This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get Fantastic and talk about the 2005 version of Fantastic Four as the new movie featuring Marvel’s First Family, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, opens in theaters.
Opening in July 2005, Fantastic Four was part of the Fox side of Marvel movies, which also included the X-Men movies, Daredevil, and Elektra. Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, and Michael Chiklis are the titular superhero team, given superpowers after being exposed to cosmic radiation during an experiment in Earth’s orbit. Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon), CEO of Von Doom Industries, is also affected and gradually decides to become a supervillain, eventually clashing with the Fantastic Four in the last 20 minutes or so of the movie. Zach and Chris talk about how the Fantastic Four are cause their first big hero moment saving people from a bridge accident, Victor brutally murdering the head of his company’s board with zero consequences, X-Games and the other product placement, Jessica Alba constantly being forced to strip, and more.
You can watch Fantastic Four on Disney+. Next week, we’re pulling the ripcord with Wesley Snipes and discussing 1994’s Drop Zone, which is getting a new 4K release.
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