Kevin Feige Explains Why Fantastic Four Won't Be An Origin Story
The Marvel Cinematic Universe fans will look forward to seeing its interpretation of The Fantastic Four in 2024, but Kevin Feige has already promised the reboot won't be revisiting the origin story of Marvel's First Family.
The Fantastic Four has gotten two cinematic interpretations since the 21st century began, neither of which was well-received. Because fans have seen their backstories put on the big screen twice before, it appears that the Marvel Cinematic Universe will not be following that plotline in their interpretation of The Fantastic Four.
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Kevin Feige confirmed during Comic-Con 2022 that because fans are more than familiar with the four superheroes' origin stories, either from the comics or from the movies, they won't be touching the Fantastic Four's backstory for the upcoming film. “A lot of people know this origin story. A lot of people know the basics," Feige said to The Hollywood Reporter. Since fans are more likely than not to have seen what happened to them, Feige asked a pretty valid question on the matter regarding what would happen if they did their origin story again. «How do we take that and bring something that they’ve never seen before?” This is a fair question because if fans want to know how they got their superpowers, all they'd have to do is watch one of the previous Fantastic Four films to know how it was done. Plus, Marvel Studios has already done plenty of origin stories with the rationale being that there hadn't already been a cinematic depiction of said events in the past.
Marvel Studios has done this with some of their past heroes with great success. Instead of doing Spider-Man's origin story, they integrated him into
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