Fantastic Four casts John Malkovich

John Malkovich

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John Malkovich is the latest actor to join Marvel Studios The Fantastic Four, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Character details are stored in the negative zone.

Fantastic Four Actor: Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing. Julia Garner plays The Silver Surfer, while Paul Walter Hauser joins the cast in an undisclosed role.

Fantastic Four has a release date of July 25, 2025 and is from WandaVision Directed by Matt Shakman from a screenplay by Eric Pearson, Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer. WandaVisionPeter Cameron also worked on the script.

Fantastic Four is a cornerstone of Marvel. Authors Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the team with the 1961s Fantastic Four #1, a comic that launched the Marvel Universe, which grew into an interconnected New York with various comic heroes like Spider-Man and Daredevil. The film was previously adapted for two Tim Story-directed feature films in the 2000s, as well as Josh Trank's disastrous 2015 film. Roger Corman produced a B-movie version that was never released in the 1990s.

Malkovich gives the project an additional prestige effect. The respected actor received Oscar nominations for Places in the heart And In the line of firewhile his films from the 90s were used for conceptual films such as: B. are known To be John Malkovich And Con Air. Recent credits include: The new look, Ripley And billion. He is repped by WME.

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