After a countdown to "time to launch", first trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps has been released today. The film, which will launch Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, stars 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 / Thing. The trailer features the Marvel's First Family's journey in space that changed their lives forever. It also hints the arrival of the powerful planet-devouring villain, Galactus by showing his gigantic shadow looming over New York, and a glimpse of his head looking at the Statue of Liberty.
Watch the first trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps below:
The four main stars also showed up at the livestream event prior to the trailer's reveal. Pedro Pascal said that they, along with film's crew and director, put the entire hearts and souls for this film.
Here's a recently-released official poster for The Fantastic Four: First Steps:
What is The Fantastic Four: First Steps about?
As previously confirmed, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is set in an alternate 1960s inspired by famed concept artist Syd Mead. “We’re not just doing the ’60s, we’re doing retro-future ’60s,” director Matt Shakman explained. “It’s part what you know from the ’60s, but part what you’ve never seen before.”
The official synopsis for The Fantastic Four: First Steps reads:
Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios’ ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ introduces Marvel’s First Family as they face their most daunting challenge yet.” Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer. And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.
During last year's San Diego Comic-Con, Shakman told Entertainment Weekly, “So First Steps is partly to do with that idea about exploration.”
“The comic was created in the early ’60s, really at the same time that the space race was starting, so it is infused with that idea of looking to the stars and dreaming of a future where we would be space travelers,” the director added. “And so I really wanted to take all of that great stuff from Apollo 11 and just imagine that instead of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, it was the Storms and Ben Grimm and Reed Richards heading off into space.”
Directed by WandaVision's Matt Shakman from a script by Eric Pearson, Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan, and Ian Springer, the first Fantastic Four movie from Marvel Studios also stars Julia Garner as the Silver Surver, Ralph Ineson as Galactus, and Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, Natasha Lyonne and Sarah Niles in mystery roles.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is set to release in theaters on July 25, 2025
