{"id":83834,"date":"2025-07-22T18:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83834\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:14:10","slug":"the-fantastic-four-arrives-in-the-mcu-with-star-power-and-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83834\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Fantastic Four&#8217; arrives in the MCU with star power and heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/10615A8321428F1D5817B1E7DDF4EDF2.jpg\" alt=\"Jakes Takes steps into the Fantastic Four universe | ChicagoNOW\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; Marvel\u2019s first family is finally coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe!<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">When the MCU kicked off in 2008 with the original &#8220;Iron Man,&#8221; fans became clamoring for Mr. Fantastic, The Human Touch, The Invisible Woman and The Thing to share the screen with the rest of their favorite Avengers \u2013 and they\u2019ll get their wish when &#8220;The Fantastic Four: First Steps&#8221; clobbers its way into theaters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The characters are being brought to life on the big screen by Hollywood\u2019s hottest stars \u2013 Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach \u2013 who gave their Chicago exclusive interview to FOX 32! The four sat down with FOX 32\u2019s Entertainment Reporter Jake Hamilton to discuss the moment &#8220;Marvel\u2019s First Family&#8221; truly became a family \u2013 only after their hilariously adorable co-star, their robot H.E.R.B.I.E crashed the set and stole the moment.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">In regards to their first TRUE family moment, the four remembered the first time they got together and took the now iconic selfie \u2013 but Kirby revealed that that moment was actually the boys crashing her workout!<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;The Fantastic Four: First Steps&#8221; stretches its way into theaters on Friday, July 25th.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/series\/jakes-takes\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake&#8217;s Takes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/entertainment\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; Marvel\u2019s first family is finally coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe! When the MCU kicked off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,171,5386,1818,56896,50,6166],"class_list":{"0":"post-83834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-jakes-takes","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114898250765375217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}