'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' trailer highlights the power of family — and force fields

See more of Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn in action.
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Vanessa Kirby in "The Fantastic Four: First Steps."
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In just over a month, Marvel's First Family will be back on the big screen in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

Directed by Matt Shakman (WandaVision), The Fantastic Four: First Steps stars Pedro Pascal as the super-stretchy Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as the forcefield-wielding Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the super strong Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Joseph Quinn as literal hothead Johnny Storm/The Human Torch.

A new trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps highlights the Fantastic Four's superpowers in all their glory, but the real focus here is on this iconic quartet as a family unit. The trailer showcases familial teasing between characters like Reed and Johnny, as well as a new look at Reed and Sue's baby Franklin.

Also present are flashes of The Fantastic Four: First Steps' dual bad guys: Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) and the planet-eating Galactus (Ralph Ineson). He's marked Earth as the next dish in his interplanetary buffet, and it's up to the Fantastic Four to save the world — as a family.

If these stakes have you worried about the Fantastic Four's survival, don't be too alarmed (yet). All four members of the main cast are slated to star in Avengers: Doomsday. Plus, the end-credits scene of Thunderbolts* teased their arrival in the MCU from another dimension. Now, the biggest question The Fantastic Four: First Steps needs to answer is what led these heroes to leave their dimension in the first place.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits theaters July 25.

Topics Marvel Trailers

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Belen Edwards
Entertainment Reporter

Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association, as well as a Tomatometer-approved critic.


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