The Fantastic Four: First Steps bloopers are nothing short of delightful and the entire Internet is taking notice. This week, Marvel Studios announced that their summer entry would be coming home on physical media and digital. But, the biggest point of fascination for a lot of fans out there was the fun bits of Pedro Pascal getting jumpscared by Joseph Quinn.
In a movie filled to the absolute brim with optimism, Pascal’s interactions with Quinn, Vanessa Kirby, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach shine. If there’s one good thing you can say about The Fantastic Four: First Steps, it’s that the title characters feel more like a family than they ever have in any other on-screen rendition of these heroes. All of those little moments are magnified when you see what the deleted scenes have cooking.
While The Fantastic Four sit in the Fantasticar, Pascal’s Reed Richards looks out at an imminent threat. He’s so locked-in that he completely misses Quinn just inches from his face on the other side of the car. Just like most of us, he’s a bit shocked to turn his head and see the Johnny Storm actor just kinda of staring at him from close range. Both Kirby and Moss-Bachrach’s reactions tell a story here too. It’s easy to see Quinn pulling these kinds of pranks with regularity.
Remembering the summer of Pedro with The Fantastic Four
One of the biggest discussion points over this long, hot summer was how Pedro Pascal was absolutely everywhere. (Rachel Leishman has done her duty to inform as many people as possible on the way this man has ruled the zeitgeist.) But, the moment it became clear he would be Reed Richards was a wild one on the Internet.
Everybody had an opinion on what he would need to do to capture the Marvel Comics mainstay. All of this discussion dovetailed with the rampant discourse about how Matt Shakman would go about making The Fantastic Four in the modern age. It turns out the answer to this question is to go full-force into retrofuturism and not look back.
Seeing the warmth of Pascal’s Mister Fantastic here is not without its own subtle charm. Just like The Fantastic Four: First Steps offers some retro aesthetic to tantalize audiences, the Marvel star is also serving up some throwback masculinity too. He’s reserved, neat, and can serve up a joke or two when the team isn’t trying to literally save the world. It works, almost too well!
Joseph Quinn’s understated Johnny Storm deserves love too
This new clip also shines a spotlight on Joseph Quinn’s Johnny Storm. Along with Pascal as Reed Richards There was a ton of visual ink spilled about Quinn and how much he embodied the Human Torch. In fact, after the movie was released, that discussion was still very much ongoing. His take on Johnny is so different from Chris Evans’ 2000s version.
Fans remember the Aughts version of Marvel’s First Family as heavy on the style, but not exactly like the comic book characterization. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Evans’ Human Torch. In those movies, Johnny is a hot-shot womanizer, that’s just attractive enough for audiences at the time to let it slide. This movie was going to have to call for something else entirely.
Quinn is a wide-eyed explorer in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. He’s not a dummy by any means, but still played as more naive than his counterparts. His pranks are remarkably good natured, and everyone just seems to like each other so much. It’s my favorite, and the least realistic, thing about the movie! I just hope there’s somewhere out there where the entire movie is basically 3 hours long to allow for this.
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