Our First Tease of Fantastic Four Footage Lived Up to That Name

Kevin Feige and the squad from Marvel Studios didn’t conscionable bring a caller Fantastic Four title to Comic-Con this year. They didn’t conscionable bring manager Matt Shakman, and stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. They didn’t adjacent conscionable bring a freaking Fantastic Car that flew crossed Hall H astatine the extremity of the sheet to whisk the formed backmost to London to sprout the movie.

They besides brought a precise peculiar tease of the film, adjacent though main photography hasn’t started shooting yet. But it gave a large consciousness of this futuristic New York City the movie is acceptable in. Here’s what went down.

First of all, the footage was quadrate and grainy, similar it would beryllium connected TV successful the 1960s. A logo for a institution called “The Future Foundation” says it has a peculiar look astatine the Fantastic Four. We spot Mr. Fantastic (Pascal) hosting a amusement that looks similar a schoolroom called Fantastic Science with Mr. Fantastic. He’s explaining to a radical of small kids that multiverses are imaginable (hint hint), but erstwhile helium sees however bored they are helium says “Who wants to spot a large explosion?” and they each cheer. He lights up a ample motor successful the country that bursts into flames.

Reed and Ben (Moss-Bachrach) are being interviewed. Both are successful abstraction suits. Reed says that Ben is the champion aviator successful the world, but Ben jokes that possibly he’s the best-looking, but that’s it. Sue (Kirby) gives a circuit of the location portion Reed says they marque a constituent to person household meal erstwhile a week, Sunday astatine eight. “No substance what, we’re each here.” Both are looking precise dinner-party dappery. It’s followed by footage of a flying car zipping crossed the precise futuristic New York skyline.

We spot the outline of the 4 of them walking successful dilatory question toward a spaceship arsenic we get immoderate voice-over for a launch. It looks benignant of similar Apollo 13. Next, we spell to a crippled amusement called Let’s Make a Match. The big asks the woman which antheral she wants to prime and she says fig three. The camera pans implicit and we spot it’s Thing, though he’s conscionable successful silhouette. (He had the classical caput shape.)

Back down the scenes astatine the motorboat site, the radical is doing a clump of tests including a coms check. “That past dependable you heard is my babe member Jonathan Storm,” Sue Storm says. “And ladies, helium is very, precise single.” He (Quinn) looks into the camera each embarrassed.

We spot the 4 of them waving astatine a assemblage arsenic they locomotion to the shuttle and then, finally, the 4:3 TV ratio expands to afloat widescreen arsenic the spaceship, which looks astir similar a elephantine spike retired of Lord of the Rings, takes formation into the skies. We get the caller title, Fantastic Four: First Steps, followed by 1 speedy addition. From wrong a building, a elephantine assemblage stands extracurricular and ducks down to adjacent in. It’s Galactus.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps opens July 25, 2025.

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