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The Super Bowl teaser for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had sneakily revealed that Patrick Stewart’s Professor Charles Xavier might appear in the Sam Raimi-directed movie.
However, when Stephen Strange was eventually released into the cinema, Xavier was not the only character that showed up, which fans loved.
The original lineup would usually have Xavier, Strange, Fantastic Four’s Reed Richards, Inhuman’s Black Bolt, Atlantis’ Namor, and Iron Man in the Marvel comics. Tony Stark and Namor, though, were ruled out, with the former dying in the MCU and the latter pulling a no-show stunt so far.
Anson Mount returned as Black Bolt from the fleeting Inhumans TV series. However, John Krasinki’s role as Reed might be the performance that deserves a standing ovation in all of the Multiverse of Madness.
While he is famous for his role as Jim on The Office, the grown beard Krasinski had for the films such as A Quiet Place makes him a living image of Reed, who has grown a beard as of late.
Krasinski’s casting for the role also makes a gratifying redemption opportunity for the actor, who almost made it in Captain America, but Chris Evans already snagged it.
Revealing the stories in talk shows, Krasinski encountered Chris Hemsworth while trying on the Captain America suit and was so intimidated by Hemsworth’s body that he already concluded he wasn’t the right man for the Sentinel of Liberty.
That moment of self-doubt might spell out his involvement in films such as 13 Hours and Amazon’s Jack Ryan show, which have obviously motivated him to develop a more action-star-worthy body.
Reed Richards shifts the idea of a movie star’s body beyond people’s imagination as the leader of the Fantastic Four possesses the power to stretch and change his physical form in any figure he chooses.
Yet a more admirable thing Reed possesses is his brain – established in the Multiverse of Madness as “the smartest man in the universe,” Reed is precisely a supreme mad scientist.
In the contents of Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four comics, he, at some point, assembled a device that enabled him to communicate with his parallel selves from different universes. This development backs the direct forerunner for the Council of Ricks in Rick and Morty and our most recent attachment with the multiverse. Way before the Spider-Verse existed, there was the Council of Reeds.
What’s even more applause-worthy than Reed’s power and his distinct features is his commitment to his family. It’s not a secret that Krasinski was initially recruited to be a potential Reed on-screen in 2018, the very same year he played a role with his real-life wife Emily Blunt in A Quiet Place.
In the Multiverse of Madness, KrasinsKrasinski’sevealed that he does indeed have a wife and that she remains to be alive before Wanda kills him. The clear insinuation is an Invisible Woman played by Blunt.
Filmmaker Jon Watts recently bowed out of the supposed MCU Fantastic Four movie, so it may be vague what the film would look like.
