THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS new details and stills

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Director Matt Shakman says the film is looking to evoke the optimistic spirit of the 1950s and 1960s. “This is very much about the spirit of the Space Race,” says 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.”

This film will feel different to other MCU entries. Significantly, it exists separate from everything that we’ve seen in the franchise so far. "We are our own universe," says Shakman. “Which is wonderful and liberating. There's really no other superheroes. There's no Easter eggs. There's no running into Iron Man. They're it, in this universe. I love the interconnected Marvel Universe, but we get to do something new and so different. Eventually this world will meet up with other worlds — but for now this is our own little corner."

Shakman was keen to make the film feel plucked from 60s, or at least a fantasy MCU version. “I really wanted to go with as grounded a version of space as possible,” he says. “So, no wormholes. Their tech is very much retro-future, but it's also booster rockets. It’s a combination of Marvel and Apollo 11.” That philosophy extended into how the film itself was made. “I really wanted it to feel like it was made in 1965, the way Stanley Kubrick would have made it." There is an emphasis on practical sets and props, and Shakman and his team have “used old lenses, and taken an approach to filmmaking that feels more of the time. Of course, we still have a lot of CG.”

Buy an ad, niggerfaggot

didn’t click on it

didn’t read

already know it’s garbage shit

The whole thing, as i am reading, is this guy going:

We decided to do things differently, but we also do everything else exactly like the other Marvel movies!

What is this nigga even trying to say?

Cosmic radiation grants Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mister Fantastic, the ability to stretch his body in all manner of ways, but his brain is even more impressive. The whole retrofuturist aesthetic is made possible by his inventions, and Shakman describes him as "a combination of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Robert Moses."

The home base for the smartest man in the world has been built out in real and divided into three sections, organized by the primary colors: The red room is for "research," with tables full of inventions; the yellow room is for "thinking," and is thus filled with blackboards covered in complex equations; and the blue room is for "monitoring," complete with sophisticated screens and communication equipment.

Over the years, Sue Storm, a.k.a. the Invisible Woman, evolved in several ways. Her abilities expanded from individual invisibility to control over electromagnetic light and force fields, making her arguably the team's most powerful member. At various times, she's become a mother, a leader, and a skimpily clad dominatrix named Malice. Synthesizing all these aspects into a single character was a lot of fun for Vanessa Kirby, who says motherhood, in particular, became the key through-line. Indeed, Sue's pregnancy will play a significant part in the plot.

"Matt and I were really aware that there hasn't really been a mother with a baby in these superhero archetypes women have been getting," Kirby says. "One of the things I love most from Sue's history is when she becomes Malice, and all her dark stuff comes out. I was obsessed with that chapter of her life. So I wanted to make sure that there were tones of Malice in there with her, that she wasn't just the stereotype of a goody, sweet mother."

Johnny Storm, a.k.a. the Human Torch, is Marvel's archetype of a hothead teenager, but what exactly that means has been open to interpretation over the years. In the 2005 and 2007 movies, for instance, Chris Evans played Johnny as a skirt-chasing scallywag. Joseph Quinn wanted to do something different.

"He's a man that leads with a lot of bravado, which can be an affront sometimes. But also he's funny," Quinn says. "Myself and Kevin Feige were speaking about previous iterations of him and where we are culturally. He was branded as this womanizing, devil-may-care guy, but is that sexy these days? I don't think so. This version of Johnny is less callous with other people's feelings, and hopefully there's a self-awareness about what's driving that attention-seeking behavior."

Johnny is the little brother of the Fantastic Four, Quinn notes. But that's not the only quality that defines him. "He is really smart," Shakman says. "He's on that spaceship for a reason, and I think sometimes people forget that in various comic stories, he's the most heroic of them, even if he's undercutting his heroism at every turn through humor. He's Sue's brother, which means they are cut from similar cloth."

built out in real and divided into three sections, organized by the primary colors

Sue — and Reed, for that matter — are big examples for Johnny to live up to. While Reed has revolutionized technology, Sue has accomplished just as much in the political realm. As head of the Future Foundation (a concept taken from writer Jonathan Hickman's 21st-century Fantastic Four comics, one of the successor stories that is as beloved by fans as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's originals), she has helped achieve global demilitarization and peace. When Shakman and his collaborators say the dreams of the '60s have been made real in this movie, they don't just mean rocketships. "If he is the most scientifically intelligent person, then she is the most emotionally intelligent person on the planet," Shakman says of Reed and Sue. "Between the two of them, they're building an idealistic society."

Reed has figured out space travel, and invented robots and flying cars. But how much of that will help when a massive space god comes to eat the Earth? "It is definitely a scale of threat which Reed has never experienced," Pedro Pascal says. "Even the smartest man in the world is awestruck by a being that outdates his understanding of time."

Galactus was introduced in a two-part comic story by Lee and Kirby that remains the high point of their collaboration. But when he was brought to the screen in 2007, Galactus was rendered as a faceless space cloud — a rejection of the comics' colorful origins. Now, Galactus will be portrayed by actor Ralph Ineson, wearing actual purple-and-blue armor.

"I didn't want to just use motion-capture for Galactus. I wanted to actually have someone there embodying the part," Shakman says. "So we've built an entire costume for him, and we've done a lot of photography testing to figure out How to make sure that the scale is correct. 'How do you film Mount Rushmore?'"

Why Vanessa looks so ugly in this pictures?

He says the Fantastic Four are “not superheroes, they’re astronauts.” Cool, so I guess we’re skipping the part where one of them turns into a rock monster and another sets himself on fire.

“No Easter eggs, no Iron Man, no other heroes”

bro, that’s not visionary, that’s what they let you do when no one else wanted to show up.

naahh there are no shills on Anon Babble you're crazy bro

Sue and Johnny look weird as fuck

>Shakman was keen to make the film feel plucked from 60s, or at least a fantasy MCU version. “I really wanted to go with as grounded a version of space as possible,” he says. “So, no wormholes. Their tech is very much retro-future, but it's also booster rockets. It’s a combination of Marvel and Apollo 11.” That philosophy extended into how the film itself was made. “I really wanted it to feel like it was made in 1965, the way Stanley Kubrick would have made it."

Stanley Kubrick would've never made it though and no one would ever want him to -- make it look like Jack Kirby made it and you've got a deal.

sar pls api call very expensive

And they come back and they're superheroes on top of it

Did you read?

I was thinkin how the world should've cried

On the day Jack Kirby died

always wanted to hear this used in a trailer for a Marvel film.
youtube.com/watch?v=sjf80XOF93M

He was branded as this womanizing, devil-may-care guy, but is that sexy these days? I don't think so. This version of Johnny is less callous with other people's feelings, and hopefully there's a self-awareness about what's driving that attention-seeking behavior."

Oof.

mfw I just remembered watching Secret Invasion

Shit was hilarious. Friend and I went an entire day catching up on all the films/tv series we had neglected for the last few years. By the time we got to the second episode of Secret Invasion he was passed out drunk and I had to tell him while hungover about how Skrull Sarah Connor shows up with a hulk fist. He didn't even believe me and we ended up rewatching it. It was painful, but in a good way.
I'm glad slop like this exists.

Cosmic radiation grants Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mister Fantastic, the ability to stretch his body in all manner of ways, but his brain is even more impressive.

And looks nothing like Reed Richards from the comics.

THE BLANDASTIC BORE is annoying.
My first superhero comicbook purchase was Fantastic Four, before that I was reading RICHIE RICH.

This lineup though, ugh...
REED RIDICULOUS
JOHNNY BORE
SUSAN SNORE
BEN GROAN

The DEI DIPSHITTERY TEAM.

They're not NASA, Reed owns the whole outfit privately. Johnny is not on the team because he's Reed's brother in law.

*is on the team

I can't take anything with pedro pascal seriously