Production Begins On Marvel’s 'The Fantastic Four'
Pedro Pascal has posted the first photo of the team together, with a year until release
While Deadpool & Wolverine opens in previews today, Marvel Studios has The Fantastic Four positioned for the same weekend next year, which means it’ll be released one year from Thursday, with July 25 being the Friday in 2025. But that requires them to actually make the movie, which is finally beginning after so many delays. Pedro Pascal, who plays Mr. Fantastic aka Reed Richards, shared the quartet’s first photo together on Instagram. It’s expected to be the first of many as they are expected for the big Hall H showcase at San Diego Comic-Con Saturday.
“Our first mission together.” the actor captioned his post that featured him with Vanessa Kirby, who’s playing Sue Storm the Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn, who’s playing Johnny Storm the Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach who’s playing Ben Grimm, the Thing. A second photo behind it featured director Matt Shakman, wearing a lanyard that reads “Blue Moon”, believed to be the film’s code name.
Production on the film had long (probably since the SAG-AFTRA strike ended in November) been eyed for a late July start in London. It’s written by Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer. Plot details are still under wraps, but Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige recently confirmed the setting on The Official Marvel Podcast, an alternate 1960s New York City. Other confirmed characters cast are Julia Garner as a Shalla-Bal Silver Surfer and Ralph Ineson as Galactus. Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Lyonne, and John Malkovich have been cast, but they (and yet-to-be-announced cast members) may have their roles revealed Saturday. And it’s looking very likely with the teases in the drone show that followed the Hall H panel/screening for Deadpool & Wolverine, the entire supporting cast will get their formal introduction.
Quinn has openly been talking about The Fantastic Four on his A Quiet Place: Day One press tour, lamenting several times that they had not yet all been in the same room. He has also said “with the story of the Fantastic Four, it feels like we want to get this right”, elaborating about the script “There are aspects of it that are very different to other Marvel films. That felt very compelling to me. And again, going back to who’s involved, Matt [Shakman], of course, the director, I think is brilliant, and the cast, and I’ve read it, and the script is brilliant. It’s really brilliant. I’m delighted to have this opportunity.” He continues “Superhero movies are movies about people. And if we’re invested in the people and the characters and the peril and the spectacle, then that’s why people go to the theaters to watch films. We’re not just in a penny; we’re in for a pound with this one. We’re going to go for it.”
Source: Variety