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The cast of The Fantastic Four: First Steps were in Sydney to promote the film, seen here at the premiere – Left to right: Joseph Quinn, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Picture:
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Perth Now
20 hours ago
- Perth Now
Fantastic Four star Joseph Quinn eyes Marvel team-up with Tom Holland's Spider-Man
The Fantastic Four: First Steps star Joseph Quinn wants to team up with Tom Holland's Spider-Man in a future Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) project. The 31-year-old actor appears in the 2025 superhero blockbuster as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, and Quinn has now revealed he wants to share the screen with Holland's Web-slinger as the two characters are close friends in the Marvel comics. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the Gladiator II star said: 'That pairing makes sense to me and I think he's brilliant and I'm up for it. 'I think we'd have a laugh. I've never met Tom and I think he's brilliant; his Peter Parker is the best one ever, I think he's our best-ever Spider-Man, so why not? Let's do it, get it moving.' This comes after Marvel boss Kevin Feige revealed he too wants a Johnny Storm/Spider-Man crossover in the MCU. He said in a recent roundtable interview for The Fantastic Four: First Steps: 'We didn't do chemistry reads, but whenever we cast it is with that blue sky dream in mind of one day being able to do that. 'And that's a great example. That's one of the key relationships in Marvel comics is Johnny Storm and Peter Parker. And we've never been able to come close to it before and now it is in the realm of possibility. 'That's exciting. That gets me up in the morning.' The Fantastic Four: First Steps – which stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing – follows the titular family as they gain extraordinary powers after a cosmic accident during their exploration of outer space. As they grapple with their new identities, the Fantastic Four must unite to stop the rising threat of Galactus (Ralph Ineson), who is hell-bent on destroying the Earth. The Fantastic Four: First Steps also includes Julia Garner as The Silver Surfer, Paul Walter Hauser as Mole Man and could have seen John Malkovich as Red Ghost, but the latter actor's role was ultimately cut from the final film. Director Matt Shakman explained that he found the character didn't fit in with the narrative of the movie, and so Red Ghost was removed. He told Variety: 'There were a lot of things that ultimately ended up hitting the cutting room floor. 'When we were building a '60s retro-future world, introducing all of these villains, introducing these four main characters as a group, as well as individually, introducing the idea of a child – there was a lot of stuff to balance in this movie and some things had to go ultimately in terms of shaping the film for its final version.' Shakman - who worked with the Empire of the Sun actor on his 2014 directorial feature debut Cut Bank - added it was 'heartbreaking' to cut Malkovich from The Fantastic Four: First Steps. He continued: 'It was heartbreaking not to include him in the final version of the movie because he's one of my very favourite humans and one of my biggest inspirations. 'As a person who walks the line between theatre and film and television, there's no one who is more inspiring than the founder of Steppenwolf Theatre Company. 'What he's done on stage as an actor and what he's done as a director in theatre as well as in film, and as just a film actor of incredible ability – I was honoured he came to play.'
Herald Sun
21 hours ago
- Herald Sun
Fantastic Four: Marvel's stunning First Steps puts A-list cast of Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby to good use
Don't miss out on the headlines from Movies. Followed categories will be added to My News. With the best-looking superhero movie ever made, a tired reboot and a challenging comedy, it's a mixed bag at the movies this week. THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS (PG) Director: Matt Shakman (feature debut) Starring: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn, Julia Garner. ***1/2 Barely a stumble, and always looking the goods First, the very, very good news about The Fantastic Four: First Steps. It is the second superhero movie in a row to flat-out not suck. That is quite an achievement when we remember there has been three truly terrible Fantastic Four flicks over the past two decades. Let's move on to some very good news. First Steps could well be the best-looking superhero movie ever made. The production design is a triumph of inspired aesthetics, conjuring a retro-futuristic world that is believably unbelievable. The planet Earth that the F4 team are required to save seems to have hit the pause button in 1964. The fashion, the architecture, the furniture and the innocent optimism of the era are displayed both precisely and pleasurably. Joseph Quinn, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby and Ebon Moss-Bachrach at The Fantastic Four: First Steps premiere in Los Angeles. Picture: Getty Images Chilean-US actor Pedro Pascal leads a stellar cast. Picture: AFP And yet, the technology that underpins every aspect of life on this version of Earth is from the year 3064. Yes, that was a flying car whooshing by, complete with chrome tailfins and a vintage Chevy front grill. Now for some merely good news regarding First Steps. While it never quite matches the new Superman in terms of telling a compelling story or generating euphoric levels of excitement, it is still an entertaining and enjoyable screen experience from start to finish. The key here is that Marvel have ditched the usual entry-level requirements of prior knowledge and considerable patience for viewers (demands that have ruined much of the studio's recent output). You can safely show up to First Steps completely unaware of the F4 origin story, as a niftily succinct montage early in the movie will set you straight inside three minutes. The team sheet for the Fantastic Four is comprised of a quartet of ex-astronauts accidentally exposed to high levels of cosmic radiation during their final mission. The ordeal blessed them with a varied suite of superpowers. Though Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) is the brains of the F4 outfit, he is also famous for a body that can stretch and bend like a high-tensile rubber band. Vanessa Kirby. Picture: Getty Images Reed's wife Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) can turn invisible and emit giant force fields of energy at will. Her brother Johnny (Joseph Quinn) is adored by the general public in his guise as the flying fireball known as the Human Torch. Then there is their good friend Ben Grimm, aka The Thing. He is the strongman of the unit, a rock-encrusted cousin of the Hulk, whose favourite time on the clock is 'clobberin' time.' The F4's chief assignment in First Steps is to prevent Earth being swallowed whole by a gargantuan Thanos-on-steroids named Galactus. To be honest, the plot surrounding how our heroes will thwart Galactus and his heavy-metal henchwoman the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) is charged with a silliness that never quite earns our respect or awe. Thankfully, the warm and inviting chemistry shared by the A-list cast stops any possible descent into B-movie blandness for First Steps. And when all else fails, there is all that astonishingly attractive imagery to gawk at. The Fantastic Four: First Steps is in cinemas now. Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline, centre, and Chase Sui Wonders, right, in I Know What You Did Last Summer. I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (MA15+) ** General release. We all know what Hollywood did late last century, because they keep recycling horror hits from yesterday like there is no tomorrow. For this tepid update of a so-so slasher flick from the '90s, the formula remains exactly the same as before. A quartet of semi-annoying, totally clueless young friends mistakenly assume they have successfully covered up their involvement in a coastal car accident a year prior. Now they're all getting threatening notes from an unknown entity inferring their shared secret will soon be a shared death sentence. Eventually, a mysterious rain-slickered psychopath will start checking off names on his personal to-die list in tired, predictable and curiously unscary fashion. A few casting cameos from the original might tweak a nostalgic pang or two, but there's no crime in waiting for this sluggish effort to show up on home streaming. Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in Friendship. FRIENDSHIP (M) ***1/2 General release. This decidedly unorthodox affair gets a welcome run in cinemas on the strength of its casting of former Saturday Night Live regular Tim Robinson in a leading role. Via his acclaimed Netflix series I Think You Should Leave, Robinson has proven himself to be one of the most daring figures remaining on a diminished American comedy scene. Some familiarity with Robinson's often-surreal brand of humour will come in useful here. Robinson plays Craig, a regular suburban dad who slowly, but surely loses his mind after misinterpreting a polite gesture of thanks from a new arrival in his neighbourhood, Austin (Ant-Man's Paul Rudd). With Craig mistakenly assuming he and Austin are best buds, he fails to notice his marriage, job and grasp of reality are slipping away rapidly. Though not without its share of laugh-out-loud moments, this is actually a poignant and disarming portrait of male loneliness in the modern age. Strong, striking and unique stuff, even if not for all tastes. Originally published as Pedro Pascal leads 'best-looking' A-list Fantastic Four reboot
Courier-Mail
a day ago
- Courier-Mail
Pedro Pascal reveals he was ‘appalled' by his looks in blockbuster film
Don't miss out on the headlines from Movies. Followed categories will be added to My News. Pedro Pascal has revealed he was 'appalled' by the way he looked in one of his blockbuster movies. The Hollywood heart-throb, 50, made the confession during LADbible's Agree to Disagree video series, saying he 'strongly disagreed' with his clean-shaven appearance in 2020's Wonder Woman 1984. In the Gal Gadot-led film, Pascal cut a very different figure to his usual shaggy aesthetic, rocking a beard-free face and a blonde wig to portray Maxwell Lord. Pedro Pascal is promoting The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Picture:for Disney Pascal revealed he was 'appalled' by his appearance as Maxwell Lord in ' Wonder Woman 1984'. 'I grow such shit facial hair, but if I were to shave it all off … I really look very [awful]. Strongly disagree with a clean shaven me,' Pascal said amid promotion for Marvel's upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps. 'I was so appalled by the way I look in Wonder Woman 1984. I loved the movie, but I was so appalled by the way that I looked that I never have gone back unless it were completely necessary. 'If they asked me to be clean shave for Fantastic Four and insisted, then I would've done it. But it was a very collaborative creation for all of our looks in the movie.' X SUBSCRIBER ONLY Pascal was, indeed, able to keep his signature moustache to fill the shoes of comic book hero Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in the latest MCU offering, despite the character being clean-shaven in the comics. The Last Of Us star told Vanity Fair in June he was acutely aware of fan complaints when he was cast in the highly-anticipated role. 'I'm more aware of disgruntlement around my casting than anything I've ever done. 'He's too old. He's not right. He needs to shave',' Pascal said. X SUBSCRIBER ONLY Early reviews, however, have been in his favour, with promising critical reception to his performance and the film in general. The Fantastic Four: First Steps officially hits cinemas in Australia July 24. Meanwhile, Pascal is already set to reprise the role in next year's Avengers: Doomsday, which will see the return of Marvel legend Robert Downey Jr. as a new character, Doctor Doom, after Tony Stark/Iron Man died in 2019's Endgame. Pascal and Downey Jr. are joined by a star-studded cast for the film, which is currently in production, including Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier and Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man. Originally published as Pedro Pascal reveals he was 'appalled' by his looks in blockbuster film: 'Never gone back'
