Marvel’s Fantastic Four movie isn’t due out until 2025, but that didn’t stop Marvel boss Kevin Feige from revealing that it is in fact a period piece.
Fantastic Four is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s biggest mystery, and maybe it’s greatest hope. Beyond who’s playing each member of Marvel’s first family, we’ve been in the dark about most other details until now. On the first episode of the new Official Marvel podcast, president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, appeared as a guest and revealed that Fantastic Four will in fact be a period piece, rather than taking place in the modern day MCU.
Fans first started speculating that the series might take the universe back in time when its first artwork was revealed, which was in a decidedly mid-century style. While the primary purpose of the art was to reveal the actors behind each member of the team — with Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Ebon-Moss Bachrach as Ben Grimm, and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm — it also suggested to many fans that the movie might take place in the ’60s, the same decade that the Fantastic Four debuted.
