Emily Blunt Responds To Fantastic Four Casting Rumors

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Emily Blunt responded to long-standing Fantastic Four casting rumors. It is now well-known that Blunt turned down the role of Black Widow in Iron Man 2, and since then, her name has been attached to the MCU. 20th Century Fox was responsible for the Fantastic Four's cinematic debut in 2005, a less than serious take Marvel's First Family, which led to the 2007 sequel subtitled, Rise of the Silver Surfer, before the franchise fizzled out. Fox tried to reboot Fantastic Four in 2015, but the film was a commercial and critical flop.

Marvel Studios acquired the rights to Fantastic Four in Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019, and since then, the Mouse House has been looking to revitalize the flailing franchise. At San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, Marvel head, Kevin Feige confirmed that a Fantastic Four movie was in development, and later it was announced Jon Watts, the director known for all three of the MCU’s Spider-Man movies, would helm. The project has been rather quiet since then, but there has been no shortage of fan castings. For a while now, real-life couple, Emily Blunt and John Krasinki, have been popular choices for Sue Storm and Reed Richards, since both actors have been linked to the MCU in the past (Krasinski screen-tested for the role of Captain America).

Now, during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Blunt is responding to these long-standing Fantastic Four casting rumors. While fans have been clamoring to see Blunt and Krasinski cast as the Invisible Woman and the super stretchy Mr. Fantastic, Blunt unequivocally dispelled any rumors about herself or her husband potentially appearing in Marvel’s upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. When asked if the genre was beneath her, the Quiet Place star was rather blunt, when voicing her dislike of superhero movies. Read her full response below:

That is fan-casting. No one has received a phone call. That’s just people saying, ‘Wouldn’t that be great?’ ... It’s not that it’s beneath me. I love Iron Man and when I got offered Black Widow I was obsessed with Iron Man. I wanted to work with Robert Downey Jr.—it would’ve been amazing … but I don’t know if superhero movies are for me. They’re not up my alley. I don’t like them. I really don’t.