THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Rumored Details Reveal Plans For The Team's Origin Story - SPOILERS

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Rumored Details Reveal Plans For The Team's Origin Story - SPOILERS

We may have some news on plans to depict the team's origin story in The Fantastic Four: First Steps and it appears Marvel's First Family will transform in front of their adoring public. Check it out...

By JoshWilding - Sep 07, 2024 03:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four

The expectation is that Marvel Studios will skip the team's origin story in The Fantastic Four: First Steps but just because we pick up with them as established heroes, it doesn't mean we won't get flashbacks. 

New intel has surfaced today (via @UnBoxPHD) which suggests the plan is for scenes tom show the moment Marvel's First Family return to Earth, either after transforming aboard their ship or when they touch back down on Earth.

This is a pivotal moment in their history and getting to see it on screen again is an exciting prospect. The fact it's likely to take place in front of their adoring public may add an interesting wrinkle to proceedings, though. 

According to the photographer - who has spent the past several weeks shooting The Fantastic Four: First Steps set - this scene will see "the Fantastic Four head to space on an experimental flight. They are waved off by the American Public."

He adds, "In this same scene, the Fantastic Four are welcomed back to Earth unaware that they have been exposed to cosmic rays. Hence why we don't see any of the cast in uniform."

You'll recall that the video previously shared showed Marvel Studios shooting two scenes with extras waving at an unseen flying craft and then welcoming back, so this new intel tracks. If this is indeed the team's origin story, though, we can't help but wonder why there's already a "4" on the Excelsio Launch Pad.

Perhaps, given Reed Richards' genius, they've already established themselves as celebrities and it's this latest experiment that goes wrong, transforming them into the superheroes we know people will soon know and love.

As always, let us know your thoughts on this update below and stay tuned for more on The Fantastic Four: First Steps as we have it. 

Marvel Studios has announced that Pedro Pascal (Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm/Invisible Woman), Joseph Quinn (Johnny Storm/Human Torch), and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Ben Grimm/The Thing) will lead The Fantastic Four: First Steps cast.

We'll also see Ralph Ineson as Galactus, Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer, and Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, and Natasha Lyonne in mystery roles. The story sees Galactus and Silver Surfer target Earth for destruction. 

Director Matt Shakman worked with both Avatar: The Way of Water co-writer Josh Friedman and WandaVision's Cam Squires on The Fantastic Four: First Steps' screenplay, with Eric Pearson (Black Widow) later coming on board for a final polish.

The movie is set to be released in theaters on July 25, 2025.

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Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 9/7/2024, 3:53 AM
Hey ..not trying to be mean im just happy if all of them four remain cisgender coded.
Rmcbride7349
Rmcbride7349 - 9/7/2024, 5:51 PM
@Malatrova15 - give it a rest troll
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 9/7/2024, 6:38 PM
@Rmcbride7349 - if like this stuff is ok...i just want THE FANTASTIC 4 for real, glad "Namor" actor is out now
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 9/7/2024, 3:55 AM
Considering past FF movies and the MCUs plight in recent years, I have no doubt that Feige is going to absolutely bulletproof this one
Se4M4NSt4ine
Se4M4NSt4ine - 9/7/2024, 4:06 AM
@ProfessorWhy - I’ve heard he’s managing it very closely. Feige loves the FF characters more than any other MCU team up. You can bet your house he’s in Shakman’s ear constantly.
lvcl
lvcl - 9/7/2024, 10:31 AM
@ProfessorWhy -
Well, it seems to me that a Chilean Reed Richards and a female Silver Surfer, instead of Norrin Radd, does not protect the project much.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 9/7/2024, 1:54 PM
@lvcl - not to mention a Johnny Storm played by a 30-year-old actor, not a younger actor to keep Johnny looking like he's in his late teens/early 20s per canon.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 9/7/2024, 8:16 AM
This movie is gonna be neat!
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 9/7/2024, 8:38 AM
WANTED: Four stout men to volunteer to hold down Pedro Pascal while someone shaves his mustache off before they get too far into filming production. 🤨
DocSpock
DocSpock - 9/7/2024, 12:17 PM
@SuperiorHeckler -

But that would ruin his career as the new Frito Bandito.
dracula
dracula - 9/7/2024, 12:21 PM
@SuperiorHeckler - maybe they paint over it like 60’s joker
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/7/2024, 9:25 AM
I hope them already being celebrities & such before their accident isn’t true…

I could see perhaps it being treated like the Apollo missions (which Shakman said was an inspiration) of the astronauts being known beforehand but some really becoming celebrities afterwards which could work.

However then already having the 4 there on their Launch pad doesn’t make sense (unless they are called that by the media before their flight) which makes me think something else is going on there.
FrankenDad
FrankenDad - 9/7/2024, 1:03 PM
I thought they were skipping the origin stuff?
Scarilian
Scarilian - 9/7/2024, 4:15 PM
@FrankenDad -
The Fantastic Four's method of acquiring their powers varies too wildly from comic to comic, so this is presumably a scene to give us confirmation on the method they acquired their powers and then we'll skip forward to when they are heroes.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 9/7/2024, 4:18 PM
Makes sense they have to find a way to show how they acquired the powers. It's simply too massively varied in the comics from different dimensions to technology to space missions.

Them not realizing they are impacted would be really cool... if this was an origin movie where we'd actually be exploring them slowly realizing they have powers, using those powers in unique and creative ways, reacting in horror to what has happened to them, being potentially shunned and eventually welcomed by society as heroes once they prove themselves.

Instead what we're getting is three movies crammed into a single film where the majority of the development will be skipped in order for the Fantastic Four to play a minimal role in a two-part Avengers film featuring Doctor Doom... how utterly pathetic this is going to be.

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