585 The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Weekly Planet

James

Tv & Film, Unknown

5 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

It's big movie season and it's time for another big movie! The Fantastic Four: First Steps marks the fourth live action incarnation of the superhero family and there first appearance in the MCU. If you discount John Krasinski in Doctor Strange 2 and Chris Evans in Deadpool & Wolverine WHICH I DON'T. In addition to reviewing that we talk the news of the week including a new Judge Dredd movie, Netflix takes on Assassin's Creed and Captain Planet, trailers for Mortal Kombat 2, Tron: Ares, Predator: Badlands and Avatar 3, James Gunn firing Henry Cavill as Superman and vetoing the Rock taking over the DCU, Kevin Feige on the state MCU and it's recent failures plus a whole lot more! Thanks for listening

You can also listen to the bonus Brightburn movie commentary track out now on big sandwich! Plus entire back-catalogue of let's play videos, bonus podcasts, movie commentaries, early access and ad-free episodes all available on https://bigsandwich.co

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00:00 The Start

04:14 New Judge Dredd Movie

11:52 Assassin's Creed Series

17:39 Captain Planet Reboot

21:28 Mortal Kombat 2 Trailer

26:28 Tron: Ares Trailer

28:27 Predator: Badlands Trailer

33:09 Avatar 3 Teaser (sort of)

33:58 Time's 100 Best Podcasts

36:21 How DC Fired Henry Cavill & The Rock

37:49 New DCU Projects in the Works

39:38 Kevin Feige on Recent Marvel Failures

43:41 Recasting MCU Legacy Characters

45:05 The Fantastic Four: First Steps Movie Review

01:05:20 The Fantastic Four Spoiler Segment

01:26:10 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read

01:34:22 Letters, It's Time For Letters

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0:00.0	Lunchtime. Time to get my macro in the microwave.
0:03.9	Oh, kitchen banter afoot. If in doubt, join in.
0:07.9	Oh, hey Jim. You listen to Comedy on Audible too?
0:11.8	Uh, yeah. So funny.
0:15.1	Yeah. What's your favourite title?
0:17.8	Uh, the comedy comedian show.
0:22.5	That's not a real show, is it, Jim?
0:24.6	Get in on the jokes with comedy on Audible.
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0:29.1	At UK for terms.
0:32.5	The weekly planet.
0:35.3	Welcome back everybody to another episode of the weekly planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. That's right. My name is James Luson and is Mr. Sundane. With me as always, Nick Mason. Hello, it's good to be here. Wow. It's another big movie. It is another big movie. It's big movie time. Did you think it wasn't? Dude, you need to get real. You need to be real with yourself and others. Sometimes I'm on the way here and then I'm like, oh, I have to do a podcast. What do you think? We're just hanging out? This is monetary, Mason. No, I know. It's very transactional. But sometimes I'm like, oh yeah, I've got to, I've got to do rifts and stuff. Which I would do, I think, in real life anyway.
1:12.9	See, before you get here, I plan the podcast and I put it together.
1:16.7	So when you get here, I'm not like, oh, and now I have to podcast.
1:19.7	I forgot.
1:22.1	And that's cool.
1:23.1	And that's why we're a perfect team.
1:27.1	That's right. But I appreciate you being here, as does perfect team. That's right.
1:27.8	But I appreciate you being here, as does the listeners.
1:30.4	Some of them.
1:31.3	I think some of them would simply prefer that you read out your notes verbatim, and it took
1:35.8	10 to 12 minutes, and then you were like, goodbye, everyone.
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