The Fantastic Four: First Steps is lifting off this summer with a retro-futuristic story about a famous quartet fighting a deadly cosmic being. It may be the 37th film in the MCU but this film will be different from what we’ve gotten recently. Typically, an MCU film includes a cameo (or five) and loads of MCU Easter eggs for fans to spot and analyze. However, in an interview with Empire Magazine, director Matt Shakman said that The Fantastic Four: First Steps will exist separate from everything we’ve seen in the MCU and not connect in with previous films.
“We are our own universe,” Shakman confirmed. “Which is wonderful and liberating. There’s really no [other] superheroes. There’s no Easter eggs. There’s no running into Iron Man or whatever. They’re it, in this universe. I love the interconnected Marvel Universe, but we get to do something so new and so different. Eventually this world will meet up with other worlds—but for now this is our own little corner.”
Of course, we know that the Fantastic Four will be in Avengers: Doomsday and fight alongside many, many other heroes. But it is nice that their first film will get to be its own thing that you don’t have to do lots of homework/prep to enjoy. In fact, The Fantastic Four: First Steps will truly be an origin story that shows this quartet as heroes who are famous for being skilled astronauts, not saviors of the universe with superpowers.
“This is very much about the spirit of the Space Race,” said Shakman. “It’s about JFK and optimism. It’s imagining these four going into space instead of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. This idea is that they are the most famous people in America, because they’re adventurers, explorers, astronauts — not because they’re superheroes. And they come back and they’re superheroes on top of it. But primarily they’re astronauts, they’re family.”
The film will hit theaters on July 25.
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