Call up any old Fantastic Four or Silver Surfer adventure pre-2000s on the page or on the small screen in animation, and it would be hard to believe anybody could bypass or undersell the cosmic weight and significance of Galactus. The godlike Celestial is a creature with presence, power, and technological capabilities to match. And that's before we even take inventory of the fact that the guy basically eats planets for lunch.
Although she didn't get near The Fantastic Four or the Devourer of Worlds, The Marvels director Nia DaCosta recognized the immensity, repute, and, above all, importance of Galactus. In fact, the Candyman reboot helmer is a big fan who doesn't mind doing as the hook-handed specter commanded and telling everyone.
In a recent interview, she revealed she "pitched Kevin [Feige] so many things," but since she is "really, really into Galactus," a film with him at the center is what she zeroed in on. "That's my guy," she glowed while adding "He's basically a tragic Greek hero. I had this whole thing that was, 'Kevin, listen, here's the thing, here's how you're gonna reset the whole MCU. You use Galactus. Out of the Big Bang comes Galactus!' I had this whole thing. It was really fun. It would have been a cool movie."
Galactus is the right size, fit, and a surefire no-brainer for prolonged story arcs where the world and the universe are at stake. However, Kang and Doctor Doom aren't bad substitutes when you get down to it. The only reason Kang didn't work out as a main bad guy was the quick rise and fall of actor Jonathan Majors, despite the poor reception for the character's soft launch in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.
Fortunately, Marvel still had Robert Downey, Jr.'s number and was wise enough to call him up with an offer he couldn't refuse. Now, 2026 will be the year of Doom as the tyrant ruler of Latveria (or so it seems; you never know in these multiverses) takes his turn bringing the MCU to the brink. Or he can at least bridge the gap between Doomsday and Secret Wars.
Nevertheless, how stunning and epic would it have been if Feige gave that spot to Galactus in, perhaps, an Ancient Greek tragedy of an intergalactic scale, spanning time and the known universe? As well as going all the way back to the Big Bang and the beginning of existence? We might never find out.
It's a shame, really, after all the effort Fantastic Four: First Steps put in to whet the appetite for more planet-eating. The film, which is currently streaming on Disney+, did it so perfectly.
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