# 585 The Fantastic Four: First Steps

An episode of [The Weekly Planet](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/718158767), 28 Jul 2025, 1 h 53 min.

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It's big movie season and it's time for another big movie! The Fantastic Four: First Steps marks the fourth live action incarnation of the superhero family and there first appearance in the MCU. If you discount John Krasinski in Doctor Strange 2 and Chris Evans in Deadpool & Wolverine WHICH I DON'T. In addition to reviewing that we talk the news of the week including a new Judge Dredd movie, Netflix takes on Assassin's Creed and Captain Planet, trailers for Mortal Kombat 2, Tron: Ares, Predator: Badlands and Avatar 3, James Gunn firing Henry Cavill as Superman and vetoing the Rock taking over the DCU, Kevin Feige on the state MCU and it's recent failures plus a whole lot more! Thanks for listening You can also listen to the bonus Brightburn movie commentary track out now on big sandwich! Plus entire back-catalogue of let's play videos, bonus podcasts, movie commentaries, early access and ad-free episodes all available on https://bigsandwich.co PLEASE be aware timecodes may shift up to a few minutes due to inserted ads. 00:00 The Start 04:14 New Judge Dredd Movie 11:52 Assassin's Creed Series 17:39 Captain Planet Reboot 21:28 Mortal Kombat 2 Trailer 26:28 Tron: Ares Trailer 28:27 Predator: Badlands Trailer 33:09 Avatar 3 Teaser (sort of) 33:58 Time's 100 Best Podcasts 36:21 How DC Fired Henry Cavill & The Rock 37:49 New DCU Projects in the Works 39:38 Kevin Feige on Recent Marvel Failures 43:41 Recasting MCU Legacy Characters 45:05 The Fantastic Four: First Steps Movie Review 01:05:20 The Fantastic Four Spoiler Segment 01:26:10 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read 01:34:22 Letters, It's Time For Letters SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jN James' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymovies Maso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrown Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymovies T-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanet Amazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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