I’ve Wanted The MCU To Make One Big Change, And The Fantastic Four: First Steps Almost Gets There

I’ve Wanted The MCU To Make One Big Change, And The Fantastic Four: First Steps Almost Gets There

I've been hoping the MCU would dial it back for movies like The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and it does, but it doesn't go far enough.

We Need to Talk About THE FANTASTIC FOUR

The Fantastic Four have landed in the MCU, and they might be heralding good news. Does this fresh take on Marvel’s First Family mean a return to form for the MCU? Nerdist’s Kyle Anderson heads down to Earth-828 to find out what The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ impact will be. Follow Us: Facebook https://facebook.com/nerdist Twitter https://twitter.com/Nerdist Instagram https://instagram.com/nerdist/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@nerdist Image: …

New Images Reveal Galactus Battling the Fantastic Four on Earth-828 in The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. New images of Galactus (Ralph Ineson) fighting the Fantastic Four team on Earth-828 from Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps have been revealed. Image Source: Marvel In the movie, when Galactus arrives on Earth-828 to take Franklin Richards, the team uses Franklin as bait and plans to lure Galactus to the last bridge and teleport him away from the unive…

After 17 years and 37 movies, The Fantastic Four: First Steps finally fixes the MCU's biggest sin, and I'm breathing a sigh of relief

The art and imagination of Jack Kirby are front-and-center in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and it's what the MCU has needed for years

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (PG) film review

In an alternate, retro-futuristic 1960, astronauts Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) encounter cosmic waves on an outer space mission and return as celebrity superheroes. Four years later at a family dinner, Reed and Sue announce that they are expecting, when the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) arrives to announce that Earth has been marked for destruction by a p…

Are the Fantastic Four Leading a Planet-Wide Cult in Their Universe?

Featured Essays Fantastic Four Are the Fantastic Four Leading a Planet-Wide Cult in Their Universe? Sorry, they let Sue Storm do what? By Emmet Asher-Perrin | Published on July 29, 2025 Comment 1 Share New Share There are always points in movies—even the more realistic ones—where the audience is asked to ignore the constraints and quirks of filmmaking as a process.  This applies to matters great and small: Maybe there’s a plot hole that the …