Marvel Studios has only revealed a few exciting glimpses of The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Galactus, but the villain has finally been revealed (in low-res) thanks to some new promo art.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The gigantic baddie\u00a0looks like he’s stepped straight out of the pages of the comic books, and we can just about make out Ralph Ineson’s likeness. His armour looks a little Celestian in nature, though it’s hard to pick out the finer details given the poor quality of the image.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s still a little hard to believe that we’re getting a comic-accurate Galactus, especially after Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer infamously transformed him into a dust cloud back in 2007 (even though the movie featured a perfect take on the Surfer).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also of note is a new look at the Baxter Building. As you can see, it’s emblazoned with the “4” logo and promises to dominate the skyline in the alternate reality New York City we’ll see in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During a recent interview, filmmaker Matt Shakman explained why Galactus was prioritised over Doctor Doom as the lead villain in\u00a0The Fantastic Four: First Steps.<\/p>\n
“Doom’s a great character, but he takes up a lot of air,”<\/strong>\u00a0the director tells the site.\u00a0“Other film adaptations have done both an origin story and Doom. We’re doing neither, and that allows us to look at them from a fresh perspective.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Galactus is a very different type of villain,\u00a0and Shakman set out to avoid heading down the expected route with\u00a0Ralph Ineson’s Devourer of Worlds.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I didn’t want to just use motion-capture for Galactus. I wanted to actually have someone there embodying the part,”\u00a0<\/strong>Shakman confirms.\u00a0“So we’ve built an entire costume for him, and we’ve done a lot of photography testing to figure out, How do you make sure that the scale is correct? How do you film Mount Rushmore?”<\/strong><\/p>\n As for what Reed Richards makes of this new threat, Pedro Pascal teases,\u00a0“It is definitely a scale of threat which Reed has never experienced. Even the smartest man in the world is awestruck by a being that outdates his understanding of time.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out this new promo art for The Fantastic Four: First Steps in the X post below.<\/p>\n
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