After acquiring back the rights to the comic publisher’s first family with Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, Kevin Feige officially announced during the Disney Investors Day presentation that a new Fantastic Four movie is officially in the works with Tom Holland Spider-Man director Jon Watts at the helm!
Jon Watts will direct the new feature film for Marvel’s First Family, Fantastic Four! pic.twitter.com/Eu26ghxbGT
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
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The most recent adaptation of Fantastic Four debuted in 2015, directed by Josh Trank and written by Trank, Simon Kinberg, and Jeremy Slater. The critically-maligned reboot, starring Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Tim Blake Nelson, and Reg E. Cathey, was a flop at the box office, earning $167.9 against a production budget of $155 million. There have also been accusations of issues behind-the-scenes during filming.
Fantastic Four was previously adapted into film in Tim Story’s 2005 movie starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, and Julian McMahon. A follow-up, titled Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, premiered in 2007.
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The Fantastic Four Marvel comic book series created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby debuted in 1961 and was the first superhero team title produced by Marvel Comics.
