welcome back to new rock stars I'm Eric Voss and Fantastic Four first steps is hiding a mystery Cameo teased in a censored rap party photo of Pedra Pascal and we figured out exactly who this Cameo is but also we spent way too much time of in-depth social media investigation to deduce the precise context and timeline in which this photo is taken and censored by whom and then screen grabbed and shared for us to find it and while this video is going to come off as some obsessive Pepe syia dot connecting that no one in their
right mind has asked for or should be doing we are still going to present this full research process to you dear viewer so that you can see the lengths new rock stars is willing to go to on a daily basis to provide you the nerdy insights that you love and in this case to fully explain why we can actually look forward to a Marvel Studios Fantastic 4 First Steps film featuring the full Council of reeds every version of Reed Richards that we have seen from across the Cinematic Multiverse I remind her that the best way
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a digital blur effect and an animated crown has been added to top their head we feel confident that this is from the Fantastic 4 First Steps rap party because in the background on the right there is someone wearing the four logo hat production for this film had recently shifted to ovetto Spain and now reportedly this rap party took place back in London on Saturday November 30th this photo was posted to Twitter initially by an account called Cedar Stacks which seems to be a Vanessa Kirby fan account now I don't think this account expected to get
this much attention because when various Fantastic 4 related accounts began to repost it this account initially tried to keep up with the replies but eventually just kind of had to move on at first they confirmed to one reply that they saw the post that day meaning on November 30th then when questioned about the source this account said that they didn't know when the photo was taken and wasn't aware production had wrapped and they also claimed that the photo was originally posted by someone that they had been following for months but that they didn't want to
blow up some random civilians Instagram but this isn't any random civilian it's someone who was in the rap party from Fantastic before First Steps sitting across the table from Pedro Pascal so this means that this Twitter Vanessa Kirby fan account has another account on Instagram where they follow someone connected to the Fantastic 4 production someone who posted this shot of Petra Pascal as an Instagram story and then edited the photo to blur out the face and add the crown and we have a pretty good idea of who actually posted this photo when they were sitting
across the table but first let's analyze who this mystery face is who they took a photo of immediately fans jumped to the conclusion that it must be Robert Downey Jr who is expected to join this cast as Victor Von Doom others wondered if it could be Tom Holland or Chris Evans well it's not Chris Evans Chris Evans in recent weeks has been in Greece filming the movie sacrifice and there is a big clue in this image that rules out the other two immediately the Peroni beer glass Robert Downey Jr has been sober since 2003 Tom
Holland has been sober since 2022 which he has recently talked a lot about with the release of his new non-alcoholic beer brand buau and I can tell you buau ain't in that pint glass it's not going to be poured at any London pub also you can barely see the pointed chin of this person and it is covered in Gray stubble so we are looking for one someone with gray stubble and an angular chin two someone who's slender and presumably male three someone who drinks beer for someone whom whoever took this photo would consider a king
compared to Petra Pascal perhaps a reference to what Petra Pascal in this mystery figure we're joking about in this moment and someone who would join the Fantastic 4 rap party and not worry too much about being recognized like in other words this wouldn't be a major a-lister celebrity whose every move and travel activity would be tracked religiously by fans online and paparazzi like if it were Robert Downey Jr he would have been spotted in London by journalists and band on the street with their cell phones also worth considering is the fact that on November 22
in Spain a mystery figure was seen escorted from trailers to The Sound Stage for Fantastic Four First Steps this person's head covered in a dark blanket to conceal their identity this was posted to Twitter SLX by user my bad 7 the person in the video seems to be male and slender with a distinct size of feet so after careful visual analysis we've determined that this person's build their slimness their height plus the mystery figure and Pedra Pascal's angular chin with a Grace double all points to one person Yan Griffith who played Reed Richards aka Mr
Fantastic in 2005's Fantastic 4 in 2007's Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer when you look at various recent images of yan Griffith posted to his Instagram he certainly has a bit of salt in that stubble and he has a pointed chin just like the figure in the photo arguably that was a big reason why he was cast for the 2005 film you can also see some other videos where he seems to have the same build as a person who was escorted from the trailer to the set in the my bad 7 video Griffith hasn't
posted to his Instagram since early October and he was posting more regularly earlier this year related to his role in Bad Boys ride or die so I'm sure you could certainly imagine Pedra Pascal and whoever took this photo considering yoan Griffith the king since he starred in the first two major Studio Fantastic 4 Films and they wanted to pay respect to him Griffith is a known actor but he doesn't have like a rabid fan following that figures like Robert dowy Jr and Tom Holland have like if Yan Griffith shows up at a pub there's not
going to be a huge gaggle of press waiting outside but this would also suggest that yoan Griffith has some cameo role in this film and it connects the dots with other Clues we received in the Fantastic 4 concept trailer footage and a particular line in Deadpool and Wolverine we've all had that moment where you're getting ready to leave the house you grab your keys and your wallet by the door and then you cram your wallet into your pocket and you realize it's so bulky that your once comfortable pants are now uncomfortably snug time for a
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which interestingly is a day after the video of the cover actor brought from trailers to the set came out and this photo shows a Fantastic Four First Steps stunt team shirts what's interesting about this photo is it wasn't posted anywhere else it suggests to us that this fan account got it from another non- Twitter source of a crew related account that the account follows on platforms like Instagram the stunt team shirt on the sleeve shows the logo for stunt Synergy stunt Synergy is a London based stunt team led by longtime stunt coordinator rowy llam rowy
llam is listed as the supervising stunt coordinator on the IMDb crew page for Fantastic Four First Steps along with a half a dozen or so other stunt performers who seem to be connected to stunt Synergy and of these names a performer named Luke tumber has the most active presence on Instagram Luke tumber like all these guys is a very talented and accomplished stunt performer on a number of films including Marvel Studios Black Widow the Venom films the mission impossible films and Star Wars the acolyte which like fantastic for First Steps was a production based both
in London and in Spain Luke has nearly 19900 followers but his account as of this taping is private hm private accounts that started as private accounts almost never get this many followers because think about it the person would have to approve these followers one by one like 1900 times so it suggests to us that the account in the past gained followers through posts and tags and reposts affiliated with these various film Productions and then recently the account was made private now we feel okay taking you through this admittedly invasive research process because all of these
stunt performers publicly list themselves and their credits on IMDb and other places because they have to they got to play the game the industry doesn't do enough to shine a light on the hard work they do when you watch their original stunt previous concept videos with their original fight choreography that they have to make to win these contracts from these huge Studios to do the stunts for these Productions you realize that so many of the epic moments that we love for Marvel movies were originally conceived by these types of stunt teams including a lot of
the choreography of Steve Rogers using the combined strikes of Moler and the shield against Thanos and Avengers endgame those specifically were dreamt up by stunt performer Dave McCumber and brought to the Russo Brothers to be put in the film like we should know the names of stunt performers they deserve an Oscar category and one movie star who understands that is Pedro Pascal when he promotes the Mandalorian he stands beside Brendan Wayne and Latif Crowder who do the bulk of the physical work for djaren Under The Helmet Ryan Reynolds is often socialized with his Deadpool stunt
double Alex shishkov bringing him along to Rex some AFC matches and letting him Star as Canada pool and Deadpool and Wolverine so we feel pretty confident that whoever posted this was a stunt performer at the rap party maybe Luke maybe not someone who sat with Pedra Pascal and we think yo and griffith at this table sharing a well-earned beer after an intense production period and posted this photo as an Instagram story and added this bit and thought they were okay covering Griffith's face and calling him the king but then when this photo was screen grabbed
by a fan account and reposted to Twitter and made the rounds this person took down the photo and made the account private again I wanted to share with you how we do our social media sleo thing to just show that when these rumors and Scoops start making the rounds we really do strive to give them their due diligence and properly Source them and cross reference them so that we know what's real and what's remember this is the same channel that spent Co doing tweet Downs of Elizabeth Olson's gardening videos for w Vision Clues it's like
we were made for this now what does a yoan Griffith Cameo mean for Fantastic Four First Steps well Pedra Pascal's Reed Richards even meeting other Reed Richards is from alternate Earth was teased in the very first concept trailer footage that we saw at San Diego ComiCon and and a d23 read hosting his fantastic science with Mr Fantastic lectures the kids quote this equation not only confirms alternate Dimensions it suggests that all our Earths exist on separate dimensional planes so we are looking at a Multiverse movie and Reed is going to be the tip of that
spear also remember in Deadpool and Wolverine Chris Evans Johnny storm in the void mentions the Reed Richards from his Universe Reed called it a metaphysical junkyard where anything useless goes before it gets annihilated forever yeah he's referring to y Griffith's Reed Richards from the 2005 and 2007 films that version of Reed is out there somewhere in the Multiverse and he has been studying the void of the MCU and the incursions that are connecting these worlds so that's why I think we're looking at a council of reads sequence in the first steps film which would include
Petra Pascal from this film Yan Griffith from the 2005 and 2007 Tim story films Miles Teller from the 2015 Joshua Tran film John krinski from the 838 Universe in 2022 is Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Madness directed by Sam Remy and perhaps even Alex Hyde white from the 1994 Roger Corman Fantastic 4 and remember John krinsky Reed Richards had this interesting reaction to Doctor Strange's line in Multiverse of Madness fantastic for didn't you guys chart in the' 60s I'm sorry now obviously this is a call back to Strange's encyclopedic knowledge of music and who charted
wi and of course the play on the forsome team name but I've also always wondered if he might have known a reed From Another Universe in which the Fantastic warri did exist in an alternate 1963 now after San Diego ComiCon Entertainment Weekly asked the cast of this film and director Matt shakman about their relationship to past iterations of the cast people have asked me about like how is this different than the other ones and I don't think it's helpful to make something in opposition to some something else you know we're just really making our own
specific thing this is no discredit to those those movies but um we're uh you know we're telling our very specific story and like like any great play you know you could like cast a play with with four people and then recast with four different people and it's the same play but it's a completely different experience but I'll leave you with this question does investigating all of this information about Fantastic 4 First Steps before it comes out make you more excited or less excited the reason I ask is because some Studies have shown over the years
that certain audiences and readers prefer knowing what's going to happen in the stories they consume because it changes a stressful nail biting experience into more of an anticipatory one in which our long awaited expectations are just merely fulfilled and we as human beings are psychologically coded to feel more Elation from knowing the path ahead than we are when we are truly shocked and surprised by it I don't know if I agree with that theory but it does explain why so many of us go into Marvel movies learning as much as we can about them and
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