Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has confirmed The Fantastic Four will be a 1960s period piece and teased it’s set in an alternate universe to the main Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline.

On the Official Marvel Podcast, Feige was asked blatantly if The Fantastic Four — which stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing, and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm — is set in the 1960s.

“Yes, yes, very much so,” Feige said, before teasing the film won’t be set in the main MCU timeline. “It is a period, and there was another piece of art we released with Johnny Storm flying in the air, making a four symbol.

“There was a cityscape in the corner of that image and there was a lot of smart people who noticed that cityscape didn’t look exactly like the New York that we know and the New York that existed in the 60s in our world. And those are smart observations, I’ll say.”

Feige said The Fantastic Four is the project he’s most looking forward to too, and confirmed filming begins on July 29, 2024. “I am incredibly excited for what we’re doing with The Fantastic Four right now, and what Matt Shackman, our director who did WandaVision for us, is working on. He’s already moved to London, and we start filming at the end of July,” Feige said.

“I’m extremely excited by it because I think those characters are mainstays, are legendary pillars of the Marvel universe that we’ve never got to play with or explore in any significant way, apart from Multiverse of Madness and a few fun teases before. In the way that we’re doing it in that film.”

The Fantastic Four premieres almost a year later on July 25, 2025 and is so far confirmed to star John Malkovich, Ralph Ineson, Paul Walter Hauser, and Natasha Lyonne in supporting roles.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.