Long before Pedro Pascal stretched his limbs as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in “Fantastic Four: The First Steps,” it was Ioan Gruffudd who led Marvel’s first family in 2005’s “Fantastic Four” and 2007’s “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

Ioan Gruffudd is opening up why a third installation of the previous Fantastic Four series (in which he portrayed Reed Richards) never came to theaters.

Ioan Gruffudd recently spoke about why the scene in which his character Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic transforms into Wolverine was cut from director Tim Story’s Fantastic Four. Notably, Gruffudd portrayed Reed in two movies,