Overview

• Marvel president Kevin Feige said Joseph Quinn’s Human Torch casting was guided by a “blue sky” vision of pairing with Spider-Man.
• Joseph Quinn publicly endorsed the on-screen team-up and praised Tom Holland as the best Spider-Man ever.
• The Fantastic Four: First Steps, marking Quinn’s MCU debut as Johnny Storm, premieres on July 25.
• Tom Holland’s Spider-Man is absent from next year’s Avengers: Doomsday, positioning December 17, 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars as the earliest likely venue for the crossover.
• The proposed pairing reflects Marvel Studios’ strategy to leverage reunited Spider-Man and Fantastic Four rights in its event-driven storytelling.