The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the first movie of Phase Six of the MCU will be released in the US on July 25, 2025.
Based on the Fantastic Four superhero team from Marvel Comics, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is produced by Marvel Studios and will be released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the second reboot of the Fantastic Four film series and the 37th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The ensemble cast includes Ralph Ineson, Julia Garner, Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, Natasha Lyonne, Sarah Niles, and the titular team of Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
When is Fantastic Four: First Steps releasing?
The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be released in the US on July 25, 2025.
After Fantastic Four (2015), 20th Century Fox started working on a new Fantastic Four movie. Marvel Studios gained control of the franchise after the studio was purchased by Disney in March 2019, and a new movie was revealed in July. The goal of Marvel Studios was not to repeat the characters' origin story but to tell a fresh one. Filming took place on location in England and Spain as well as at Pinewood Studios in London from July to November 2024.
In The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the Fantastic Four have to defend their retro-futuristic, 1960s-inspired world against Galactus, a cosmic creature that devours planets.
The Fantastic Four in Marvel Comics
The Fantastic Four is a group of superheroes that appear in the Marvel Comics. The team's debut was in The Fantastic Four #1 (cover dated November 1961). During an unapproved test journey into outer space in an experimental rocket ship created by Dr. Reed Richards, he along with three other civilian astronauts - pilot Ben Grimm, crew members Susan Storm, and her brother Johnny Storm - are exposed to cosmic rays, creating the Fantastic Four. When the four of them leave the rocket, they find they have superpowers and resolve to use them to help others.
The team consists of the following members:
Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards)
Invisible Girl/Invisible Woman (Susan Storm)
Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
Thing (Ben Grimm)
FAQs about Fantastic Four
Yes, Fantastic Four: First Steps is in the MCU. The film will be released in the US on July 25, 2025.
Galactus is the villain in Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Mister Fantastic (Dr. Reed Nathaniel Richards) is the leader of the Fantastic Four.
