That is, until The Fantastic Four: First Steps. John Malkovich appeared as Red Ghost in the trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but didn’t make it into the final cut. “It's heartbreaking not to have him in the final movie.”There are other bits that didn’t make it into the final cut, too. All those clips didn’t make it into the final cut for pacing reasons. “We were skipping an origin story, but also trying to give you all the information you needed to know to understand who these characters were,” Shakman told Collider.