THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS - The Human Torch Tries To Charm The Silver Surfer In New Teaser

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS - The Human Torch Tries To Charm The Silver Surfer In New Teaser

Marvel Studios has released a new teaser for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and it finds Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) attempting to turn on the charm for Julia Garner's Silver Surfer...

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By MarkCassidy - Jul 13, 2025 02:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four

Marvel Studios has released a new teaser for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and it focuses on Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) turning on the charm in an attempt to gain the affections of the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) and sway her from her mission.

We learned that Johnny had a thing for Shalla-Bal in a previous trailer when he told his teammates that he didn't need any help to "kill sexy aliens," and here we see him approach Galactus' herald in Human Torch form and ask if her surfboard is attached to her body.

Might want to work on the chat-up game there, Storm!

While speaking to BBC at the film’s London premiere over the weekend, Garner was asked about the initial response from some fans who wanted a man to be cast as the Silver Surfer.

“I said, ‘I’m just going to still do my job,'” she said in response to seeing the online backlash. “Also, it’s Shalla-Bal, so it’s different. I was just happy that people are resonating with it, just like any other project. I’m grateful to be at this dance, to be completely honest with you.”

First Steps stars Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, Freaky Tales) as Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning) as Sue Storm, aka the Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things, A Quiet Place Day One) as Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch, Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Punisher, The Bear) as Ben Grimm, aka the Thing, and Julia Garner (Wolf Man, Ozark) as the Silver Surfer.

Ralph Ineson will play Galactus, and Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser and John Malkovich are also on board in undisclosed roles. 

"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."

Matt Shakman directs The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which is set to hit theaters on July 25, 2025.

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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 7/13/2025, 2:33 PM
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PopBye
PopBye - 7/13/2025, 2:50 PM
@harryba11zack - Um no
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/13/2025, 2:34 PM
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PopBye
PopBye - 7/13/2025, 2:44 PM
@McMurdo -

No it looks dope
SteviesRightFoo
SteviesRightFoo - 7/13/2025, 3:51 PM
@PopBye - how so?
Forthas
Forthas - 7/13/2025, 2:42 PM
I am warming up to this film! Could be epic!
dragon316
dragon316 - 7/13/2025, 3:30 PM
@Forthas - glad some people Start to like it rest of us remain same take pass on it no matter what
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 7/13/2025, 2:42 PM
But is that sexy these days? I don't think so
PopBye
PopBye - 7/13/2025, 2:50 PM
@HashTagSwagg -

You didn't read everything said about Johnny, otherwise you would know he will still be a ladies man.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 7/13/2025, 2:50 PM
I mean flirting with the enemy is something Johnny would definitely do 🤷🏾‍♂️
PopBye
PopBye - 7/13/2025, 2:51 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - fax
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/13/2025, 2:54 PM
Marvel just released a new FF#1 where Sue declares herself the leader.


This one is DOA.
KamenRider
KamenRider - 7/13/2025, 3:05 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - do you really think so? What’s your box office prediction?
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/13/2025, 3:12 PM
@KamenRider - I honestly dont know. Its the second weekend numbers you need really. To call it a failure, you need the real budget numbers so for me its less the box office and more if it makes money. Marvels budgets for some reason are still way out of control.

The press is pretty bad on this one and Pedro's politics are hurting it. There are a number of nerds I know who will not even entertain this movie because of the gender swap. SS has a decent following. I think this was a big mistake on Marvels part. The fact that they launched a comic by the same writer as the numbered one just to make her the leader in comic canon validates the rumor and normies are sick of girl bosses.
skyshark03191
skyshark03191 - 7/13/2025, 3:17 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - Honestly you might not be wrong. Marvel has really been pushing it all a lot and I think it’s going to bite them in the ass. This may not be DOA but if the brand is going to continue they need to do some serious soul searching cause they might be at the end of their rope. Cap and Thunderbolts* flopping did not help matters.

Honestly? I think it’s time for DC to rise up. Marvel had an excellent run but they flew too close to the sun with Endgame.
AlexGSpeaks
AlexGSpeaks - 7/13/2025, 4:21 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - Sue lead the team in the 90s too. People weren't having a fit then.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/13/2025, 4:49 PM
@AlexGSpeaks - You mean when Reed was dead? In almost 60 years of the FF, Sue was rarely the leader. FF is a nuclear family. Reed was always the defacto leader. Now, if they want to change that, they can do what they want but in this era, intentionally gender swapping SS and putting Sue front and center is an outdated trope at this point and every girl boss film released, even if they were decent like Furiosa and Ballerina have failed. The general audience is sick of it.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/13/2025, 4:53 PM
@fanboy03191 - I'm not one to pit one brand against the other but someone should just go back to telling comic book movies without all the current dayism and progressive tropes. There was zero reason to gender swap SS. THere was also zero reason to make this a Sue Storm movie but they can't help themselves. If they didnt do this, maybe all those actors wouldn't turned down the Reed role.

Its really stupid because the people developing and producing this movie are clearly capable. They just cant help themselves. The two flops you mentioned had plenty of diversity, in the case of TB, its led by Yelena. You couldnt just have the FF be the traditional FF without all the current dayism?
skyshark03191
skyshark03191 - 7/13/2025, 5:25 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - agreed. With the whole DC and Marvel thing I’m not trying to out one against the other- both stand tall with their characters and worlds. However, if Marvel keeps this crap up then they are in trouble and DC will pass them. I want good movies- Superman was an example of what I want to see in a comic book movie. Marvel hasn’t been delivering that lately with a few exceptions.
AlexGSpeaks
AlexGSpeaks - 7/13/2025, 5:48 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - Reed was dead, and Sue took over. Then Reed came back and Sue stayed in charge until they all "died" in the Onslaught storyline and got rebooted. Again, don't act like it's some unprecedented move. It did happen in the books, and people didn't throw a fit. Also for a time in the 80s, the Avengers book starred all ladies with the exception of Starfox. People didn't throw a fit then either. Put out that same book now, and all we'll hear is how Marvel is woke and killing comics.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/13/2025, 5:57 PM
@AlexGSpeaks the truth.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/13/2025, 6:56 PM
@AlexGSpeaks - Obviously I knew, because I replied "when Reed was dead." Frankly, I don't care. There is no reason to have an FF movie be a female, or male dominate movie. It doesn't matter if some scenario existed, either 5 panels in a non-canon EarthX story or Sue stepping in when Reed died. The reason no one flipped out is because it was organic and non one cared. Now its a trope, and a bad one. Its been killing movies for almost a decade. Its not like you've had all these Marvel bangers and a storyline reason why to have these decisions. Gender swapping SS is a nuclear stupid decision. The X-men had leading ladies for a long time, front and center along with them being the most powerful members on the team. The difference is the writing. The difference was, at the time, it wasnt agenda driven. They needed this IP to be a success AND they are a major part of Doomsday. Why mess around with it?

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AlexGSpeaks
AlexGSpeaks - 7/13/2025, 7:36 PM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - You are right about one thing: no one cared. Maybe it's because they didn't have a 1000 social media posts tossed at them telling them they should be offended and it's emasculating that they aren't. Sue in charge could be organic. We don't know as we haven't seen the film yet. Maybe Reed is more focused on research rather than superhero activities? It's clear you already believe this film is terribly written and won't care even if they explain it well. And why not mess with it? The last two films didn't exactly do well at the box office.
Humperdink
Humperdink - 7/13/2025, 11:41 PM
@AlexGSpeaks -

@CreateNowSlpL8r - Maybe it's because they didn't have a 1000 social media posts tossed at them telling them they should be offended and it's emasculating that they aren't.



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Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 7/14/2025, 9:38 AM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - How many times does it need to be explained? There is no gender swap here. It's just a different character. AND it even makes sense to use her instead of Norrin considering this is a different universe. The same exact reason she was Silver Surfer in the comics. It was a different universe.

The reaching to complain is out of control. And it never fails how devoid of intelligence the complaining always is.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/14/2025, 11:16 AM
@AlexGSpeaks - You're right. I think the decision they made are terrible. Why change it up after two bombs? I agree with you although they should go back to what worked for them. Being comic accurate and gender swapping a hero with such history is the opposite of that. That is why they are failing.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/14/2025, 11:21 AM
@Tonic24k - How many times does it need to be explained that they found 5 panels of an elseworlds story to justify what they wanted to do?

You can say whatever you want but once again, I will point out these movies fail more than they succeed now so either I am the problem, or they are not giving the customer what they want and if there is that much discourse, why even do it?

Why, after 4 out of the last MCU movies failing financially would you not have Norrin there? So again, she was never SS in 616 and this different universe was a contained, elseworlds story where Frankin was Galactus. If you had stacks of SS comics, including all the huge cosmic events he was in, you wouldnt be pissed?

She was SS in FIVE panels before dying. That was her contribution to the story. You guys act like she had some long run. Norrin was SS for almost 60 years. I dont know what you guys are thinking sometimes.
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 7/17/2025, 9:43 AM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - You can't really be a "creator" while being this devoid of creative aptitude.

It's the FIRST film of a highly anticipated franchise starting off in another universe. Giving us everything upfront would be amateur storytelling. And we KNOW for a fact that this team is traversing to multiverse to find the main MCU. It is not difficult WHATSOEVER to see that this version of Silver Surfer is the intentionally watered down version to then give us Norrin Radd to deliver even more excitement factor.

Not to mention, this could very well be a great opportunity to give us a proper origin story of Radd.

FIVE panels in the comics can very easily translate to SOME scenes in ONE movie.

So no, no one is acting like we think she had some long run. We're acting like we know exactly what her small role was in the source material.
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/17/2025, 10:16 PM
@Tonic24k - You are absolutely right, unless this movie fails because people who think like me don't care what their reasoning is. You might know the team is traversing the multiverse but the multiverse sage has failed. The normies dont care. There is no audience for it. So from a business perspective, why would you do it? You and I have gone back and forth before, I'm asking, you have a huge property you need to launch.

If they uses Radd, do you think ANYONE would be going, Hey, you know what? They should have used Shalla Bal from that what if series 25 years ago. No one would and thats the point. Sometimes, you need your worse impulses checked and this is a commone theme we all argue about way too much. We didn't argue it in Phases 1-3 and plenty of changes were made to the source material. They based Fury on the Ultimates version. Guardians materially changed almost every character they touched. They changed Wanda's origin. etc. etc. At one point, an 800m box office was low for them. They had what, like 5 1B+ movies in a row?

You don't gamble on a property that is supposed to be the first in your new Phase 6 course correction and that comes right from Iger. This and Pedro is going to kill this movie and both were stupid moves. It will do ok the first weekend and if those leaks prove to be true, this movie will be over by the second week.
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 7/24/2025, 9:00 AM
@CreateNowSlpL8r - The Multiverse Saga hasn't even come close to failing... these are dramatic assertions with no real backing. Yes...they've certainly had some subpar projects that underperformed. And even the most loyal fans have their reasonable criticisms. But they are still very much profitable.

And your assessment is flawed from bias. You seem to always default to wanting the MCU to fail. If there's any indication of success, you have a proclivity to find something negative to put a magnifying glass on. And that's why I always express my doubts that you're a creator. You voice these unartistic views for the sake of perpetual criticism. Even saying "you don't gamble on a property..." That's creatively corrupt. Artistic risk is necessary to produce something special. So I would say, "You don't [PLAY IT SAFE] on a property that is supposed to be the first in your new Phase 6 course correction."
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 7/24/2025, 4:24 PM
@Tonic24k - My assessment isn't bias, its fact. 4 out of the last 6 MCU movies financially failed. Both D+ series released this year didn't even chart.

You are objectively wrong and can't provide a single metric, a single fact to prove your claim. Meanwhile you go on and on. On top of which, you try to insult me because you can't mount an argument.

What? Agatha charted a couple of episodes? BTW, the movies that did make money were Deadpool and Guardians. Not a single "new" hero introduced since Endgame even got a sequel. Like no even on D+ in SIX years. They dont even disclose D+ numbers anymore its so bad.

They even dumped the villain and Feige just tried to retcon the decision which makes the original decision a failure.
Patient2670
Patient2670 - 7/13/2025, 2:56 PM
Is this what people were afraid of as toning down Johnny's ladies man persona?
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/13/2025, 3:11 PM
@Patient2670 - yeah

They may not have it be as much as Evans version but he’s still a horndog to an extent lol

Honestly I guess it depends on the writer but I always viewed comics Johnny as less of a womanizer and moreso a guy genuinely looking for love but unlucky in it.
Patient2670
Patient2670 - 7/13/2025, 3:46 PM
@TheVisionary25 - For me, it was a non issue either way. I only mention it because people seemed to get all up in arms about it, and this clip seems counters that.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 7/13/2025, 4:14 PM
@Patient2670 - yeah

As always , characterizations have more or less always depended on the writer so it just matters how the creatives here want to portray these characters.
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