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. 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 movie, 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.