One of the writers that helped build out James Cameron ’s Sully family in Avatar : The Way of Water , Josh Friedman , has been hired to write the script for Marvel ’s unexampled Fantastic Four flick .
The Hollywood Reporterannounced the writer ’s attachment to Matt Shankman ’s feature debut withMarvel ’s first mob that ’s set to quetch off stage 6 of theMarvel Cinematic Universe . Shankman , who antecedently worked on Marvel Disney+ series WandaVision , was brought on to helm Fantastic Four after its antecedently announced director , Jon Watts ( Spider - Man : No Way Home ) , left the undertaking . ( Watts is now heading upDisney+ Star Wars series Skeleton Crew . )
Friedman , who antecedently make on TNT ’s series adaptation of Bong Joon - Ho ’s Snowpiercer , is no stranger to genre . away from Avatar 2 , his credits include Steven Spielberg ’s War of the Worlds , and he created and wrote the highly underrated Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles . So it take a crap sensory faculty that he was approached by Marvel Studios for this latest big - screen feature star Stan Lee and Jack Kirby ’s dear family — characters that fan have been waiting a long time to see introduce into the MCU . Previous franchise starts let in Fantastic Four ( 2005 ) and Fantastic Four ( 2015 ) ; oddly , both featured future Marvel Cinematic Universe stars as Johnny Storm : Chris Evans , who later was tramp as Captain America , and Black Panther ’s Killmonger , Michael B. Jordan .
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Fantastic Four from Marvel Studios is set to start out Phase 6 of the MCU on November 8 , 2024 .
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