With rumors of Adam Driver clinching the role of the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s Reed Richards reaching the most palpable state they’ve ever been in, Fantastic Four fans are absolutely buzzing with excitement. Driver’s gravitas is some of the best around, and if the rumors end up being true, the only folks that will be eating better than Marvel fans are the rest of the internet who are sick of seeing Mr. Fantastic fancasts every other day.
But every Reed Richards needs a Sue Storm, and with one-half of Marvel’s illustrious married couple looking closer and closer to being confirmed, here are seven actresses who would make for a fantastic Invisible Woman to Adam Driver’s smartest man alive.
Greta Gerwig
As deft in front of the camera as she is behind it, Greta Gerwig’s potential as Sue Storm is nothing short of a fascinating prospect, which would only be compounded by the additional presence of Adam Driver’s Mr. Fantastic. The duo has already appeared as an on-screen husband and wife duo thanks to White Noise, the absurdist comedy-drama that united Gerwig and Driver under some markedly absurd shenanigans, so we reckon that if she and Driver can keep us engaged in the midst of an Airborne Toxic Event, they can do just as well in the context of time travel — give or take a few force fields on behalf of the Barbie director.
Mackenzie Davis
Any familiar face in the sci-fi franchise would slot into a Fantastic Four film without much trouble at all, and with a résumé that includes Love, Death & Robots, Blade Runner 2049, and one of the most beloved Black Mirror episodes in history, Mackenzie Davis would certainly look right at home as Sue Storm. Toss in her experience as a time-traveling action hero in Terminator: Dark Fate and one begins to immediately wonder where her name has been from the Invisible Woman conversation all this time.
Daisy Ridley
Speaking of sci-fi-savvy actresses, we could see a world where Daisy Ridley becomes prime Disney royalty by laying claim to leading roles in two of the company’s most important franchises — an acclimation that would be all the more poetic if Driver, Ridley’s fellow Star Wars regular, ends up nabbing the role of Reed Richards.
Indeed, Rey Skywalker may be the user of a slightly different type of Force than Invisible Woman is, but Ridley is more than deserving of a new franchise after the rather ill-fated reception of the sequel trilogy. If James Gunn doesn’t beat Kevin Feige to the punch with a Catwoman offer, she could easily line up as the MCU’s Sue Storm.
Constance Wu
We originally pitched Constance Wu as the Sue Storm to a fancasted Dev Patel’s Reed Richards, along with the additional pitches of John David Washington as Johnny Storm and the one and only Terry Crews as Ben Grimm, but the Crazy Rich Asians star would be more than capable of joining up with Adam Driver’s take on the character.
The multiversal mayhem she went up against in Parallels would certainly lend itself well to whatever situations the Four may end up in, but more importantly, Wu’s last role at the time of writing was in Velma, and becoming Invisible Woman would hopefully make for a nice mindwipe in that department.
Hayden Panettiere
Hayden Panettiere made a riveting Hollywood return earlier this year thanks to Scream 6, where she reprised her Scream 4 role as Kirby Reed, who grew into a gung-ho FBI agent specializing in Ghostface murders. Anyone who caught the latest entry in the meta-horror series knows that her big-screen franchise chops haven’t waned even a bit.
And while it was no superhero movie, Scream 6 certainly put Panettiere to work in the physicality department, which a superhero like Sue Storm would certainly need, and her commanding-yet-approachable screen presence would combine excellently with the simmering subtlety Driver would no doubt bring to Mr. Fantastic.
Carey Mulligan
When you’re starring opposite an actor like Adam Driver, especially in a superhero marriage dynamic like Reed Richards and Sue Storm, an iron grasp on one’s own dramatic weight goes a long way, and Carey Mulligan boasts a sensational grip. The Promising Young Woman star saw an influx of award nominations in the aforementioned role for a reason, and if by some chance she became the MCU’s Invisible Woman, she’d be invisible in name only.
Adria Arjona
A more recent Star Wars fan favorite thanks to Tony Gilroy’s beloved Andor series, it’s time Adria Arjona found even more of a foothold in the realm of Disney by joining Driver’s Mr. Fantastic as the Invisible Woman. She may already technically be part of the Marvel multiverse thanks to her role in Morbius, but with Deadpool and Venom looking all but ready to decimate the Fox and Sony universes in due time, that’s one asterisk she probably won’t have to worry about.