Marvel, Fantastic Four and First Steps
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KTVX Salt Lake City on MSNMarvel swings bold with The Fantastic Four: First Steps while Netflix plays it safe with SandlerThis week on “See It or Skip It,” Tomatometer Approved film critic Patrick Beatty is joined by UFCA critics Rebecca Frost, Kent Dunn, and special guest Cedric Haynes, as they dive into a fantastic mix of movies on the big and small screen.
As the filmmaker’s three-year journey wound down on the project, he realized a key moment was missing, and managed to shoot it within a few months of the film's opening.
Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach are stepping into the roles of the famous blue-suited family for Marvel’s latest entry into the MCU.
More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally get a worthy big-screen adaption in a spiffy ’60s-era romp, bathed in retro futurism and bygone American optimism,
The new movie, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, may be a Disney production, but Marvel’s first family falls under the contract with Universal for Marvel Super Hero Island at Islands of Adventure. The group is featured heavily in the land, and now, merchandise for the new film is hitting the shelves.
In their MCU debut, the Fantastic Four become a Fantastic Five with the arrival of Reed and Sue's son, Franklin Richards. Worries that he might not be "normal" are confirmed in Fantastic Four: First Steps when Galactus recognises that the boy can wield an unlimited energy known as the Power Cosmic (presumably because of the "cosmically compromised DNA" shared by both of his parents).