Marvel’s First Family has starred in three\u00a0(four, if you count the unreleased one) unsuccessful movies. Now, Marvel Studios needs to redeem the characters in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Kevin Feige is well aware of the pressure to deliver.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Talking to Empire Online<\/a>, the executive acknowledged that “there are no four characters that are more important for the history of Marvel.” <\/strong>Calling the Disney\/Fox merger “an unexpected dream come true,” <\/strong>he said the team “came at the perfect time, to help us launch into a new era.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Feige added, “They are Marvel\u2019s First Family, and I really wanted to do them justice.”<\/strong> With WandaVision director Matt Shakman at the helm, the goal was to tap into the “classic Fantastic Four energy.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Addressing the approach taken to the previous Fantastic Four movies, he says, “There\u00a0was still a bit of fear of being silly.” <\/strong>With a retro futuristic 1960s-inspired setting, the MCU was able to take some risks.\u00a0“In another time, some might consider the notion of somebody with a big, angular helmet walking through a city goofy,”<\/strong>\u00a0Feige added. “I consider it awesome.”<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the biggest ways The Fantastic Four: First Steps embraces the comics is, of course, with the introduction of Galactus, not as a cloud, but as Shakman puts it, “a humongous, 14-billion-year-old, planet-devouring cosmic vampire.” <\/strong>The actor tasked with bringing him to life, Ralph Ineson, calls him the villain a\u00a0“cosmic force”<\/strong> and “a God, of sorts.”<\/strong><\/p>\n He continues, “I don\u2019t think Galactus is evil. But Finchy\u2019s a proper c*nt” <\/strong>(that’s a reference to the Todd Packer-like character he played in the original UK version of The Office).\u00a0<\/p>\n Galactus being portrayed as a God-like being puts him in the same realm as the Celestials, and there’s every chance Marvel Studios will reveal a connection between them. In the Earth X comic, which features the Shalla Bal Silver Surfer, Galactus only devours planets with Celestial seeds in them, so we may get an unexpected Eternals tie-in.<\/p>\n A new still from The Fantastic Four: First Steps has also been released. You can check that out below.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n EXCLUSIVE 4\ufe0f\u20e3#TheFantasticFour<\/a>: First Steps will bring \u201cclassic Fantastic Four energy\u201d to the MCU, says Kevin Feige.<\/p>\n \u201cNo four characters are more important for the history of Marvel,\u201d he tells Empire. \u201cI really wanted to do them justice.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE: https:\/\/t.co\/26XCunxeT6<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/tI9ua44mjT<\/a><\/p>\n