THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Promo Art Highlights The Future Foundation, H.E.R.B.I.E., And More

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Promo Art Highlights The Future Foundation, H.E.R.B.I.E., And More

Newly revealed promo art for The Fantastic Four: First Steps showcases Marvel's First Family and the Future Foundation along with everyone's new favourite robot, H.E.R.B.I.E. You can check it out here...

By JoshWilding - Feb 05, 2025 02:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four

With the first trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps finally online, it appears we can look forward to merchandise for the reboot slowly starting to roll out into stores (we're likely still a couple of months away from seeing action figures and Funko Pops).

While we expect more movie-inspired imagery to eventually follow, this first batch is seemingly based specifically on the Future Foundation, with 1960s-era graphics standing in for Marvel's First Family.

There's a wonderful shot of H.E.R.B.I.E., though, and the iconic "4" logo we're sure to see a great deal of leading up to The Fantastic Four: First Steps' release this summer. The team's robot is already adorable and likely to be highly sought after in toy form. 

We had much to discuss after watching the teaser, including Marvel Studios' take on The Thing. "I have seen a very crude rendering because it takes a while to build this stuff," Ebon Moss-Bachrach said last month. "They've got so many animators working on this."

"I wear a motion-capture suit [with] two cameras right here so they're capturing absolutely everything. Every nuance, every expression, every thought in my eye. It takes a while to build it so they're building it now."

"Andy Serkis, who is the godfather of motion capture in a way, has this company called the Imaginarium which is at Pinewood Studios where she shot Fantastic Four and he was very generous," he said of The Lord of the Rings and Planet of the Apes star. 

"They have a room called the magic mirror where you put on the motion-capture suit and sensors and then they set up monitors and you can see, in real-time, a beta rendering...you can see the physics and how big the character is."

Take a closer look at this new promo art for The Fantastic Four: First Steps in the X posts 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, and Natasha Lyonne have been cast in mystery roles. 

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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Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 2/5/2025, 2:42 PM
Here before Jonathan Majors as Franklin Richards News …WE ARE SO BACK
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 2/5/2025, 2:43 PM
Do my eyes deceive me , is Reed stretching?.

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Kidding aside I dig them , feel kinda art deco-esque!!.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 2/5/2025, 2:46 PM
It's sad knowing their world and their people will all perish so they can come into Universe 616.
BruceWayng
BruceWayng - 2/5/2025, 2:55 PM
I for sure thought that redheaded chick from American Pie was boxing HERBIE but it didn’t sound like her in the teaser.

Has there been any confirmed reports as to whether Alicia is in First Steps? If so then I’m hoping she’s not playing her but I can’t think of anyone other role unless of course it’s completely new character
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/6/2025, 4:57 AM
@BruceWayng - Gee I dunno, out of the following FF characters, which one looks the most like Natasha Lyonne...
HERBIE
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Alicia
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Or (just off the top of my head here)
MEDUSA
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RockReigns
RockReigns - 2/5/2025, 2:58 PM
Can’t wait for July.

Superman and then F4. We’re eating good.
JayLemle
JayLemle - 2/5/2025, 3:02 PM
I'm excited for this film. The DEI white actors are a bit of a letdown. But, I can ignore that. Time to shine, Pedro! You are the only actor worth a shit in this movie.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 2/5/2025, 5:47 PM
@JayLemle - what is a DEI white actor? The only DEI actor is Pedro I guess. And is DEI the new woke?
narrow290
narrow290 - 2/5/2025, 3:24 PM
It all reminds me of my Mezco One12 Collective Fantastic Four! All except Pascal who is miscast
WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 2/5/2025, 3:25 PM
I dig the mid-century mod aesthetic.
Irregular
Irregular - 2/5/2025, 4:58 PM
Even though the teaser was okay, I have a really good feeling about this movie.

My hope is both Superman & F4, are great films.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 2/5/2025, 5:49 PM
How did Ebon only find out about the look now, didn't we already see a picture of a practical Thing suit on set? Anyway, he looked great. And so did Herbie
BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 2/5/2025, 7:48 PM
The HERBIE schematic is OK but the other artwork is embarrassing.

How many phenomenal pencil/inkers/designers must Marvel have access to? And they cheap-out on AI and ... whatever this is.
StSteven
StSteven - 2/5/2025, 8:16 PM
Ya know, I've read a lot of comments about the Thing's voice since the teaser came out and here's my take (for anyone who cares): sure they might "gravel it up" a bit between now and the final release, but, really, why? I mean, I don't know if it's ever been really explored in the comics, but I assume that he's only rocks on the outside. Like he still has human eyes and obviously eats food, suggesting that his insides are still human, so why would you expect his vocal cords to suddenly be "rocky" thereby changing his voice? And for those folks who say "Well that's how his voice was in the previous movies and cartoons and that's what I hear in my head when I read the comics", yeah I get that but keep in mind that in one iteration of Iceman in animation, he sounded like Fred from Scooby-Doo and covered himself in a block of ice to change into his super-hero mode (that would be Frank Welker in "Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends"), so are you going to be disappointed if the same thing doesn't happen in the X-Men reboot? Finally, for anyone saying that people made of rocks should sound like they have a "rocky" voice, Korg would like to have a (very polite) word with you.

But, hey, that's just my take. 😊
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 2/5/2025, 8:26 PM
@StSteven - think about it this way. Do you think someone who says "it's clobbering time" has a voice like that?

Tbh im not concerned with the voice, for me the cgi is like a puppet. Hope they improve by release
StSteven
StSteven - 2/5/2025, 10:14 PM
@vectorsigma - Yeah, I'm with you on the CGI. As far as the voice goes though, I get your point, but I mean, he realistically probably doesn't speak in his "It's clobbering time!" voice all the time. I think that what they are trying to portray (at least for as little as we've seen so far) is Ben's humanity as a contrast to his appearance (which to me seems to be why as far as the CGI goes why it seems that spent a lot of time on getting the eyes right so far). So when he's in the kitchen trying the sauce I wouldn't expect him to be all like "IT'S GREAT!!!" (gravely voice). BUT I do expect (hope) that when it's time for him to utter that iconic line it has all the gravitas that we're all expecting (and Marvel knows full well the had better deliver on).

I mean, c'mon, like they didn't have Ebon do that line in his audition (presumably in a deeper, more guttural voice)? But like everything else with this movie, we'll just have to wait and see...
Armpitwebs
Armpitwebs - 2/5/2025, 9:25 PM
My top shelf pipe dream:
We get a movie with a fully formed 1960’s alternate universe metro NYC.
Avengers MANSION
Professor X’s School in Westchester
Peter Parker and Aunt May in a Queens brownstone
Dr. Strange
Daredevil

What am I forgetting?
MadThanos
MadThanos - 2/6/2025, 4:45 AM
Food for thought: they thought that the Fantastic 4 trailer would break the internet.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/6/2025, 5:04 AM
@MadThanos - I think any cbm trailer would have a hard time breaking the internet right now.

Last year we got 3 Sony villain movies, Joker Floppy a Turd and then the only good cbm, Deadpool & Wolverine.
This year we have Cap 4 and Thunderbolts (meh) and then the big event movies in the summer, but even the most fervant and die-hard of cbm fanatics doesn't actually know whether Superman or The Fantastic Four can actually make bank or outright flop. Neither outcome would surprise at this point, for either movie.

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