THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS IMAX Poster Sees Marvel's First Family Makes Its Mark On The MCU

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS IMAX Poster Sees Marvel's First Family Makes Its Mark On The MCU

IMAX has shared a new poster for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, putting the spotlight on the Marvel Cinematic Universe's First Family in the reboot's unique 1960s-inspired New York. Check it out...

By JoshWilding - Jun 30, 2025 12:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four

Warner Bros. Discovery and DC Studios have gone all in on Superman's marketing campaign. It's hard to turn anywhere without seeing the Man of Steel, an approach James Gunn and company hope will help make the first DCU movie a box office hit.

It will have some competition; F1: The Movie is outpacing early projections, and Superman is going to find itself sandwiched between Jurassic World Rebirth and The Fantastic Four: First Steps when it opens next month. 

The Marvel Studios movie is expected to be a hit, and IMAX has reminded us there's more to see this July than just Superman with a new poster for the reboot. Putting the team front and centre, it promises a unique, exciting approach to Marvel's First Family on the big screen. 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps' retrofuturistic 1960s-inspired setting is a big part of that, and for filmmaker Matt Shakman, filming the movie practically was an essential part of giving it a unique feel.

"A practical approach is always the best approach," he explained. "You know, it's real for me as a filmmaker, it's real for the actors. I think the audience loves it."

"We're trying to go on location as much as we can. We're building real sets. We're depending less and less on blue screen, green screen and making things," Shakman continued. "We have a real H.E.R.B.I.E. We have an incredibly beautiful lab set here. We've got a real Fantastic Car. We've been building models and miniatures."

"The movie is set in the 60s and so a lot of our inspiration is what Stanley Kubrick did in the 60s. And you know, how should we approach it if we were making it in 1965? Well, we build miniatures and we have a gorgeous miniature. It's 13, 14 feet tall of their ship and we've shot beautiful shots of it."

"And so the more you can make things with your hands and see things with your eyes, I think the more people will believe it when they see it on the screen," the director concluded.

Check out this new poster for The Fantastic Four: First Steps in the Instagram post 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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kylo0607
kylo0607 - 6/30/2025, 12:52 PM
It's literally the theatrical poster from last week, with a different background slapped.

Nothing article.
Oberlin4Prez
Oberlin4Prez - 6/30/2025, 1:22 PM
@kylo0607 - reminded me of this. ?si=Tfp6V5xS7CpeG04v
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 6/30/2025, 4:02 PM
@kylo0607 - This is Josh we are talking about here. He has an article-quota to meet and if a "Nothing article" meets that criteria, then so be it! 😃
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 6/30/2025, 12:55 PM
Both F4 & Superman are going to be very critical for the future of comic book movies. If one or especially both fail to deliver, then the genre will be in deep trouble.
kylo0607
kylo0607 - 6/30/2025, 2:13 PM
@TheJok3r - Marvel won't be.

They are already shooting 2 new Avengers films and also a Spidey film to release before them.

People will be able to forget if F4 leaves a stain.

DC on the other hand. Superman will be crucial for the future of that new universe.

I hope both films are great!
SuperCat
SuperCat - 6/30/2025, 1:02 PM
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TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/30/2025, 1:06 PM
Nice poster!!.

Also I personally think a mix of practical and cg always best because the former has limitations while overuse of the other can make it feel “unreal” so a balance of both imo tends to be the perfect marriage.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 6/30/2025, 1:12 PM
Why does everything about this film look soo ......... blurry, do I care that little that my eyes refuse to pick on on everything or does anyone else notice the blur shit.
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 6/30/2025, 2:37 PM
@HashTagSwagg - try adjusting your fedora
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 6/30/2025, 2:46 PM
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JurassicClunge
JurassicClunge - 6/30/2025, 1:17 PM
Need to see this in Imax!
Se4M4NSt4ine
Se4M4NSt4ine - 6/30/2025, 2:11 PM
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McMurdo
McMurdo - 6/30/2025, 2:15 PM
We coulda had the definitive Reed Richard's as the primary char in the MCU and we got Mando/Joel instead. Feige went for popularity. RDJ wasn't popular when he was hired as Stark....quite the opposite. And we all know what happened from there. I haven't even felt like I've seen Reed the comic book character once in a single bit from any of the released footage and that's frustrating. Hope the film is great but I'm concerned about that char primarily. Seems mopey.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 6/30/2025, 3:56 PM
@McMurdo - "Feige went for popularity". More likely, he was the only 'name' that was willing to accept the role for the salary offered. 🫤
Matador
Matador - 6/30/2025, 4:26 PM
@SuperiorHeckler - Nick Cage would have done it for half.
HulkisHoly
HulkisHoly - 6/30/2025, 5:01 PM
@Matador -

Oh my gosh, professor NICK CAGE as reed would have been amazing. Not even joking!!
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 6/30/2025, 6:53 PM
@Matador - Nick would say "yes" to a backyard family-reunion barbecue. (And that's why we love him!) ❤️
WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 6/30/2025, 2:21 PM
If Superman makes 800 Million + and this crawls to a 400 million at the box office
will Kevin find his job be on the line!

It’s been a disaster since the Endgame not only making crap movies, but losing massive amount of money on them
CreateNowSlpL8r
CreateNowSlpL8r - 6/30/2025, 2:39 PM
@WakandaTech - I mean, from a performance standpoint, people have been fired for a lot less. Sadly, I think it fit the agenda.

If FF bombs, we'll need to watch who the new CEO is. Doomsday could be totally re-written if FF fails and Secret Wars could be shelved. I can't even imagine the budget for Doomsday.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 6/30/2025, 6:56 PM
@WakandaTech - Right-here, right-now; I'm calling FF for approximately $450+ million. 🤨
Huskers
Huskers - 6/30/2025, 2:30 PM
I’ll never get the concept of setting it in the 60’s. Yea I know that’s when they debuted in the comics, but so did a lot of other characters and we don’t set their films in that era. Did they think their costumes or the concept of family was too difficult to pull off in the 21st century?!?!
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 6/30/2025, 3:09 PM
Hope they've been secretly hiding a Council of Reeds in this movie and the plot leakers just didn't think it was worth mentioning.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 6/30/2025, 3:52 PM
GRL-POWER SUE! 💪🏻
GRL-POWER SILVER (SHE)FER! 💪🏻
HulkisHoly
HulkisHoly - 6/30/2025, 5:03 PM
@SuperiorHeckler -

S(HER)FUR

You’re not even trying!
Latverian
Latverian - 6/30/2025, 6:43 PM
@SuperiorHeckler, @HulkisHoly -

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It's actually She-lver Surf-her.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 6/30/2025, 6:58 PM
@HulkisHoly - Well done! Obviously I need to step my game up... 🙄
HulkisHoly
HulkisHoly - 6/30/2025, 5:02 PM
This should have the been the FIRST (next) STEP after the end of the Infinity Saga. It’s insane to me how backwards Marvel approached content after EG.

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