The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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Why Doctor Doom isn't going to be in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and why its the right move again for Marvel Studios [Marvel Matters]
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be the first FF movie with no Doctor Doom, and the studio & the director have a good reason for that (but also a loophole).
June 10, 2025
Chris Arrant
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps director says the Marvel First Family shares its DNA with Star Trek
The Fantastic Four's characterization in their upcoming First Steps movie embodies a sense of Space Race-era "optimism" that it shares with the fan-favorite sci-fi franchise, says director Matt Shakman
June 09, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige teases there's more to that Thunderbolts* post-credit scene than you thought
Not everything about the Avengers: Doomsday tease at the end of the most recent Marvel movie might have been as it looked, according to studio boss Kevin Feige
June 05, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Eat like a cosmic entity intent on destroying our planet with the new Fantastic Four: First Steps promotion move: a Galactus popcorn bucket (Thanks, Marvel)
Yes, there's a Galactus popcorn bucket (sorry, vessel) on its way, to keep your hunger sated during The Fantastic Four: First Steps' summer runtime
June 04, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Fantastic Four: First Steps director names the comic writers who've had the most influence on the next Marvel Studios movie: Jonathan Hickman and Matt Fraction
The Hickman run on Marvel's First Family has proven to be a primary influence on how the movie approaches Reed and Sue Richards, according to Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman
June 04, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Pedro Pascal teases an "emotionally available" version of Marvel's Reed Richards in Fantastic Four: First Steps
After decades of the character being the worst husband and father imaginable, Pedro Pascal brings "a limitless amount of layers" to The Fantastic Four's big brain.
June 02, 2025
Trent Cannon
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps Invisible Woman Vanessa Kirby is dropping unsubtle Franklin Richard teases for the next Marvel Studios outing
If Vanessa Kirby's teases are to be trusted, we can tick off the 'Franklin's powers will be important in The Fantastic Four: First Steps' box, then
May 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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David Tennant "would have quite liked" to be Marvel Studios' Reed Richards in the Fantastic Four: First Steps, but is happy for Pedro Pascal and "very pleased he exists"
We all love Pedro Pascal and are happy he exists. That includes Doctor Who icon David Tennant.
May 24, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Marvel's latest Fantastic Four comic drops an unexpected reference to much-shared online speculation about The Fantastic Four: First Steps: coincidence, or a glimpse of things to come?
Whether it's by accident or something else, Marvel is tweaking a popular online theory surrounding The Fantastic Four: First Steps with this week's issue of its Fantastic Four comic.
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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He might be a robot, but H.E.R.B.I.E. is still a member of the Fantastic Four as they enter the MCU, according to the film's director
Most robots in the Marvel Cinematic Universe inevitably turn evil but we've got high hopes for H.E.R.B.I.E.'s loyalty to The Fantastic Four.
May 07, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Marvel Matters: What Thunderbolts* says about the MCU
How Marvel Studios' Beef-ed up the MCU Phase 5 with Thunderbolts* and what it means for the new Avengers movies to come.
May 06, 2025
Chris Arrant
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps gets a tie-in comic that revives an idea as old as Marvel's First Family itself
Want to read the comics that characters inside the MCU read? The Fantastic Four will let you take those First Steps into the unreal this July.
April 25, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps Silver Surfer follows the example of 1999 comic book series Earth X in giving new life to a longstanding Marvel character
No, the new MCU Silver Surfer in The Fantastic Four: First Steps isn't a man - but it is a character with a long Marvel comic history
April 24, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Fantastic Four's Yancy Street in the MCU confirmed with "kosher groceries and a synagogue" in First Steps
Yancy Street, where Ben Grimm's The Thing grew up, is staying true to the Jewish roots of New York's Lower East Side in The Fantastic Four: First Steps
April 24, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps' retro New York City is a wonder to my eyes as a New Yorker
New Yorkers are notoriously hard to please when it comes to representing our city onscreen, but The Fantastic Four: First Steps offers an intriguing look at The Big Apple
April 18, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Marvel's commitment to a retro Fantastic Four movie goes further than fans can see
Even the press releases for Marvel Studios' new movie come from "retro-futuristic New York City"
April 17, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel's The Thing has teeth in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and I have a lot of feelings about it
The Thing in The Fantastic Four: First Steps is not teeth-agnostic, unlike his 2015 predecessor
April 17, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The MCU resurrects Marvel Comics' original name & company in The Fantastic Four: First Steps Easter Egg
Deadpool and Wolverine included a sign referencing Rob Liefeld, and now The Fantastic Four: First Steps pays homage to Timely Comics
April 17, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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We finally meet MCU's Silver Surfer, and she brings a new attitude with latest The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer
Pedro Pascal's Reed Richards leads a team of heroes that... well, act like old-school heroes in Marvel's retro Fantastic Four: First Steps
April 17, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Fantastic Four: First Steps' Galactus isn't a CGI cloud - he's a man in a costume
The new Marvel Studios movie's commitment to retro-futurism includes making sure a planet eating alien is played by a man in a funny suit, wonderfully enough.
April 11, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel's Invisible Woman is "building an idealistic society" in Fantastic Four: First Steps, says director
Are audiences ready for a politically savvy Sue Richards? "She is the most emotionally intelligent person on the planet," promises director Matt Shakman.
April 10, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four are beloved because they're astronauts, not superheroes, says First Steps director
The spirit of the space race is alive and well in this summer's big MCU movie.
April 07, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel's Fantastic Four: First Steps teases The Invisible Woman's pregnancy in new footage
Perhaps Franklin Richards is the character whose first steps the movie is named after...
April 03, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Just as Marvel Studios introduces the Silver Surfer in the Fantastic Four: First Steps, Marvel Comics is killing the character off
A month ahead of the theatrical release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which will introduce the MCU version of the Silver Surfer, Marvel Comics is launching a series called Death of the Silver Surfer
February 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four: First Steps will lean heavily into the team’s family dynamic, according to Human Torch actor Joseph Quinn
Believe it or not, Quinn says it could be Marvel’s version of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
February 17, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Fantastic Four: First Steps' Human Torch actor Joseph Quinn wants to team up with Tom Holland's Spider-Man (or any of 'em!)
Joseph Quinn is ready for the Human Torch to meet Spider-Man…and he doesn’t care which one
February 14, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Marvel Studios' Human Torch actor Joseph Quinn describes what it was like to see himself in the Fantastic Four suit for the first time
Joseph Quinn loved the way Marvel’s Fantastic Four costumes looked on him and his castmates
February 11, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Is John Malkovich playing a bigger role in Fantastic Four than we thought? Marvel Studios' first trailer seems to say so
Don't you think it's weird that we saw more of John Malkovich's officially unannounced MCU character than we did of Galactus, the confirmed villain of this movie?
February 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Marvel finally gets that Johnny Storm has always been a great big himbo in the first trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps
The MCU's Human Torch is a bit dumb but incredibly hot (do you see what we did there?).
February 04, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Stand back, Avengers; move aside, Spider-Man - Michael Giacchino's Fantastic Four score is in the new trailer, and the music of the MCU will never be the same
The Heralds of Galactus, indeed
February 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Marvel put The Thing in a trench coat for the first trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps and we're here for it
The outfit doesn't make sense as a disguise yet it has been an iconic part of The Thing's character for decades.
February 04, 2025
Trent Cannon
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The Fantastic Four bring a brighter, cleaner costume look to the MCU in the first First Steps teaser
Harkening back to both the 1960s and 1980s comic book eras of the Fantastic Four, the First Steps team doesn't look just like the other MCU good guys
February 04, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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The Fantastic Four trailer is here to remind you that Thing actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach was in The Bear
"Cousin! It's clobberin' time!" Ebon Moss-Bachrach's Richie Jerimovich and Ben Grimm are both commanding in the kitchen, though one seems to have much better instincts
February 04, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Marvel is hiding something in the Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer - Reed Richards' terrifying stretching powers
Marvel's First Family can't protect you from the body horror imagery of Mr. Fantastic's iconic powers
February 04, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld points out the secret Deadpool & Wolverine/The Fantastic Four: First Steps connection
What if... the same street played an important part in MCU history on different Earths?
February 04, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four reboot greets the world with the first retro trailer for First Steps
The retro-future of Marvel's first family has finally arrived in the MCU with the release of the first trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps
February 04, 2025
Graeme McMillan