The Fantastic Four, Avengers and Doomsday
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Fantastic Four, Marvel Studios and First Steps
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1st Steps Sees Reed Richards Make Stupid Mistakes
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First Steps makes a bold move in stripping a superhero of their defining characteristic, but shifts the team's hierarchy.
First Steps, a new character has begun to make waves in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU): Franklin Richards. This baby, born to the
First Steps" introduced the most powerful being in the MCU -Franklin Richards – and was pretty nonchalant about it.
In a 1982 arc by John Byrne, Franklin gets frustrated trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube and uses his powers to age himself into an adult body, though he couldn’t actually gain more emotional maturity. He winds up going back to being a kid, placing restrictions on his own abilities to allow him to have something of a normal childhood.
Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars are poised to be the next great entries in the MCU, hoping to reshape the universe like Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame did years ago. While the specifics will certainly be different, the two movies will likely follow the same basic plot as the comic book story Secret Wars from 2015.
After a number of false starts, the Fantastic Four have another feature adaptation in the retro-pastiche Fantastic Four: First Steps. This isn’t the first time Mr. Fantastic and co. have appeared onscreen; They were last seen in Josh Trank’s Fantastic 4 (stylized as Fant4stic) and Tim Story’s Fantastic Four films for Fox.
Production designer Kasra Farahani took that and ran with it, turning London’s Pinewood Studios into a retro-futuristic Manhattan by drawing influences from Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” and architects including Eero Saarinen and Oscar Niemeyer.
Former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and the firm’s Chief People Officer, Kristin Cabot, were seen getting close at Coldplay’s Boston concert moments before their viral jumbotron encounter. In a newly shared TikTok video, a fan posted footage of frontman Chris Martin performing on July 16. In the background, Byron can be seen wrapping his arms