‘WandaVision’ Director Matt Shakman Departs ‘Star Trek 4’ to Direct ‘Fantastic Four’ for Marvel

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Ever since Jon Watts departed from directing the Fantastic Four reboot for Marvel Studios, the fans were wondering who’s going to take over, and recent reports have said that Matt Shakman, who directed all episodes of Marvel Studios’ WandaVision is in talks to helm the movie. However, if Shakman is going to direct Fantastic Four, he needed to drop the upcoming Star Trek 4 which he was previously attached to direct for Paramount.

Fantastic Four reboot was announced in 2020 with Jon Watts (Spider-Man Home trilogy) set to direct. Shortly after finishing Spider-Man: No Way Home, Watts announced he will no longer direct the upcoming reboot of the Fantastic Four, and Kevin Feige announced last month that the reboot will be released on November 8, 2024, although no new director or cast members were revealed. Recently, Deadline reported that Matt Shakman is set to take over the project.

On the other side, Paramount Pictures announced that the Star Trek movie franchise will continue with the fourth installment which is set to be released on December 23, 2023, although we kinda doubt it will stay on that date after DC delayed Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom to December 25, 2023. Shakman was attached to direct the movie, but now he left the project and it remains to be seen who will be hired to take over. J.J. Abrams directed the first two movies of the Star Trek reboot franchise, and Justin Lin directed the third one in 2016.

Disney and Marvel Studios will have another huge presentation at D23 Expo next month. Although it wasn’t confirmed, the fans are expecting that the cast members for the upcoming reboot should be announced, and if these reports are true, Shakman could be officially confirmed as the new director of Fantastic Four as well.

Set as the first installment of Phase 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Fantastic Four is set to be released on November 8, 2024!

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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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