Penn Badgley Transforms Into Mr. Fantastic for MCU Fantastic Four Fan Art
Marvel Studios may be busy focusing on Phase 5 after their struggle to get Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania off the ground, but they still have a lot to look forward to. One of their biggest films in development has to be their Fantastic Four movie, which will feature Marvel's first family. One fan seems to think that You star Penn Badgley could play Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic despite reports and has created fan art showing how the actor could portray that. An artist on Instagram who goes by the handle of @Spdrmnkyxxiiii created a concept that shows how Badgley could look as Mr. Fantastic. In the fan art, we see the You star get the classic Mr. Fantastic look while maintaining his creepy looks from his Netflix series. While we don't know who exactly will play the character for Marvel Studios, this is still a great idea.
You can check out the fan art below.
What is the Most Recent Marvel Studios Project to Get Released?
The most recent Marvel Studios project to be released will be Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quatumania. Empire Magazine recently had a chat with director Peyton Reed about how the stakes have risen going into Quantumania. "People felt like, Oh, these are fun little palate cleansers after a gigantic Avengers movie," Reed told the outlet. "For this third one, I said, 'I don't want to be the palate cleanser anymore. I want to be the big Avengers movie.'"
"I grew up a real Marvel comics nerd, and there are a handful of antagonists in the Marvel comics universe who are all-timers," Reed continued. "Loki, obviously. Doctor Doom from the Fantastic Four. And Kang the Conqueror. In conversations with Kevin Feige and Marvel, it was like, I want to put Ant-Man and Wasp up against a really formidable villain in this movie, and so we're doing Kang the Conqueror."
"In the comics, Kang has dominion over time, he's a time traveler. His situation is a little bit different in this movie, which I won't spoil for you, but he's someone who, [while] we live very linear lives, from childhood to death, Kang doesn't exist that way," the director smirked. "It struck me as interesting to take the tiniest Avengers — in some people's minds maybe the least powerful Avengers — and put them up against the most powerful force in the multiverse."
The studio describes the film as follows: "In the film, which officially kicks off phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Super-Hero partners Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) return to continue their adventures as Ant-Man and the Wasp. Together, with Hope's parents Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), the family finds themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought was possible. Jonathan Majors joins the adventure as Kang."
What do you think about Penn Badgley as Mr. Fantastic? Could you see him as part of Marvel Studios Fantastic Four? Let us know in the comments below or by hitting up our writer @NateBrail on Twitter!