Fantastic Four MCU cast revealed, with Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm
Marvel Studios has lastly revealed the cast of its new Fantastic Four film.
The Final of Us’ Pedro Pascal will lead the cast as Reed Richards, aka the stretchy Mister Fantastic; Vanessa Kirby (Mission Not possible: Fallout) would be the forcefield-manifesting, light-warping Sue Storm, the Invisible Girl; Joseph Quinn (Stranger Issues) stars as Johnny “Human Torch” Storm; and The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach will embody the Factor, aka Ben Grimm. There’s no phrase but on who will oppose Marvel’s first household, however whoever the villain finally ends up being it’s positive to be one of many greatest threats within the Marvel Cinematic Universe to this point.
The cast was introduced on Valentine’s Day, with a really unusual tweet from Marvel that exposed each the cast and our first take a look at them by way of a Valentine’s Day card. The cardboard has hallmarks of retro-future design, together with an previous virtually Jetsons-like robotic serving Ben his morning espresso — presumably the FF’s recurring helperbot, HERBIE (Humanoid Experimental Robotic, B-type, Built-in Electronics).
Pascal can have a busy schedule over the following few years relating to franchise work. Along with becoming a member of the MCU, he’ll additionally seem in a brand new Star Wars film, reprising his position as The Mandalorian’s Din Djarin, and within the second season of HBO’s The Final of Us. Pascal beforehand labored within the DC Prolonged Universe, portraying villain Maxwell Lord in Surprise Girl 1984.
Fantastic Four, the fourth live-action try to carry Marvel’s first household to film screens, will probably be directed by Matt Shakman, who beforehand helmed all 9 episodes of Disney Plus’ WandaVision. From dramas (Sport of Thrones, Home, Mad Males) to comedy (You’re the Worst, Psych, Youngsters’s Hospital), Shakman has finished nearly all the pieces, together with directing 43 manic episodes of It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia.
Fantastic Four is scheduled to hit film theaters July 25, 2025, and can play a pivotal position in Marvel’s Multiverse Saga, which kicked off with Part 4 initiatives like WandaVision, Loki, and Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings. The introductory movie to Part 6 of the MCU is ready to tee up two Avengers films, Avengers 5 and Secret Wars, that are slated to hit theaters in 2026 and 2027, respectively.
Marvel first introduced its new Fantastic Four flick again in 2019 at San Diego Comedian-Con. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige teased it throughout that 12 months’s conference, however Disney didn’t formally put it on the MCU schedule till 2022.
