The Fantastic Four: First Steps Official Teaser Trailer

Good trailer, looking forward to this. What's crazy is the cast was in town today to debut the trailer at the Space & Rocket Center (Huntsville, AL -- Hometown of MCU Nick Fury!) so people keep sending in pics of them around town to the news station I work at. Kinda tempted to post a particular Pedro at Starbucks picture, but that would get me in some hot water if anyone cared enough to take notice.

Solid first trailer with a very specific vibe that I am digging. The design for The Thing, the costumes, the set design, the pace of speech - it all feels very promising, special even.The main cast looks pretty close to my mind's eye versions of the characters, but I know everyone has their own thoughts about that. Not sure why folks are griping about Pedro's stache (might not be how the character was drawn, but it doesn't look wrong - these are filmmaker choices, not ours, so they are not worth getting worked up about). Marvel has had some misses for sure, but given how many films and TV shows they have created with their inter-connected universe and how many of them knocked it out of the park, it is foolish to bet against them. Marvel knows they need some magic, and I think they got it here. None of us know what the story will be yet, none of us know if Downey's Doom will work or not, but looking for something to be wrong is just exhausting... how 'bout we just get excited about the fact that we have a new Fantastic Four film in the MCU!

I loved this, everything was super great to me here, except for Ben's voice being totally wrong IMO, but loved the retro vibe, loved the casting...I mean Pedro could lose the facial hair but Whatever, and Oh my Galactus!

I'm very excited for this film.

Looks good, overall, but I really hope Thing's CGI is going to get more polish than that. Currently, it's looking very low budget.

I'll be there for it (because I'm there for any MCU stuff) but the only things that bothered me were that the Thing looked a little too CGI (but they may clean that up some before release) and that I'm still not sold on Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards. Could be because I feel they had the perfect casting with John Krasinski but that's just me. Vanessa Kirby will be awesome as Sue Storm/Richards though.

A pretty good trailer. Love the retro vibes and everyone seems to act like they should. Love the retro feel of it all.

On 2/4/2025 at 6:49 AM, Ron said:

I have mixed feelings. I'm an old school FF fan. The movie appears polished with a nice retro vibe but the casting has me thrown a bit. Pedro Pascal is great in his many roles, but for me, he is not, nor looks like Reed Richards. Perhaps the mustache is visually getting in the way of selling his portrayal for me? Sue Storm seems nicely cast. There wasn't enough of Johnny Storm in the trailer for me to see but he seems to at least look the part. I hope there is more to him than that. The look of Ben Grimm as the Thing is great but: 1) While I know he is not the Hulk, he appears a bit too small; 2) his Rocky body seems to always be covered up; and 3) his voice doesn't evoke the rough and tumble Yancy Street New Yorker personality that Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created him to be. Notwithstanding, I look forward to it and hope the rest of the movie overcomes my observations. Cheers!

I agree that Pedro just isn't Mr. Fantastic, and can't see how Downey is supposed to be Doom. I would no more cast him in that role than I would have Pacino or Eastwood (in their prime) play, say for example, Dr. Strange. Acting ability and range aside, some actors are just not the right fit for some characters. This isn't some slam against them or a sideswipe at Pascal.

Not sure why they had to change the Baxter Building so much but it does look good. Nevertheless I thought it was odd that we get to see the others use their powers, but not Reed. Of course, this is just a quick clip; I'm sure there will be more of him later just as I can just as we may see more of the Thing.

Lol, I dig this man! LOVE the retro vibe! I didn't even really notice the mustache on Pedro, lol. I was foccused more on Ben and especially Sue; Vanessa Kirby seems to have nailed it, and I'd previously thought her casting was off. Very on point portrayal! Yeah, again I'm really digging the retro and retro futurism look to this. If someone can do this for the 70s, my head will literally explode.

I have mixed feelings. I'm an old school FF fan. The movie appears polished with a nice retro vibe but the casting has me thrown a bit. Pedro Pascal is great in his many roles, but for me, he is not, nor looks like Reed Richards. Perhaps the mustache is visually getting in the way of selling his portrayal for me? Sue Storm seems nicely cast. There wasn't enough of Johnny Storm in the trailer for me to see but he seems to at least look the part. I hope there is more to him than that. The look of Ben Grimm as the Thing is great but: 1) While I know he is not the Hulk, he appears a bit too small; 2) his Rocky body seems to always be covered up; and 3) his voice doesn't evoke the rough and tumble Yancy Street New Yorker personality that Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created him to be. Notwithstanding, I look forward to it and hope the rest of the movie overcomes my observations. Cheers!

I would think the Negative Zone would be a good MacGuffin to get them out of this reality and into "ours".