Fantastic Four director "delved into the 60-plus years of comics history" to make the Marvel movie, and he's revealed the run that made it into the film in "small and large ways"

Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards in The Fantastic Four: The First Steps.

Fantastic Four: The First Steps director Matt Shakman has revealed that one comic run in particular inspired the Marvel Phase 6 movie.

"In preparation for Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps, I delved into the 60-plus years of comics history," Shakman wrote in the foreword for Fantastic Four: Solve Everything, as previewed by Variety. "Marvel's First Family has been continuously cared for by the best and brightest the company had to offer.