Fantastic Four, John Malkovich and First Steps
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Shakman, who previously worked with Malkovich on his 2014 independent feature debut crime thriller Cut Bank, gushed about how the Being John Malkovich star "stuck with" him during the several years he struggled to put together financing on the film and "never dropped out."
John Malkovich's weirdo villain The Red Ghost and his accompanying Super-Apes have been cut from The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and I'm frankly crushed
Despite being playing a prominent villain from Marvel's comics, the 71-year-old Oscar nominee was left on the cutting room floor.
When it was announced that Paul Walter Hauser had joined the cast of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, fans immediately began to speculate that he might be playing the first foe the team ever faced on the page, Mole Man.