Actor Paul Walter Hauser is having a very productive 2024.
The Emmy-winning Black Bird star, 37, has secured a role in the upcoming Marvel Studios film The Fantastic Four, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It was not immediately clear what role the Grand Rapids, Michigan native would be playing in his first foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to the outlet.
Already set to appear in the film include Pedro Pascal in the role of Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic; Vanessa Kirby playing Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman; Joseph Quinn in the role of Johnny Storm/The Human Torch; Ebon Moss-Bachrach portraying Ben Grimm/The Thing; and Julia Garner playing the Silver Surfer.
The motion picture – based on the comic quartet that debuted in 1961 – is directed by Matt Shakman and slated to hit theaters on July 25, 2025.
Actor Paul Walter Hauser, 37, has secured a role in the upcoming Marvel Studios film The Fantastic Four. Pictured in January 2023 in Beverly Hills, California
Marvel Studios’ president Kevin Feige spoke about the movie during the studio’s presentation at CinemaCon 2024 in Las Vegas on April 11
Hauser’s career has been scorching this year, amid a number of exciting projects on tap.
Hauser will play late Saturday Night Live star Chris Farley in a biopic about the comedian, who died of a drug overdose in December of 1997 at the age of 33.
New Line Cinema has picked up the biopic, which will be directed by Josh Gad off a script penned by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. The biopic is based off the 2008 book The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts from authors Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby.
‘I wanted to do a Chris Farley movie where he’s in rehab for half of the film, and for the other half of the movie, he’s doing his SNL stuff and his movies,’ Hauser said in a May 2021 piece in THR.
He continued: ‘I think I have a really great take on that story, but I’m trying to lose weight and I’m trying to redefine myself as a person of healthy choice-making, and as an actor.
‘So the days of doing Fatty Arbuckle, Chris Farley or Ignatius J. Reilly in a Confederacy of Dunces movie have a very small time window, and it’s getting smaller by the week.’
He is also set to appear in Paramount’s reboot of the Naked Gun franchise, the police comedy trilogy that featured the late Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy and O.J. Simpson.
Hauser’s career has been scorching this year, amid a number of exciting projects on tap. The actor was pictured in June of 2023 in LA
Hauser was pictured at the premiere of The Iron Claw in December in LA
Hauser will portray the role of Captain Ed Hocken, previously played by Kennedy, in the reboot of the comedy franchise that is due in theaters July 18, 2025, a week before The Fantastic Four, according to THR.
The cast of that film includes Liam Neeson (in Nielsen’s former role of Lt. Frank Drebin), Pamela Anderson, Kevin Durand and pro wrestler Cody Rhodes.
Hauser has also appeared in motion pictures including 2017’s I, Tonya; 2018’s BlacKkKlansman and in the titular role in Clint Eastwood’s 2019 film Richard Jewell.
