The Fantastic Four are Marvel's First Family, and with Disney already in possession of their own proto-Four in the Incredibles, it's reasonable to surmise that Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben interest them more than the X-Men - at least for the time being.
Ant-Man and the Wasp director Peyton Reed has already spoken of his "dream" to make a Fantastic Four film for Marvel, and with there also being rumblings that the team are dominating conversation in the halls of Marvel Studios, it wouldn't be entirely unfeasible for a film to be fast-tracked and release sooner than many had predicted.
Yes, it's a long-shot; the Disney-Fox merger is still awaiting approval after a shareholder vote (however inevitable it may be), and Marvel's release schedule through to 2022 has already been mapped out.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
