Fans who remember the cast announcement for Josh Trank's 'Fantastic Four' reboot will remember the backlash that the studio got for casting Michael B. Jordan, a black actor, as Johnny Storm, a historically white character.

Jordan took to EW in a personal essay, shortly thereafter to address the criticism stating that the sole creator of the franchise, Stan Lee was perfectly fine with the casting.

"[If] Stan Lee writes an email to my director saying, 'You're good. I'm okay with this,' who am I to go against that?" Jordan said.

Lee himself has recently taken to EW himself to address the issue, which he believes isn't racially-charged at all.

"It was more than okay," says Lee. "I thought it was a great idea! They're outraged not because of any personal prejudice. They're outraged because they hate to see any change made on a series and characters they had gotten familiar with. In Spider-Man, when they got a new actor, that bothered them, even though it was a white actor. I don't think it had to do with racial prejudice as much as they don't like things changed."

This statement seems to also contradicts the comic book creator's sentiments on Spider-Man's casting, when he stated he wanted to keep that character white and heterosexual.

"I wouldn't mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian or anything else, that he stay that way," Lee told Newsarama. "But we originally made him white. I don't see any reason to change that."

'Fantastic Four' premieres on August 7.