“The Fantastic Four: The First Steps” takes place on Earth-828, in an alternate Marvel timeline.
Set in Manhattan, the film stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic; Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, aka the Invisible Woman; Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch; and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm, aka the Thing. With the timeline shift, director Matt Shakman made it clear that he saw the film being set in an optimistic future.
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Production designer Kasra Farahani took that and ran with it, turning London’s Pinewood Studios into a retro-futuristic Manhattan by drawing influences from Stanley Kubrick’s “2001:
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