Expect Johnny and Sue Storm to feel a little updated when “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” meets theaters.
With just over three months to go before the movie premiere, stars Joseph Quinn and Vanessa Kirby broke down how they updated their classic characters. For Quinn, it was about finding what made him interesting to a modern audience.
“Myself and (Marvel Studios Boss) Kevin (Feige) talked about previous iterations of him and where we are culturally,” he told Entertainment every week On Thursday. “He was noticed as this female, devil-may-care guy, but is it sexy today? I don’t think so. This version of Johnny is less cold with other people’s feelings.”
At the same time, when Kirby took on the invisible woman, she went into it and wanted to find out how to make her feel like less of a “doormat” than if she was actually in the 1960s.
“If you played an exact 60’s Sue today, everyone would think she was a bit of a doormat,” Kirby said. “So figure out how to capture the essence of what she represented for each generation, where gender politics was different and embodies it today was one of the biggest joys in this.”
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” is the first crack when adjusting Marvel’s first family to the MCU. The film is located in a retro-futuristic 1960s on a different soil than the majority of Marvel’s films have taken place. Because of this, director Matt Shakman – who was also involved in the Disney+ series “Wandavision” – said that the film feels much more independent than other MCU properties.
“We are our own universe, which is wonderful and liberating,” told the filmmaker before Empire of blockbuster, which takes place in a reality other than the rest of MarvelS movies and TV programs. “There really are no (other) superheroes. There are no Easter eggs. There is no run into Iron Man or whatever. They are in this universe. I love the interconnected Marvel, but we have to do something so new and so different.”
He continued: “It is very much about the spirit of the space race. It is about JFK and optimism. It imagines that these four are going into space instead of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. This idea is that they are the most famous people in America because they are adventurers, explorers, astronauts. Astronauts.
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” meets theaters July 25.
