00:00Lifelong Fantastic Four fan, very excited to see the comic accuracy, Galactus, Giganto, so thrilled.
00:06What was the first moment that you knew you wanted to include visually, knowing you're a comic book fan when you were a kid or as an adult?
00:12You're like, that's the moment I need to tell the fans I got you.
00:15Yeah, well, Fantastic Four number one, it was very important to get that cover in.
00:19That was always on our list, so that was one of them.
00:22Now, I just heard that 828 is the universe we're using, and that's a love letter to Jack Kirby, which I adore.
00:26Is there an Easter egg that you're especially proud of that we should look out for?
00:30Well, you know, there was a Roger Corman version of Fantastic Four that was never released,
00:36and we used the four original actors from that movie in this film in cameos.
00:43That movie, I think, is really special.
00:45They made it with a lot of love, and it's always bummed me out that it never came out, and so they are included in this film.
00:51Now, the Mark Waid run versus the Kirby run versus Ryan North run, they're all very different, but there's a core to them.
00:56What did you want to make sure you were ensured was your core theme or tone or flavor before making the film?
01:02Well, I think all of those people you just mentioned, and I would add Byrne, and I would add Hickman, and I would add Kirby and Lee,
01:07and all the people that have approached these characters, they bring, I think, a lens of their own experience to it.
01:14Who are these characters to me? How do I see my own life reflected in them?
01:17And I bring my own experience as a husband, as a father.
01:20You know, the birth of my daughter was the most fantastic day of my life, right?
01:24And so that's really what I looked at it.
01:26How does a baby change a family?
01:29That's what we were looking at.
01:30Now, I don't know how much you can say, but Doom is obviously integral to Fantastic Four.
01:34How much did you have to say going forward with Doom and, like, the writer's room elements of the greater MCU?
01:39How much was that a conversation in your work?
01:41So I was mostly focused on this world, building this universe, 828, building this Earth in the 60s, this retrofuturism,
01:48introducing these four characters to the MCU, and where they go from here is out of my control.
01:55Yes.
01:55My last question for you.
01:56The Alex Ross influence feels so strong, and the Marvels feels like it's pulled out and put on this, and it's beautiful.
02:02I noticed an eyepatch character with a camera.
02:04Is that who I think it is?
02:05No.
02:06He doesn't have an eyepatch.
02:07I was so hopeful.
02:08It was shadowy.
02:08Yes, yes.
02:09Alex Ross.
02:10I mean, love Alex Ross.
02:11He's amazing.
02:12The way he depicts Reed stretching was a big influence.
02:15I feel it in every frame.
02:16The retrofuturism plus Ross means the world to me, man.
02:18Oh, good, good, good.
02:19Awesome.
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