{"id":252420,"date":"2025-07-10T03:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252420\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T03:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:14:10","slug":"meet-the-family-in-a-must-see-new-featurette-for-the-fantastic-four-first-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252420\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Meet The Family&#8221; In A Must-See New Featurette For THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel Studios has released another featurette for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and it&#8217;s titled &#8220;Meet the Family.&#8221; However, rather than focusing on Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, The Thing, and the Human Torch, the spotlight shifts to the actors playing them.<\/p>\n<p>Delving into the bond they developed on set, we hear from stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby,\u00a0Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also plenty of never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage and even a fresh shot of the team&#8217;s Excelsior spacecraft chasing the Silver Surfer through the cosmos (that looks like Galactus&#8217; Worldship in the distance).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recently, filmmaker Matt Shakman addressed how the Fantastic Four balance their role as superheroes with being a family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tremendous amount of pressure to bring a young person into a world where essentially the world is depending on you, and that you live in the Baxter building, which is essentially a glass house that the entire world knows what you&#8217;re doing day to day, and there are all these villains that want to come after you,&#8221; <\/strong>the director explained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Can you be a parent? Should you be a parent? What does it mean when you are a parent to balance all of those things? And ultimately, does being a parent make you better at being a superhero?&#8221; <\/strong>Shakman pondered.<\/p>\n<p>Anticipation for The Fantastic Four: First Steps is rapidly growing, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbookmovie.com\/fantastic-four\/the-fantastic-four-first-steps-preview-reactions-hail-it-as-the-best-mcu-movie-since-avengers-endgame-a222674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>with early reactions from a 30-minute preview screening<\/strong><\/a> hailing it as a movie with the potential to be Marvel Studios&#8217; best since Avengers: Endgame in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch this new featurette for The Fantastic Four: First Steps in the player below.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Family 4\ufe0f\u20e3ever.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look behind the scenes of Marvel Studios\u2019 The Fantastic Four: First Steps and see the film in theaters July 25. Get tickets now: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qy8qR70zbu\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/qy8qR70zbu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2AJRd5BLPa\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2AJRd5BLPa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarvelStudios\/status\/1942977055081074744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios&#8217;\u00a0The Fantastic Four: First Steps\u00a0introduces Marvel\u2019s First Family\u2014Reed Richards\/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm\/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm\/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm\/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they face their most daunting challenge yet.<\/p>\n<p>Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). And if Galactus\u2019 plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren\u2019t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, Natasha Lyonne, and Sarah Niles\u00a0have been cast in mystery roles. Robert Downey Jr.&#8217;s Doctor Doom is rumoured to appear, though that&#8217;s surely a given with\u00a0Avengers: Doomsday\u00a0on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Director Matt Shakman worked with both\u00a0Avatar: The Way of Water\u00a0co-writer Josh Friedman and\u00a0WandaVision&#8217;s Cam Squires on\u00a0The Fantastic Four: First Steps&#8217; screenplay, with Eric Pearson (Black Widow) later coming on board for a final polish.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is set to be released in theaters on July 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Studios has released another featurette for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and it&#8217;s titled &#8220;Meet the Family.&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,20192,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-252420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-the-fantastic-four-first-steps","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114826763549604522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}