What Year Does FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Take Place? Director Matt Shakman Talks About MCU Timeline

The upcoming film The Fantastic Four: First Steps is set in an alternate reality, Earth-828, during the mid-1960s, specifically around 1965, as indicated by its design and retrofuturistic influences like the 1964 World’s Fair. Director Matt Shakman clarified that the Fantastic Four will join the modern MCU through multiversal travel, not time travel, as they appear in Avengers: Doomsday.

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