First “The Fantastic Four: New Steps” Trailer Reintroduces Marvel’s First Family to MCU
The first trailer for Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps has taken off, broadcast live from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where the cast was on hand to celebrate the launch of the long-awaited reboot of Marvel’s first family. First Steps will kickstart Marvel’s Phase Six, and we’ve now got our first look at what Marvel and the First Steps team have been cooking in this retro vision.
The central quartet comprises Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch. Director Matt Shakman was a stellar choice to take on the period piece, having done period-perfect work spearheading Marvel’s very first Disney+ series, WandaVision. Here, he directs from a script by Peter Cameron, Josh Friedman, and Jeff Kaplan.
The trailer reveals our heroes before and after their transformations, including a first look at Ebon Moss-Bachrach fully transformed as the Thing, which was a labor of love via motion capture and some very good advice from Mark Ruffalo, who, of course, played the Hulk throughout several phases of MCU. We see the Four headed off on a mission into space, where they’ll be facing some major threats. We also get the Core Four’s motto, delivered by Kirby’s Sue Storm: “Whatever life throws at us, we face it together — as a family.”
The threats the family will face include the supervillains Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner), who have their sights set on Earth. We also know that the Fantastic Four won’t just deal with those two for long. While The Fantastic Four was a major focus for Marvel at Comic-Con, so, too, was the announcement that revealed that Robert Downey Jr. was returning to Marvel as Dr. Doom in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. We now know that Downey will be the big bad in both those films, but little is known about how he might factor into The Fantastic Four: First Steps, if it all, given that Ineson is playing the film’s villain.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps will open Marvel’s Phase Six on July 25, 2025. Also set to premiere are Blade (November 7, 2025), Avengers: Doomsday (May 1, 2026), and Avengers: Secret Wars (May 7, 2027).
Check out the official teaser for The Fantastic Four below:
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