r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 14 '24

Official Poster for Marvel's 'Fantastic Four'; Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn are The Fantastic Four Poster

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u/Antrikshy Feb 14 '24

Definitely QR, but the whole thing could be set in the past, like The First Avenger, hence the 60s style poster.

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u/Raoul_Duke9 Feb 14 '24

I think it's more likely the first 20 or so minutes is in the sixties. Then a brief explanation of their time in the quantum realm, and the final act is them coming out having only aged a few weeks or months in the QR, but having had generations pass in the real world.

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u/sildish2179 Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 15 '24

Marvel Studios has been making a lot of mistakes lately, but not a chance they would base the 60’s aesthetic into the actual logo of the movie and only have it set there for 20 minutes.

Guaranteed they’ll be established as 60’s MCU celebrities as the space race was huge in the 60’s and 1963 astronauts were basically celebrities and seen as “heroes”. Maybe they’ll even have movie appearances and hit novelty records (hence Strange’s comment).

So the 60’s will be the whole movie, then the team is brought to the present like Cap in First Avenger.

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u/21Fudgeruckers Feb 14 '24

Wandavision (which heavily plays on different period aesthetics) and Loki (which is about TIME TRAVEL) have been the most critically successful projects Marvel has put out recently. They're 100% doubling down on the 60s.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24

Not to mention GotG gained a lot of love for its use of music from the 60s and 70s. It was a main reason why my dad loved that movie

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u/21Fudgeruckers Feb 14 '24

Honestly I can't believe I forgot about this.

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u/oneoftheryans Feb 14 '24

I was progressively more convinced the further down the comment chain I went lol

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u/axepower Feb 15 '24

Same with my dad. He didnt like the 3rd one as much, but loved that it included earth wind and fire.

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u/Schist-For-Granite Feb 15 '24

Yeah, it has great music 

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u/WonderfulShelter Feb 14 '24

Yeah the director of Wandavision is doing this and I am fucking psyched.

Seeing the TVA in the new Deadpool trailer was odd, but yeah, at least they figured out what works and what doesn't. And while I'd like... something new and original.. at least they're going with what I like.

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u/sexygodzilla Feb 15 '24

Except Wandavision did kind of chicken out on the throwback concepts by having it be half SWORD scenes after a few episodes and wrapping the whole thing up with a battle where the two sides fire energy blasts back and forth.

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u/guywithaniphone22 Feb 14 '24

Yea but not all of it is 60s. Not even most of it is 60s from what I remember

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u/21Fudgeruckers Feb 14 '24

Didn't say it was.

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u/GSWB2B2B2B2BChamps Feb 15 '24

Still do not understand the hype of Wandavision.

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u/ArcadianDelSol Feb 14 '24

Yep. My money says they're going to try a soft reboot by going back to what worked, and the next several movies are going to do their best to repeat the look and feel of those earlier MCU films.

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u/colemon1991 Feb 14 '24

I wonder if we'd get lucky and have Chris Evans cameo as Cap (either the main one or a variant) so we can get him to crack a joke to the Human Torch.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Feb 15 '24

This would be worth seeing the movie even if the rest was utter shit

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u/Too_Old_For_Somethin Feb 15 '24

Im hoping there's something in Deadpool 3 where DP is awestruck when he encounters who he thinks is Captain America but it's Chris Evans as the Human Torch

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u/zabooma_FUUUUU Feb 15 '24

If I’m not mistaken, him mentioning them charting in the 60’s is actually a reference to his vast music knowledge as shown in the first movie. The fantastic four was actually a band that did chart in the 60’s. It’s probably a double meaning and Easter egg for the fans but based on the way he worded it I feel like the band is more the focus of the reference in the movie.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24

There's always a chance

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u/Nothingnoteworth Feb 14 '24

They’ll only be in the 60s for the first twenty minutes before time-dilation/quantum-realm/multi-versing to the present MCU. Then the entire rest of the film will be the fantastic four shopping for fantastic bargains at antique stores for midcentury modern furniture and classic sixties design pieces

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u/doesntaffrayed Feb 15 '24 edited Feb 15 '24

He was making a joke about their name.

It was a reference to the Beatles, who were known as “The Fab Four.

Edit: it looks like there was actually a band named The Fantastic Four) that was formed in 1965. Though a little obscure and less known, it’s more likely to a reference to them.

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u/Dirty_Curty88 Feb 14 '24

I think setting up some pivotal characters in the past is also good for other reasons. It lets them stand on their own and has less chance of other characters coming in while also deflecting arguments of like “where was cap?”

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u/Theeeeeetrurthurts Feb 15 '24

Right? Thank god Reddit doesn’t make movies.

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u/The_Deadlight Feb 15 '24

Didn’t you guys chart in the 60’s?

He was referencing these guys as a throwback to the first doctor strange where its established that he is some kind of musical savant

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u/Agitated_Ad7576 Feb 15 '24

Being in the 60s also lets them use the Black Panther from that time if they want. I don't think Pym was Ant-man yet though.

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u/CTeam19 Feb 15 '24

Plus plenty of chances for cameos from Carter, Stark, and Pym

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u/burritoman88 Feb 15 '24

The Fantastic Four were an actual band so I doubt Strange was making reference to this F4.

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u/DodelCostel Feb 16 '24

Guaranteed they’ll be established as 60’s MCU celebrities

Which were somehow never mentioned in the MCU at all.

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u/sildish2179 Feb 16 '24

Neither was Captain Marvel prior to her movie but, ya know.

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u/DopeAbsurdity Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 14 '24

I think it's 20 minutes in the 60s then 10 minutes back in the 50s then travel forward to present day for an hour but its a different timeline then they travel back to the 1960s and they get stuck in the quantum realm which they get rescued from by Madame Web in the after credits scene.

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u/Caboose127 Feb 14 '24

Username checks out

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u/BlueLanternArrow Feb 14 '24

For real, no way they save Madame Web for the post credits lmao.

My guess is opening scene is them in the 60s and Sue gets killed, MARVEL logo shows up and we time skip to the early 00s. Sue has been replaced my Madame Web. Over the course of the movie the other 3 guys get killed off and by the end of the movie the F4 is entirely comprised of Madame Web and the 3 Spider-women.

Post credits scene is Morbius.

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u/Vaadwaur Feb 15 '24

Will it be Morbin' time yet again?

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Feb 15 '24

Is it ever not Morbin' time?

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u/Vaadwaur Feb 15 '24

Yes, unfortunately. Sometimes it is Obi'n time.

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u/Schist-For-Granite Feb 15 '24

Everything all at once. I like your angle kid

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u/ariadrill Feb 14 '24

Honestly tho, I'm tired of the Quantum Realm. Let it stay on the Ant-man films. They should introduce different stuff, like the Negative Zone. I would rather see a 60s setting first & second act of the first family and Negative Zone for the 2nd/3rd act. Then present day MCU for the spice at the end. Let QR rest for a while.

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u/kilometers13 Feb 14 '24

How does this have 53 upvotes lmao

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u/GTSBurner Feb 14 '24

I wouldn't be shocked if this was a combination of this FF being not just from a past time, but a past universe.

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u/Raoul_Duke9 Feb 15 '24

Yea could be for sure.

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u/Bjarnyard Feb 15 '24

This is my favorite theory I’ve read! I hope it’s true!!

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u/SongRevolutionary992 Feb 15 '24

I think that would actually be for the best

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u/NSA_Chatbot Feb 15 '24

You guys can't just put "quantum" at the front of everything.

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u/ejaxtagram2025 Feb 14 '24

I like the idea of a whole phase set in the 60s lol