Legends Podcast #786: The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

We're celebrating summer by heading to the drive-in! Over the next two weeks, we're bringing you a double bill of blockbuster movies from last summer. Maybe you saw them, maybe you missed them, but we think you'll enjoy Last Summer's Drive-In Movie Double Feature! Hit the restroom, refill your popcorn, and settle in for a late night… our second feature is starting now! Marvel's first family has had a long and sometimes tortured cinematic history. After several Saturday morning cartoons, they almost made their first big-screen outing in 1994 in a low-budget production from B-movie master Roger Corman. However, the film was buried by Marvel producer Avi Arad and is only available on bootleg. They finally hit the silver screen in 2005 with a big-budget film, which was successful enough to earn a sequel in 2007. A reboot, Fant4stic, was released in 2015 to poor reviews and box office results. With Disney's purchase of 20th Century Fox, the stars of the World's Greatest Comic Magazine were finally folded into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the release of this 2025 film, colon First Steps. Starring Pedro Pascal as Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as the Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bacharach as the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing, this fantastic flick was the first film in MCU Phase Six of the Multiverse Saga and the first MCU installment set entirely in another universe. The Matt Shakman-directed film received solid reviews and outperformed the other two Marvel films released last year. Join us as we bring our drive-in movie viewing to a close with The Fantastic Four: First Steps!   BONUS- POWER PACKED EPISODE..  Plus, we give our review of Supergirl!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com    You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: [email protected]    You can write to Rum Daddy directly: [email protected]    You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of GonnaGeek.com Our complete archive is always available at www.legendspodcast.com, www.legendspodcast.libsyn.com    Show Music:Danger Storm by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/