What The Fantastic Four: First Steps Learned From the Previous Iterations

If The Fantastic Four: First Steps were the first Fantastic Four movie, it mightiness look a batch different. As it stands, though, it’s really the 4th movie based on Marvel’s archetypal family, and according to its filmmakers, that made a large impact.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly successful a precise extended piece, the film’s manager Matt Shakman spoke astir however the determination to marque the main villain Galactus (played by Ralph Ineson successful a suit) was, successful part, a effect of the erstwhile films not doing that. “Doom’s a large character, but helium takes up a batch of air,” Shakman said. “Other movie adaptations person done some an root communicative and Doom. We’re doing neither, and that allows america to look astatine them from a caller perspective.”

That instinct to spell against the atom extends beyond conscionable Galactus, though. While the erstwhile films were mostly modern-day takes, this 1 is acceptable successful the 1960s, an homage to the comic publication origins of the characters. It besides extends to definite characters. Johnny Storm, for example, antecedently played by Chris Evans and Michael B. Jordan, is often seen arsenic thing of a smooth-talking womanizer. Joseph Quinn, who plays the relation this time, didn’t privation to transcript that.

“Myself and [Marvel Studios president] Kevin [Feige] were speaking astir erstwhile iterations of him and wherever we are culturally,” Quinn said. “He was branded arsenic this womanizing, devil-may-care guy, but is that sexy these days? I don’t deliberation so. This mentation of Johnny is little callous with different people’s feelings, and hopefully there’s a self-awareness astir what’s driving that attention-seeking behavior.”

Then, of course, there’s besides the information that this Fantastic Four is portion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which volition spot the characters transportation implicit their communicative into astatine slightest 1 much movie, Avengers: Doomsday. There they will, astir certainly, amusement down with Doctor Doom, played by Robert Downey Jr. So, it’s not similar Marvel Studios is wholly ignoring the classical iterations of the Fantastic Four. It’s conscionable looking astatine them successful a caller way.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps opens July 18. Head implicit to EW for overmuch more, including caller images.

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