THE FANTASTIC FOUR's Mystery Statue From Set Photos Finally Revealed; New Details On Ladies' Man Johnny Storm

THE FANTASTIC FOUR's Mystery Statue From Set Photos Finally Revealed; New Details On Ladies' Man Johnny Storm

The mysterious statue first spotted on the set of The Fantastic Four: First Steps has been revealed in its entirety, while filmmaker Matt Shakman has also detailed his approach to the MCU's Human Torch.

By JoshWilding - Jun 05, 2025 04:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four

It's been a decade since we saw Michael B. Jordan bring the Human Torch to life on screen, and it was another 10 years before that when Chris Evans first suited up as the character (he returned briefly as a Johnny Storm Variant in Deadpool & Wolverine last summer).

The Fantastic Four: First Steps may be set in the 1960s, but filmmaker Matt Shakman set out to modernise the hotheaded superhero for today's moviegoing audience.

"I was interested in a Johnny Storm who was more than just a ladies' man and adrenaline junkie," he told Empire Magazine in a recent interview. "I was looking for somebody who could be a dreamer. And I think [Joseph Quinn] is an incredibly alive, spontaneous actor."

However, Johnny won't be humourless, something that's evident from Quinn describing his "method" approach to Johnny. "I tried that on day one. I turned up doused in gasoline, and Pedro was chasing me around with a match."

"Like with any family, there's times you want to kill them," he says of his co-stars, "but I love them to death. I would take a bullet for all three of them. That's a bit dramatic. But I love them dearly. You can't force this stuff."

You may recall that, when The Fantastic Four: First Steps was shooting last year, a mysterious statue was spotted from afar. Well, we now have a close-up look at that, and it does indeed depict Marvel's First Family showing off their powers. 

New York clearly loves its superhero team, and it would be an awesome Easter Egg to reveal that Alicia Masters (Ben Grimm's comic book love interest) was the one who sculpted it. However, that may be a waste if this reality is no more after Avengers: Secret Wars

You can take a closer look at the statue 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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AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 6/5/2025, 4:40 PM
Johnny is a man's man?
lvcl
lvcl - 6/5/2025, 4:52 PM
@AllsNotGood -

More WOKE for the DISNEY machine
newhire13
newhire13 - 6/5/2025, 7:21 PM
@lvcl - Oh stfu.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 6/5/2025, 8:50 PM
@AllsNotGood - Of course.
This is modern Disney.
They've made him gayer than a 3 dollar bill.

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MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/6/2025, 12:37 AM
My Time to Shine Hello said that Kevin Fartie plans to have Johnny Storm and Bobby Drake make some steam.
0bstreperous
0bstreperous - 6/5/2025, 4:40 PM
First Bond then Johnny
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/5/2025, 6:15 PM
@0bstreperous -

Libs also killed Luke Skywalker's wife.

Bobby Drake.

They broke up Peter and M.J.

They broke up Han and Leia.

They broke up Indiana and Marion.

They are sick in the head.
0bstreperous
0bstreperous - 6/5/2025, 6:49 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - yeah I'm still sad about Peter and MJ
AllsGood
AllsGood - 6/5/2025, 7:20 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - Grab your Popcorn.

Trump and Musk are going at it on Social Media X. The world is watching. Dropping Bombs

Elon Musk Says Donald Trump Is In The Jeffrey Epstein Files

"That is the real reason they have not been made public," Musk posted on X amid his falling out with Trump.
newhire13
newhire13 - 6/5/2025, 7:22 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - You’re such a loser
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/5/2025, 9:23 PM
@newhire13 -

I'm winning.

You're losing.

And unlike some illiterates, I am capable of ending a sentence with a period.

You cad.

You fop.

You roustabout.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/5/2025, 9:31 PM
@AllsGood -

And this means what in the grand scheme of things?

Does it undo all the beneficial ICE arrests?

Does it open the American borders?

Does it make abortion a free for all in America?

President Donald Trump will keep winning for 3+ years.

In 2029 he will hand Vice President James Vance the keys to the White House, and then he will win for most of the 2030s.

Craptain UnAmerican?

Bomb.

No White?

Bomb.

Blunderdolts*?

Bomb.

Elio?

Bomb.

Fantastic Bore: Last Steps?

Underperformer and not a member of the billion dollar club.

Disney+?

Dead.

MSNBC?

Dying.

June corporate sponsorship?

Dying.

Target?

Dying.

Hollywood?

Dying.

Heels Up Harris?

Irrelevant.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 6/5/2025, 10:14 PM
@0bstreperous - Bond still got the girl, he just wasn't a creepy perv.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/6/2025, 12:40 AM
@bobevanz -

How do you figure James Bond is a creepy perv?

He's not like Joe Biden, Jared Leto, Tenoch Huerta, Pedro Pascal, James Gunn, and thousands of other libs.
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 6/6/2025, 2:38 AM
@bobevanz - at least he got some unlike you
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 6/6/2025, 2:40 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - "How do you figure James Bond is a creepy perv?

He's not like Joe Biden, Jared Leto, Tenoch Huerta, Pedro Pascal, James Gunn, and thousands of other libs."

You forgot Trump from that lista of pervs
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 6/5/2025, 5:00 PM
If they do that... the prophecy will be fulfilled...

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MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/5/2025, 9:35 PM
Pedro Pascal licking a stick suggestively.

http://youtube.com/shorts/pPtcRVEPVFk?si=EKSSApK4tDpa1elW
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/5/2025, 5:05 PM
That sculpture is really cool and it would be a nice Easter egg if it’s revealed that a blind sculptor named Alicia Masters made it (if Natasha Lyonne isn’t playing her already that is).

Also I’m liking Quinn’s take on Johnny the more we see of him which is honestly surprising since him and Ebon Moss Bachrach were the castings I was already most sold on for their respective characters…

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This version of Johnny being more of a dreamer is interesting since you can mine it on a comedic level where he comes up with all these crazy things that may or may not be possible and on a dramatic level aswell where perhaps he wants more out of life for himself in some ways such as love which is true to certain comic iterations of the character aswell.
PatientXero
PatientXero - 6/5/2025, 5:18 PM
Totally sounds like they nailed it.
Odekahn
Odekahn - 6/5/2025, 5:34 PM
@PatientXero - Yeah, to a cross.
Odekahn
Odekahn - 6/5/2025, 5:33 PM
“It's been a decade since we saw Michael B. Jordan bring the Human Torch to life on screen”

Yeah… he didn’t bring Human Torch to life. At all.

“I was interested in a Johnny Storm who was more than just a ladies' man and adrenaline junkie”

MORE THAN suggests that he’s other things IN ADDITION to a ladies man and adrenaline junkie… why do I feel like he will be neither of those things?

“Matt Shakman set out to modernise the hotheaded superhero for today's moviegoing audience”

🤦🏻
dagenspear
dagenspear - 6/5/2025, 5:57 PM
"I was interested in a Johnny Storm who was more than just a ladies' man and adrenaline junkie," he told Empire Magazine in a recent interview. "I was looking for somebody who could be a dreamer. And I think [Joseph Quinn] is an incredibly alive, spontaneous actor."

My issue with calling him a dreamer is that I think it suggests he's not an inherently flawed person. I don't see writing characters who don't have flaws and/or struggles that make them jerkish and/or problematic or depressed/angry as being a solid writing angle. For instance, I haven't seen much about Ben Grimm in this, is he going to be really struggling or self loathing or anything like that? I dunno. I haven't seen that be talked about much. Most of what I'm hearing seems to be, to me, complaints about his voice. What's his story or struggles?
MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 6/5/2025, 6:00 PM
IT'S OFFICIAL:

This will be the 2nd comic book movie i will skip in my 45 years of going to movie theaters!

PS: Ballerina was great: 9/10
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/5/2025, 6:17 PM
@MarvelZombie616 -

Thank you.

What was the first?
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 6/5/2025, 6:38 PM
@MarvelZombie616 - 2nd?...My Lord. That means you really went to the theaters for the really awful ones. God Bless you man. Your sacrifices were not in vein.

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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 6/5/2025, 7:01 PM
@MarvelZombie616 - Will you be changing your name to CasualMarvelFan616.

Because a true believin' Marvel zombie would not skip Jack Kirby-accurate Galactus on the big screen in a period-accurate '60s setting Marvel Studios FF movie. This looks like a great adaptation of those classic books, Mole Man, Red Ghost, etc.
They even got elements from other fan favorite comics like the Byrne run, the Hickman run, Jim Lee's Heroes Reborn, the 1978 TV show and Earth X.

I'll be there, day one, IMAX screen, facing front.
'Nuff said.
SummersEssex
SummersEssex - 6/5/2025, 9:08 PM
@ObserverIO - same. You’re not alone. This comments section is wild.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/5/2025, 9:44 PM
@ObserverIO -

"This looks like a great adaptation of those classic books"

Ah yes, those classic books of yore.

Who can forget when mustached Chilean Reed Richards was married to underwhelming Susan Storm, whose low testosterone underwhelming brother Johnny Storm didn't much care to be around women.

And we all remember the Thing talking calmly with a normal voice, and critiquing food?

For decades fans have dreamed of seeing Jack Kirby's famous She-lv-her S-her-f-her and her long hair and breasts on the silver screen.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/6/2025, 12:46 AM
@MarvelZombie616 -

Ballerina is not great.

It is extremely okayish.

It is one of the John Wick movies of all time.

The girlboss shit is played out and everyone knows it.

It's just put out there to annoy conservatives.

Most liberals don't like it either.

The Ballerina, Rey Palpatine, Ocean's 8, Galbusters, No White, Craptain Marvel, Madame Web, it's all slop for the dumbest people in the room.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 6/6/2025, 4:14 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - Reed has never had a mustache in the comics, but he has a beard often. They changed Tony Stark's facial hair for the MCU and now that's how people want to see that character. It's not a deal breaker and it's an obvious stylistic choice evocative of Walt Disney.

Johnny Storm will probably still be a ladies man in the movie.

The Thing talks calmly all the time in the comics and he both critiques food and cooks food. He does a mean Spanish Omelette.

Fans have not been waiting decades to see a Shalla Bal Silver Surfer, but they have been waiting over half a century to see Shalla Bal, not to mention Galactus.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/5/2025, 6:22 PM
Libs, you can can the crap, because we all know we all know the truth.

Libs don't like straight men.

So libs try to punish them.

Libs try to make them weak and foolish and ineffectual.

They try to get everyone to view straight men this way.

They tore down Thor, Scott, Johnny, etc.

They built up the women, who are Mary Sue girlbosses.

You are smart.

You see it.

Don't fall for liberals' blatant lies and deception and gaslighting.

Reject it and boycott.

Don't give a cent to people who despise you.
AllsGood
AllsGood - 6/5/2025, 7:01 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - Trump and Musk are going at it on Social Media X. The world is watching. Dropping Bombs

Elon Musk Says Donald Trump Is In The Jeffrey Epstein Files

"That is the real reason they have not been made public," Musk posted on X amid his falling out with Trump.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 6/5/2025, 7:03 PM
@AllsGood - Of course he is. Only his brainwashed moloids think otherwise.
AllsGood
AllsGood - 6/5/2025, 7:08 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - Trump VS Musk

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SummersEssex
SummersEssex - 6/5/2025, 9:09 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - you heard hear folks, direct from this obviously alpha male’s mom’s basement.

Glad you could peel your fingers off your sticky keyboard to make this happen.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/5/2025, 9:46 PM
@SummersEssex -

"you heard hear folks"

Do you mean:

"You heard it here folks"?
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/5/2025, 9:47 PM
@ObserverIO

So what if he is?

He is winning with ICE.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 6/6/2025, 4:17 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - So what if he [frick]s little girls and boys?
DenvertheDino
DenvertheDino - 6/5/2025, 6:53 PM
More woke garbage from Marvel who seems hell bent in destroying themselves.
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