Fantastic Four stories have become more mature over time, but the best ones still contain all those key elements that made the original comics so great: A family (not merely a team) of superpowered individuals go on FANTASTIC space adventures—which is how they got their powers in the first place—through strange, colorful worlds, driven by their scientific curiosity.
But admittedly, it would be hard to make a movie like that in today’s world, where space travel has become the domain of billionaires. Imagine trying to make a movie based on some other billionaire pastime, like renting out famous paintings and rubbing their dicks on them, which you know some of them do. Anyway, the Fantastic Four would work best in a world like the American 1960s, when the Moon-landing happened, and it felt like a collective accomplishment of the entire nation. In that brief moment, the universe felt a tiny bit smaller, and space optimism spread all across the land.
So why not set the next Fantastic Four movie in a world just like that?
If Disney and Marvel are smart, they will want the next Triple-F (Fantastic Four film) to have something that makes it more than just another story about a group of people with superpowers. Hailing from a retro-futuristic world where the space mania of the 1960s never lost momentum could help that movie stand out. (We know parallel worlds are possible in the MCU after Loki and What If…?) In that world, the Fantastic Four would be famous celebrities going on intergalactic adventures with just the right amount of camp and sci-fi action. It would, in essence, be an adventure film, which we suddenly stopped making for some strange reason, only this one would be sci-fi themed. Then at the end, the Quixotic Quartet can come over to our universe.