After years of speculation and fan expectation, Marvel Studios is finally making progress on a Fantastic Four movie. First, the studio confirmed that Matt Shakman, whose body of work includes The Boys, Game of Thrones, Succession, and WandaVision, will direct at the recent D23 Expo. Now, Deadline has reported that the studio has also hired Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer to write the script.
claimed that the writers have been involved with the movie for a while. Apparently, they had been working with Marvel Studios President and producer Kevin Feige to fit the Fantastic Four franchise into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If Deadline's sources are to be believed, their involvement predates Shakman's appointment by several months.
The four of them – Kevin Feige, Matt Shakman, Jeff Kaplan, and Ian Springer – will now meet and align their visions for the project. While Kaplan and Springer have both been involved in many projects before this assignment, including The Last of the Romantics and the upcoming Disaster Wedding, Fantastic Four will be their biggest to date.