen before?”

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