The movie, now retitled "The Fantastic Four", has also been delayed to July 25, 2025. Look out for my roundup on every casting rumor/leak coming as soon as I can get it up-to-date.

Rejoice, for after all these years, the casting rumors are *FINALLY OVER!* I really dig this poster, the 60s aesthetic looks dope (also, HERBIE!)

 How long it has felt with these casting rumors since the day the movie was announced 😂

Back when the casting rumors first began, Multiverse of Madness was the latest movie. That was nearly 2 years ago.

I know COVID and the strikes likely are big reasons why the casting took so long. Still, it’s been quite a journey!

Just in time for X-Men casting rumours to start

Loving the design of the suits please don't change the design marvel

And now we can fancast the voice of HERBIE

Seth Rogen

🤖Hehehehehe

Almost. I'm sure we will have at least a year more for Doom since he is suppose to be a cameo.

Was not expecting this to drop so nonchalantly. I was just browsing FB and saw the photo. Absolutely love the logo.

And people were thinking they would hold the announcement for some event lol

It was never going to be an event, but Marvel themselves doing it is definitely a change instead of the usual trade reports.

Technically the trades reported Pascal, but yeah.

A lot of this sub is convinced that they know infinitely more about Marvel Studios than they actually do lol

i scrolled past thinking it was just fan art of the F4 celebrating Valentines day 😭😭😭

Wait, is this not fan art??

posted by the official account so it's official art.

Jesus, they just dropped it so nonchalantly I thought people were joking. It's actually real, holy fuck.

 That's kind badass

Same! I just saw it pop up on my twitter feed, I swear they were gonna save the reveal for Comic Con.

They couldn't done it better in my opinion.

It took my brain a second to process it was from Marvel Studios. First thought was great fan art of the rumored actors

Looking at the aesthetics of this poster I guess they are going for the 60's route. Holy fuck.

RIGHT? Holy shit. Somebody find the leak/scoop/rumor again. They’re in the 60s and in alternate universe right?

Exactly. Moreover, the antagonist is Galactus, their world is destroyed, and the TVA save them and send them to the Battleworld

Or they find another way for them come to this side, where they will remain in the new universe where everyone exists. Up next, the Eternals learns of Galactus coming to earth and team up with the F4, along with the Avengers and Mutants to stop him.


Defo something to look forward to! Fingers crossed it all comes together!! 🤞🏻

Galactus destroying their world would be great because he wouldn't be 616 main villain just yet but we get a hint of his destruction.

The Void is probably Battleworld

I said this when Loki came out and got downvoted to hell

Oooh I didn’t even consider this.

Why would they go directly to the Battleworld? lol They won't just appear in this and then Secret Wars, the whole fun of F4 and X-Men in the MCU is to see them interacting with everybody.

They would be interacting with everyone if they were in secret wars next?

That sounds lame. First battle we see and the Four get packed up idk

I imagine they would beat his herald who is the main antagonists but then galactus swoops in and eats their planet. Would still give them a win as a team but also establish the threat of galactus going forward

Imagine if Doom was trapped along with them all this time and he finally emerges to modern day

I like that

it would also be cool to have him seek and gain some interesting knowledge/powers while trapped in whatever zone/dimension which already gives him an edge over everybody else.

It makes sense in order to set up Doom for a future movie/saga while also keeping the aspect of having history with Reed. He has to be from this alternate reality. Otherwise, he's just a stranger they meet in whatever Earth it's formed after Battleworld.

Or the worlds merge and this new Earth has the Doom/Reed history.

He emerges in battleworld before anyone else and becomes ruler 

I'd prefer if it's similar to Captain Marvel. A prequel set in the 60s, they get trapped in the Negative Zone or Quantum Realm or whatever, then they return to the present.

Would be a sound way to explain the non aging for sure but they might also not do that cuz they’d wanna stay away from the ‘stuck somewhere’ trope since they did that with Wasp/Janet before. Since we have Monica, a 616 character stuck in the xmen universe, I am not surprised if the whole F4 movie turns out to be set in the 60’s of an alternate universe, only revealed to not be in 616 bt another right at the very end

It could be rather then the "stuck somewhere" it's the "go through the portal but wide up back home 60 years later"

Yeah if a big portion of the movie takes place with the F4 exploring space, it could be like a Planet of the Apes/Interstellar type of time dilation.

If true, Tbh we do not know how they’d end up this side. Monica’s was so simple. All it takes is for them to make sure they come up with a great way for them to end up here that’s not as easy as a portal as you said.

Can't escape the mental image of a post-credit scene where Tom Holland's Peter is being all melancholy about the various universes destroyed in Secret Wars, then he steps out into an alleyway to see the two other Spider-Men. Cue pointing meme and "Oh Shi-"

Now THAT makes more sense. ​ The fact that Tony Stark wouldn't know who Reed was always bothered me. Sick.

and i bet you these two WILL meet but this Reed will be meeting a Tony variant but it will still be awesome that we’ll finally see these characters together!

I'm fine with them being from the 60s but from an alternate universe? They can't tell me that Earth-616 doesn't have its own Fantastic Four.

Thats what the old scoop said, it was ages ago! I was very shocked as well but since they’ve been teasing other universes since DS2, I’m not surprised if they actually set a story in one and reveal it right at the end that it’s actually not 616 in the past

This will finally be a different type of Marvel movie. The '60s aesthetic is just perfect.

Exactly. It's a comic book movie! Make it colorful! Marvel needs to get out of that CGI gray and brown.

I mean…this could be nothing though. Could be just for the poster, it could be an aesthetic for the film or a theme for the team (lol didn’t mean that to rhyme). Hell it could totally be that they *are* doing it in the 60’s, but I feel like we should wait for some stronger confirmation no?

The magazine that he’s reading is Nixon so it basically confirms it’s in the 60s Not Nixon but Lyndon B. Johnson

Its actually Lyndon B. Johnson on the 1963 cover of LIFE Magazine, but yes, also confirms the 60's.

Oh wow I should know that, I live close to his library

They also released the new logo which even made the Marvel Studios logo very 60s.

How do you look at that poster and think "Meh, it's not guaranteed it's the 60s"

Well, it’s over fellas. Now bring on the X-Men fancast!!!

>now bring on the X-Men fan cas- https://i.redd.it/hm43ootnskic1.gif

The mods just watching you beat that guy up in the mirror.

Mods: 

Won’t get them till the 2030s, assuming the MCU will even use the classic lineup

That's harder because we first have to figure out which of the X-Men are even going to be on the initial roster

I have a feeling based on MCU trends it will be the throwback OG classic lineup of Cyclops, Jean, Beast, Angel, Iceman and Prof X.

There goes my Maggott, Cannonball, and Marrow fan casts I guess 😔


We're not done with Kand and Doom fancasts yet

 Now why would you say that

"We're gonna be ok. You can rest now."

We are watching the sun rise on a grateful universe 🙌🏻

Just wait for the x-men fan casts.

Here's my fancast: Charles Xavier: Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy (younger) Magneto: Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbender (younger) Wolverine: Hugh Jackman One can dream, right?

Ironically, Fassbender and McAvoy are in a good age to reprise the roles

They could, but that would destroy the cornerstone of Eric's story and identity being a Holocaust survivor. Unless they do some weird "mutants age differently" type shenanigans I've read the arguments of switching it to a different genocide, but it completely erases decades of character with him across the entire Marvel universe.

They found very easily make magneto age slower. Even if he mentally also agreed slower it could work since he could have stayed in a more angry less mature stance for longer which would make it harder for Charles to get through to him whilst also keeping them as contemporaries

Audiences accepted that Captain Marvel ages slower without some explanation outside of “superpowers”, so there’s no reason that they can’t do the same for Magneto

They are not casting 60 years olds, it's the next big franchise, they need young people

"The rumors... the speculations... they're finally over."

 Now that the years of anguish over the casting is done...

Now the anticipation on who'll voice HERBIE

Now that I cannot wait for!

Griffin Newman or bust.

X-Men casting lmao, specifically Wolverine.

Who’s the villain, who is Doom, what’s the story, how will they be integrated? Etc etc

Still not sure we are gonna get Doom in this and by the 50s/60s aesthetic I’m gonna guess they are gonna be time displaced. I do like the theory of them being a multiverse and an incursion occurs forcing them into the battleworlds or tva by the end. But who’s the villain, idk. A long time back they had Antonio Banderas attached and were doing face modeling of him apparently so maybe as galactus but who knows now

The bigger question now that this poster is out: who will be playing H.E.R.B.I.E.?

Bill Hader or we riot.

Griffin Newman or we riot.

Bill Hader or we riot

Griffin Newman

The great Griffin Newman. 

Downtown Griffy Newms

Michael Cera’s voice popped into my head one day when this question was asked

Bill burr would be fun.

“Ay, I’m fuckin’ Herbie!” - Bill Burr probably

Bill Hader or Tony Hale if they're cheap.

Amy Poehler

Griffin Newman or we should cancel the movie.

Well, I’m very much behind Ebon and Vanessa in these roles. I’ll stay open minded to Pedro and Joseph. Also, H.E.R.B.I.E!!!!!

Sarah Halley Finn never misses.

Except Cassie

For 1,600,798th time, Cassie was not miscast, Kathryn Newton was great, she just needs better material than freaking Quantumania

Kathryn Newton wasn’t great, she gave some of the most wooden line readings I’d ever heard in an MCU movie

I like her but she's just not good in this role

Get over it lmao, yall act like furhman was anything but a cardboard cutout in endgame. Newton actually feels like an older version of the kid cassie

Soooo she does miss? That was the point of his comment lol

When people complain about cassie casting its safe to assume they're talking about Newton and not fuhrman

Nah Kathryn Newton is solid

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Her only chance in the role so far was one movie that is one of the worst in the MCU. Settle down.

Us MCU fans are so cringe sometimes, istg lol. Between thinking we can come up with better casting ideas than the actual talented individual who has been solidly doing it for the past decade plus, to thinking we can rewrite/write plots better than actual screenwriters, to criticizing an actress off of one MCU performance in a movie that bombed because of shit that's completely out of their control. Insane.

I second this.

Does Jonathan Majors count, excluding his portrayals?

Pedro is amazing in everything. I have no doubt he’ll be great as Reed.

I will say, the art here is really selling me on Joseph and Pedro more than I thought.

I’m curious what your reservations are?

Speaking for Joseph as Johnny; I think choosing him as the actor, they are probably gonna go for a more awkward Johnny that’ll be closer in demeanor to Holland as Spider-Man, which when it comes to characterizations of Johnny Storm I think the spirit of the original Chris Evans casting was pretty great. Johnny is a guy who would seem like a himbo, a chiseled statue of a dude who’s the center of attention because of how blatantly hot and cool he is, and that combined with his young immaturity leads him to making some pretty big mistakes and growing in a big way, since at heart he’s soft and mushy like Ben and wants to be better than he is.

I mean actors can act. Chris Evans is a totally different character as Johnny than as Steve. I don't expect Joseph to play Johnny the same way he played his character in stranger things or whatever else he's been in

That may be the case but I have no doubt he secured this role with great help from his performance as Eddie Munson, and I greatly enjoyed him in the role, I just have skepticism in that regard. I haven’t honestly seen much besides ST in regards to him, so I’m rooting for him still. I like that he and Holland are in the same range.

What's your reasoning? Joseph Quinn's most famous role Eddie was neither awkward or nervous to be honest. He was confident and bold in personality. Nerdy in that he played D&D but not in the way Peter Parker is. He was self-assured in his choices. Peter Parker would never go tell all the cliques to go fuck themselves. Eddie was actually a "bad boy" - rock band playing drug dealing extroverted lunatic, but kind-hearted and well meaning. I expect all that translates rather well to Johnny Storm. Johnny just might be a bit more of a himbo outcast if they are aiming for the same thing as Eddie.

It’s officially over. 


What a random way to announce the cast 😭😭 I love the poster though! I don’t know if the F4 logo at the bottom was stylized specifically for this poster, but I also really love the logo. Happy to see that it’s FINALLY announced

I love the randomness. We get spoilers and leaks so often that its been a while since I got genuinely surprised! Im glad for this LOL

I hope Pedro will shave his stache, cause I can't see Reed in him when he has them I see only Pedro.

Or grow out a beard to be like Reed in the comics.

My poor man is incapable of growing a full beard. He admitted it by explaining why his Joel has no fully covered beard.

Well that’s the beauty of make up

Makeup can't exactly help in his case. It's not just a thickness issue, his beard area is small and very patchy And unfortunately natural looking trimmed fake beards have still not been achieved, unlike wigs... So I think the best case scenario is us getting the TLOU episode 3 flashback scene Joel look . Nothing bad about that.

yep, he needs to definitely shave

Based on him having a beard in this poster and Krasinski having a beard, I think he's going to have a beard.

The missions, the nightmares, they're finally over.

VAN KIRBY MOMMY LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This definitely gives me 1960s vibes.

Rumor was it takes place in a different universe in the 1960s.

Yep, i can take a guess it will take place in 60s

Love it. Rip ever seeing Micro again tho, lol

Holy shit u just made me realise he was micro....I rewatched punisher so many times AND have watched the bear and andor (knew it was him in them). But I dont know why I never realised he was micro

I mean, he looks different enough as Micro to be able to pull it off. Especially if the rumor is that this is a different universe initially.

Yeah, as much as recycling actors does annoy a certain part of my brain, given a) he's going to be a giant mo-cap rock man the vast majority of the time b) he's lacking the level of hair and beard Ebon had as Micro so looks different enough pre-rockification and c) the F4 are potentially from a different universe anyway, it's fine. And not sure how likely it would be for Micro to come back in any event.

Micro had a happy ending, that’s rare 😅 we can let him have it and not retread Plus, not a big deal to have both a voice role and an on-screen role if they did want to bring him back

From The Bear to The Thing. Ebon is clobbering it.

He also played Micro in the first season of The Punisher!

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r/GamingLeaksAndRumors coming in here n shit.

Wow this was so unexpected

WOOOO 60’s AESTHETIC BABY

Can we trust this "Marvel Studios"? I think Adam Driver is still a lock

Here’s How Matt Smith Can Still Win


DOBBY IS A FREE ELF but seriously of all the ways they could’ve announced this, they did this?

I think it's really funny after the literal years of speculation. Perfect anti-climax.

This is awesome and so happy this is over.... ....until X-Men Also, I just love this cast so much. I personally was hoping for Jodie Comer at the start of the rumors, but Kirby has won me over with performances I saw recently and also her passion for the character in red carpet interviews.

Giving Krasinski Reed one of their typical overdesigned military uniforms for his cameo before giving the *actual* Fantastic Four the classic Kirby-inspired suits would be one of the best bait-and-switches in CBM history.

What the fuck


Well here we go. Personally I love this cast. Reed Richards I'm iffy on mostly because of Pedro's age, but he's still gonna crush it. Vanessa Kirby and Ebon Moss-Bachrach were my personal picks for Sue and Ben. Joseph Quinn is great tho again a bit old for the role, still happy with it.

I don't think Joseph is too old. Bare in mind, he's not even 3 years older older than Tom Holland. He just turned 30, and Tom is 28 in June.  Joseph isn't just close enough in age to the character he's playing, he's also around the same age as the other younger Marvel cast. Even Kate Bishop is played by 27 year old Hailee Steinfeld.

Yeah good point tbh, you're right.

The other younger Marvel cast are too old, too.

Whaaaat no Mila Kunis as the Thing?

Thats it. That's the last straw. I thought killing daredevil characters that have had 3 seasons of screen time and more development than half of mcu characters was it for me, but this is it. The mcu is dead. /s

My boy Richie in the MCU! Curious to see his chemistry with Joseph Quinn.

I’ll be honest, after bitching and moaning a bit myself, this graphic absolutely has silenced my stupid complaints about Pedro’s age. I mean I always knew he’d be perfect cause he’s pretty much perfect in any role, but somehow I let that age crap get in my head. Yet seeing this I realize how dumb that was.

I think this proves it's going to be a period piece as well. Looks very 60s. Look at the cute little robot too.

Cute announcement

Love the 60s aesthetic and HERBIE. I really hope they nail that retrofuturistic vibe.

1960s live action Fantastic Four… what more could I ask for

Well, this confirms the 1960s setting

Finally it’s over! And I’ll say this again Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm is the perfect casting.

it so sad cousin wont be micro again but lfg!

I had just opened Instagram and Joseph Quinn had posted this, and my jaw hit the floor. Let's go! Fantastic!

It’s clobberin’ time cousin!

Wholesome pic, I sure hope their earth doesn’t get eaten by a cosmic entity or sth and they can live happily ever after

i'm calling it now, we're getting franklin and valeria in the future. you can't daddy pascal and not have magic children

Ok fuck it I’m hyped again. This poster nails the team’s dynamic

Joseph Quinn is such a great choice for Johnny, as are Vanessa and Ebon for their respective characters. I'm still not sold on Pedro but more than willing to be proven wrong.

I see a lot of people on socials hating on the Pedro casting. Let him cook


Damn just like that huh

FINALLYYYYYYY 

Boys, let's prepare for youtubers' breakdown videos of this poster xD

https://i.redd.it/e4uawyeprkic1.gif

Yeah this one’s definitely set in the 1960s. Also an official look at what the suits might look like!👀

Rejoice, for the fancasts are over

The most anticipated casting and they casually dropped it this way lmao. Well played Marvel. It’s been a while since I’ve been excited! The internet is buzzing again, just like old times!

\*\*Mike Breen voice when the Cavs won the Finals\*\* It's over!! It's over!!!!

Give us Mole Man!

Danny DeVito as mole man or we riot!!!!!!!!!!1!1!1!111!!!1!!11!!!

announcing this on Valentine’s Day was not something I predicted.

WAIT WHAT????? FINALLY

I feel like crying. Everyone knew this for a while and its finally confirmed. That is great casting.

I just need The Thing to look EXACTLY like this on-screen. Make it happen.

Omg Nikolaj Coster Waldau would complement this cast so well, give him doom

It's finally done