These are not good times to the MCU. After more than a decade of achieving success and revolutionizing superhero cinema, the universe commanded by Kevin Feige has accumulated several failed premieres in its Phases 4 and 5. Thus, after the last fiasco of The Marvels (2023), the House of Ideas has its hopes pinned on Deadpool and Wolverine, that arrives this July, and The Fantastic Four, his most ambitious project on the calendar.
The blockbuster directed by Matt Shakman (Scarlet Witch and Vision) brings Marvel’s First Family back to theaters, although this time with Disney. It also features a stellar cast: Peter Pascal is Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby brings Sue Storm (the Invisible Woman) to life, Joseph Quinn plays Johnny Storm (the Human Torch) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach It’s Ben Grimm (the Thing).
Little else had emerged about this new film, scheduled for July 25, 2025. However, now Kevin Feige has given new details about the plot and has confirmed that it will be set in the past.
‘Fantastic Four’ will be set in the 60s
The film’s social media accounts had already hinted with their vintage-style posts that the plot could be set in the 1960s, and now Feige has confirmed that this will be the case. The story will be set in a 1960s New York, although it seems that it won’t be the big city that viewers know.
“We released another drawing with Johnny Storm flying in the air, making a 4 symbol, and a cityscape appeared on the side of the image,” Feige said on the official Marvel podcast (via EW): “There were a lot of smart people who realized that the urban landscape It wasn’t exactly the New York we know, or the New York that existed in the 1960s in our world. “They are intelligent observations, we’ll see.”
The image mentioned by the Marvel Studios boss, which you can see above, shows Quinn’s Human Torch standing over a futuristic city that has led fans to theorize about the possibility of the story taking us to a different universe than Earth-616, where most of the Marvel Comics titles take place.
With his words, Feige seems to have confirmed this speculation. He has also assured that he is very excited about the project because “these characters are foundations, they are legendary pillars of the Marvel Universe that we have never played with or explored in a significant way before, beyond Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness and some fun teasers, like we’re doing in this movie.”
Let’s remember that we had a live-action version of Reed Richards in the MCU, with the face of John Krasinski, in the sequel to Doctor Strange, but that version belonged to another universe.
Feige has also confirmed that Shakman is already in London for the start of filming. The Fantastic Four, scheduled for the end of July. “We started filming the Monday after San Diego Comic-Con,” he revealed: “The day after Comic-Con is the first day of filming for The Fantastic Four”.
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