Deadpool Co-Creator Hits Out at 'Impossibly Dull and Boring' The Fantastic Four: First Steps — but Pretty Much Everyone Disagrees With His Empty Screenings Theory

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While Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Six kickstarter The Fantastic Four: First Steps has been well-received by moviegoers and critics alike, it has 1 high-profile critic: the co-creator of Deadpool.

Rob Liefeld, the co-creator of Marvel Comics' Deadpool who retired past year, took to societal media to connection his thoughts connected wherefore his 5pm Tuesday IMAX screening of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which deed theaters past week, was adjacent to empty.

“I tin archer you wherefore determination is precise small repetition biz connected this film,” helium said. “It’s impossibly dull and boring.”

This was the 5pm Fantastic Four screening astatine my IMAX. I tin archer you wherefore determination is precise small repetition biz connected this film. It’s impossibly dull & boring. pic.twitter.com/AdiHfOmbMS

— robliefeld (@robertliefeld) July 30, 2025

Liefeld's connection sparked a vociferous response, with immoderate pointing retired that 5pm connected a Tuesday is hardly highest cinemagoing time. Liefeld had an reply for that, too, saying: “We are each alert of discount Tuesdays. FF is looking up astatine Superman and Jurassic Tuesday grosses.”

That’s a notation to the beardown 2nd weeks DCU kickstarter Superman and Jurassic World Rebirth some enjoyed.

Other responses scope from aggravated to puzzled, with galore commenters pointing retired that 1 poorly attended screening shouldn’t beryllium utilized arsenic grounds to backmost up specified a generalization, and immoderate utilizing the aboriginal container bureau information to discount Liefeld’s opinion.

“Your section theatre acquisition is not grounds of the autumn disconnected erstwhile the information goes against this,” said 1 user. “Your 1 theatre is acold excessively tiny of a information excavation to beryllium capable to person immoderate knowing of its performance.”

“It’s a Tuesday,” pointed retired another. “People person work, radical are retired doing summertime things. Rotten Tomatoes says he’s wrong. The container bureau results accidental he’s besides wrong. Him personally not liking it is ‘ok,’ but him acting similar it’s a communal taxable everyone is conscionable factually incorrect.”

Ranking the Fantastic Four Movies

So, however has The Fantastic Four: First Steps done astatine the container office? According to Box Office Mojo, it’s made $250 cardinal globally truthful far, which makes it comfortably the biggest MCU movie motorboat since past year’s phenomenally fashionable Deadpool & Wolverine. Of course, each eyes are connected whether The Fantastic Four tin amusement staying powerfulness successful theaters pursuing its beardown start, with the unit connected Marvel to present aft a fig of flops and up of adjacent year’s Avengers: Doomsday.

Speaking of Deadpool, Liefeld called connected Marvel to merchandise Deadpool 4 aft a study indicated it was down the likes of X-Men and Black Panther 3 connected Marvel’s precedence list, contempt the information Deadpool & Wolverine made implicit a cardinal dollars astatine the container office.

“Just springiness the radical what they want!!” Liefeld declared. His enactment for Deadpool is possibly unsurprising, fixed helium co-created the quality and was a precise nationalist instrumentality of Deadpool & Wolverine. Still, you person to ideate Marvel Studios brag Kevin Feige is plotting a instrumentality for Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool, whether that’s successful cameo signifier oregon successful yet different sequel.

IGN's The Fantastic Four: First Steps reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: "The Fantastic Four: First Steps is simply a household dramedy that lone stops moving erstwhile it tries to beryllium excessively overmuch of a superhero movie."

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].

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