10 Years After Failed Film, Former Fantastic Four Star Addresses the MCU Reboot

By Pune Media On May 25, 2025

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the next big offering from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s all about a family of adventurers with their own unique superpowers: Reed Richards can stretch beyond human proportions, Sue Storm can turn invisible, her brother Johnny Storm can set on fire and fly, and Ben Grimm is a super-strong rock monster.

It’s a premise most would find possible to get wrong, and yet Hollywood very much did get it wrong. A Fantastic Four film came out in 2005, and both it and its sequel met with middling reception. But that was nothing compared to the tidal wave of derision that washed over the 2015 take on Marvel’s First Family. It was a disaster.

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The film, called Fantastic Four but stylized as Fant4stic, starred an array of young up-and-comers in Hollywood: Miles Teller (Reed), Kate Mara (Sue), Michael B. Jordan (Johnny) and Jamie Bell (Ben). Unfortunately, most of the critics agreed they deserved a much better film than what they got. The troubled production drew plenty of comment, the reviews were absolutely dismal, and the movie bombed at the box office. Yet once the Marvel Cinematic Universe got going, a reboot eventually seemed inevitable.

Now a new Fantastic Four movie is coming to cinemas, and commentators are curious to know what the 2015 cast think of it. Are they annoyed that they didn’t get the same amount of time and effort put in? Well, Kate Mara for one bears no grudges – and there may be one big reason for that.

Mara actually began dating Jamie Bell after the pair were both cast in Fantastic Four, and so it could be argued Mara owes her husband and family to her appearance in that one failed movie. And she also loves movies so much she’s happy to welcome another one. “I love going to the movies. It’s my favorite thing to do, especially with my husband Jamie and our kids. We have an 11-year-old. So I’m sure we’ll go, especially for a movie like that where you want to see it on a big screen with an audience and popcorn,” she told the Hollywood Reporter. “Absolutely. It’s totally different than ours, so why not? I really love the cast. I love Pedro Pascal. Yeah, I would totally see the new Marvel.”

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Both Mara And Bell Approve Of The MCU Fantastic Four

Kate Mara and Jamie Bell were asked about the MCU’s Fantastic Four last year, too, before the first trailers started to come out. “We’re excited,” Mara told Variety, speaking for both herself and her husband. “It’s a great cast.”

Bell then added, “It doesn’t feel like a reboot to me because to reboot something it had to have been something. Unfortunately, our film doesn’t exist in any particular canon.” Then he corrected himself, “It does exist in one particular canon, which is the not very good canon.”

Luckily, all signs point to The Fantastic Four: First Steps as being a much better movie.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be released on July 25, 2025.

Source: THR

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Release Date: July 25, 2025
Director: Matt Shakman
Writers: Jeff Kaplan, Josh Friedman, Ian Springer, Eric Pearson, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee
Producers: Jamie Christopher, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Tim Lewis

Pedro Pascal

Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic
Vanessa Kirby

Sue Storm / The Invisible Woman
Joseph Quinn

Johnny Storm / Human Torch
Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Ben Grimm / The Thing

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