Which universe does the amazing four find: First steps take place in?

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After some San Diego Comic-Con Early Preview recordingsfunny teaser images and other sneak peeks, the first fact Teaser trailer before The Fantastic Four: First Steps has arrived.

Fantastic Four is the 37th (!) MCU movie, which is a bit ironic, considering that FF is often called “Marvel’s first family” because 1961’s Fantastic Four #1 marked the official launch of the Marvel Comics-one re-collection of a company that had been around since 1939 and kick-off of a massive race of successful superhero debut. But with the fantastic four movie rights finally back with Marvel Studios, after several FF movies from the 20th century Fox, we finally have the gang that started it all in MCU! … Except that doesn’t look like MCU?

Days of retro future past

As teased by them Past picturesThe first step-teases are fully revealing the 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world The film is put in. This is clearly not the primary MCU (or “Holy Timeline” to use TVA terminology) we have followed in 17 years now, as this universe is very similar to our own, just with much more superhero matches. As with last year’s Deadpool & Wolverine, we have a new MCU movie that is not really set within MCU – this introduced a whole new universe. We are not sure what year it is for the first steps, but it is very likely that it is simply 2025 or so, just in a reality where the visual style has remained firmly rooted in what we would consider the past.

In the teaser we see Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal) and Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby) showing a guest around their kitchen that can boast and Jack Kirby introduced Fantastic Four. Despite the 1960s, Marvel Mains and Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Daredevil and X-Men also introduced, there has always been some more congenital setbacks at FF thanks to many elements from the original comics. This included going so big (often literally) on Reed’s incredible inventions, the healthy family element of this team and the idea that they were local celebrities, much of whom are referred to in the teaser.

This is probably the reason why the idea of ​​a period that Fantastic Four Four movie has always sounded appealing-and actually was the approach director Peyton Reed, possibly director of Ant-Man, and screenwriter Mark Frost (co-creator of Twin Peaks) had to take with ff when Reed had to direct the film back in the early 2000s. At this point, MCU’s history is far too established to say that Fantastic Four ran around New York as celebrity superhero in the 1960s, but the multi -advantage gear allows the film to still maintain this feeling.

MCU’s history is far too established to say that FF was running around New York as a celebrity superhero in the 1960s.

The first steps’ director, Matt Shakman, already has some good experience in making this kind of throwback style within MCU, after directing each episode of TV-Era-Jumping Wandavision.

Of course, as optimistic and cheerful as the amazing four can be, it does not mean that it is devoid of any anxiety that the teaser suggests via the moment when Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) unfortunately looks at the recordings of self Before he was transformed and silently complained to his inability to change back to man – a core aspect of the character’s situation in the source material.

Great four and other decades of influence

While the primary aesthetics of Fantastic Four: First Steps is inspired by the 1960s, a few elements of the teaser come from later era in the team’s history.

Among a small group that includes like Harley Quinn and Firestar, the helpful robot Herbie stands out as a cartoon character that was originally not created for the comics itself, but for a previous adaptation – specifically the late 1970s animated series, the new Fantastic Four. But while there was probably some R2-D2 influence at work as Herbie debuted in the wake of Star Wars, the idea of ​​a sweet robotic compass certainly works for the 1960s as well.

And then there are the amazing four costumes in the movie. FF has almost always carried some variation of a blue team uniform, although there have been many redesign over the years. The classic suits of the 1960s were dark blue with black trim before John Byrne gave the team their biggest overhaul to date in the 1980s, when larger white trim replaced the black.

These are clearly the Byrne uniforms, the first step costumes are most inspired by, albeit with some adjustments, including the white stripes that go down the arms of the costumes of the thing and Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn), while the invisible Women’s uniform is closest to the exact Byrne look. But here the whole team has a much lighter blue than in the comics, which reflects the film’s cheerful, optimistic atmosphere.