Pedro Pascal Reportedly Offered Reed Richards Role in Marvel's FANTASTIC FOUR
With the actors’ strike over, Marvel Studios is moving forward with casting Fantastic Four. There have been a lot of casting rumors involving this movie which have included Adam Driver and Jake Gyllenhaal up for the role of Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic. Then there’s Venessa Kirby who is rumored for Sue Storm.
The latest report from industry insider Daniel Richtman says that Pedro Pascal has actually been offered the role of Reed Richards and that the actor is "reportedly close to signing." It’s explained that if Pascal accepts the role, Marvel will most likely make the official announcement soon.
This is just a rumor for now, but it does come from a reliable source. We’ll just have to wait and see how it shakes out. But, yeah… if this is true, I actually love the idea of Pascal taking on the role of Reed Richards! He’s a great actor, he’s got a strong fanbase, and it’s a role that there’s no doubt he would have fun with.
I’d be good with this casting if it was true! What do you think?
Fantastic Four is currently in development with WandaVision's Matt Shakman set to direct the movie. The movie is still on track to be released in 2025. He previously teased that this movie is going to be very different than anything we’ve seen in the MCU yet, saying: "It's different in so many ways. I wish I could be specific. I wish I could say more. But we are doing things very differently from a story standpoint, from an approach to the filmmaking standpoint, that really fits the material. I wish I could say more. I would love to, but I can't. But I think it's going to be unlike anything you've seen before, and certainly unlike anything at Marvel that you've seen before."
When talking about the pre-production work that’s been done on the film, he said: "We have been nonstop. Despite the strikes, yes, we've been working with the effects and with production design and building our world, and that's been incredibly exciting. You know, how do you translate those skills into live-action in dynamic ways? Because some things that work beautifully in John Byrne and Jack Kirby are a little tougher when you're filming them. How do you make sure that things are exciting but also grounded in a scientific thing, which is also part of the Fantastic Four that I love? There's some stuff I'm super excited about. I can't say too much, you know?"
Kevin Feige also talked about the movie saying that Marvel’s first family is going to be a big pillar of the future of the MCU. He said: “The only other one in terms of me personally and my 23-year history is the Fantastic Four. We sort of talked about mutants and that whole aspect to the Marvel world, but Fantastic Four is the foundation for everything that came after in the comics. There's certainly been versions of it [on screen], but never inhabiting the storytelling of the MCU. And that's something that is really exciting for us. People will start to hear more about that soon. We plan on that being a big pillar of the MCU going forward, just the way they've been in the comics for 50 or 60 years.”
Marvel producer Stephen Broussard previously promised that the film will be a true celebration of the original source material from the comics: “I wouldn’t presume to know everything about that film; I’m not necessarily working on it. But one of the founding principles of Marvel, going back to Iron Man and the casting of Tony that I think has resonated through today, is to embrace the source material and these comics that have been around forever. They’re older than me, and I’m guessing they’re older than you too. They’ve been around for a while for a reason, [so we] lean into that.”
Fantastic Four arrives in theaters on May 2nd, 2025.