Marvel’s Fantastic Four movie will start filming in July – and it’ll be a period piece, Kevin Feige confirms
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Marvelboss Kevin Feige has confirmedThe Fantastic 4will begin filming in July – and, as we all predicted, it won’t be set in the modern day.
Speaking on the first episode of theOfficial Marvel Podcast(as spotted byGamesRadar), the comic book giant’s president announced the highly anticipated superhero movie will start shooting late next month. Indeed, principal photography will start on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movie on July 29, the day after San Diego Comic Con 2024 ends.
“We start shooting at the end of July,” Feige revealed. “The day after Comic-Con is the first day of filming onFantastic Four.”
That wasn’t the only thing that Feige confirmed about theFantastic Four’s next big-screen adventure. As mentioned, the studio’s commander-in-chief added that theMarvel Phase 5flick won’t be set in the present – something fans have speculated onever sinceThe Fantastic 4’s first poster was releasedon February 14. That theory gained more traction upon the release of another piece of artwork on April 4, whichteased some keyFantastic Fourstory details and all but confirmed its villain.
“Yes, yes, very much so. It is a period,” Feige admitted. “There were a lot of smart people, who noticed that that cityscape didn’t look exactly like the New York that we know, or that existed in the ’60s in our world. Those are smart observations, I’ll say.”
More Fantastic (Four) developments
We’re only a year away (give or take) beforeThe Fantastic 4lands in theaters, so it’s high time that an official production start date and actual setting were confirmed. Still, while we’ve had to wait a number of months for those announcements to be made, there’s been a slow trickle of other crowd-pleasing developments to further whet our appetites for its arrival.
Just last month (May 16),Marvel’sFantastic Fourmovie reportedly added Natasha Lyonne to its cast, with many fans thinking she’d be perfect for one specific role. Lyonne’s hiring followed hot on the heels ofRalph Ineson’s casting as the film’s big bad Galactus, plus the addition of John Malkovich in an undisclosed role, on May 10.
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That duo were announced three months afterThe Fantastic 4’s iconic quartet were officially revealedalongside the aforementioned first posted on Valentine’s Day – those individuals being Pedro Pascal (Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Thing), and Joseph Quinn (The Human Torch). Julian Garner (The Silver Surfer) and Paul Walter Hauser (TBC) are also reportedly involved.
Matt Shakman, who directed multiple episodes ofWandaVision, one of thebest Disney Plus shows, is on filmmaking duties. Jeff Kaplan, Ian Springer, Josh Friedman, and Eric Pearson have all contributed to its script.
The Fantastic 4will debut in theaters worldwide on July 25, 2025. In the meantime, US viewers can watch the superteam’s 2005 and 2007 films onDisney Plus, and 2015’sFantastic FouronMax. UK and Australian audiences can watch all three of the group’s outings on Disney Plus, aka one of the world’sbest streaming services.
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