Claim: Chris Evans (actor) starred in a film.

Fantastic Four -LRB- stylized as Fantastic 4 -RRB- is a 2005 American-German superhero film based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name . It was directed by Tim Story , and released by 20th Century Fox . The film stars Ioan Gruffudd , Jessica Alba , Chris Evans , Michael Chiklis , Julian McMahon and Kerry Washington .   This was the second live-action Fantastic Four film to be filmed . A previous attempt , titled The Fantastic Four , was a B-movie produced by Roger Corman that ultimately went unreleased . Fantastic Four was released in the United States on July 8 , 2005 . A sequel , Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer , was released in 2007 . A reboot of the same name was released in 2015 .