'Fantastic Four' and an Alternate Marvel Universe
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
David, Richard, and Rebecca share their thoughts on The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and if the movie is a success as a Marvel reset. Plus, they imagine a world where Marvel never existed and what that would have meant for some of the franchise stars' careers. Then, they wrap up with a festival-related listener question.
Our next Little Gold Men book club read is Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. We'll be discussing the novel and its upcoming film adaptation on our August 7 episode. We've also added one more book for this summer, the third most-popular in our listener survey: The Ballad of a Small Player by Rowan Joffé. We'll be discussing that one on our August 28 episode. Read along with us and send your questions to [email protected].
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| 0:35.6 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for Film, TV, and Awards Lovers. |
| 0:40.7 | I'm David Canfield. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Richard Lawson. |
| 0:42.6 | And I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:46.6 | So it's not summer without a Marvel movie and Fantastic Four First Steps. |
| 0:50.5 | Made a big splash at the box office in its opening weekend. |
| 0:53.0 | Maybe not quite as big as some |
| 0:54.6 | projections had indicated. Today we're going to talk a little bit about that film and then play a |
| 1:00.3 | game called What If Marvel Never Existed, which we'll explain later on. And then we'll finish up the |
| 1:05.3 | episode with a few more film festival updates and answer a listener question about said festivals. |
| 1:12.0 | By the way, speaking of listener questions, we're going to try to answer more of them at the end of each episode for a while, |
| 1:15.6 | certainly through the rest of the summer. So if you've got them, please send them our way. The |
| 1:19.3 | email is Little Goldman at VF.com. And they can be about anything. You go far afield. Not about |
| 1:26.7 | our personal lives or whatever, but but it doesn't have to be specifically |
| 1:29.4 | like movie awards or Emmys or whatever. |
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