Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness featured many cameos and crossovers fans have been waiting to see. Not only do we get our first confirmed mutant in the MCU, with Professor Charles Xavier--but fans finally got their fan-casting wish, seeing John Krazinski play Mister Fantastic, leader of the Fantastic Four. A Fantastic Four movie is coming to the MCU--soon. But who will Marvel's first family enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe? We have some thoughts.
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The fantastic 4 are finally in the MCU… well sort of. John Krasinski is our Mister Fantastic, and that’s a fan casting dream come true. Which quickly turned into a nightmare, after Wanda shredded Reed into spaghetti.
But Marvel studios is working on a Fantastic 4 movie, so Krasinski will probably return as mister fantastic very soon. And I assume that it’s a pakedge deal, so Emily Blunt will join him as Sue Storm.
So we got to talk about how the Fantastic 4 will be introduced, now that we met a version of Reed from another universe.
Multiverse of Madness gave us some hints on what we can expect from the Fantastic 4, and how they will be introduced. And with so much happening with the multiverse, that’s how the fantastic 4 could fit into the larger scale of the MCU. And probably play a key role in the years to come.
But before we get to the MCU’s Fantastic 4 movie, let’s first explore the mister fantastic we got in multiverse of madness.
Earth-838’s Reed Richards is described as the smartest man alive. And that’s what he is in the comics. Reed is the most intelligent person on the planet. And he also has his signature stretchy limbs.
He uses a teleportation device to make his grand entrance in the Illuminati chamber. A teleporter that kinda reminds of the time traveling portals the TVA uses. And is it just me or does his grand entrance kinda feels like a video game’s character's entrance?
Also, Reed is probably the one who built the Ultron bots. He’s the smartest man alive, so that’s why in this universe’s Ultron didn’t turn into a murder-bot, and instead the peace-keeping-AI he was meant to be. So this confirms that Reed is a hell of a lot smarter than Tony.
When Mordo introduces Reed as a member of the Fantastic 4, Stephen jokingly asks “didn’t you guys chart in the 60’s”. And this could be a lot… maybe.
This joke is a wink to fans, because the Fantastic 4 made their comics debut in 1961.
But this remark is also in reference to a fan theory that garnered a lot of steam recently. This theory is that the Fantastic 4 will come from the 60’s. With the speculation that they were stuck somewhere in space or the quantum realm or some other place for the last 60 years.
And this is all mostly based on the ideas of Peyton Reed, who was developing a Fantastic 4 movie in early 2000’s. Reed, by the way, is the director of the Ant-Man movies. His dream project was a Fantastic 4 movie that is set in the 60’s. He pitched it, and instead we got this.
So I guess you could speculate that Stephen’s remark about the 60’s is in reference to that. Because you can make the connection between the word “chart” and charting a course….maybe on a spaceship that goes to space.
Well it’s that or it’s just a clever Easter-egg to the Fantastic four music band. Who’s song “The Whole World is a Stage” made it to the Billboard charts in the 60’s. And yeah that’s a real thing.
And remember, Stephen is a music aficionado. So I guess it’s best to not put too much stock into this 60’s remark. Funny how fans jump to conclusions so fast just with a few key words.
The 60’s direction sounds like it could be interesting, because it’s a previously unexplored era. And maybe it could play into the idea that the Fantastic 4 are Marvel’s first family. So in the MCU they will be the first real superhero team, pre-dating the Avengers.
But I got to level with you, I’m not sure if I want to see that in the MCU.
Marvel already has a few out-of-time characters: Steve Rogers, Bucky, Janet van Dyne and Carol Danvers. So it’s not such a fresh take anymore. Honestly, the whole 60’s thing just feels too much like an unnecessary gimmick.
And yeah, I get it, there is something really compelling about doing a time period movie with the Fantastic 4. But I also think that fans gravitated toward this idea for the same reasons why people keep fan casting John Krasinski and Emily Blunt for Reed and Sue.
18 май 2024
