The Fantastic Four Could’ve Debuted in Doctor Strange 2’s End Credits

The principal finish credit scene for Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness is already unimaginable epic. It reveals a model new hero named Clea, performed by Charlize Theron, who takes Strange on what we will solely think about is yet one more multiverse journey. But, within the movie’s very early phases, there was a good larger reveal. One that was so huge, it ended up within the film itself.

In Multiverse of Madness, Strange visits many alternative universes however one specifically stands out. It’s Earth-838, residence of the Illuminati, a bunch of superheroes who look barely acquainted, however, are all in reality fairly completely different. There’s Black Bolt, a brand new model of Baron Mordo, a brand new Captain Marvel, a brand new Captain America, Professor X from the X-Men universe, after which a personality author Michael Waldron initially thought he’d solely get ultimately credit: Mr. Fantastic himself, Reed Richards.

“I always wanted Reed Richards in this thing,” Waldron informed Empire Magazine “In my very first draft, I wrote a tag just for the hell of it, of the events of the movie being recorded and reviewed by somebody in the Baxter Building, and a stretchy hand coming into frame to run it back.”

This scene, after all, by no means made the movie and Waldron himself has defined how a lot his script, and others, modified in the course of the course of filming. As it stands within the completed movie, Richards isn’t relegated to mere finish credit tease; we see his full face as a member of the Illuminati. It was a degree up Waldron by no means thought potential. “Reed is probably my favorite Marvel comics character,” he mentioned. “So I was always gunning to get him in here somewhere.”

As big and thrilling a shock seeing Mr. Fantastic within the closing movie was, if he’d appeared ultimately credit, it could have been even larger (or, ought to we are saying, longer). As we now know, the character in Multiverse of Madness—performed by John Krasinski—is killed. Had he not been killed, and had he been watching the occasions of the film, the Richards within the film would have been the very a lot alive MCU one. However, since Strange filmed many months in the past, earlier than plans for Marvel’s Phases 4-6 had been possible solidified, it is smart to not play that card earlier than it had too. It additionally appears more and more possible that position shall be recast as a full-on Fantastic Four film begins keen itself into existence below the course of Matt Shakman. That’ll be in theaters November 2024.

It’s a really thrilling time although. Marvel Studios has actually began to do what followers have been clamoring for for the reason that day yhe Walt Disney Company bought twentieth Century Fox: bringing within the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. There was a tease in Ms. Marvel about mutants, a tease in She-Hulk that gave the impression of Wolverine, a 3rd Deadpool film is on the way in which, and, most prominently, these Doctor Strange teases. Which are you most excited for?

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