It’s cameo’ing time!
As detailed in a new article over at Vanity Fair, The Fantastic Four: First Steps includes a few truly unexpected cameos outside of Paul Walter-Hauser’s Mole Man or its brief nods to other 60’s-era Marvel antagonists.
As this site’s own intergalactic herald, may all who pass the purple portent below know they will be irreparably spoiled…
If you’ve already seen First Steps in its early screenings today, you may have recognized appearances from the original live-action Fantastic Four. Of course, we’re referring to the cast of Roger Corman’s unreleased 1994 film, made only to retain character rights. You read that correctly: none other than Alex Hyde-White, Rebecca Staab, Jay Underwood, and Michael Bailey Smith make fleeting appearances in Marvel’s latest.
While Hyde-White and Staab appear as TV journalists, Underwood and Smith play a pair of power plant workers rescued by the Human Torch in a newsreel at the beginning of the movie. The original cast was even invited to the film’s Los Angeles premiere, where Rebecca Staab received a hug from her Sue Storm successor, Vanessa Kirby.
