156 - Marvel’s First Family: The Fantastic Four’s Rocky Road to Marvel Studios

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What happens when Hollywood repeatedly misunderstands what makes Marvel's First Family work? Fantastic Four: First Steps is upon us! With just about a week until maybe the most consequential MCU movie since Infinity War, we look back at the struggles that Marvel’s First Family has had in live action. From the (purposely) unreleased 1994 film, to the somewhat cult classics of the mid-2000’s, to the doomed Fant4stic, we examine what these movies got wrong and what we THINK First Steps will have gotten right when it’s all said and done. We explore a fascinating 30-year saga of missed opportunities, financial maneuvering, and creative missteps. From the never-released 1994 Roger Corman production to Tim Story's colorful but flawed 2000s duology to Josh Trank's disastrous 2015 reboot, the Fantastic Four's journey to the big screen reveals much about Hollywood's evolving relationship with comic book source material.

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0:00 Intro
04:25 The Troubled History of the Fantastic Four in Film
07:14 The Unreleased Fantastic Four (1994)
09:11 Fantastic Four (2005)
31:36 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
47:57 Josh Trank’s Ill Fated Fant4stic (2015)
56:21 Fantastic Four Post Fox (Dr. Strange and Deadpool & Wolverine)
01:01:35 Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
01:26:00 Signing Off!

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