First Steps Goes Heavy on Silver Surfer

Clearly, we’re all within the subsequent film on Marvel’s launch calendar, Thunderbolts—however most of us actually have our eye on July 25 and the discharge of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The first trailer ruled and at CinemaCon 2025, Marvel launched what regarded like perhaps a second trailer, and the brand new footage has enormous implications.

We begin on a TV present referred to as The Ted Gilbert Present that units up introducing the Unbelievable 4. As Ted explains the story of them going into area, we see just a few transient pictures of every particular person, together with one in every of Factor (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) pulling an enormous boat into the harbor. Gilbert says that town and planet owe the group a debt and everybody needs to thank them, which they do.

At household dinner, Reed (Pedro Pascal) and Sue (Vanessa Kirby) are late so Johnny (Joseph Quinn) offers them a bit of crap about it. Seems, they’re late as a result of Sue is pregnant. Johnny is ecstatic and tells Sue she’s gonna be an excellent mother however that Reed might not be dad. “Nothing goes to alter,” Sue tells Reed. “We will do that.”

Meteors fill the sky, coming in the direction of the bottom. Enter the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner), asking if they’re the protectors of Earth? Reed says sure. She tells them that this planet has been marked for dying. Later, Reed talks to Sue and says that that is his fault. “I stretched the bounds of area they usually heard.” Galactus’ (Ralph Ineson) shadow begins to cowl all of New York Metropolis,

A press convention is happening with folks throwing questions on the group. “Are we protected?” one asks. “I don’t know,” replies Reed. We see him crossing out some math on a chalkboard and telling Sue he’s not giving up. The Surfer rises up via some lava. Sue says that they’ll face this collectively, as a household.

On a road filled with rubble, a woman runs out to seize her toy Factor as an enormous rock begins bearing down on her. “We are going to defend you,” Reed says because the trailer ends.

What we discover most fascinating about this movie is that it’s so clearly on this different multiverse—and the way it will tie again to the prime Marvel Universe ought to be attention-grabbing. We’ll discover out July 25, when The Unbelievable 4: First Steps hits theaters.

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