Spielberg Would Have Been The Perfect Fantastic Four Director
It’s leak week for the MCU, apparently. I don’t know why these things tend to come in waves, but I’ve seen everything from the Black Panther 2 post-credit scene to a full breakdown of the next ten Disney+ shows. Most surprising of all is the rumor that Steven Spielberg is going to direct the third iteration of the Fantastic Four. Certainly outlandish, probably fake - at least according to Variety’s senior entertainment writer - but the more I think about it, I can’t help but feel like it would be a perfect fit. Marvel’s first family needs a director that knows how to create believable relationships in unbelievable situations, and no one does that better than Spielberg.
He may seem like an unlikely choice. In the past, Spielberg has called superhero movies a fad, and condemned them to go “the way of the Western.” But the MCU is as much a superhero franchise as it is a science fiction one, and big blockbuster sci-fi movies are well within the director’s wheelhouse. From E.T. to Ready Player One, a major corner of Spielberg’s body of work has always appealed to the exact same audience as the MCU. There’s no reason Spielberg’s style wouldn’t fit within the relatively flexible framework of the MCU. This is especially true now that Marvel has become more open to letting directors inject their own creative personality into films, like Multiverse of Madness and Love & Thunder.
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Spielberg actually loves superhero movies. When asked about them at the Cannes Film Festival a few years ago, he said he loved Richard Donner’s Superman, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and Guardians of the Galaxy. He said that Guardians made him feel like he had seen something new in movies,
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