MCU: Spider-Man Director Jon Watts Walks Out On The ‘Fantastic Four’ Reboot

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Jon Watts became a worldwide known director due to his work on Spider-Man: Homecoming and its two sequels, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Spider-Man: No Way Home, which also makes him a director who assembled all three live-action Spider-Men in one movie.

In December 2020, Marvel Studios announced that they’re developing a Fantastic Four reboot, which would finally bring the titular team of superheroes into the MCU, and Watts was attached to direct. Today, Deadline reported that Watts decided to exit the project. You can check Watts’ statement down below:

“Making three ‘Spider-Man’ films was an incredible and life-changing experience for me. I’m eternally grateful to have been a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for seven years. I’m hopeful we’ll work together again and I can’t wait to see the amazing vision for Fantastic Four brought to life.” — Jon Watts

Not much is known about the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. The movie is set to reintroduce the popular team of superheroes on the big screen after Disney’s acquisition of FOX. FOX made the first Fantastic Four movie in 2005, which received mixed reviews but it was successful enough to make a sequel in 2007, which received negative reviews. FOX rebooted the franchise in 2015 with a movie that was a complete critical and commercial failure. So, let’s hope the third time will be a charm.

No actors have been cast in the upcoming reboot, and now it needs to find a new director. We know that a movie is in development, but it’s not known how is the development going and who knows when will that movie arrive in theaters.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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