Fantastic Four: First Steps for Marvel’s first family
Fantastic Four: First Steps , Superman , Downton Abbey: the Grand Finale . One of these is not like the other two. It took a few decades, but the Fantastic Four have finally found a landing to stick. I don’t fault the Tim Story versions for not being quite what they could have been, but while they both had elements of fun, they were programmatic and often, sluggish affairs. Fortunately, Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans were on hand to relieve the tedium. Going back further, the Roger Corman version is actually kind of okay for what it is. It was done on the cheap so that Bernd Eichinger could hold onto the film rights. His company eventually produced the Story movies, both of which did okay at the box office. Then came the Josh Trank fiasco in 2015, also released by 20th Century Fox. It did not do so well. It was a troubled production (and you can Google for the details) and four years later, The Walt Disney Company got the rights to the FF once it acquired 20th Centu...