"We will protect you," Pedro Pascal's Reed Richards promises a waiting press pack as The Fantastic Four hastily return from an intergalactic mission gone very, very wrong. The supergroup's leader is talking about the impending threat of the world-eating Galactus, but could just as easily be referring to the shaky prospects of the MCU as it hurtles towards Doomsday.
Fresh off a one-two bruising of Captain America: Brave New World's middling critical reception and Thunderbolts' failure to spark at the box office, The Fantastic Four: First Steps suddenly has a lot of pressure riding on it.
