The fantastic director of four on the future of the invisible villains of the film and explains tributes to final credits
The Fantastic Four: First steps Open with a quick rhythm montage, presenting us the first Marvel family and teasing clashes with bad guys like Mole Man, the Mad Thinker and Red Ghost. Wizard, Diablo and Puppet Master are also mentioned later in the film.
Speaking at Entertainment Weekly, filmmaker Matt Shakman spoke of settling out with this opening and suggested that the door is open to us to see these bad guys in future MCU projects.
“The opening of the film consisted in trying to say quickly to the people who did not know the fantastic four and who they are and how they have become who they are”, “ he explained. “Tell them quickly who they are individually, what are their powers, how they obtained them and how important they are for their society. They are an inspiration. They are celebrities, they are leaders, they are inventors.”
“These are great characters and they could certainly come back,” The Fantastic Four: First steps Director following. “There are so many big bad guys and so many great characters in the fantastic four [comics]And there are, hopefully, other opportunities on the road to include them. “”
While we will return to earth 828 Avengers: DoomsdayThe wait is that the Fantastic Four will eventually be part of a new chronology alongside Avengers and X-Men, post-Avengers: secret wars. Anyway, we are forced to see more of the impressive gallery of thugs of the team somewhere on the line.
The site also asked Shakman for two of the tributes included in The Fantastic Four: First steps“End credits:” dedicated to Jamie Christopher “and” For Inez “.
“Jamie Christopher was an incredible filmmaker,” Shakman said about the deceased producer of heart complications in 2023. “The first long-standing assistant director worked on many Marvel films, worked on Harry Potter, worked on star wars films. A beloved and beloved character, a wonderful person. He was our original producer on this film, who died when we were in pre-production.”
Inez was Shakman’s mother, who died at 80 in April. “She didn’t see much [the movie]No, unfortunately, ” He shared. “She was delighted to see the little pieces of cameo from my daughter Maisie – she saw some photos of this. And there was a poster that Marvel turned off who used one of the images of Maisie holding her little doll, looking at him. She saw this, but I’m sorry that she was not lucky to see the finished film.”
You have to feel for Shakman, and we have known for some time that The Fantastic Four: First steps was a very personal project for the filmmaker. For example, the surprise of Reed and Sue that they had designed a child were inspired by Shakman and his wife’s real struggles.
The Fantastic Four: First steps Now play in theaters.
