It’s one more month until Marvel Comics’ first family finally takes flight in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and the final trailer Fantastic Four: First Steps is dropping some massive teasers of what’s to come when the film opens 24 July 2025.
Starring Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, The Mandalarian) as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) as Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things) as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and directed by Matt Shakman (WandaVision), this third big-screen incarnation of Marvel’s First Family marks the team’s debut in the MCU.
It gives audiences a different look at the film’s antagonist, Galactus, played by Ralph Ineson (The Witch), along with Silver Surfer aka Shalla-Bal, played by Julia Garner (Ozark), as well as the young infant baby boy of Reed and Sue, Franklin Richards. Audiences can also feast their eyes on the iconic number 4 in the sky, written in flames by the Human Torch
And while Galactus and Silver Surfer bring on the menace to our quartet of super heroes,, nothing can beat the premise of the trailer that has Johnny and a fan tease Ben about saying his signature line, “It’s Clobbering Time”. Ben’s reluctance to say his catch-phrase is a nice set-up for when it will be finally uttered in the movie. We hope, or there will be some clobbering of our own come opening day.
The film also stars Matthew Wood, known for voicing General Grevious across various Star Wars projects, as the team’s robot, H.E.R.B.I.E, Natasha Lyonne (Orange is the New Black), John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire), and Paul Walter-Hauser (Cobra Kai).
Fantastic Four: First Steps opens July 25, 2025.
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