THE FANTASTIC FOUR Rumor May Explain '60s Setting - Possible SPOILERS

THE FANTASTIC FOUR Rumor May Explain '60s Setting - Possible SPOILERS

A new rumor relating to the setting Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four takes place may explain why the MCU reboot takes place in the '60s...

By MarkCassidy - Mar 27, 2024 09:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four

When Marvel Studios unveiled our first official look at The Fantastic Four this past Valentine's Day, the promo image and logo made it pretty clear that the persistent rumors that the reboot was going to have a period setting were on the level, and we'd later get confirmation that the story would indeed play out in 1963.

We've had conflicting reports about whether the entire movie will be set in the '60s or if it will somehow jump to the present day before the end, but if the team is eventually going to interact with the other MCU heroes in the next Avengers movies and/or beyond, one would assume it's going to have to happen at some point.

Now, a new rumor may give us a little more to go on.

Though this probably won't be viewed as a major reveal, just in case it's something that Marvel intends to keep out of the marketing, here's your spoiler warning.

According to insider Daniel Richtman, The Fantastic Four will actually be set in an alternate universe. If accurate, this would obviously suggest that the characters will be Variants from some other part of the Multiverse that will eventually find their way to the main MCU timeline (possibly due to the interdimensional rift Dar-Benn caused at the end of The Marvels).

Richtman has also heard that the movie is scheduled to begin shooting this August, and the tentatively titled Avengers 5 will start production next year.

The cast has stayed pretty tight-lipped about their respective roles, but Pedro Pascal (Reed Richards) did recently express his excitement about joining Marvel's First Family.

"I can tell you how excited I am, which is beyond! There isn’t anything more exciting than being in a cast like that, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joe Quinn and our director Matt Shakman. To be invited to a family like that is unbelievable, and we all just want to do our best and share it with the world.”

Pascal will be joined by Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning) as Sue Storm, aka the Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things) as Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Punisher, The Bear) as Ben Grimm, aka the Thing.

There are rumors that both Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) and Mads Mikkelsen (Rogue One) are top picks to play Doctor Doom, but other actors are sure to be in contention.

Javier Bardem is still rumored to be the top choice for Galactus, but his schedule may prevent him from signing on. The Eater of Worlds' herald is believed to be Silver Surfer, but a female take on the character. A recent rumor claimed that Anya Taylor-Joy is being eyed for that role.

Matt Shakman will direct FF. Plot details are still a mystery, but Kevin Feige has confirmed that this will not be another origin story for the super-team.

“A lot of people know this origin story. A lot of people know the basics. How do we take that and bring something that they’ve never seen before?” he said in a 2022 interview, comparing this new take on the heroes to Marvel Studios' pact with Sony to bring Spider-Man into the MCU. “We’ve set a very high bar for ourselves with bringing that to the screen.”

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PJMcado
PJMcado - 3/27/2024, 9:24 PM
Anyone else sick of the multiverse yet?
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/27/2024, 9:29 PM
@PJMcado - Yes.
BreakTheCode
BreakTheCode - 3/27/2024, 9:31 PM
@PJMcado - Not one bit. Hardly any of the MCU has covered that ground. Also, it could lay the groundwork for future movies/shows that aren’t necessarily connected to the rest of the MCU.
kazuma
kazuma - 3/27/2024, 9:33 PM
@PJMcado - The Spider-verse movies are the only movies to use the multiverse good imo. Everything else has beenn for fanservice and nothing more.
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 3/27/2024, 9:34 PM
@PJMcado - could the multiverse angle have been cool? If yes, what would’ve needed changing for it to be cool?
GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/27/2024, 9:30 PM
Yay more rumors…
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/27/2024, 9:46 PM
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This site pretty much runs in rumors at this point lol
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 3/27/2024, 9:30 PM
Shout out to the CBM crew to reveal everything about the movies so we know everything beforehand and end up not seeing the movie
Comicmoviejunki
Comicmoviejunki - 3/27/2024, 10:01 PM
@KaptainKhaos - shut your damn mouth!
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 3/28/2024, 2:03 AM
@KaptainKhaos - haha, true
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/27/2024, 9:36 PM
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If true then I would rather they just be from the 60’s in the MCU rather then some alternate universe version , just seems a bit too convoluted…

Unless they do a soft reboot in which all the worlds are combined into one which would mean the FF have been here the whole time which I could be more fine with it.

Anyway , I just hope the film turns out well because Marvel’s First Family deserves it!!.
Origame
Origame - 3/27/2024, 9:38 PM
Yes, because that makes sense as opposed to just making them characters in the mcu since the 60s werent covered much yet 🙄
BruceWayng
BruceWayng - 3/27/2024, 9:42 PM
If this is accurate, it’s the dumbest fuggin way to introduce them ever.

The one thing I miss about the old MCU was how they connected everything logically and with little effort. Like how Hawkeye and Black Widow were former SHEILD agents. Looks like those days are done and they are using the multiverse to bring in the X-Men and F4
JuanRGuijarro
JuanRGuijarro - 3/27/2024, 10:01 PM
@BruceWayng - the MCU never conected anything logically, it always has been one of two lines of exposition or justification and moving on.
Thor leaving with the Guardians? cool. only to be thrower away in the first 10 minutes of the next film.
Its only now that a lot of people started to see the bad things...
BruceWayng
BruceWayng - 3/27/2024, 11:16 PM
@JuanRGuijarro - Completely agree, that’s why I said old MCU. The wheels starting falling off post IW, including Captain Marvel’s utterly ruining Fury and wasting of the nineties seething which should have been used to world build but instead was three steps back. Even Endgame, despite its high moments did more to hurt the overall story in hindsight.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 3/27/2024, 9:42 PM
I have always said that both the X-Men & Fantastic 4 should come from an alternate universe and they crossover in Secret Wars where their Universe collides with the rest. And Reed and his team along with the X-Men and various mutants remain trapped in Universe 616. And that's where the mutant prejudice begins with humanity hating the alternate universe civilians and want them deported or locked away because variants are globally hated after Secret Wars.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 3/27/2024, 9:44 PM
Smells like the start of a full-scale MCU reboot, which I am completely against.
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