Tag: Fantastic Four

  • RUMOR: Marvel Wants Drew Goddard to Direct Next Spider-Man Movie

    RUMOR: Marvel Wants Drew Goddard to Direct Next Spider-Man Movie

    A new director may be giving Spidey his web shooters. While a fourth MCU Spider-Man movie hasn’t been announced yet (and we’re supposed to pretend that Tom Holland may not come back), given the success of No Way Home (and little else), it’s a no-brainer that Marvel wants another one. Jon Watts, who directed the Home trilogy, was supposed…

  • Iman Vellani and Fixing the MCU

    Iman Vellani and Fixing the MCU

    Iman Vellani is learning from her peers’ mistakes; she’s been handling the failure of her new film The Marvels well, refraining from blaming fans and, now, addressing some of the issues that are turning people off of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In an exclusive interview with The Direct, Vellani was asked how Marvel could recapture the…

  • The Marvels Has Historically Bad Second Weekend

    The Marvels Has Historically Bad Second Weekend

    As disastrous as The Marvels’ opening weekend box office was, its second weekend painted an even direr picture. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new Marvel film dropped 78%, the largest second-weekend drop not just for an MCU film but for any superhero film “in the modern era” (which is ill-defined because it’s a way…

  • Marvel Wants Javier Bardem for Galactus and a Female Silver Surfer

    Marvel Wants Javier Bardem for Galactus and a Female Silver Surfer

    The Fantastic Four cast seems all but assembled. Yesterday came the news that Marvel has either locked or is close to locking Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, the leader of the Fantastic Four (in the comics; the movie sounds like it may be different). Now, Jeff Sneider has revealed on his website, The InSneider,  that not…

  • Pedro Pascal Either Cast or About to be Cast as Mr. Fantastic

    Pedro Pascal Either Cast or About to be Cast as Mr. Fantastic

    The Fantastic Four may have found its leader. Insider Daniel Ritchman was the first to report that Pedro Pascal is in talks to star as Reed Richards in Fantastic Four. Other major sites confirm this, with The Hollywood Reporter saying that scheduling is the only sticking point; Deadline says the same, but that talks are…

  • MCU Author Says Marvel is Getting Rid of Kang

    MCU Author Says Marvel is Getting Rid of Kang

    Those reports of Marvel preparing to ditch Kang the Conqueror may not have been premature. In the most recent episode of the House of R podcast (via Dexerto), Joanna Robinson, co-author of the book MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, talked about Jeff Loveness, the writer of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania who, at one point, was also…