‘Fantastic Four,’ Assemble: Director Matt Shakman on Casting Marvel’s First Family Without Auditions and ‘Corporate Pressures’ Not Being ‘My Burden to Shoulder’

Matt Shakman owes his career to a Superman costume.

Before Marvel Studios hired him to direct “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” one of the most consequential movies in the company’s history — before he helmed more than 130 episodes of television, from “Everwood” and “Ugly Betty” to “Game of Thrones” and “WandaVision” and was a child actor on sitcoms like “Diff’rent Strokes” and “Night Court” — Shakman wore only superhero attire. Every day as a little kid in Ventura, California, he would dress up as comic-book icons like Batman and Captain America, in suits he often helped to craft himself, with the utter conviction that the clothes transformed

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