The first trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps teases a retro-future world and an impending threat from Galactus, one of Marvel’s most famous antagonists.
Fantastic Four is one of the most anticipated Marvel movies in some time, as fans have waited years for the Kevin Feige-led studio to make a film starring Marvel’s First Family, as the team is known.
The Fantastic Four are a cornerstone of the Marvel Universe in the comics, with writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby’s 1961 Fantastic Four No. 1 launching the universe. But the property has never had its due on the big screen. It spent decades at 20th Century Fox, which made a pair of middling movies in the 2000s and a universally reviled 2015 feature. (A 1994 Roger Coreman-produced Fantastic Four was famously never released).
When Disney acquired Fox in March 2019, it received the rights to both X-Men and Fantastic Four, and in late 2020, Marvel announced that Spider-Man helmer Jon Watts would direct a Fantastic Four movie. He ultimately departed, with WandaVision’s Matt Shakman taking over as director.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing. Others stars include Julia Garner as a female Silver Surfer, Ralph Ineson as Galactus, Paul Walter Hauser and John Malcovich.
Eric Pearson penned the current draft of the script for the film, which has a July 25 release date.
