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 Red Ghost was cut from Marvel’s “Fantastic Four: First Steps,” while Paul Walter Hauser debuts as Mole Man in newly released first-look images.