Marvel has been trying to Reconfigure the MCU to show off the strength that the spectators enjoyed in the time of ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Endgame’. The study, owned by Walt Disney Company, has several bets on the way to achieve it. These include projects such as ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘The Fantastic 4: first steps’.
In the case of the first, the strategy goes through a kind of “Nostalgia Operation”, designed to reconquer the most veteran fans with heroes who already lived their moment of glory. If we focus on the second, which is what concerns us in this article, the axis seems to revolve around recovering a classic and recognizable villain of comics.
The threat of Galactus in ‘The Fantastic 4: First Steps’
“Four brave astronauts travel to space and return changed forever,” says the start of the trailer published Thursday. So, ‘The fantastic 4: first steps‘It presents us with the characters already in their stage of heroes, in an elegant retrofuturist atmosphere that, in principle, seems loaded with optimism, although things begin to twist quickly.
Reed (Pedro Pascal), his wife Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), his younger brother Johnny (Joseph Quinn) and his friend Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) enjoy a relative peace and tranquility, especially after the news of the prompt arrival of Reed and Sue. However, a threat lands from space, challenging the entire planet without prior notice.
Galactus, the consumer of worlds, now is sightd by planet Earth, and has sent to its herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner)to launch a warning. “Are we safe?” Asks a journalist at the fantastic 4, to which Reed responds with a tense “I don’t know”, although later he does not hesitate to tell the planet that they will do their best to protect it.
Galactus’s threat seems large enough for heroes to doubt their ability to stop it and, probably, end up trapped in their destruction spiral. Above all this falls a special pressure on Reed, which drags some guilt for having forced the limits of space and, perhaps, having caused the arrival of the threat.
Before their official arrival at theaters, the fantastic four starred in a first film produced in 1994 that never reached. More than a decade later, the group finally landed on the big screen with The 2005 version directed by Tim Storywith Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffud and Michael Chiklis in front. Although he did not conquer critics, he worked well at the box office and gave rise to a sequel in 2007.
The story returned to theaters in 2015 with a new cast: Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell. This time, neither the critical reception nor the collection accompanied. Now, all eyes are put in the new installment, which promises to recover the lost pulse. Its premiere in Spanish cinemas is scheduled for July 25.
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