Part of the excitement surrounding the release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps earlier this year was the expectation of seeing Marvel’s First Family done right. Versions of the Fantastic Four appeared on screen before Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach suited up as the quartet, but they never got it quite right. The 2015 movie took a relentlessly dark, body horror approach to the characters. The 2005 and 2007 movies had some comedic moments, but they couldn’t match the grandeur of the original comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby . And the 1994 Roger Corman produced Fantastic Four never even got released.

Yet, for the producers of First Steps , it was that lost, low-budget flick that guided their million-dollar Disney movie. “They did a lot o

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