New Footage From The Fantastic Four: First Steps Goes Heavy on Silver Surfer

Obviously, we’re each funny successful the adjacent movie connected Marvel’s merchandise calendar, Thunderbolts—but astir of america truly person our oculus connected July 25 and the merchandise of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The first trailer ruled and astatine CinemaCon 2025, Marvel released what looked similar possibly a 2nd trailer, and the caller footage has immense implications.

We commencement connected a TV amusement called The Ted Gilbert Show that sets up introducing the Fantastic Four. As Ted explains the communicative of them going into space, we spot a fewer little shots of each person, including 1 of Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) pulling a immense vessel into the harbor. Gilbert says that the metropolis and satellite beryllium the radical a indebtedness and everyone wants to convey them, which they do.

At household dinner, Reed (Pedro Pascal) and Sue (Vanessa Kirby) are precocious truthful Johnny (Joseph Quinn) gives them a small crap astir it. Turns out, they’re precocious due to the fact that Sue is pregnant. Johnny is ecstatic and tells Sue she’s gonna beryllium a large ma but that Reed whitethorn not beryllium a bully dad. “Nothing is going to change,” Sue tells Reed. “We tin bash this.”

Meteors capable the sky, coming towards the ground. Enter the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner), asking if they are the protectors of Earth? Reed says yes. She tells them that this satellite has been marked for death. Later, Reed talks to Sue and says that this is his fault. “I stretched the bounds of abstraction and they heard.” Galactus’ (Ralph Ineson) shadiness starts to screen each of New York City,

A property league is going connected with radical throwing questions astatine the group. “Are we safe?” 1 asks. “I don’t know,” replies Reed. We spot him crossing retired immoderate mathematics connected a chalkboard and telling Sue he’s not giving up. The Surfer rises up done immoderate lava. Sue says that they volition look this together, arsenic a family.

On a thoroughfare afloat of rubble, a miss runs retired to drawback her artifact Thing arsenic a elephantine stone starts bearing down connected her. “We volition support you,” Reed says arsenic the trailer ends.

What we find astir fascinating astir this movie is that it is truthful intelligibly successful this different multiverse—and however it volition necktie backmost to the premier Marvel Universe should beryllium interesting. We’ll find retired July 25, erstwhile The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits theaters.

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