Whatever you want to say about the 2000s Fantastic Four movies, the cast were not the issue. In the MCU's multiverse era, stars of failures past can be redeemed, and Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis are both ready for a return to the superhero spotlight.
Portraying Mister Fantastic and The Thing, respectively, in 2005’s Fantastic Four and 2007’s Rise of the Silver Surfer, Gruffudd and Chiklis’s time in the Marvel wheelhouse was short but eventful. Those parts have been recast twice now (three times if you include John Krasinski in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), and everyone has largely moved on.
