Fantastic Four: First Steps‘ Trailer Jets Us Back to the Silver Age

After what ’s feel like year of waiting — and a ten since , for better or bad , they last graced the Ag screen — the Fantastic Four are back in action in our very first look at their MCU first appearance . And it ’s one that ’s whisk them to the stars and back .

This morning Marvel unveiled the first public footage fromThe Fantastic Four : First Steps , Matt Shakman ’s first theatrical MCU release after he grow and directedWandaVision . Starring Pedro Pascal , Vanessa Kirby , Joseph Quinn , and Ebon Moss - Bachrach as the titular quartet — Reed Richards , sib Sue and Johnny Storm , and Ben Grimm — the filmfollows their journeyfrom observational test pilots into some of the first public superheroes on Earth after a spaceflight pick up them suffuse with cosmic radiationgranting them extraordinary ability … just in time for the world to need bring through from the cosmic menace of Marvel ’s legendary devourer of human race , Galactus ( played by genre stalwart and absolutelegend in his own right , Ralph Ineson ) .

First Stepsalsofeatures Julia Garneras Galactus ’ herald , the Silver Surfer ( based on the part Shalla - Bal from the comics , a one fourth dimension host of the Silver Surfer ’s power cosmic and commonly depicted as a love interest for the main Silver Surfer , Norrin Radd ) , as well as John Malkovich , Natasha Lyonne , Paul Walter Hauser , and more .

Fantastic Four First Steps Trailer

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Fantastic Four : First Stepswill fall off the back of this calendar month ’s release of the only other MCU film gracing the big screen in 2025,Captain America : Brave New World , and will no doubt help set the stage for the approaching squad - up filmsAvengers : DoomsdayandAvengers : Secret Wars , which are set to not only need this edition of the Fantastic Four in some capacity , but also deal with the squad ’s most famous foefrom the comics , Robert Downey Jr. ’s edition ofVictor Von Doom . Time will tell just how that blend down though , because clearly Marvel ’s “ First Family ” already have a bunch on their shell in their own movie to deal with , if this trailer is anything to go by !

The Fantastic Four : First Stepsis fix to attain theater of operations July 25 , 2025 .

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