With Marvel’s First Family finally taking their “First Steps” into the MCU, Nick and Scott are marking the occasion by looking back at the previous attempts to bring those iconic Silver Age explorers to the big screen! Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben have had a rough go of it when it comes to cinematic adventures, and FRANCHISOGRAPHY is here to find out why!

After successfully sabotaging a small budget, big hearted Roger Corman production in 1994, Marvel would team up with 20th Century Fox to toil for the next decade in adapting Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s legendary comic book series, finally doing so with the director of Barbershop and Taxi, Tim Story. With a cast of some of the hottest actors of the 2000’s and the momentum of a comic book movie revolution at his back, could Story deliver where so many other filmmakers had faltered? This is 2005’s FANTASTIC FOUR!

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