The Best Hope for the MCU’s Fantastic Four Is to Go Retro

Since Avengers: Endgame, the newest Marvel releases haven’t enjoyed the same urgency among audiences, especially since the advent of Disney+. While 2023 was a difficult year for Marvel Studios, the biggest challenge yet is ahead of Kevin Feige and company. Faced with many concerns, Marvel Studios should do what’s worked in the past: hew as closely as possible to the source material.There are many forthcoming entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe both fans and the industry are hotly anticipating. The largest of these is the homecoming for Marvel Comics’ first family: The Fantastic Four. Facing harsher scrutiny than they’re used to, Marvel Studios’ best hope for the MCU take on The Fantastic Four is to lean into the source and go retro. With the franchise in such a strange, yet inevitable place, getting The Fantastic Four film right is even more important than it once was.With Lee, Kirby, Steve Ditko and others, the Marvel Age of Comics began. It is, arguably, the greatest run of character creation before or since. The Fantastic Four — as fans and characters in-universe lovingly called them — enjoyed years of success. In the late 1970s, sales began to lag as comics faced a decline in popularity. John Byrne joined the title in 1981, and he helped revitalize it. He changed “the Invisible Girl” to the “Invisible Woman.” Byrne even shook up the roster by bringing in She-Hulk when Ben Grimm was turned human after the first Secret Wars comics event.

Since Avengers: Endgame, the newest Marvel releases haven’t enjoyed the same urgency among audiences, especially since the advent of Disney+. While 2023 was a difficult year for Marvel Studios, the biggest challenge yet is ahead of Kevin Feige and company. Faced with many concerns, Marvel Studios should do what’s worked in the past: hew as closely as possible to the source material.

There are many forthcoming entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe both fans and the industry are hotly anticipating. The largest of these is the homecoming for Marvel Comics’ first family: The Fantastic Four. Facing harsher scrutiny than they’re used to, Marvel Studios’ best hope for the MCU take on The Fantastic Four is to lean into the source and go retro. With the franchise in such a strange, yet inevitable place, getting The Fantastic Four film right is even more important than it once was.

With Lee, Kirby, Steve Ditko and others, the Marvel Age of Comics began. It is, arguably, the greatest run of character creation before or since. The Fantastic Four — as fans and characters in-universe lovingly called them — enjoyed years of success. In the late 1970s, sales began to lag as comics faced a decline in popularity. John Byrne joined the title in 1981, and he helped revitalize it. He changed “the Invisible Girl” to the “Invisible Woman.” Byrne even shook up the roster by bringing in She-Hulk when Ben Grimm was turned human after the first Secret Wars comics event.

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