The Fantastic Four: First Steps is now playing on the 2025 movies schedule, arriving six years after Marvel Studios gained the film rights to the superhero team as a result of the Disney/Fox merger. WandaVision’s Matt Shakman was selected to direct the fifth movie starring Marvel’s First Family (counting the unreleased 1994 feature), but he wasn’t the only MCU filmmaker involved with the production. Shakman recently revealed how Joe and Anthony Russo took an interest in Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing and Human Torch’s latest cinematic foray.
The Russo Brothers have been part of the MCU family ever since they delivered Captain America: The Winter Soldier in 2014, and they followed that up with Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Then at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that they’d return to helm the upcoming Marvel movies Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. But as far as The Fantastic Four: First Steps was concerned, here’s what Shakman had to say to Deadline about The Russo Brothers being around during filming:
