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You Won’t Believe These Actors Were Once Rumored For 2015’s Fantastic Four Movie
ComicBook.comStory by Lisa Laman
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A look back at the wild, star-studded casting rumors that swirled around the ill-fated 2015 Fantastic Four movie, and how Hollywood's A-listers dodged a disastrous bullet.
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- Josh Gad was in the running to play The Thing, which would have made him the first Jewish actor to portray the openly Jewish superhero - but director Josh Trank quickly shot that down.
- Margot Robbie was an early frontrunner for the role of Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, showcasing her Hollywood clout even before her big breakout in The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Josh Gad, Kit Harington, Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Eddie Redmayne, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, 20th Century Fox, Marvel Studios, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four, Frozen, The Rocketer, The Internship, Game of Thrones, Eternals, Atonement, Black Widow, The Wolf of Wall Street, Les Misérables, The Theory of Everything, Fantastic Beasts, The Aeronauts, The Fantastic Four: First Steps