By Filmmaker Matt Shakman has spoken some more about Marvel Studios’ upcoming “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” as the film is currently in the midst of production in the UK.
As the Comic-Con reel and leaked photos from D23 and the like have so far indicated, the film is going for a retro 1950s/60s sci-fi look to its production design, costuming and aesthetics.
In a new interview with Inverse, Shakman was asked about what works are influencing the making of his film and he says it’s all back to the original F4 Comics:
“I’m not so much looking at the other movies. I’m looking at the comics themselves. I’m a huge comic book fan. I’ve been a big fan of the Fantastic Four since I was a kid.
So going back to Kirby and Lee and Byrne and following all the way up to what’s happening, certainly Hickman and Waid and Ryan North, what he’s been doing. I’m trying to figure out who these characters are to me and how to bring them to life in the best possible way, and that’s really where I’ve started and how we’ve approached it.”
The talk comes as a new rumor at MyTimeToShineH has indicted that Franklin Richards, the son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm, is a key part of the film’s story. Combined with Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer casting – speculation of elements of the Earth X story from the comics being adapted here continue to grow.
Going by the source though, who is also claiming Sydney Sweeney has been offered the role of Black Cat in “Spider-Man 4”, consider it very much a rumor.
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