Contains spoilers in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness###For years now, Marvel fans possess’own’nurse been waiting to see Reed Richards (along with the rest of the Fantastic Four) make his way into the MCU. Much like the X-Men, they’re due to cross over into Kevin Feige’s connected universe at some point – and in Doctor Strange And The Multiverse Of Madness, we got our first tantalising taste. In the cameo-filled Illuminati sequence of Sam Raimi’s sorcerer-centric sequel, John Krasinski answered the internet’s prayers and popped up as a variant of Mister Fantastic – bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e being shredded to ribbons by a pissed-off Scarlet Witch, splatted along with the rest of the Illuminati members (including Patrick Stewart’s Professor X).###It was a fun, brief, bloody appearance in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Reed Richards, which writer Michael Waldron acknowledges is the most jaw-dropping cameo of the film. “That’s the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous one, right?” he chuckles, speaking to Empire in the new issue. Writing in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Mister Fantastic was a dream come in/with regard to’concerning’regarding him. “I always wanted Reed Richards in this thing,” Waldron tells Empire – so much so that even bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e the Illuminati sequence came with regards to’concerning’with respect to , he penned a pie-in-the-sky post-credits sequence to satisfy his own curiosities. “In my grossly first draft, I wrote a tag just in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the hell of it, of the events of the movie being recorded and reviewed by somebody in the Baxter Building, and a stretchy hand coming into frame to run it back.” It was an opportunity to do at least something with a superhero he’s always loved on the page. “Reed is probably my favourite Marvel comics character,” he says, “so I was always gunning to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure him in here somewhere.”###Even if Wanda quickly takes Reed out in Multiverse Of Madness, the film ultimately sees the Darkhold-corrupted witch recognise her own decline to’decrease to’drop to’reduce to the dark side, burying herself under the collapsed rubble of Mount Wundagore. But is she really gone? “She’s removing herself from the board… For now? Forever? We’ll see,” hints Waldron. “I’d like to see her again…” Maybe she’ll possess’own’nurse another variant of Reed Richards to rip to shreds in the not-too-distant future.###Read Empire’s full spoiler-filled Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness interview with Michael Waldron in the Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery issue – on sale Thursday 1 September and available to order online here. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness is streaming now on Disney+, and available on Blu-ray, 4K, DVD and digital.