After playing a big part in helping launch the Marvel Studios limited series WandaVision, Matt Shakman may be ready to help launch one of the studio’s prized movie properties.
Sources tell Deadline that Shakman is in early talks to direct Marvel’s new Fantastic Four pic.Rumors have been running rampant in recent weeks that he was in the mix for the job, and insiders are now telling Deadline that while a formal offer hasn’t been presented, early discussions have begun and that things are headed in the right direction.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is producing.Marvel could not be reached for comment.Shakman steps in for Jon Watts, who parted ways with the project in the spring.
Watts was coming off Spider-Man: No Way Home, which had just become the sixth highest-grossing film in global box office history with $1.89 billion and needed a break from the comic book realm.
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