The cast of Marvel’s upcoming Fantastic Four reboot has posed for their first photo together. Pedro Pascal shared a photo on Instagram of the four performers who are portraying the titular superheroes. The Emmy-nominated actor tagged the image with the following message: “Our first mission together.”
WandaVision helmer Matt Shakman is directing The Fantastic Four. Pascal will play Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in the latest big screen adaptation of the famed Marvel Comics series. He’s starring in the film with Vanessa Kirby, who’s playing Sue Storm/the Invisible Woman; Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/the Human Torch; and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/the Thing. Ralph Ineson, Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Lyonne, Julia Garner and John Malkovich comprise the supporting cast.
Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer wrote the script for the latest big-screen adaptation of the iconic superhero team. Marvel Studios has not yet released official plot details for The Fantastic Four.
But the company’s president, Kevin Feige did reveal on The Official Marvel Podcast last month that the movie would be a 1960s period piece. It will be set in New York City in an alternate MCU timeline. The setting could set the stage for variant heroes to appear in the upcoming drama. The film’s plot may be similar to the debut of Earth-838’s Illuminati in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
“There was another piece of art we released with Johnny Storm flying in the air making a 4 symbol and there was a cityscape in the corner of that image,” Feige said during the podcast. “There were a lot of smart people who noticed that that cityscape didn’t look exactly like the New York that we know, or the New York that existed in the ’60s in our world. Those are smart observations, I’ll say.”
While promoting his role in A Quiet Place: Day One last month, Quinn also spoke about his role in the upcoming Marvel movie. He revealed that he and his three Fantastic Four co-leads had not yet been in the same room together. He told Entertainment Weekly that “with the story of the Fantastic Four, it feels like we want to get this right.
“There are aspects of it that are very different to other Marvel films,” Quinn noted about the script. “That felt very compelling to me. And again, going back to who’s involved, Matt [Shakman], of course, the director, I think is brilliant, and the cast, and I’ve read it…the script [and it} is brilliant. It’s really brilliant. I’m delighted to have this opportunity.”
The Gladiator II star added: “Superhero movies are movies about people. And if we’re invested in the people and the characters and the peril and the spectacle, then that’s why people go to the theaters to watch films. We’re not just in a penny; we’re in for a pound with this one. We’re going to go for it.”
Garner is reportedly playing an alternate version of Silver Surfer in the new Fantastic Four reboot. The Emmy-winning actress’ iteration of the character may be the version from Earth-X. The setting is one of Marvel’s most notable alternate realities.
Disney and Marvel are set to release The Fantastic Four in theaters on July 25, 2025. The movie will launch Phase 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It will premiere after the release of Phase 5’s last entry, Thunderbolts, in May 2025.
Two previous Fantastic Four films have been released. 20th Century Fox distributed the first adaptation, which starred Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis, in 2005. The studio released the second iteration, which starred Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell, a decade later. Both movies were critical and commercial failures.
Besides The Fantastic Four, Pascal will next be seen in Gladiator II, which Paramount Pictures will release on November 22. He’ll also be reprising his SAG Award-winning role of Joel Miller in the second season of The Last of Us. HBO is set to premiere the post-apocalyptic television series’ sophomore season next year.
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