First Steps avoids the worst MCU habits, embraces classic family values, and aims high with cosmic stakes—but familiar missteps in the final act diminish what could have been.

The Fantastic Four have traditionally struggled with the transition to the big screen.

Pascal's seeming overnight success popped off in season 4 of Game of Thrones, in which he played the Dornish Prince Oberyn Martell, the "Red Viper," who meets a particularly gruesome demise, even by Westerosian standards.

First Steps director Matt Shakman has revealed what the cut sequence featuring John Malkovich's Red Ghost entailed, and explains why we're unlikely to ever see it officially released.

Josh Trank deserved to see his vision for Fantastic Four fail for what it wanted to be, not what it was forced into becoming.

This iteration of the Fantastic Four has a standalone adventure without all the burden of the MCU's history and cast of characters.

First Steps," the core Four superheroes are a bit of a bore, and in a way that works to the advantage of this grounded tale of heroism and sacrifice, which is scaled properly for what it is.It's not a flashy or over-the-top special effects extravaganza,

On the sequence itself, the director added, "We had Red Ghost trying to steal a rocket ship with his apes, and Reed trying to defeat him and outwitting him. We see snippets of that in the [Ted Gilbert Show] montage, you see him kicking one of the apes in the water."