'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Marks One Month Until Release With Final Trailer
Here’s The Thing about final trailers. Sometimes I won’t get to them. This time I did
So yeah I missed covering Ironheart’s two subsequent trailers and first clip, which turned out to be from the third episode “We in Danger, Girl”. I might still be able to salvage something from it, so stay tuned. Still, Marvel Studios brought us more Wednesday morning, as The Fantastic Four: First Steps reached one month until its July 25 release. To mark the occasion, the studio has released the film’s final trailer.
The trailer opens with some visual of Ted Gilbert’s showcase of them, with both his audio and the platform, but quickly shifts to an outdoor arrival, and a bit of a power display for Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Johnny getting to ignite a Coppertone billboard that boasts that you tan, not sunburn with the product. Gotta love that irony. On the street, Ben gets stopped by a supporter trying to squeeze his catchphrase out of him but allegedly “It’s clobberin’ time!” in this world is an invention of an in-universe cartoon. Johnny makes a 4-trail of his flames, and it turns out the orange-lit night sky was during another Sunday night dinner after the pregnancy reveal, and was how Shalla-Bal arrived and did her duties. It seems that on one of the space missions, the team accidentally encountered and awakened Galactus. We get our first best look at Franklin Richards, Reed and Sue’s son, before the trailer really establishes just how responsible they are for unleashing such threat. But they will face it as a family.
'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Official Trailer Surfs And Stretches Out Of CinemaCon
Guess it was pretty obvious from the description of the CinemaCon footage that what the exhibitors were seeing of Marvel Studios’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps would be the official trailer from all the different described scenarios that had to flow somehow. And now the studio has made that trailer public, releasing it two weeks later. The film stars…
In The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Galactus will be played by Ralph Ineson, with Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal Silver Surfer, Mark Gatiss as Ted Gilbert, Matthew Wood as the voice of H.E.R.B.I.E., and John Malkovich, Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Lyonne, and Sarah Niles, whose roles have yet to be revealed, and continue to be absent from the marketing bar one brief appearance of Malkovich in the first. H.E.R.B.I.E even got his own designated spot as the caretaker of the house that featured scenes far deeper into Sue’s pregnancy. As seen above he even took his own trip to the movies.
The film is directed by Matt Shakman, written by Jeff Kaplan, Ian Springer, Josh Friedman, Cameron Squires, Eric Pearson and Peter Cameron, produced by studio head Kevin Feige and executive-produced by Louis D’Esposito, Grant Curtis and Tim Lewis. It is set to release in theaters on July 25, 2025, while the team is set to return for Avengers: Doomsday, which is currently in production for release on December 18, 2026. There, Pascal has gotten quite close with Robert Downey Jr., returning to the MCU to play the team’s nemesis Doctor Doom. Downey told Vanity Fair “Pascal’s slow trajectory to becoming a household name who is on a wildly hot streak kind of reaffirms my faith in our industry.” He’s been hosting “homework days” at his home for the cast to presumably workshop scenes, though Pascal declined to detail. He said about Downey “He’s just so immediately generous and inviting that you feel like you can be afraid, you can be hungry, you can be ambivalent.” Pascal also detailed the backlash against his casting as Richards he had to endure, with people complaining: “He’s too old. He’s not right. He needs to shave.” Even then he powered through by turning to Downey. Kirby remarked “He doesn’t have much armor, so he shows himself to you straight away, and you trust that person because he’s revealing himself to you in this very brave way.”
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Source: Vanity Fair