THE FANTASTIC FOUR Cast Wishes Fans A Happy Fantastic Fourth As More Positive Early Buzz Is Revealed

THE FANTASTIC FOUR Cast Wishes Fans A Happy Fantastic Fourth As More Positive Early Buzz Is Revealed

Marvel Studios has enlisted the cast of The Fantastic Four: First Steps to wish fans a happy Fourth of July, and it offers a glimpse at the kind of fun family dynamic we'll get in the upcoming reboot...

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By JoshWilding - Jul 04, 2025 01:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four

Happy Independence Day! 

The news cycle has slowed down a little as everyone in the U.S. enjoys the long weekend, but Marvel Studios has managed to assemble the cast of The Fantastic Four: First Steps to wish fans a happy Fourth of July.

In the promo, Joseph Quinn, the actor who plays the Human Torch, has a hard time getting his "flame on" and is eventually abandoned by his co-stars. The studio has also celebrated the holiday with a new TV spot featuring a fresh look at Galactus. You can see that here.

Disney is likely to go all out promoting the reboot once Superman lands in theaters, and we expect more promos, posters, and hints at what to expect from this iconic team's official MCU debut in the coming weeks.

Critics haven't seen The Fantastic Four: First Steps yet, but it does sound like Marvel Studios has done right by the MCU's First Family. Take this with a pinch of salt, but Jeff Sneider has said today that he's "hearing good things" about the movie.

This lines up with what we've been told about recent internal screenings, as Marvel Studios has continued to make tweaks to the reboot since that first public test screening took place several weeks ago.

Watch this fantastic Fourth of July promo for The Fantastic Four: First Steps in the player below.

Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduces Marvel’s First Family—Reed 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.

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’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.

Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, Natasha Lyonne, and Sarah Niles have been cast in mystery roles. Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom is rumoured to appear, though that's surely a given with Avengers: Doomsday on the way.

Director Matt Shakman worked with both Avatar: The Way of Water co-writer Josh Friedman and WandaVision's Cam Squires on The Fantastic Four: First Steps' screenplay, with Eric Pearson (Black Widow) later coming on board for a final polish.

The movie is set to be released in theaters on July 25, 2025.

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2013venjix
2013venjix - 7/4/2025, 1:25 PM
HAPPY 4th!!!!
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/4/2025, 1:33 PM
Shocking positive article about a MCU film no one has scene with Jeff Sneider as source.
Canyoublush
Canyoublush - 7/5/2025, 2:11 AM
@McMurdo - fantastic four is a better movie then that wet tissue you call a superman film.
PopBye
PopBye - 7/5/2025, 8:23 PM
@McMurdo -

Well in this case, he was only reporting on what was actually said.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 7/4/2025, 1:35 PM
Trash's SuperGunn with that one negative review, unnecessarily adds "More Positive Early Buzz" for The Bland Four ad.
dragon316
dragon316 - 7/4/2025, 1:42 PM
@HashTagSwagg - people who follow who listen to reviews may as well like movies that are successful they do not like such as avatar , the revenant, titanic , captain marvel made billion
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 7/4/2025, 1:51 PM
@dragon316 - I still don't buy that last bit, you don't just let go of the people who co-wrote and Directed a film that just made you a billion dollars.
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McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/4/2025, 2:02 PM
@HashTagSwagg - lol yep. Meanwhile, water: wet.
ComicBandit
ComicBandit - 7/4/2025, 9:24 PM
@McMurdo - You realize that water isn't wet, right? Things can get wet with water, sweat etc. But water isn't wet. It's water. Always found that line interesting.
PopBye
PopBye - 7/5/2025, 8:24 PM
@HashTagSwagg -

Now your the one who sounds like a hater.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 7/5/2025, 8:47 PM
@PopBye - A hater will hate even if it's good, if it turns out good, it's good, if it's shit, it's shit and so far both look like shit.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/4/2025, 1:44 PM
Man they got the Britishers involved in 4th of July too , talk about insult to injury…

Anyway kidding aside , the four have good chemistry with each other as seen in that promotional clip so can’t wait to see them interacting as their characters in full.

Also I don’t like or trust Jeff Sneider but if he’s hearing good things about the film then that’s cool!!.
PopBye
PopBye - 7/5/2025, 8:25 PM
@TheVisionary25 -

I'm super excited for F4, and I agree with you.
PatientXero
PatientXero - 7/4/2025, 1:50 PM
Constantly shitting one DC movies, while praising Marvel movies….must be a Hack Wilding article.
RockReigns
RockReigns - 7/4/2025, 1:59 PM
Jeff Sneider is not a reliable source. Stop.
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 7/4/2025, 2:15 PM
@RockReigns - Hit and miss on geek news (like most scoopers), but he has a LONG list of stories confirmed by the trades - like him or not, that gives him credibility.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/4/2025, 3:14 PM
@JoshWilding - almost fully misses on DC scoops. He got Clayface rewrite correct but he said it was a page 1 rewrite. It wasn't. He basically heard through the grapevine that a new writer was coming on board and did what Sneider does, embellished. He missed on Aaron Pierre 24 hrs prior, missed on DCU fx team who literally have such in their bios on social media to this day, missed on Pattinson is the DCU. I can't really think of any DC related scoop he's hit on other than reporting on Clayface. He's got a good track record with Lucasfilm related scoops tho.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/4/2025, 2:08 PM
Despite what people on this site think, I still maintain that Superman will perform well and FF will not.
Yellow
Yellow - 7/4/2025, 3:04 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - no one in this site thinks any movie will perform well. No one enjoys this movies here anymore apparently.

CBM is a dead genre thanks to it's own fans.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 7/4/2025, 3:31 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - I think it will be the opposite. WB has diluted their DC brand and Superman as a character has never reached $1 Billion at the box office. Batman is arguably the bread and butter of WB.
Latverian
Latverian - 7/4/2025, 4:15 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r -

The type of "people in this site" you're implying are no where near as many as they once where, least of all the scaAaAaAary or deluded majority you try to present them as.

You made sure of that.
LenSpiderman
LenSpiderman - 7/4/2025, 5:43 PM
@Yellow - you got that right. Bunch of sad sack misanthropes that want to be on the bandwagon before everyone else gets on and off the bandwagon before anyone else gets off. Must be hard to have to keep that up and convince oneself that everything is either the greatest or worst thing to ever happen.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/4/2025, 9:29 PM
@Latverian - Huh? I did what now?
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/4/2025, 9:32 PM
@Yellow - The last movie I knew would do well was Deadpool but that isn't a stretch. I DO want CBM movies to do well. Thats why Im hard on them and waste my time writing counter point articles to show why I think they are failing.

@SonOfAGif - More than possible. Its equally as possible that I am overblowing why I think FF will fail. The biggest reason is the IP itself. The others, Im not sure normies will care. I can easily be totally wrong about Superman and FF.

WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 7/5/2025, 8:31 AM
@SonOfAGif - Superman '78 would have made an equivalent of 1.5 billion dollars today. It did it when there were a whole lot less theaters to go to and when ticket prices were relatively much cheaper than now. And Man of Steel with inflation would be just shy of a billion today.
PopBye
PopBye - 7/5/2025, 8:27 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r -

That's fine, it's okay being right on somethings and wrong on others. You're right that Superman will perform well, your going to be wrong about f4 performing bad.
PopBye
PopBye - 7/5/2025, 8:28 PM
@Yellow - cbm is not dead genre, westerns is a dead genre.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/5/2025, 11:27 PM
@PopBye - More than possible. I can say my theater is empty right now but its still a ways away.
Jackraow21
Jackraow21 - 7/4/2025, 2:13 PM
Excited for this. Mainly because it sets up Doomsday, but I also like the Thing. He’s a personal favorite comic character.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 7/4/2025, 2:33 PM
That promo was cute....The theme is [frick]ing awesome too....FANTASTIC FOOUUUUURRRRRRRRR
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/4/2025, 3:02 PM
@BlackStar25 - yes it is.

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GenD
GenD - 7/4/2025, 2:39 PM
I’ll be there
Fogs
Fogs - 7/4/2025, 2:39 PM
God I hope this film is good. Marvel needs this not to flop.
PeterDarker121
PeterDarker121 - 7/4/2025, 5:04 PM
@PeterDarker121 - I meant to post with the pic but personally speaking, I'm looking most forward to seeing the Bands of Un-Life, which permanently blew my mind/freaked me out as a kid reading the (reprinted) Galactus trilogy....and the MCU bet-NOT disappoint!

NARRATOR: The Bands of Un-life will probably not be in the movie.
Nonameforme
Nonameforme - 7/4/2025, 3:13 PM
Positive buzz regardless of the fact that no one's seen it?
Laridian
Laridian - 7/4/2025, 3:13 PM
I've got my tickets !! I think this one is gonna be a lot of fun !!
PeterDarker121
PeterDarker121 - 7/4/2025, 4:11 PM
@Laridian - Same here
MrRossBot
MrRossBot - 7/4/2025, 3:30 PM
Can’t put my finger on why but F4 looks very…bland to me now. I was super excited when the official trailer dropped then as time passed I became more “meh” to it. Unless something reinvigorates my interest this will be a Disney+ watch on this end.
GenD
GenD - 7/4/2025, 4:57 PM
@MrRossBot - it’s the costumes I think - too much white trim and an unexciting blue Color. And of course the Thing should bare them nipples - the sweater is kinda lame.
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