'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Used To Look A Lot Different

'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Used To Look A Lot Different

If I could only state one complaint about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s that all the movies are way too long. Even aside from the leg-numbing runtimes of the Avengers movies, it felt hard to justify why a movie like Eternals needed more than 150 minutes to tell its story. I thought if every MCU movie was more like The Marvels and clocked in around 100 minutes, then all of the franchise’s problems would be solved. That is, until The Fantast…

Fantastic Four director says there "was never anything I had to fight [Marvel] for" after confirming all deleted scenes were removed for the "greater good"

The Fantastic Four: First Steps seems to have a lot of cut moments

Fantastic Four Director on if John Malkovich’s Cut Villain Will Return

Photo Credit: Marvel Studios / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures The Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman recently explained why John Malkovich‘s Ivan Kragoff / Red Ghost and a few other supervillains were left out of the theatrical cut of the film and whether those characters can return in the future. Notably, Malkovich previously worked with Shakman on the 2014 thriller Cut Bank. This played a pivotal role in the veteran actor f…

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Director Matt Shakman Reveals How John Malkovich Would Have Been Used — GeekTyrant

The Fantastic Four: First Steps had plenty of story and characters, both good and evil, to contend with. The film focused on the Fantastic Four family’s fame after having gone to space, gaining their extra special powers that they use to protect the inhabitants of earth. In the movie, the family grows by one member, and a new villain comes to threaten them. It was a bit of a surprise when the group went to confront Galactus, and the only thing …