Marvel has unveiled the first trailer for “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.”
The film stars Pedro Pascal (“The Last of Us”) as Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby (“Napoleon”) as the Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn (“Stranger Things) as the Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (“The Bear”) as the Thing. The cast also includes Ralph Ineson as Galactus, Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer, Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Lyonne and John Malkovich.
The trailer provides glimpses of each of the heroes’ lives before and after they got their powers, along with a sneak peek of villain Galactus. But most of all, it underlines the importance of the Fantastic Four as a unit: “Whatever life throws at us, we face it together — as a family,” Kirby says in the clip.
The First Family itself was on hand to present the trailer during a special launch event, with Moss-Bachrach leading the crowd in a “It’s clobbering time!” chant and Pascal sharing what being part of the MCU means to him. “I haven’t had an experience in a cast as intimately as this one where it felt like a family,” he said. “The anxiety I felt saying goodbye to them each day wondering, ‘When will I see them next?’ … We put our hearts and souls and bodies into this thing.”
This version of the Fantastic Four will take place in a retro-futuristic 1960s Manhattan. Feige confirmed on “The Official Marvel Podcast” that the film will be a period piece set in New York City, although he said that it may not be the same New York City fans are familiar with in the MCU.
Two previous iterations of the Fantastic Four hit the big screen through 20th Century Fox before Disney acquired the company and worked toward bringing Marvel’s First Family to the MCU. In the 2000s, Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis played the heroes in two movies, then a disastrous 2015 reboot brought in Miles Teller, Kata Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell. Through a clever cameo role in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” Evans, now better known as the MCU’s Captain America, reprised his Human Torch role before being brutally killed off. In “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” John Krasinski briefly appeared as Mister Fantastic before meeting a similar fate.
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” is directed by Matt Shakman (“WandaVision”) and written by a Peter Cameron, Josh Friedman and Jeff Kaplan. Kevin Feige will serve as producer, Jess Hall is the cinematographer and Michael Giacchino composes the score.
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” will be released in theaters on July 25.
Watch the trailer below.
