THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Reshoots Set Photos Reveal A Huge Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer SPOILER

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Reshoots Set Photos Reveal A Huge Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer SPOILER

Additional photography for The Fantastic Four: First Steps is currently taking place in Los Angeles, and a shot of Julia Garner on set may reveal a major spoiler for the upcoming MCU movie. Check it out!

By JoshWilding - May 08, 2025 06:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four
Source: Mail Online

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is currently undergoing reshoots in Los Angeles, and Julia Garner has been spotted on set as Shalla-Bal, not the Silver Surfer.

With striking blonde hair and a white dress boasting a cosmic blue pattern, Shalla-Bal is seemingly no longer a Herald of Galactus (or has yet to become one). The actor was shown facing the shoreline before turning around and spreading her arms wide. 

It's impossible to say what's happening; this could be a flashback revealing when she became the Silver Surfer or perhaps a scene from the end of the film where she's freed of that burden. It may even be something setting up the events of Avengers: Doomsday, though Garner isn't currently expected to appear in that movie.

Thunderbolts* established that the Fantastic Four eventually arrive on Earth-616, and the hope among fans is that Norrin Rad (the male Silver Surfer) will be introduced in the MCU post-Avengers: Secret Wars.

With it looking increasingly likely that the team's reality will be destroyed in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, both Galactus and Shalla-Bal are potentially meant to be one-and-done characters. However, rumours persist that the Devourer of Worlds will be a Multiversal threat. 

During a recent interview, Garner was asked whether she went surfing to help prepare her for playing this character. 

"No, I am actually afraid of the ocean," she said with a laugh. "So no, but I can act. I have some friends that know how to surf, and they showed me some moves before I went out to London to just kind of get the body position of it all. And then I realized shortly after I was in London that I used some surf moves, but then I also used a lot of what I saw in the comic books."

"There were different poses that, the way that they would draw them, they weren't surf poses — they almost looked like something you would see in sculptures," Garner added. "So I incorporated surfing with the poses of a sculpture, like moving elegantly, like a dance. So it was kind of a mixture of things, but a lot of it was from the comics that inspired me."

You can see the full gallery of The Fantastic Four: First Steps set photos by following the link to Mail Online in the X 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, and Natasha Lyonne 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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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 5/8/2025, 6:07 AM
flatter then her surf board
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JurassicClunge
JurassicClunge - 5/8/2025, 7:08 AM
@harryba11zack - lmfao 😩😭
Fogs
Fogs - 5/8/2025, 6:08 AM
Obvious flashback of her accepting to be Galactus' herald.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 5/8/2025, 6:18 AM
@Fogs - u mean Sherald
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Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 5/8/2025, 8:16 AM
@harryba11zack - User Comment Image

Shouldn't it be, vagerald though? 🤔
Scarilian
Scarilian - 5/8/2025, 8:43 AM
@Fogs -
Norrin Radd is going to show up to be killed off isn't he.
Fogs
Fogs - 5/8/2025, 9:02 AM
@Scarilian - Maybe. Possibly.

Ok, probably.
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 5/8/2025, 6:12 AM
@vectorsigma - Congratulations, you compared an apple to an orange. 👏
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 5/8/2025, 6:34 AM
@vectorsigma - All for promoting Ne Zha 2, I like seeing good animations get praise, but doing so by making some stupid comparison with the MCU (like what has one thing have to do with the other) to further push this idiotic agenda of yours against Marvel makes you a shitty writer.
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 5/8/2025, 6:38 AM
@JoshWilding - learning from the masters here. Glad to be acknowledged 👊
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 5/8/2025, 6:39 AM
@Urubrodi - 🤫🤫🤫

That was a test article in the style of our good writers here. Dont get triggered.
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 5/8/2025, 6:41 AM
@vectorsigma - Yeahhhhh, good luck with that, kid.
Yellow
Yellow - 5/8/2025, 7:02 AM
@vectorsigma - did you work in this movie or something? Because never saw it on the cinema posters.

PantherKing
PantherKing - 5/8/2025, 6:09 AM
This movie and thunderbolts have looked beautiful. Love they are using practical sets and shooting outside.
SteviesRightFoo
SteviesRightFoo - 5/8/2025, 6:54 AM
@PantherKing - 🤣 marvel movies all look the same
GoldenBoy02
GoldenBoy02 - 5/8/2025, 6:14 AM
IMO:They dropped the ball with silver surfer this time. Doesn't look nearly as good as in "F4-rise of the Silver Surfer".
Still looking forward to watch "first steps",tho'.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 5/8/2025, 6:27 AM
Shouldn't it look more IDK, alien / other worldly? it just looks like she's doing a fashion photo shoot.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 5/8/2025, 6:53 AM
They are giving her Norrin Radd's backstory
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 5/8/2025, 7:41 AM
@Ryguy88 - you can tell that from one image? And isn't she part of Norrin Radd's backstory?
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 5/8/2025, 8:28 AM
@bkmeijer1 - I'm making an easy prediction.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 5/8/2025, 9:02 AM
@Ryguy88 - think it's just as easy to say she's just the wife of Norrin and she takes the mantle to safe him instead of the other way around
SuperCat
SuperCat - 5/8/2025, 6:58 AM
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BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 5/8/2025, 7:00 AM
Oh no ... Waves are going to crash upon the rocks behind her - sea spray in the air ...

And it's a MUSICAL. User Comment Image
ElvenKingSlayer
ElvenKingSlayer - 5/8/2025, 7:15 AM
This is probably the main reason Silver surfer doesn't look as good in this movie. The surfer must match her look as a "human"
Scarilian
Scarilian - 5/8/2025, 9:18 AM
@ElvenKingSlayer -
She doesn't look good because of terrible rushed CGI - it's not intentional, that's stupid to say.

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TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 5/8/2025, 7:58 AM
Remember a few months ago they were hiding a male actor on the set of F4? What if it's whoever is playing Norrin Radd (assuming it's not Lakeith Stanfield) and what if they are having him trade places with Shala? We can only hope.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/8/2025, 8:05 AM
This is likely Zenn-La and you know what that means? Norrin Radd.
They're making sure that there is a Norrin Radd in the movie, one that will be played by a big name actor and will get a chair in the next Avengers: Doomsday cast reveal.

This is all idiot wrangling. Making sure that all the fans going nuts over this alternate version of the Silver Surfer knows that there will be a Norrin Radd Silver Surfer in the main universe.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 5/8/2025, 8:31 AM
@ObserverIO - they are swapping Norrin for Shalla. Yes Norrin will be in it, but he will fulfill her typical role and she will fulfill his. It's called a gender swap.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/8/2025, 8:36 AM
@Ryguy88 - Norrin will be Norrin and Shalla will be Shalla, but it will be Shalla who becomes the Silver Surfer not Norrin.

Like the What If where Peggy Carter becomes Cap instead of Steve Rogers. Or the alternate reality where Gwen Stacy becomes Spider-Woman instead of Peter Parker becoming Spider-Man.

Not really a gender swap, more like an alternate timeline.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 5/8/2025, 8:48 AM
@ObserverIO - this isn't a comic, this is a movie universe and the version of Silver Surfer we will be getting in these movies will be the female version.

Why are you so apprehensive to admit this fact?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/8/2025, 9:07 AM
@Ryguy88 - This is a movie universe. The Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Shalla Bal is not the Silver Surfer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she's the Silver Surfer in an alternate universe which has been given a whole film before the main characters then come into the MCU in Avengers: Doomsday as alternate universe characters at the end of the Multiverse Saga, a saga about alternate universes.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/8/2025, 8:07 AM
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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/8/2025, 8:18 AM
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MuadDib
MuadDib - 5/8/2025, 8:17 AM
What do we want? Norrin Radd! What do we want? Norrin Radd! What do we want? Norrin Radd! What do we want? Norrin Radd! What do we want? Norrin Radd! What do we want? Norrin Radd! What do we want? Norrin Radd! What do we want? Norrin Radd! What do we want? Norrin Radd!
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/8/2025, 9:09 AM
@MuadDib - But when do we want him?
Pictilli
Pictilli - 5/8/2025, 8:28 AM
She's not Shalla-Bal if she has Norrin Radd's storyarc, she is just a sex changed Silver Surfer and Shalla in name only because the studio thinks you are dumb and wanted to do female Silver Surfer but called her Shalla-Bal because they thought it would trick comic fans and shield the movie from their criticism.
dragon316
dragon316 - 5/8/2025, 9:11 AM
Reshoots what person said on this site reshoots bad movie forgot what member said that

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