Fantastic Four: Future Foundation: Part One

Fantastic Four: Future Foundation: Part One is a 2009 superhero film and sequel to Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007). Due to negative reviews from the previous films, Tim Story does not return to direct, he is replaced with Bryan Singer and Joss Whedon. The film also acts as a crossover with Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and concludes the Fantastic Four into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film was released on May 3, 2009.

Premise
Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D., asks Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic to study a powerful cube-like object called the Tesseract. While working, Reed accidentally opens a portal to another dimension and the Fantastic Four, along with Spider-Man and Reed's daughter from the future, is forced to fight a world full of mutant-like creatures obsessed with death, with the loss of one of their own.

Cast

 * Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic


 * Jessica Abla as Susan Richards/Invisible Woman
 * Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm/ The Thing

Kristen Dunst, Rosemary Harris, James Franco, Robert Downey Jr., Clark Greg, and Kerry Washington reprise their roles from previous films as Mary Jane Watson, May Parker, Harry Osborne, Tony Stark, Phil Coulson, and Alicia Masters.
 * Chris Evans as Johnny Storm/Human Torch
 * Toby Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
 * Laine McNiel as Valeria Richards
 * Beau Garrett as Frankie Raye
 * Christopher Eccleston as Annihlus
 * Leonard Nimoy as Blaaster
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

Additional Factoids

 * Julian McMahon does not return to portray Victor von Doom/Dr. Doom.


 * Tim Story does not return to direct, he is replaced by X-Men director Singer and future The Avengers director Joss Whedon.


 * The film was made congruently with a comic book story-line with a similar premise.


 * This is one of Leonard Nimoy's last films before his death in 2015.
 * This film brings Fantastic Four and Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Sequel
A sequel titled Fantastic Four: Future Foundation: Part Two premiered in theaters on September 3, 2011 and is the last film in the Fantastic Four franchise, exception of the Silver Surfer spin-off film in 2013.