The hidden message in the Fantastic 4 casting announcement

Marvel has finally revealed the casting for its Fantastic Four film, but the visual published on the networks hides even more information than you think.

This year, Valentine’s Day was successful: no matter the quality of the date or the restaurant, Marvel offered its own gift. The studio behind famous superhero franchises has finally made the official announcement of the casting for Fantastic Four, whose heroes will join the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) for good.

The publication on the networks was accompanied by a poster that clashed with the usual style, offering a return to the sixties: pastel colors in the spotlight, very vintage clothes and furniture… and other details which could have much more importance than we don’t believe it.

Obviously, the announcement of the participation of Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn in the film remains huge. But Internet users began to wonder more about the other clues left there by the studio, and the first theories began to bubble up on social networks. We will explain everything to you.

A return to the 60s for Fantastic 4?

Everything about the poster – or Valentine’s Day card – is an obvious throwback to the past. More precisely, in the 60s. And it seems that it’s not just a question of style, but an artistic direction taken for the entire film… unless?

Could the Fantastic 4 already existed in the MCU?🤔pic.twitter.com/0Ae1mMmjFt https://t.co/DMMYZZVEBv

— Zack Brangen💀🍓 (@ZBrag101) February 14, 2024

“What if the Fantastic Four already existed in the MCU? / So Fantastic Four could be set in 1963, judging by the magazine Ben Grimm is reading.”

As many Internet users have pointed out, the magazine run by the Thing displays a cover of Life dated December 1963. Added to this is a tirade from Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Darkness, while the hero discovers variants of Fantastic and points out that they’re supposed to be from the 60’s.

Others, however, will raise a slightly more complex point: SHIELD existed in the 60s and 70s, but no mention has been made of the four heroes so far in the MCU. So web detectives have come up with a new theory, this time involving time travel.

However, another announcement recently made by Marvel could support this proposition: the first trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine, in which we see the TVA, or Tribunal of Anachronistic Variations, in action. Coming straight from the Loki series, this organization travels through time and the multiverses to get rid of branches considered “dangerous” for the balance of the universe.

If its agents are visible in the third opus of Deadpool, it is entirely possible that Fantastic Four is also entitled to its ticket for an excursion into the multiverse. Even more so if the heroes are called upon to participate later in the next Avengers films which will also take place in stories mixing different universes.

Fantastic 4 will be released in theaters on July 23, 2025: by then, Marvel will certainly have offered new details on its plot.