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Why Doctor Doom isn't going to be in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and why its the right move again for Marvel Studios [Marvel Matters]
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be the first FF movie with no Doctor Doom, and the studio & the director have a good reason for that (but also a loophole).
Before Robert Downey Jr. made his surprise reveal at Comic-Con International: San Diego that he was playing Doctor Doom in Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday movie, he shared the backstage area inside Comic-Con International: San Diego's Hall H with the cast of The Fantastic Four: First Steps - but the director of that film says he won't actually be in that movie, despite being the team's most iconic villain.
And it's the right move.
"Doom's a great character, but he takes up a lot of air," director Matt Shakman told Entertainment Weekly's Christian Holub recently. "Other film adaptations have done both an origin story and Doom. We're doing neither, and that allows us to look at them from a fresh perspective."
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