‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ director Matt Shakman made the decision to cut an iconic supervillain. He reveals whether he will appear in a future MCU project.
«It’s heartbreaking not to have him in the final movie.»
Fans can finally see Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn as the Fantastic Four on the big screen, but not every character made the final cut for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. In May 2024, it was announced that John Malkovich was joining the star-studded cast in an unknown role, which was later confirmed to be supervillain Red Ghost. However, the Academy Award-nominated actor is nowhere to be seen in the movie that’s now in theaters.
Ahead of the film’s July 25 release, director Matt Shakman revealed that Malkovich would no longer appear in a sequence at the start of the film as Red Ghost, saying, “There was a lot of stuff to balance in this movie, and some things had to go.
