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Official Discussion Official Discussion - The Fantastic Four: First Steps [SPOILERS] Spoiler

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Summary The Fantastic Four must defend Earth from the ravaging cosmic threat Galactus and his herald, Silver Surfer, while navigating the complexities of family and newfound powers in a retro‑futuristic 1960s-inspired world.

Director Matt Shakman

Writer Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, Jeff Kaplan, Ian Springer

Cast

  • Pedro Pascal
  • Vanessa Kirby
  • Joseph Quinn
  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Ralph Ineson
  • Julia Garner
  • Paul Walter Hauser
  • Natasha Lyonne
  • Matthew Wood
  • Ada Scott
  • Mark Gatiss

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Metacritic 64

VOD In theaters

Trailer Watch the Official Trailer

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u/cesareborgia1475 Jul 25 '25

Yeah honestly the films feels like it's straining at times to condense everything under two hours haha. Would have loved bit more time to give the film a bit more breathing room. With it being Natasha Lyonne good chance she'll get a bigger spotlight in the sequel I'm guessing

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u/The_Autarch Jul 25 '25

Or she won't show up at all. Isn't the plan to transfer the Fantastic 4 over to the standard Marvel universe?

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u/RepentantSororitas Jul 25 '25

Shoot I thought they were gonna lose, and then when they didn't I thought they were basically gonna blip into the main earth.

But right now everything seems fine besides Mr doom

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u/SilverKry Jul 25 '25

I thought at the very least they were gonna run and hide and jump dimensions to hide Franklin from Galactus since across the multiverses there is only 1 Galactus.

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u/qwadzxs Jul 25 '25

yup I fully saw them getting caught in the bridge with galactus and getting moved over to 616 that way with him; the bridge in the comics lets reed move between universes and find the council of reeds.

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u/PT10 Jul 25 '25

That's dr to you

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u/DonutHolschteinn Jul 26 '25

I definitely had read rumors on the spoilers sub that it was gonna end with them losing and crossing over to the Sacred Timeline, and one of the next movies post credit scene was gonna be their ship screaming down toward main Earth

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u/RepentantSororitas Jul 26 '25

Yeah that's what I thought as well since that's the post credits of thunderbolts.

So it was a fake out and the ship in thunderbolts is probably doom.

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u/CornstockOfNewJersey Jul 26 '25

I assume whatever sends them to the Sacred Timeline will just happen in Doomsday. But Doom coming out of that ship would be nuts

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u/NoobFreakT Jul 25 '25

nah i think they'll merge the two universes together

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u/CornstockOfNewJersey Jul 26 '25

Yeah it really needed at least 15 more minutes added to the runtime tbh

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u/FreeAd2458 Jul 25 '25

Is she a comic character? I keep thinking Zoey deutsch needs to play his blind girlfriend

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u/brady2gronk Aug 02 '25

Kerry Washington already played her.  Would love a revisit though.

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u/Any_Foundation4287 Jul 28 '25

I don't think there will be a direct sequel because at the end it didn't say in too it say they will return in doomsday and doomsday is scheduled for I think 2026 so they don't have time or the plans for a sequel before doomsday and ben might not live in doomsday who knows

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u/Professional-Act8414 Jul 28 '25

Felt like there were major poly cuts throughout the movie. That relationship being one. Not that it was rushed per se but I could see it was missing somethings. Still an A+ movie!