FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot's Working Title Has Been Revealed; Movie Will Be A "Grand Cosmic Adventure"

FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot's Working Title Has Been Revealed; Movie Will Be A "Grand Cosmic Adventure"

A new report reveals Fantastic Four's working title and it's a moniker which has ties to the comic book adventures of Marvel's First Family. It also sounds like we should expect this to be a cosmic tale...

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By JoshWilding - Oct 28, 2023 07:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four
Source: The Cosmic Circus

We're all eager to learn who will play the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Fantastic Four, but until the SAG-AFTRA strike ends, rumours will continue to swirl.

However, we have some intriguing news today courtesy of The Cosmic Circus; the site has learned that the reboot's working title is "Blue Moon." Monikers like this are used for casting calls and to keep a project secret. Sometimes, they have a meaning that ties into a movie's plot and, on other occasions, they're private in-jokes.

What's interesting about this one is that it does have ties to the comic book adventures of Marvel's First Family. 

On the page, The Blue Area of the Moon (sometimes known as the "Blue Side of the Moon) was an artificial, Earth-like environment in the Luther Crater. The Blue Area was first explored by the Fantastic Four who discovered that the area contained the ruins of an alien city and the Citadel of Uatu the Watcher.

Fantastic Four would be a fitting movie to introduce the live-action version of Jeffrey Wright's take on the character from What If...?, anyway. 

The site has also confirmed with sources that the plan at Marvel Studios is for "the First Family to make their debut in style by starting off with a grand cosmic adventure."

Galactus is still expected to be Fantastic Four's big bad, though we don't know whether Silver Surfer will appear. It's previously been reported that Norrin Radd will be the focus of a "Special Presentation," though that's said to have come to a "standstill" as filmmaker Matt Shakman continues figuring out the reboot's story. 

As of now, it appears Vanessa Kirby and Joseph Quinn are a lock for Invisible Woman and the Human Torch respectively. When it comes to the leader of the team, Adam Driver (Star Wars), Jake Gyllenhaal (Spider-Man: Far From Home), and Matt Smith (Morbius) are both said to be in the mix for Mister Fantastic. 

Antonio Banderas supposedly remains in the mix to star as Galactus, while Ebon Moss-Bachrach may end up playing the an unnamed Herald (The Fallen One and Terrax the Tamer are very real possibilities) or, considering the fact we're now hearing that unnamed character will be female, probably The Thing.

Shakman has worked with both Avatar: The Way of Water co-writer Josh Friedman and WandaVision's Cam Squires on a draft of Fantastic Four's screenplay. 

The movie is currently scheduled to be released in theaters on May 2, 2025.

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CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 10/28/2023, 7:58 AM
It feels weird for Galactus to be the main villain of the first F4 movie.

In all honesty, Galactus should have been this saga's big bad. Doom should have been introduced in F4.

They should have split the heroes between earth-bound heroes dealing with Doom and his plans, then had the space-bound heroes dealing with the Galactus side of the Saga.

Instead of this multiverse stuff they should have had the earth-bound heroes dealing with villains in their movies and find out Doom has been pulling the strings in the F4 movie.

In space, Guardians should have made some type of reference to Galactus, just like the original Guardians movie was the first time we saw a Celestial. Maybe we could have learned the Skrull homeworld was destroyed by him, or something. The Marvels should have been about them dealing with Galactus' Herald, whoever they wanted it to be, but not Silver Surfer. They would learn that Galactus is on his way to Earth.

Then they could have finally introduced Nova in his own movie and had him and Captain Marvel on a mission to stop Galactus, only to get wrecked.

By the end both storylines combine with Galactus and Silver Surfer arriving at Earth. This would be like the Infinity War part of the finale. They mostly deal Silver Surfer and he turns on Galactus. The final movie could have been all the earth-bound and Space-bound heroes teaming up with Surfer and Doom to stop Galactus. They weaken him, then Doom finds a way to steal Galactus' power and become God-Doom, the real big bad of the series.
MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 10/28/2023, 8:35 AM
@CorndogBurglar - As always, you get it.
It's much better than the council of Kangs.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 10/28/2023, 8:43 AM
@CorndogBurglar - I think Doom should be the villain for Secret Wars, kinda like in the 2015 cross-over.

Instead of that version, the MCU could see Doom step in as the last man to save the heroes from Kang. Only for him to rip out Kang's spine (instead of Thanos') and take that power for himself.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 10/28/2023, 9:15 AM
@CorndogBurglar - I like this a lot. 👍

Unfortunately, we're stuck with boring ass weak Kang.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 10/28/2023, 11:51 AM
@CorndogBurglar -
It's because they are incompetent and rushing through everything to get to present day comic material. We are effectively getting Transformers: Rise of the Beasts with this one. They are going to send a gender-swapped version of Terrax to Earth (Hence the original rumours of a female Thing as they look similar if gender-swapped) as a servant of Unicron. Galactus will probably get a small cameo at the end similar to Unicron.

Fantastic Four reboot's villain should be a Super Skrull who has their powers, only way for them to win is to bring their own character traits to the final battle as opposed to just relying on their powers, but they wasted that concept already with the god-awful Secret Invasion so they can't do that.
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/28/2023, 12:59 PM
@CorndogBurglar - I always dreamed this to be Fantastic Four trilogy

Fantastic Four The Mole Man (Doctor Doom post credit scene)

Fantastic Four 2 Doctor Doom (Silver Surfer post credit scene)

Fantastic Four 3 Galactus And The Silver Surfer

Fantastic Four Doctor Doom (Frightul Four post credit scene)

Fantastic Four 2 Frightful Four (Silver Surfer post credit scene)

Fantastic Four 3 Galactus And The Silver Surfer

CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 10/28/2023, 4:47 PM
@MarvelZombie616 - Thanks man lol !
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 10/28/2023, 4:48 PM
@bkmeijer1 - I'm hoping that's how it goes!
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 10/28/2023, 4:53 PM
@marvel72 - That would make sense, but for me I think it should start with Doom. The MCU needs him so badly. And finally doing him right would bring asses to seats of the first F4 movie. Because the general public have already seen 3 F4 movies that were all bad, with terrible versions of Doom. They need something to draw them in now, like a badass villain. And I'm not sure Mole Man will do the trick.
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 10/28/2023, 5:53 PM
@CorndogBurglar - doom doesn't pull strings of other villains to do his work. He doesn't need to.

Doom is going to be trying to timeshare the multiverse in his image. They are doing secret wars 2015.
TheShellyMan
TheShellyMan - 10/28/2023, 6:30 PM
@CorndogBurglar - Look at this bright idea... This is why the MCU needs a new leadership and fresh new blood!
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 10/28/2023, 6:39 PM
@CorndogBurglar - same. Just don't know how a cosmic adventure can set up Doom as well.

Maybe Doom helped set up Reed's exploration, only for Reed to betray him and leave him on Earth when the rest of team goes off. It's a bit petty for Doom to go bad after that though I guess
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 10/28/2023, 6:40 PM
@Toonstrack - you just reminded that timesharing is a thing. A thing I happen to despise. If Doom is in on tbat, I'll definitely despise him too
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 10/28/2023, 9:34 PM
@Toonstrack - Doom has worked with other villains and manipulated other villains countless times...
Toonstrack
Toonstrack - 10/29/2023, 1:10 PM
@CorndogBurglar - Doom only works with other villains when he csnt do something himself. Most of the villains we've gotten in the recent phases are personal villains to the heroes not random people doing bad things for him. Theres nothing they could offer doom. His goals are far beyond that.

The people he works with snd sometimes manipulates are major major big bads and shoving all of those out just to make them lacked for doom wouldn't work.
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