Trivia: Jon Watts - who directed Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Spider-Man: No Way Home - was originally announced as this film's director before leaving the project in April 2022.
Trivia: This film marks the third time that a first Fantastic Four adaptation of a planned franchise was released during the fifth year of a decade. The first to get a theatrical release was directed by Tim Story and released in 2005, being successful enough to warrant a 2007 sequel. The second was the Josh Trank-directed "Fant4stic" in 2015, which ended up being a major box office bomb.
Trivia: The unreleased Roger Corman film from 1994 notwithstanding, this is the first Fantastic Four film in which Johnny Storm is depicted as having comic book-accurate blonde hair.
Trivia: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who will portray Ben Grimm/The Thing, previously played Microchip in season 1 of the Netflix series The Punisher, which also takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
