The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Official Teaser

This will be the fifth attempt at making a non-awful F4 movie, and I'm not sure this one is going to break the mold. Some reasons why I think it will fail:

• they've chosen to make this a multiverse movie, and I'm pretty sure people are sick of these
• the timeline is the 60's, so it shouldn't overlap with any of the other existing MCU story lines...somehow
• the introduction of these characters AGAIN without a primer is only going to drive comic book folks to see it
• they've already introduced some of these characters in modern MCU movies to weak reception (albeit potentially different timelines)
• this is almost certainly a vehicle to reintroduce RDJ as a hero...somehow

Some Pros I see though:

• Malkovich, Paul Walter Hauser, and Natasha Lyonne are unknown characters as of now
• this looks to try and separate itself from the Avengers timeline
• New timeline, great style, good cinematic look
• Galactus, which means Silver Surfer

How many times to we have to teach you this lesson, old man?? For real tho, actually looks halfway decent.

RICHIE!

Oh, that exposition dialog is… not good.