WandaVision Director Matt Shakman In Talks To Helm Marvel's Fantastic Four Movie

[Outsiders]

Sources from within have informed Deadline that WandaVision director Matt Shakman is in early talks to direct Marvel’s new Fantastic Four movie.

Shakman would be stepping in for Jon Watts, who dropped out of the project because he needed a much-needed break after filming the Spidey trilogy with Tom Holland and Zendaya. He has spent much of the last decade directing and promoting the Spider-Man films.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will be producing and has said before that he has always been comfortable with Shakman following WandaVision.  Shakman earned an Emmy nomination for Best Director for the series.

[Hogun]

I am still on the fence that Steven Spielberg should direct this movie. I can imagine a man with his kind of cinematic spectacle to properly integrate location shots with the actors, either through on-location shoots or sets to create a grandiose Fantastic Four film that explores the vast richness of the team's mythos.

[Lord_Scareglow]

Sure whatever dude has some good credits directing episodes of big shows, but is this guy really a big blockbuster movie director? I won't decide anything until I see the end product but I would have loved to here that Russo bros would do this, or hey J.C Chandor seemed like he could have been a good fit, Jeymes Samuel could have been a cool name... I don't know if anyone ever saw The Harder they fall but boy did that movie look beautiful, I think they need to put some love in Marvel's first family's debut into the MCU I think that team deserves it.

[SpiderS]

I'm okay with this. It seems like it will be Feige's passion project and he wants a good technical director, who doesn't have too much of a personality and works well with MCU machine.