Fans of early Marvel movies might be in for a treat when The Fantastic Four: First Steps arrives in theaters in July. In a Marvel Cinematic Universe that has become clouded with heroes and villains that all have to appear in seemingly every movie,

First Steps," director Matt Shakman had the chance to make something that stands completely apart from the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — and he took it. "We are our own universe, which is wonderful and liberating,

W ith the exception of John Krasinski’s Mister Fantastic appearing in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the Fantastic Four have been absent from the big screen since