Actor Michael Chiklis, who played Ben Grimm a.k.a. the Thing in Tim Story’s Fantastic Four films from the 2000s, has defended the early Fox-era Marvel movies. In a recent interview, The Shield alum noted that even though his Fantastic Four films garnered negative reviews upon release,

The actor who portrayed Ben Grimm/the Thing in the 2005 and 2007 movies also shared that he's a fan of Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays the character in 2025's ‘First Steps.'

First Steps has brought Marvel’s first family into the MCU, but it has also sparked a reappraisal of 2005’s Fantastic Four movie and its sequel, Rise of the Silver Surfer. That’s according to Michael Chiklis,