Fortunately, the inspiration is all about the source material.. exit Matt Shakman Highly anticipated Fantastic Four: The First Steps We won't dwell on the many mistakes Marvel made with their beloved comic book series in their attempts in 2005, 2007 and 2015 to adapt the famous first family for the silver screen. Marvel Cinematic Universe. Rather, Shakman reveals in a new interview that First steps Focuses on comic books. Shakman said (according to ComicBook.com):
“I don't look at other movies very much.
I look at the comics themselves.
I am a huge fan of comics.
I've been a huge fan of the Fantastic Four since I was a kid.
So, going back to Kirby and Lee and Byrne and seeing what's going on, certainly Hickman and Wade and Ryan North, what he's been doing.
I'm trying to figure out who these characters are to me and how to embody them in the best way possible.
And that's where it really started and how we dealt with it.”
And fans of Jessica Alba and Chris Evans The Fantastic Four (2005) and its sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, We shouldn't expect, even if we're talking about Iron Man or even the critically panned 2015 remake, to find any references or references to these films – because Shakman has, surprisingly, never seen any of them. First steps The director told Entertainment Weekly:
“I haven't seen those movies.
When I was appointed to do this,
I didn't feel that watching these movies would be beneficial.
People ask me, “How is this different from those other things?”
“I don't think it's helpful to make something that is in opposition to something else.”
Fantastic Four: First Steps is not another origin story.
The Fantastic Four Director Matt Shakman is tight-lipped when it comes to Robert Downey Jr. potentially appearing in Doctor Doom. First stepsHowever, Wanda Vision, Game of Thrones and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia The director truly trusts his audience and doesn't try to force moviegoers to believe another original story. Shakman spoke in detail about First steps Being something that is completely “ours” in the same interview with Entertainment Weekly:
“One of the things we decided early on was not to do an original story.
One way we make it our own is that we don't tell the story of their rise and change, and start our story. [there].
There are a lot of well-known stories that lead up to that moment, right?
Then you start writing your new story starting from the end of the first chapter.
“And we thought, 'Well, let's start this on a completely new footing. So, we'll start from there.'”
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While Shakman has also been teasing Ralph Ineson's Galactus movie, the long-awaited film First steps Shakman will reimagine the space race with the four superheroes leading the mission instead of the ones who originally took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Shakman said during the same interview:
The comics were created in the early 1960s, around the same time the space race was beginning,
This means that it is imbued with the idea of looking at the stars and dreaming of a future in which we are space travelers.
“So, I really wanted to take all that cool stuff from Apollo 11 and imagine that instead of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, there was Storms and Ben Grimm and Reed Richards heading into space.”
Shacman Fantastic Four: The First Steps Filming is currently underway and the movie is scheduled to hit theaters in July 25, 2025, Just two weeks after James Gunn's death Superman The film is opening in theaters. First Family, directed by Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, also has a tough job ahead, regardless of RDJ's involvement, because Ineson's Devourer of Worlds is on the horizon.
