The Fantastic Four are back in action.
On Tuesday, Feb. 4, Marvel Studios dropped a teaser for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, with Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing.
The first official trailer shows the team having Sunday dinner together and reflecting on how far they’ve come, with Reed recounting how the foursome were before they got their powers.
“Whatever life throws on us, we’ll face it together. As a family,” Sue says later.
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Marvel Studios exec Kevin Feige previously teased what fans can expect from the film at San Diego Comic-Con back in 2022, noting the movie would not center around how the Fantastic Four got their powers, as previous film iterations have.
“A lot of people know this origin story. A lot of people know the basics. How do we take that and bring something that they’ve never seen before?” he said at the time, adding, “We’ve set a very high bar for ourselves [by] bringing that to the screen.”
Adding to the variation is the setting for the new film, a 1960s style, which is a contrast from recent Fantastic Four films set in modern times. The film’s director, Matt Shakman, said the superhero quartet will be saving lives in a throwback aesthetic.
“We’re not just doing the ’60s, we’re doing retro-future ’60s,” he said. “It’s part what you know from the ’60s, but part what you’ve never seen before.”
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Feige provided a bit more information in The Official Marvel Podcast, saying that the movie will be a period piece set in New York City, and possibly in a different universe.
He said, per Entertainment Weekly, “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.”
“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,” Feige teased.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is in theaters July 25.
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