The Fantastic Four: First Stepsis the first MCU film to take place entirely in a different universe. Other MCU flicks have dropped by the multiverse, such as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but Fantastic Four intends to entirely transport audiences somewhere new.

Director Matt Shakman recently explained why the decision was made to put The Fantastic Four somewhere where there were no other heroes. Per the director elaborated on why he chose to drop The Fantastic Four in the 1960s.

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“[The Fantastic Four] were created in this time of optimism during the space race, people were dreaming of the stars, they were imagining conquering the unknown and that is what the Fantastic Four is all about," Shakman said. "So, putting them back in the '60s, we were getting close to their point of origin which felt like the right place for them to be."

The director elaborated, "We didn’t want them to be on this Earth on the Earth with the other Marvel characters because where were they when Thanos came?" Shakman asked. "They would have helped out and would have solved the problem. So, we put them on a different earth, Earth-828, a different part of the Marvel universe.”