Before today, the only sure thing about Marvel Studios' upcoming Fantastic Four reboot is its release date. Now, we know two things about the MCU's Fantastic Four.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel Studios president, Kevin Feige, shared some information about Phase 6's first film. Among other things, Feige clarified a key detail about the plot for Marvel's first family.
Here's what Feige had to say about Hollywood's third attempt to start a Fantastic Four film franchise: 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? We've set a very high bar for ourselves with bringing that to the screen. We're pretty sure John Krasinski isn't coming back as Mister Fantastic in the mainline MCU Fantastic Four film.
Feige is right. The MCU has set a high bar. The billion-dollar cinematic universe might have done an excellent job at exploring the origin stories, but the MCU is equally marvelous (pun intended) at skipping them altogether. Case in point, the first Black Panther film from 2018 wasn't really an origin story and it ended up doing quite well for itself. The film earned the MCU several firsts when it comes to nominations on top of making over $1.3 billion at the global box office. The same goes for Tom Holland's Spider-Man trilogy, even though many argue that it's an origin story spread across three films.