‘Fantastic Four : First Steps’ Budget Revealed – Cheaper Than Expected Compared to Past Marvel Films

Marvel’s upcoming Fantastic Four movie is nearing its release, and fans now know how much it cost to make. According to reports, the film has a production budget of around $200 million. For Marvel Studios, that’s actually a pretty standard number, though not as high as their most expensive projects.

To put things in perspective, Avengers: Endgame remains the most expensive Marvel movie so far, with a massive $400 million budget. That film was on a completely different scale, bringing together almost every major character in the franchise. Fantastic Four isn’t aiming for that level of spectacle, at least not yet.

This new Fantastic Four movie is still a big-budget production, but it lines up with several other recent Marvel films. Deadpool & Wolverine, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Quantumania, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Eternals, Black Widow, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Iron Man 3 all had similarly reported budgets of around $200 million.

That said, it’s far from Marvel’s cheapest movies. Those titles still belong to the original Ant-Man and its sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, which both cost noticeably less to produce.

The $200 million budget for Fantastic Four covers everything needed to bring Marvel’s first family to life: the cast, the crew, visual effects, sets, and locations, but it does not include marketing, reportedly.

The film was shot mostly in England, at Pinewood Studios, with other scenes filmed in Spain. Director Matt Shakman has talked about using real sets and practical effects wherever possible, wanting the movie to feel like it was made in the 1960s, even using old film cameras for certain shots.

The choice to keep the budget at this level seems deliberate. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has said before that he wanted to bring the Fantastic Four back in a way that felt fresh and respectful to their comic book roots, and saying he wanted to bring them to the “platform and level they deserve.”

Compared to something like Avengers: Endgame, the studio doesn’t seem to be treating Fantastic Four as a massive crossover event. Instead, they’re focusing on building the team’s story from the ground up, starting with this movie.

Fantastic Four: First Steps budget was first reported by Variety.

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