In a joint statement, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige and Co-President Louis D'Esposito said, "Collaborating with Jon on the Spider-Man films has been a true pleasure. We were looking forward to continuing our work with him to bring the Fantastic Four into the MCU but understand and are supportive of his reasons for stepping away. We are optimistic that we will have the opportunity to work together again at some point down the road."

Watts added: "Making three Spider-Man films was an incredible and life changing experience for me. I’m eternally grateful to have been a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for seven years. I’m hopeful we’ll work together again and I can’t wait to see the amazing vision for Fantastic Four brought to life."

RAIMI GANG

I’m just thinking of random choices atm

Justin Lin?

• Has flourished with blockbuster action stuff
• Has worked within a big franchise
• Balances the team dynamic/team heist style stuff while focusing on the story and still giving characters time to have their moments (in fast 5 and moments of others)
• just left the last f&f movie

I don’t think they’ll scoop up an indie person who only has a few small movies under their belt (like they did captain marvel, eternals, black widow, Spider-Man, lots of mcu movies)

This and X Men really need to hit and be helmed by people who know what they’re doing on a production of this scale. They’re basically their own franchises

Margot Robbie or Mandy Rose as Sue for me

Ngl it would be crazy if he stepped down of F&F for this lol, Vin’s gonna smack Kevin fr

They should get that guy who did Chronicle

for like 5 seconds I was like ‘yoo that’s a good idea!! What has that guy been up to’ and was about to google it

Then i got the joke

lowkey pretty happy Watts is out

His Spiderman movies are mid

In b4 Krasinski announced to star and direct

Oh wait

That a good call. And would be a good choice imo.

I’m not a huge Krasinski as Reed super fan but IF he’s gonna be in it, he might as well direct it too.

He could do some cool stuff

Brad Bird with Damon Lindelof writing

Lowkey OP can take ghost out of the title

first CBM with the star directing would be hard as brix

(apologies to Ben's Batman film)

Mandy Rose the wrestler??

we still doing this??

Krasinki directs and then says he's too busy directing to also star in it so they get bill hader

Don’t wanna jinx but watch it be JJ Abrams lol

McKay would be dope

Thank god. I liked spider man movie but Watts is such a vanilla director for this stuff

What the f*** 🤯🤯🤯

most realistic thing about this scene is how nigga started booking it NO THOUGHTS