One of 2025’s biggest movies has finally been added to streaming

The blockbuster is currently the 10th highest-grossing film of the year.

Based on the long-running comic book characters, the blockbuster is the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It is set in an alternate version of Earth that looks like the future as imagined in the 1960s.

Its story centres around the titular team - scientist couple Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us) and Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby, Mission: Impossible), her astronaut brother Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn, Stranger Things) and their astronaut friend Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear) - who all gain special powers while doing experiments in space.

As a result of both their new abilities and their intelligence, the four quickly become the guardians of their world.

When an alien - dubbed the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner, Weapons) - announces that her master, a gigantic cosmic planet-eater named Galactus (Ralph Ineson, Nosferatu), has his sights set on Earth, it falls on the Fantastic Four to protect humanity.

First Steps earned very positive reviews from audiences and critics for the most part, with many considering it, alongside Thunderbolts*, as being one of Marvel's best movies in years.

In particular, the film earned praise for its stand-alone story, for its gorgeous retro-futurist world and for capturing the tone of its source material.

It also wound up being a solid box office hit, grossing over $520 million in cinemas, making it the 10th highest-grossing movie of 2025.

JOE caught up with stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn ahead of The Fantastic Four: First Steps landing in cinemas.

During the conversation, we asked the pair if they had any Irish connections. This was because, as we noted in the interview, the name Joseph Quinn sounds extremely Irish.

In response, Quinn confirmed something that we suspected but that many people might not have known: the London-born actor is also an Irish citizen.

He told us:

"Yeah, I spent a lot of time in Ireland. I'm actually an Irish citizen.

"I spent my summers holidaying with my dad at the Blasket Islands just off the coast of Dingle when I was younger. I would go there every summer.

"I've spent a lot of time in that part of the world and I adore it. It's a special special place."

Moss-Bachrach also had a funny response when JOE brought up his other Fantastic Four co-star Ralph Ineson’s intense preparation to play the villainous planet-eater Galactus.

In the run-up to the blockbuster’s release, Ineson said he spent time “ruminating” at the top of tall buildings and drove through the tunnels of Mont Blanc “just imagining that as his windpipe and his trachea”.

Upon hearing this, Moss-Bachrach said: “Yeah, was he smoking weed when he did all these things?”

On his own prep to play The Thing, the actor joked to JOE: “I read the script. I learned my lines,” before adding:

“Listen, we’re fortunate. The Fantastic Four have been around since 1961, so there’s literally thousands of comic books.

“It’s like getting a front row seat to somebody’s journal or autobiography or memoir, and you can just see and share in these experiences that they’ve had.

“That will inform your performance more than anything.”

First Steps was not Moss-Bachrach’s first rodeo with Marvel. The actor previously played Micro, the tech-wiz and ally to vigilante antihero Frank Castle (Bernthal) in the first season of The Punisher TV series on Netflix.

JOE also asked the actor if there were any internal conversations within Disney about him having two MCU roles and, now that it’s happened, if it feels like a full circle moment.

In response, he said:

“Thank you for saying that [about Micro]. Nobody remembers this.

“I don’t know. I certainly wasn’t privy to any of those internal conversations. I think what happened, though, is you have Kevin Feige’s MCU. It’s a different world.

“When I made The Punisher, it was on Netflix. It wasn’t really under the banner of the MCU so much.

“I stand behind that series. I think we did a really good job. I think Jon Bernthal is a brilliant Punisher, and I’m excited for him to be in [Spider-Man: Brand New Day].

“But no, I feel privileged that I got to play two parts in the thing.”

How to watch The Fantastic Four: First Steps

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps is streaming on Disney+ now.