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• Paul Walker was considered for the part of Johnny Storm.
• A one-minute sequence showing Johnny Storm morphing into a ball of flames and soaring over Manhattan took 4 months to create. The entire background was an entirely digitized rendering of New York City.
• A replica of a part of the Brooklyn Bridge was constructed on-set in Canada.
• While Sue Storm is unpacking in the Baxter Building, in the background a signed photo of the band Devo can be seen.
• To get through the long arduous make-up, Michael Chiklis spent the time in the make-up chair watching the Boston Red Sox, his favorite team, who happened to be breaking the "Curse of the Bambino" winning their first World Series since 1918.
• Inspired by his role on "Nip/Tuck" (2003), it was Julian McMahon's idea to have Victor's scars sealed by surgical staples.
• It was Ioan Gruffudd's idea that Reed should continually be taking notes: "On a good day, I'd be writing formulas that I remembered from my algebra class in school, and on a day when I was really concentrating on the other actor, it would just be gibberish."
• As part of his costume for The Thing, Michael Chiklis wore prosthetic teeth. To prepare himself to speak with the prostheses, Chiklis wore them when reading to his children.
• Although Stan Lee has made cameos in many Marvel movies, this is the first time he has played a character from the comics: Willy Lumpkin, the Fantastic Four's kindly old mailman.
• Jessica Alba had a kidney infection during the filming and nearly fainted when she was with Julian McMahon in the space station scene.
• Was shipped to theaters simply under the name "Bug".
• At one point Susan Storm looks at an issue of People Magazine with her face on the cover. Also on the cover is James Marsden with the headline "James Marsden eyes next superhero role" and Rebecca Romijn with the headline "The Mystique of Rebecca Romijn".
• According to the actors in the DVD commentary 'Stan Lee' , who makes a cameo appearance as the mailman, was supposed only to say, "Welcome home, Dr. Richards." Instead, Lee says, "Welcome back to the Baxter Building, Doctor Richards!"
• The scene on the bridge took about 5 weeks to shoot.
• In the very last scene of the film, the now inanimate Dr. Doom is being shipped on a cargo vessel with the word "Latveria" on the aft. In the Marvel Universe, Latveria is the country that is consistently under Dr. Doom's control.
• 'Michael Chiklis ' got to fulfill a childhood fantasy. He was an avid reader of the Fantastic Four, and his favorite comic book character was The Thing.
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Character: Johnny Storm/The Human Torch
