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Matt Shakman's new film "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" marks the fifth time that the title characters have been brought to the big screen in live action. The previous iteration in 2015, directed by Josh Trank, was widely disliked by both critics and audiences, as its tone was unnecessarily dour, and its storytelling was borderline incompetent. Its drastic alterations from the original "Fantastic Four" lore aren't as grievous a sin as its general lack of quality. Before that, Tim Story directed a pair of "Fantastic Four" movies in 2005 and 2007, and those were disarmingly corny, but also a little drab; there wasn't a lot of superhero fantasy action that the Ff's fans longed for. 

The first version of the Fantastic Four that made its way to film was never officially released to the public. Back in 1994, director Oley Sassone and executive producer...

The Fantastic Four: First Steps arrived in theaters this past weekend to glowing reviews from fans and critics alike. Marvel Studios delivered a worthy take on its First Family, and we're surely all counting down the days to their return in Avengers: Doomsday.

Now, we're taking a closer look at the reboot's Easter Eggs, ranging from deep-cut comic book references to easy-to-miss cameos and references to the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.

While filmmaker Matt Shakman's first MCU movie is largely standalone, it's also a love letter to the comic books and everything that makes this team so...fantastic...on the page. It won't surprise you, then, that there are heaps of nods tp what we've seen on the page over the decades.

Check out this breakdown of The Fantastic Four: First Steps' biggest Easter Eggs by clicking the "Next"/"View List" buttons below.

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The Hollywood premiere of The Fantastic Four: First Steps was a real family affair... and not just for the cast members playing Marvel Comics' First Family in the new Marvel Studios blockbuster.

While the current super-quartet of of Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bacharach were present and accounted for, an earlier version of the Ff also walked the blue carpet. Thanks to First Steps director Matt Shakman, the lead performers from legendary producer Roger Corman's ill-fated 1994 adaptation were on the guest list.

That famously never-released movie starred Alex Hyde-White and Rebecca Staab as team leaders Reed and Sue Richards aka Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman (now played by Pascal and Kirby), Jay Underwood as Johnny Storm aka the Human Torch (now played by Quinn), and Michael Bailey-Smith as Ben Grimm aka The Thing (now played by Moss-Bacharach). All those actors also make cameos in First Steps.

One of the perks of watching any Marvel Cinematic Universe movie is finding countless Easter Eggs, references, and cameos. Fortunately, The Fantastic Four: First Steps wasn't any different from its predecessors. Marvel's First Family has taken over the big screen in an exhilarating and well-crafted adventure that rewards any superhero fan looking for secrets hidden in the background of a scene. So, without further ado, it's time to break them all down and explain what they really mean.

*** Warning: There will be minor spoilers for The Fantastic Four: First Steps ahead ***

(L-r) Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic and Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Photo by Jay Maidment. © 2025 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2025 Marvel. Every Easter Egg in The Fantastic Four: First Steps

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After chasing the elusive, once-upon-a-time success of the MCU for the past 6 years, Kevin Feige ultimately found it with Marvel’s first family. The franchise has now hit the golden pot at the end of the rainbow with The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which takes a step back from the current timeline to travel back to the retrofuturistic past of the 1960s.

Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby‘s blockbuster success comes at the tail end of a long, rocky, and often backbreaking odyssey at 20th Century Fox with the Fantastic Four property. Despite the studio’s unrelenting attempt to reboot the franchise, F4 has always managed to bomb at the box office, each time somehow worse than the last.

Below is a list of every Fantastic Four movie ever made, ranked in order of their runtime, from shortest to longest.

5. The Fantastic Four (1994): 90 minutes The Fantastic Four (1994) [Credit: New Concorde]

Roger Corman’s 1994 film,...

In the history of The Fantastic Four on screen, there is one iteration of Marvel’s First Family that has been incredibly hard done by over the last 30 years. While everyone remembers the disaster that was the 2015 movie, and the “of-the-time” successful venture a decade earlier, Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps is giving the stars of the long-lost Roger Corman-produced version a moment in the spotlight thanks to some very deep-cut cameos in a newly released clip.

As seen in the newly released clip featuring five minutes of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the stars of that movie, Alex Hyde-White (Reed Richards), Jay Underwood (Johnny Storm), Michael Bailey Smith (Ben Grimm), and Rebecca Staab (Sue Storm), all make small appearances, which is surely a Galactus-sized thing for the four stars after the many years since they played the first on-screen iteration of the main cast.

The clip...

The Fantastic Four are back and made a big splash at their world premiere in Los Angeles. The event took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, where fans and stars came together to celebrate Marvel’s newest film, The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

This movie will bring back Marvel’s famous superhero team, with Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach taking the lead roles.

It wasn’t just the main cast who showed up for the event. Other actors from the film like Sarah Niles, Julia Garner, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser and Ralph Ineson walked the blue carpet too. Simu Liu from Shang-Chi, Arian Moayed from Succession and Niousha Noor from The Persian Version also made appearances.

Past Fantastic Four actors Doug Jones, Ioan Gruffudd and Rebecca Staab came along to see how the new version of the story would unfold. The film’s robot character H.

The Fantastic Four are finally back, and they made their first big appearance at the world premiere of The Fantastic Four: First Steps in Los Angeles.

The premiere was held at the famous Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, where the movie’s four stars, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, showed up to celebrate their roles as Marvel’s First Family.

It wasn’t just the main cast walking the blue carpet. The event also welcomed other stars from the film like Sarah Niles, Julia Garner, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser, and Ralph Ineson. Familiar faces from past Marvel projects also made an appearance, including Simu Liu from Shang-Chi and Arian Moayed from Succession.

Niousha Noor from The Persian Version and even past Fantastic Four actors like Doug Jones, Ioan Gruffudd, and Rebecca Staab came to support the new reboot. Fans even got a look at the movie’s robot character H.

Following last night's world premiere in Los Angeles, Marvel Studios has released a 5-minute clip from The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Taken from the beginning of the movie, some edits have been made, but it still offers a fun idea of what's to come later this week.

The team's origin story is recounted, and we get to see Mister Fantastic squaring off with the Red Ghost's Super-Apes...despite John Malkovich's Russian villain being left on the cutting room floor.

Each member of the team is shown protecting New York, while Reed Richards is found hosting "Fantastic Science with Mr. Fantastic" to a group of very uninterested children. The Thing also says "It's Clobberin' Time," albeit in cartoon form.

Finally, keep your eyes peeled, as when all those New Yorkers express gratitude for Marvel's First Family, you'll see Alex Hyde-White, Rebecca Staab, Jay Underwood, and Michael Bailey Smith make a cameo appearance.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is still a few days from hitting the big screens, but it is already making headlines. At the world premiere of the movie, which was held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, on July 21, Marvel’s First Family wasn’t the only one drawing the attention of the cameras and fans worldwide.

This was because numerous other celebrities effortlessly stole the spotlight at the event. One of these was none other than Frank Grillo – a former player in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who switched lanes and is now a part of James Gunn’s revamped DC Universe.

Frank Grillo at #TheFantasticFour world premiere. pic.twitter.com/PKrlSCM5sZ

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The star previously became a famous face in the MCU for his performance as Brock Rumlow aka Crossbones in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016). Currently,...

Los Angeles, California – July 21: (L-r) Joseph Quinn, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby and Ebon Moss-Bachrach attend The Fantastic Four: First Steps World Premiere at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on July 21, 2025. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney) The anticipation for Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps reached a fever pitch last night with its dazzling world premiere in Los Angeles! The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion welcomed over 3,000 guests for this monumental event. Los Angeles, California – July 21: Pedro Pascal is seen onstage The Fantastic Four: First Steps World Premiere at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on July 21, 2025. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for Disney) Los Angeles, California – July 21: (L-r) Michael Bailey Smith, Alex Hyde-White, Rebecca Staab and Jay Underwood attend The Fantastic Four: First Steps World Premiere at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on...

Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vanessa Kirby and Pedro Pascal pose for a family photo at the LA premiere of their new movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Monday evening (July 21) in Los Angeles.

The stars of the upcoming Marvel movie looked quite captivating, with Vanessa matching the color of the Fantastic Four suits, as well as Joseph and Pedro both dressing in white.

Also stepping out were their co-stars Ralph Ineson, Julia Garner, Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Lyonne and Sarah Niles, as well as director Matt Shakman.

Several other Marvel stars also hit the carpet to show their support for the film, which serves as the start of the MCU’s Phase Six, including Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer co-stars Ioan Gruffud and Doug Jones, and the stars of the unreleased 1994 The Fantastic Four movie!

Keep reading to find out more…

The Fantastic Four: First Steps...

Marvel’s First Family — as embodied by the quartet of stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach — was in attendance at the world premiere for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, held at Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Monday.

Also walking the blue carpet were First Steps co-stars Sarah Niles, Julia Garner, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser and Ralph Ineson; Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings alum Simu Liu; Succession‘s Arian Moayed and The Persian Version‘s Niousha Noor; former Fantastic Four stars Doug Jones, Ioan Gruffudd and Rebecca Staab; the movie’s own robot H.E.R.B.I.E.; Deadpool & Wolverine actress Dafne Keen Fernández and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, among others. On the sides of the carpet were installations of the Fantasticar and fans dressed up as the iconic foursome. At the premiere, skywriting displayed the team’s signature “4” logo.

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Paving the way for Austin Powers to one day join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the franchise is rewinding the clock to the 1960s for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. And if prestige cable TV shows are anything to go by, presumably Mr. Fantastic will need to pause battling Galactus in order to down a few glasses of Canadian Club, take an afternoon nap and begin several existential anxiety-inspired extramarital affairs.

Of course, this isn’t the first time that the Fantastic Four have been brought to the big screen. There was the godawful 2015 reboot starring Miles Teller and, before that, two movies in the early 2000s, which confusingly starred Captain America.

But the very first Fantastic Four movie was made way back in 1994 — although it was never actually released.

Produced by B-movie legend Roger Corman, ‘94’s The Fantastic Four was thrown together with a budget of just $1 million, purely so...

There’s a Marvel movie out there most people have never seen — the 1994 Fantastic Four film produced by Roger Corman. It was made in Germany, shot in English, and tells the story of how the superhero team got their powers and fought their first big villain, Doctor Doom. But the movie was never officially released.

This film was mostly created so producer Bernd Eichinger could keep the rights to the Fantastic Four characters. Even though it wasn’t shown in theaters, pirated copies of the movie have been floating around since the mid-90s, and clips have popped up online from time to time.

Recently, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige teased something exciting. He said the main actors from that lost 1994 Fantastic Four movie will actually appear in the new MCU Fantastic Four film in small cameo roles.

This is a cool nod to the old movie that never saw the light of day.

There’s a very strange chapter in Marvel’s history that most people don’t know about: a Fantastic Four movie made in the early 1990s that was never officially released.

This English-language German film was produced on a shoestring budget and was executive-produced by Roger Corman, known for low-budget movies, and Bernd Eichinger. The main reason for making the movie wasn’t to hit theaters but to keep the film rights to the Fantastic Four characters.

The story followed the classic origin of the team, showing how Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm, and Victor Von Doom got their powers and first clashed. Reed and Victor started as college friends trying an experiment involving a comet called Colossus, but things go wrong.

After a crash landing, they gain superpowers: Reed can stretch his body, Susan can turn invisible, Johnny controls fire, and Ben’s skin becomes like stone.

Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four movie was completed in 1994 but never saw an official release in theaters or on home video.

Produced on a shoestring budget of about $1 million by Bernd Eichinger (via Constantin Film) and Roger Corman, the film was reportedly made solely to retain the screen rights to the Fantastic Four characters before they expired.

After Marvel struck a new deal with 20th Century Fox to develop a big-budget adaptation, the studio allegedly paid to shelve the original film permanently.

Today, you can find trailers and footage from the film on YouTube if you're curious about just how low-budget and campy the film truly is.

Still, bootleg copies have circulated for decades, earning the film cult status among fans. Its strange history and underground fame were later explored in the documentary Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four.

Roger Corman’s unreleased Fantastic Four...

Should you need a Fantastic Four fix before the release of the latest reboot of the comic IP, you are in luck. No, we're not talking about the 2015 Josh Trank reboot, nor the 2005 one with Chris Evans. Scheduled for a US premiere on January 19, 1994, the pre-Disney The Fantastic Four was a collaborative effort between legendary filmmaker Roger Corman and Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee. Biding their time, Marvel was launching a suite of franchises just as their rivals DC had. Starring unknowns, packed with janky special effects, and directed by Oley Sassone, a music video director, this project was about as far from Marvel Phase Five as you can get. It's not streaming anywhere. And never will.

The obscure 1994 iteration of Marvel's Fantastic Four comic is remembered fondly by few. According to F4 creator Stan Lee, he and the cast and crew were duped, little more than pawns. After the wrap party,...

Warning: Spoilers for The Night Agent Season 1.

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Ever since The Night Agent landed on Netflix, the series has become one of the platform’s most-watched shows. The wildly popular series is an action thriller that follows a low-level FBI agent named Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), who works in the basement of the White House. His only job is to answer the phone if it ever rings. Nonetheless, it never does. Designated for a highly classified counterintelligence program within the FBI known as Night Action, the phone is meant to assist undercover agents in the field should they ever need immediate help. As such, Peter spends most of his time analyzing reports rather than actually answering the phone.

Warning: Spoilers for The Night Agent Season 2.

As one of the most watched Netflix series ever, The Night Agent continues to amass quite a following. The first season premiered in March 2023 and immediately shot to the top of the platform’s viewing charts. When its second season arrived in January 2025, it once again dominated Netflix’s Top Ten list. The series follows a low-level FBI agent named Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) who initially begins the show answering a phone in the basement of the White House. Strictly designated for the highly classified counterintelligence program in the FBI known as Night Action, the phone never rings. At least, it never has the entire time Peter has manned the phone. All that changes in Season 1. What follows ultimately thrusts Peter even deeper into the world of Night Action as he unravels a massive conspiracy involving the vice president and the president’s chief of staff.

The Night Agentis one of Netflix's most popular action shows. The series has had two extremely successful seasons, with its debut season releasing in 2023. The first season performed so well that a follow-up season was confirmed a mere week after the release of Season 1. Now, Season 2, which was released only days ago, is already dominating Netflix's US charts. Given its success, it comes as no surprise that a third season of The Night Agent is also in the works.

In fact, the series' third season was confirmed prior to Season 2's release, clearly demonstrating Netflix's faith in The Night Agent. Led by Gabriel Basso in the titular role of FBI-agent-turned-Night-Agent Peter Sutherland, the series is packed with conspiracies involving the highest levels of government, explosive action and the most unexpected plot twists. Season 1 saw Peter rescue the President from an assassination attempt, while Season 2 took the agent into a global sphere.

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After a two-year hiatus, the much-awaited sophomore season of The Night Agentmade its premiere on January 23, 2025. The Night Agent's debut season made the show one of Netflix's most successful series, and its follow-up season has now followed the same path as its predecessor. Based on a novel by Matthew Quirk and created for screens by Shawn Ryan, Season 1 of the series saw a low-level FBI agent, Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), answer a phone that is never supposed to ring and dive head-first into a conspiracy far above his pay grade.

Peter's heroism in Season 1 led to him being officially instated as a Night Agent and sent on his first mission. However, as one would expect, missions are neither...

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The first trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Stepshas finally arrived, giving audiences their best look yet at the exciting upcoming superhero movie, which will finally hit theaters on July 25. Set in an alternate reality distinct from the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Phase 6 film follows Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), the Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), the Human Torch (Joseph Quinn), and the Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they settle into their new roles as superheroes. They struggle to maintain their close familial bond as new threats put their world in jeopardy, including Galactus (Ralph Ineson), a Celestial from outer space who threatens to devour the entire Earth.

The first footage for The Fantastic Four: First...

Sue Storm has got herself quite the Hollywood shuffle, that’s for sure. Many actresses have had a hand in bringing the iconic invisible woman to life in live action and in just a few months we will get to see Vanessa Kirby’s iteration of the character. After the release of Marvel Cinematic Universe’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer, we simply cannot wait to see how she pulls off the role and what her chemistry with the Internet’s favorite green flag, Pedro Pascal, looks like.

Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm in the upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) | Credits: Marvel Studios

Before Vanessa Kirby’s Sue Storm hits the screens though, it is only fair that we take a trip down memory lane and look at the three stunning actresses who have played the role in the past – Rebecca Staab (1994), Jessica Alba, and Kate Mara (2015). Here are the three actresses ranked.

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After a two-year hiatus, Netflix's The Night AgentSeason 2 made its premiere on January 23, 2025. Since its release, the season has gone down the same path as its predecessor, sitting comfortably atop Netflix's charts. Given the anticipation with which fans were looking forward to the second season, this is perhaps not a surprise. However, what did come as a surprise were the multiple twists and turns in the second season which ended up in character deaths, the most unfortunate, perhaps, being the death of Farhad Taheri, the brother of Noor Taheri.

Season 2 of the series sees Peter enter the international sphere, dealing with foes of multiple nationalities. After foiling the assassination attempt against President Travers in Season 1, Peter is...

Warning: Spoilers for The Night Agent.

Much to the delight of fans, The Night Agent finally returned for its second season after a two-year hiatus. The latest season kicks off with Peter (Gabriel Basso) working a Night Action mission in Thailand, his first since saving President Travers (Kari Matchett) at the end of Season 1. However, when his cover is blown, his partner, Alice (Brittany Snow), is subsequently killed. Unsure who to trust, Peter goes off the grid and begins his own investigation into what really happened in Bangkok.

Only after Rose (Luciane Buchanan) receives a phone call from an unknown man, who turns out to be an intelligence broker named Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum), asking about Peter’s safety do the puzzle pieces begin to form a picture. Given Rose’s tech skills, she’s able to locate Peter and the pair begin tracking down his lead. She’s also...

After a near-two year wait, The Night Agent is back on Netflix and already shooting up a storm with critics. The original season was released in May 2023, and the political action thriller took just a few weeks to become one of Netflix’s biggest shows, although it did not completely impress with its 74% Tomatometer score. This time around, creator Shawn Ryan has upped the ante, and it seems the lengthy wait has proven to be worth it.

The Night Agent is based on the Matthew Quirk novel of the same name, and focuses on FBI agent Peter Sutherland, played by Gabriel Basso, who is confined to the basement of the White House manning a phone that never rings. However, when he does get a call one night, he finds himself being thown into a dark and dangerous conspiracy that goes all the way to the Oval Office. Season 2 finds Peter...

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Netflix is known for churning out one streaming sensation after another, and in 2023, the juggernaut platform released the pulse-pounding action thriller The Night Agent, an adaptation of the Matthew Quirk novel that follows the strong and ambitious FBI agent Peter Sutherland as he becomes swept up in a deadly conspiracy after discovering that there is a mole high up in the American government. Sutherland makes it his mission to hunt down the culprit and protect his country, all the while helping keep an innocent tech CEO safe from the crossfire.

The second season of The Night Agent is slated to make its epic premiere on January 23, 2025, with the exhilarating series being favorably compared to the Prime Video smash hit Reacher and its equally formidable hero, Jack Reacher.

The Night Agent was a major success on Netflix when it premiered in 2023. Ahead of the highly anticipated Season 2, fans are already getting up to speed with the high-octane thriller.

Per Netflix, The Night Agent is now back on the charts ahead of the new season premiering next week. Season 1 added 2.3 million views this week, debuting in the 10th spot in the global charts after spending 12 weeks in the Top 10. At the same time, the first season defended its title on Netflix's Most Popular TV list, where it sits in the seventh spot with 98.2 million views.

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Warning: Spoilers for The Night Agent Season 1.

Netflix’s action thriller series, The Night Agent, finally returns for its second season, and FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) will likely find himself in the middle of yet another conspiracy. Based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, the show’s first season landed on Netflix two years ago, and viewers immediately flocked to the series. With its Tomatometer at 74% and its Popcornmeter at 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, The Night Agent gained a solid fanbase rather quickly. In the first four days after it premiered, the show became the third-most-viewed debut series on Netflix, and within a month, it became the platform’s sixth-most-viewed series. It was renewed for a second season shortly after the first one debuted, and it has already been renewed for a third ahead of Season 2’s premiere.

The Night Agent follows a low-level FBI...

Bluesky has quickly emerged as the social media platform of choice for those defecting from X (formerly Twitter) in the weeks following the U.S. Presidential election which saw former president Donald J. Trump declared President-elect Trump, soon to become the 47th president of the United States, and a change in X’s terms of service that went into effect on Friday, November 15, which allows the service to analyze text and other information provided by users to help in the “training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models.”

Nancy Lee Grahn was one of the first major soap stars to flock to Bluesky immediately following the election, saying to her followers at the time, “I am here now as I can no longer defend speaking on a site controlled by a dangerous meglamaniacal [sic] oligarch.” She added, “My pg, my rules so trump supporters will be blocked. This is a...

The Young and The Restless spoilers and rumors tease Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) will have a shocking surprise visitor.

Heather Stevens’ (Vail Bloom) family is mourning her death, and her mother, April Stevens (Rebecca Staab) shows up demanding answers from Sharon!

The Young And The Restless Spoilers – Did Someone Contact April And Direct Her To Sharon?

Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) wasn’t able to return to Genoa City after suffering a heart attack from the shocking news of Heather’s murder.

Back in the day, he’d have wanted to be heavily involved hunting down the person responsible for her death-April left town years ago, but someone obviously knows how to contact her.

Might Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford) have tracked her down, wanting justice for her framed son Daniel Romalotti (Michael Graziadei)?

Or did the police, possibly Chance Chancellor (Conner Floyd) find the number in Heather’s phone and call her?...

The Young and the Restless has fans wondering whether Heather has been left for dead. Sharon initially wanted to seek revenge on Daniel, but she ended up killing Heather.

Or so it seems. Sharon could have us all fooled. She blacked out during the attack, which means there’s more to the story. Heather’s whereabouts could bring her mom, April, back into the fold.

Who is April?

Actresses Patricia Albrecht, Janet Wood, Cindy Eilbacher, and Rebecca Staab portrayed the character April Stevens. She last appeared on the show in 2008. At the time, Heather’s (Vail Bloom) paternity was called into question. April told Heather that Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) was her biological father.

This revelation allowed Heather to rebuild a relationship with her father. Paul eventually moved off the canvas. His last appearance on the CBS show was in 2020. He was officially written off as having left Genoa City.

As Marvel readies The Fantastic Four for the MCU, it was inevitable that everyone from the earlier movies would be recast. And while Chris Evans has gone on to play a key role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – thus bumping to the top of the list for a Deadpool & Wolverine cameo – that hasn’t been the case for the rest of the team. Fortunately, at least Jessica Alba is taking it in good stride, even lending words of wisdom to Vanessa Kirby, who will take over Invisible Woman aka Sue Storm in next year’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

Jessica Alba – who played Invisible Woman in both 2005’s Fantastic Four and 2007’s Rise of the Silver Surfer – recently stated that she thinks Vanessa Kirby should embrace the wide fandom of the characters, saying, “I think [the advice is to] just have fun. The fans are so amazing.” She added, “It was probably one...

Three decades ago, Marvel tried to bury their most infamous film, and to this day, the 1994 live-action adaptation of The Fantastic Four has yet to be released to the public. Thanks to bootleg versions of the film available online, however, it enjoys a dedicated fan base, who consider it a decent (though low-budget) adaptation of the iconic comic book. Those fans include David Lowery, the director of The Green Knight and A Ghost Story, who holds it in higher regard than the big-budget adaptations that came afterward.

Lowery recently appeared in an episode of the "Kim's Video" series on the Alamo Drafthouse YouTube channel, with the theater chain recreating Kim's Video, the iconic New York City movie rental shop, in the lobby of their Downtown Manhattan theater. The original Kim's closed in 2004, but filmmakers and actors visit the reopened Kim's to discuss movies in the YouTube videos. When Lowery visited Kim's,...

Doctor Doom is one of Marvel's most iconic, recognizable and beloved supervillains. Doctor Doom has been played by three previous actors in live-action, and will soon be played by a fourth in the MCU. Joseph Culp, Julian McMahon and Toby Kebbell have all played Doctor Doom, while Robert Downey Jr. has been cast as the McU's Doctor Doom.

As one of Marvel's most iconic supervillains, Doctor Doom is a very coveted live-action role that has been taken on by only a handful of actors, and he will soon be joining the MCU. First seen in Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four #5 back in 1962, Victor Von Doom is one of Marvel's longest-running, most persistent and most dangerous villains. He has been featured as the archenemy of Reed Richards and the Fantastic Four for decades, but he has also taken on the likes of Doctor Strange, Iron Man, the Black Panther, and the X-Men.

One of the stars of Roger Corman's infamous Fantastic Four is pushing for the film to finally see an official release.

Per ComicBook.com, actor Joseph Culp, who starred as Doctor Doom in 1994's Fantastic Four, published a recent social media post calling for the film's release. "Doom is watching You!" Culp wrote. "Sign our petition to #releasefantasticfour94! Roger Corman's cult classic film of Marvel's The Fantastic Four deserves an official release for fans in all corners of the multiverse." The post included a close-up photo of one corner of the original Doctor Doom mask that Culp wore in the film.

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Actress Vanessa Kirby (“Napoleon”) is Marvel Comics superhero 'The Invisible Woman' , aka 'Susan Storm-Richards' in Marvel Studios upcoming live-action feature "The Fantastic Four":

"...'Sue Storm' received her extraordinary powers after being exposed to cosmic rays in space, enabling her to create invisibility and force fields.

"Her invisibility power bends light waves allowing her to render herself and other objects invisible.

"She can also project powerful fields of invisible psionic, hyperspace-based energy for a variety of offensive and defensive effects…

“…including the creation of shields, blasts, explosions and levitation.

"Sue plays a central role in the lives of her younger brother 'Johnny Storm', her scientist inventor husband 'Reed Richards', her close friend 'Ben Grimm' and her children, 'Franklin' and 'Valeria'.

“She was also romantically attracted to 'Namor the Sub-Mariner', (despite that thing in his nose) and they remain close friends.."

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The Fantastic Four will reimagine the Marvel superhero team with an all-new cast, and the film's release will come two decades after the original Fantastic Four movie's release in 2005. Now, one of the stars of that film is hoping to make a return in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Jessica Alba played Sue Storm (aka Invisible Woman) in the original movie along with its 2007 sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. In a new retrospective interview for Entertainment Tonight (per Comicbook), Alba reflected on her time spent with those films. When asked about a possible return, which could potentially happen with a multiverse appearance, Alba confirmed she'd be up for it, though she clarified that nobody at Marvel Studios has called her at this time.

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Actress Vanessa Kirby (“Napoleon”) plays Marvel Comics superhero 'The Invisible Woman' , aka 'Susan Storm-Richards' in Marvel Studios upcoming live-action feature film reboot "The Fantastic Four":

"...'Sue Storm' received powers after being exposed to cosmic rays in space, enabling her with invisibility and creating force fields.

"Her invisibility power can bend light waves allowing her to render herself and other objects invisible.

"She can also project powerful fields of invisible psionic, hyperspace-based energy for a variety of offensive and defensive effects…

“…including shields, blasts, explosions and levitation.

"Sue plays a central role in the lives of her younger brother 'Johnny Storm', her scientist inventor husband 'Reed Richards', her close friend 'Ben Grimm' and her children, 'Franklin' and 'Valeria'.

She was also romantically attracted to 'Namor the Sub-Mariner', (despite that thing in his nose) and they remain close friends.."

The Invisible Woman was...

Culp in costume as Doctor Doom Photo: Provided by Joseph Culp “It’s like a miracle… One million dollars cash to us if we star in a movie,” Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic, says with a no-nonsense look on his stretchable rubber face.His three blue-costumed team members...

The Fantastic FourPhoto: Uncork’d Entertainment

“It’s like a miracle… One million dollars cash to us if we star in a movie,” Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic, says with a no-nonsense look on his stretchable rubber face.

His three blue-costumed team members are enthusiastic upon hearing this news.

Marvel’s Fantastic Four has lived through several iterations. In 1994, the first ambitious Fantastic Four life-action was made starring Alex Hyde-White, Rebecca Staab, and Jay Underwood, with Joseph Culp playing Doctor Doom. However, the movie was never released. While the Chris Evans-starrer Fantastic Four movie series was popular among fans, there was an attempt from Fox to reboot the franchise in 2015 with a roster of a talented cast.

Fantastic Four 2015 cast

Michael B. Jordan, who starred in 2015’s Fantastic Four, recently teased that he might appear in Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s Deadpool & Wolverine. Certainly, the movie has stacked an astonishing amount of surprises. Despite the release of a teaser and a trailer, the movie has managed to keep fans at bay with rumors and speculations.

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Michael B. Jordan in Fantastic Four

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Actress Vanessa Kirby (“Napoleon”) plays Marvel Comics superhero 'The Invisible Woman' , aka 'Susan Storm-Richards' in Marvel Studios upcoming live-action feature film reboot "The Fantastic Four":

"...'Sue Storm' received powers after being exposed to cosmic rays in space, enabling her with invisibility and creating force fields.

"Her invisibility power can bend light waves allowing her to render herself and other objects invisible.

"She can also project powerful fields of invisible psionic, hyperspace-based energy for a variety of offensive and defensive effects…

“…including shields, blasts, explosions and levitation.

"Sue plays a central role in the lives of her younger brother 'Johnny Storm', her scientist inventor husband 'Reed Richards', her close friend 'Ben Grimm' and her children, 'Franklin' and 'Valeria'.

She was also romantically attracted to 'Namor the Sub-Mariner', (despite that thing in his nose) and they remain close friends.."

The Invisible Woman was...

The Hollywood formula of throwing A-list actors in with top directors and writers doesn't always pay off at the box office and has resulted in some of the most colossal flops in cinema history. The right time to kill a potential stinker is in the pre-production phase, but sometimes awful movies get made before the studio realizes they have a very expensive bomb on their hands.

With the kind of money it takes to make a film, studios will release a movie they know is bad in hopes of recouping the investment, but sometimes it makes better business sense to sit on it and take the tax write-off. There have been some big-time movies, with marquee stars and named directors, that were completed, but for a variety of reasons, never released.

The Fantastic Four 1994 Movie Was Not So Fantastic

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Original Doctor Doom actor Joseph Culp calls for release of 1994 Fantastic Four film, sparking fan interest after decades of mystery. The film, made on a $1 million budget, was never intended for public release, according to co-creator Stan Lee and producer Bernd Eichinger. Marvel Studios founder Avi Arad reportedly acquired rights to 1994 film and ordered its destruction to protect Fantastic Four's reputation.

Joseph Culp, who portrayed Doctor Doom in the unreleased 1994 film The Fantastic Four, has voiced his desire for the film to finally be unveiled to the public, three decades after its intended release.

This plea came in response to a video shared by Twitter user @GodzillaMendoza, which delved into the film's tumultuous history. Culp expressed his appreciation for the video, calling it a "wonderful exposé" and suggesting that the time has come to reveal "the truth about the film" on the 30th anniversary of its original release date,...

According to new reports, actress Vanessa Kirby (“Napoleon”) has been cast as superhero 'The Invisible Woman' , aka 'Susan Storm-Richards' in Marvel Studios developing live-action reboot of "Fantastic Four":

"...'Sue Storm' received her powers after being exposed to cosmic rays in space and was originally known as the 'Invisible Girl'. She possesses two powers: invisibility and force fields.

"Her invisibility power can bend light waves allowing her to render herself and other objects invisible.

"She can also project powerful fields of invisible psionic, hyperspace-based energy for a variety of offensive and defensive effects, including shields, blasts, explosions and levitation.

"Sue plays a central role in the lives of her younger brother 'Johnny Storm', her scientist inventor husband 'Reed Richards', her close friend 'Ben Grimm' and her children, 'Franklin' and 'Valeria'.

She was also romantically attracted to 'Namor the Sub-Mariner', (despite that thing...

There are few Marvel characters that have played as essential a role in the comic publisher’s history as the Fantastic Four. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Marvel’s “first family” debuted in the comics in 1961, and they were instrumental in bringing comic books and superheroes into a new era following the Golden Age of the ‘40s and ‘50s. The team has consisted of many different characters over the years, but the core four characters have always been Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Sue Storm/the Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/the Human Torch, and Ben Brimm/the Thing.

There have been a handful of attempts to bring the Fantastic Four to the big screen over the years, but those endeavors have proven to be notoriously difficult. The newest version of the team will exist within the confines of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has been dominating multiplexes for 15 years now.

According to a new report, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One star Vanessa Kirby has signed on to lead the cast of Marvel Studios' upcoming Fantastic Four reboot.

While an official announcement hasn't been made by Marvel Studios, it was reported on The Hot Mic podcast with Jeff Sneider and John Rocha that Kirby is now set to play the McU's incarnation of Sue Storm, aka Invisible Woman. Kirby's name is one that had previously popped up in the rumor mill as a possible contender to play Sue Storm. This update on her reported casting follows another recent report that Barbie star Margot Robbie had declined the same role for unknown reasons. As of now, the news of Kirby's casting hasn't been confirmed nor denied by Marvel, Kirby, or anyone else involved with the film.

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If other recent rumors are true,...

Actress Margot Robbie has reportedly been offered the role of superhero 'The Invisible Woman' , aka 'Susan Storm-Richards' in Marvel Studios developing live-action reboot of "Fantastic Four": 

"...'Sue Storm' received her powers after being exposed to cosmic rays in space and was originally known as the 'Invisible Girl'. She possesses two powers: invisibility and force fields. 

"Her invisibility power can bend light waves allowing her to render herself and other objects invisible.

"She can also project powerful fields of invisible psionic, hyperspace-based energy for a variety of offensive and defensive effects, including shields, blasts, explosions and levitation. 

"Sue plays a central role in the lives of her younger brother 'Johnny Storm', her scientist inventor husband 'Reed Richards', her close friend 'Ben Grimm' and her children, 'Franklin' and 'Valeria'. 

She was also romantically attracted to 'Namor the Sub-Mariner', (despite that thing in his nose) and they remain close friends.