The Fantastic Four Movie Has a New Name

It’s been a agelong road, but aft years of rumors and speculation, Marvel is getting backmost to the past to springiness america the Fantastic Four successful each their glory. But to bash so, their movie’s sanction is getting a spot of a tweak.

Revealed contiguous during their blockbuster sheet successful Hall H astatine San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios’ caput honcho Kevin Feige confirmed that The Fantastic Four is now The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and that the movie officially begins accumulation adjacent week, connected July 30.

Just announced successful Hall H:
 
Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps begins accumulation connected Tuesday. Only successful theaters July 25, 2025. #SDCC pic.twitter.com/iPAlXlajnr

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) July 28, 2024

Directed by WandaVision‘s Matt Shakman, the movie is acceptable successful the 1960s and follows the instauration of the titular superhero squad aft Reed Richards (The Last of Us and The Mandalorian‘s Pedro Pascal), his woman Sue Storm (The Crown‘s Vanessa Kirby), and her member Johnny (Stranger Things‘ Joseph Quinn), alongside their champion person Ben Grimm (Andor and The Bear‘s Ebon Moss-Bachrach) are exposed to cosmic radiation during a ngo to space.

Transformed and granted superpowers, unneurotic the quartet signifier the Fantastic Four arsenic Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and the ever-loving, blue-eyed Thing. Together, they’ll look disconnected against the top menace the satellite has yet to face: Galactus the planet-eater, played by acting powerhouse Ralph Ineson.

The Fantastic Four also stars Julia Garner arsenic the Shalla-Bal mentation of Galactus’ herald, Silver Surfer, and is acceptable to deed theaters July 25, 2025. Stay tuned for even more quality close retired of Hall H from Marvel’s ongoing panel!

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