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‘The Fantastic Four’ Could Be the Fresh Start Marvel Needs, From an Epic Cast to a (Possible) 1960s Setting
The cast of "The Fantastic Four" — Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach — could be the new anchors that Marvel has needed.
Downey, of course, proved to be such an electrifying presence as Iron Man that he propelled the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the next 11 years, appearing in 10 movies that have collectively earned $12.5 billion in global box office grosses before Stark died in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” Since then, Downey’s absence has been acutely felt by Marvel fans, as has the loss of Chris Evans’ Captain America, who also took his (possibly) final bow in “Endgame.” Those two characters served as the yin and yang for the early MCU — Stark the brash, rakish genius; Cap the stalwart, aw shucks warrior — that became the franchise’s gravitational center. And Ben Grimm (Moss-Bachrach) is walking pathos, a scrappy, good natured man stuck with the Thing’s seemingly monstrous body of orange boulders — he’s Hulk without the uncontrollable rage and Rocket without the antisocial misanthropy. More to the point, that suggests that “The Fantastic Four” will exist in a parallel universe separate from the core MCU — if there was a family of space age superheroes who were contemporaries of Peggy Carter and Howard Stark, we probably would’ve heard about them by now.
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