Poker Face star Natasha Lyonne joins Marvel’s Fantastic Four reboot in mystery role

Could Natasha Lyonne’s mystery role be directly connected to the Fantastic Four movie’s other recent mystery castings?

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Marvel Studiosis filling out the cast for its upcomingFantastic Four MCU reboot film, with Russian Doll and Poker Face star Natasha Lyonne as the latest actor to tag in for the currently filming movie in an unnamed role, as reported byDeadline.

Lyonne’s casting is the third such mystery addition in recent weeks, following the castings ofPaul Walker Hauser, andJohn Malkovich, whose roles also remain unrevealed. Speculation on their castings has run rampant, withHauser recently confirming that his character is indeed someone from comicsand has a connection to the Fantastic Four.

For my own speculation, the casting of three mystery roles in succession could indicate that Marvel Studios is building out an MCU version of the FF’s rival villain team, the Frightful Four, which was originally comprised of mad scientist The Wizard, Spider-Man enemy The Sandman, Medusa of the Inhumans (under the Wizard’s brainwashing), and infamously silly Human Torch villain Paste-Pot Pete.

Could Lyonne be playing Medusa? She has the hair for it, and Marvel was brave enough to bring in a comics accurate version of her husband Black Bolt in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness after the crash-and-burn reception of ABC’s doomed Inhumans show.

It’s not hard to imagine Malkovich as the Wizard. And even the fan-favorite theory that Hauser is playing the Mole Man could hold true, if he’s subbed in as a member of the Frightful Four.

Whoever she’s playing, Lyonne joins confirmed cast members Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, Eben Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing,Julia Garneras analt-reality version of the Silver Surfer, andRalph Ineson as Galactus.

Fantastic Four is due out in theaters in July 2025.

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