Despite being one of the earliest and most beloved creations in superhero comics, the Fantastic Four have never really had a respectable track record at the box office. They’ve had a nearly impossible-to-find unreleased urban legend in the form of the Roger Corman-produced ‘90s film, two middling early 2000s features, and a 2014 reboot that some critics declared the worst film of all-time.
For decades its been a bad time at the movies to be a Fantastic Four fan, but luckily the group’s MCU debut is right around the corner. The MCU has gone through its own rough patch recently with some less-than-positively received releases, but the hype for Fantastic Four seems to suggest that audiences aren’t experiencing superhero fatigue just yet. The 37th release in the franchise so far, there are quite a lot of people hoping that Fantastic Four: First Steps will end up being the adaptation to finally perfect Marvel’s First Family on the big-screen.
