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The Fantastic Four: First Steps threw a lot at us. And while I certainly won't knock Matt Shakman's film for having an artistic vision, there was certainly a bit of material that was introduced or alluded to in the film, that went unexplored. Case in point: the cult that forms around Galactus on Earth. 

In an interview with Marvel.com, composer Michael Giacchino and musician Andrea Datzman explained that the Galactus cult originally had a larger role in the story. Datzman said, “We had the idea of what that song could be, and we had connected that to the sounds of the 1960s era and Joan Baez," which ended up shaping into the song 'Let Us Be Devoured,' which is in the film's soundtrack. 

About how the track came to be, Giacchino had this to say: “Matt [Shakman] wanted to get this feeling that there were different types of responses to the arrival of Galactus. One of those responses was a cult of people saying, ‘You know what? Maybe this is what we need. We’re okay with this!’ Andrea took on those songs and really wrote some beautiful stuff.”

The article goes on to state that "early drafts of the script featured a member of the cult singing live with a guitar, but that scene was ultimately reduced to only a brief mention. But Shakman and the crew couldn’t get Datzman’s haunting melody out of their heads.

"The song sort of lived on during production," she says. "So, they decided to put it as an Easter egg in the end-credits."

Datzman's song is one of the best original pieces ever composed for the MCU, and it's a bummer that it didn't get any actual screentime in the film. Sure, there was a lot going on in the movie, but I would've loved if everything slowed down for a moment to ruminate on this song. But, like John Malkovich's role in the film, quite a lot had to get cut out of First Steps before it was able to hit theaters.