Director Matt Shakman confirmed the decision to exclude Malkovich from the film. Other actors that still appear in the new Marvel are Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser, Mark Gississ and Sarah Niles.
The actor John Malkovich It will no longer appear in The fantastic 4: first steps of Marvel Studios As Ivan Kragoff, also known as the red ghost, one of the first villains to face the superhero quartet in the comics.
The director Matt Shakman He confirmed the decision to exclude Malkovich from the film in an extensive interview with the Variety portal about his career and his experience in the realization of the film.
Malkovich’s scenes appeared at the beginning of the fantastic 4, as part of an extensive sequence that details the first years of the starting family as superheroes, including their fight against the red ghost and their team of supersymals. The first trailer of the film even includes a brief Malkovich taking in the character, and Shakman said the actor “was brilliant and gave everything.”
The reason why John Malkovich’s character was eliminated from the fantastic 4: first steps
But the need to serve an extensive cast that includes Pedro Pascal (as Reed Richards), Vanessa Kirby (as usually), Joseph Quinn (like Johnny Storm), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (like Ben Grimm), Julia Garner (like Silver Surfer) and Ralph Ineson (like Galactus) – in addition to a story that begins years after the lives of superheroes of the fantastic four, when he reed and usually welcomed their first child – led the filmmakers to realize that the appearance of Malkovich did not fit with the complete story.
“There were many things that were finally ruled out”Shakman said. “When we were building a retrofuturist world of the 60s, presenting all these villains, presenting these four main characters as a group, as well as individually, introducing the idea of a child, there was much to balance in this film and some things had to disappear to shape the film for its final version.”
“It was heartbreaking not to include it in the final version of the film, because it is one of my favorite people and one of my greatest inspirations.”Said the director. “As a person who moves between theater, cinema and television, there is no one more inspiring than the founder of the Steppenwolf theater company. What he has done on stage as an actor, which he has done as director both in theater and in cinema, and simply as an incredible talent film actor; it was an honor that came to act.”
Other actors that still appear in “the fantastic four” are Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser, Mark Gatiss and Sarah Niles. The world premiere of the film will be on July 21 in Los Angeles and will premiere in Cinemas on July 24.
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