Among the gallery of cameos present in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness by Sam Raimi, fans had the opportunity to experience a new iteration of the character of Mr Fantastic after Miles Teller and Ioan Gruffudd, embodied by John Krasinski. Many were delighted with this choice, especially as the actor and director of the A Quiet Place franchise had campaigned, during lockdown, to join the MCU and the Fantastic Four.
Mr Fantastic therefore appeared for a handful of minutes in the second film of the Sorcerer Supreme before being brutally killed by Wanda like his other companions in the Illuminati. The character was indeed a variant from Earth-838, and it is understood that his character is the same for Earth-616. John Krasinski, very popular with fans, is reportedly set to return to anchor a quartet still unknown to all. The only certainty: Jon Watts, who was to direct the reboot of the Fantastic Four, left the project and no one has replaced him yet. Kevin Feige is expected to announce more on this subject during Disney‘s next D23 in September.
However, the arrival of Reed Richards before the Illuminati featured a nod to the franchise antagonist: Doctor Doom. Richie Palmer, one of the producers of the film, revealed that the teleportation technology of Reed, which the latter uses to enter, came from Doctor Victor Von Doom. It is in the audio commentary of the film that he shared the information:
“The detail of the teleportation device he uses to enter the scene is something we took from the comics, it’s Doctor Doom’s Time Platform.”
In the comics, the Temporal Platform allowed the Fantastic Four to meet Rama-Tut, one of the different identities of Kang the Conqueror. In any case, this is information that seems to tease the imminent arrival of the big bad in the canon of Earth-616 where most of the events of the MCU take place.