It's been over four years since Marvel Studios announced plans to reboot Fantastic Four and the movie has definitely been put through the wringer since then.
Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts chose to leave the project, with WandaVision director Matt Shakman later replacing him. However, the script has since been through at least a few rewrites, while the release date has also shuffled further and further down the release calendar.
It's way too soon to suggest Fantastic Four is in any way troubled, but it's clearly a project Marvel Studios is trying to get right. After three previous adaptations (four if you include Roger Corman's ill-fated effort), another failure would likely be the nail in the coffin of Marvel's First Family.
One positive sign is that the current plan is supposedly for Sue Storm, a.k.a. Invisible Woman, to be Fantastic Four's lead character and primary focus.
We've previously heard Marvel Studios wishes to build the team around whoever is cast as Sue, perhaps no great surprise when she's actually the most powerful of the four.
As things stand, we still don't know who will play the MCU's Invisible Woman. Margot Robbie (Barbie) was once thought to be a frontrunner, though recent reports suggest the role may now be Vanessa Kirby's (Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One).
We'll see what happens, especially as confirmed details about the long-awaited reboot are few and far between.
Fantastic Four is set to be released in theaters on May 2, 2025. It was previously dated February 14 of that same year but was originally supposed to head our way in 2024.
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