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WandaVision director Matt Shakman on leaving Star Trek 4 for Fantastic Four

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If you remember, in August of last year, Matt Shakman left the director’s chair on the next Star Trek film to helm Fantastic Four for Marvel Studios. The decision wasn’t entirely shocking to fans, given Shakman’s work with the MCU before, but his sudden departure from Star Trek 4 came after the director had been […]

John Krasinski has had no talks with Marvel over Reed Richards return for Fantastic Four

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For the first time since joining the Marvel Studios fold as a result of Disney’s Fox takeover, the Fantastic Four made their first mark on the MCU this year with John Krasinski’s cameo as Reed Richards in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Krasinski had long been mentioned by fans as not only a […]

Alex Ross covers Marvel’s First Family with Fantastic Four variants

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As the Fantastic Four prepare to enter a brand new era, Marvel has announced that legendary artist Alex Ross will be supplementing his main cover work by providing variantsfor the first four issues of the new volume from writer Ryan North and artist Iban Coello and featuring all-new solo depictions of Marvel’s First Family in […]

Adam Driver reportedly met with Marvel for Fantastic Four role

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Adam Driver may stay in the Disney family after years of Star Wars as it is rumored that the actor could be joining one of Marvel’s First Family. The Ankler’s Jeff Sneider spoke on The Hot Mic Podcast, where he mentioned that Adam Driver had a meeting with Marvel Studios this summer over the role […]

Marvel delays Avengers: Secret Wars, Deadpool 3 and Fantastic Four, while Blade is put ‘on hold’

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It was perhaps inevitable when director Bassam Tariq departed Mahershala Ali’s Blade, but Marvel has announced that Avengers: Secret Wars, Deadpool 3 and Fantastic Four have been delayed, while the aforementioned reboot for the Daywalker has been put on hold.  It was reported yesterday by The Hollywood Reporter that Marvel Studios were putting the November […]

Fantastic Four #1 sneak peek offers first look at the new era of Marvel’s First Family

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Marvel’s First Family are set to take centre stage once more this November with the launch of a brand new volume of Fantastic Four from writer Ryan North and artist Iban Coello, and you can get a sneak peek at the first issue here… “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE FANTASTIC FOUR?” It’s the start of a […]

Marvel’s Fantastic Four movie finds its writers

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During this month’s Disney D23 Expo, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige confirmed the reports that WandaVision helmer Matt Shakman will be bringing Marvel’s First Family to the MCU as director of the Fantastic Four movie, and now Deadline has revealed that up-and-coming writing duo Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer are penning the script. Kaplan and […]

WandaVision’s Matt Shakman exits Star Trek 4 to direct Marvel’s Fantastic Four

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Bad news for Paramount Pictures and its plans to drag Star Trek 4 out of development hell, as WandaVision helmer Matt Shakman has vacated the director’s chair on the sci-fi sequel in favour of a return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “Matt Shakman is an incredibly talented filmmaker, and we regret the timing didn’t align […]

Marvel heroes get X-Treme with new variant cover series

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Chris Claremont and Salvador Larocca’s X-Treme X-Men launches this November, and Marvel has announced that it will mark the occasion with a series of X-Treme Marvel variant covers where some of the industry’s leading artists take the publisher’s biggest heroes back to the days of over-the-top excess; check them out here… On Sale 11/2 BLACK […]