Superman, Box Office and Fantastic Four
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Early reactions hail The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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This weekend, the box office will heat up as the MCU enters the fray with "The Fantastic Four: First Steps." Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn are the latest incarnations of the "fantastic" team.
Ironically, Columbus’ film never happened, torpedoed by post-Batman superhero flops such as The Phantom and The Shadow. It would be another decade before Fox cashed in on the noughties success of The X-Men and Spider-Man by making a Fantastic Four film, with the then-unknown Chris Evans – Marvel’s future Captain America – as Johnny Storm.
After DC cracked the code with Superman last week, the ball shifts to the Marvel court. As The Fantastic Four: First Steps gears up for release soon, a lot is at stake for both MCU and DCU.
From Doctor Doom to The Thing’s beard, here are the five questions The Fantastic Four: First Steps must answer
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