‘Fantastic Four’ Trailer Teases a Pregnancy and Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer (2025)

Fantastic Four:First Steps teases a possible new addition to Marvel’s First Family in the movie’s latest trailer.

Ahead of its theatrical release July 25, the Marvel Studios title released the trailer online Thursday after it debuted earlier this month during Disney’s CinemaCon presentation. Director Matt Shakman’s feature offers a new take on the superhero quartet who made their first comic book appearance in 1961.

Fantastic Four:First Steps stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing.

In the new footage for the 1960s-set project, Reed Richards and Sue Storm learn that they are expecting a baby, spurring a complicated response. “We can do this,” Kirby says.

Our heroes face threats from Galactus but are determined to stay united, even as the public begins to lose faith in them. “We will face this together,” Kirby adds. “We will fight it together — as a family.” Toward the end of the trailer, Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer briefly glides across the screen to offer a warning.

The latest version of the screenplay is from Eric Pearson, who also worked on Marvel’s forthcoming Thunderbolts*. The First Steps cast includes Ralph Ineson as Galactus, along with Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich and Natasha Lyonne.

Following an unreleased Roger Corman-produced feature in the 1990s, the Fantastic Four hit the big screen with director Tim Story’s 2005 movie that starred Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis as the titular group. Although critics were unimpressed, the movie did well at the box office and spawned a 2007 sequel.

The team was rebooted for Josh Trank’s 2015 feature starring Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell. This one underperformed at the box office and holds a mere 9 percent Rotten Tomatoes critical score.