Two months before the release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Marvel is ramping up marketing with the release of a spot for the NBA playoffs.
Watch below, which teases the FF are racing to watch the NBA Western Conference Playoffs on ESPN. Presently, the Minnesota Timberwolves are up by three over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1.
Footage includes Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as their respective characters using their powers. HERBIE is there and there is more from the Fantasticar.
Watch the spot:
New TV spot for ‘THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS’.
— Fantastic Four Updates (@F4Update) May 21, 2025
In theaters July 25. pic.twitter.com/jgPsoXpZoC
Vanessa Kirby and Matt Shakman on Sue Storm’s Role and Power
Vanessa Kirby and director Matt Shakman recently talked about Sue Storm, aka Invisible Woman.
“Sue has accomplished just as much in the political realm,” Kirby told EW.com. “As head of the Future Foundation (a concept taken from writer Jonathan Hickman’s 21st-century Fantastic Four comics, one of the successor stories that is as beloved by fans as Lee and Kirby’s originals), she has helped achieve global demilitarization and peace. When Shakman and his collaborators say the dreams of the ’60s have been made real in this movie, they don’t just mean rocketships.
“If he is the most scientifically intelligent person, then she is the most emotionally intelligent person on the planet,” Shakman said of Reed and Sue. “Between the two of them, they’re building an idealistic society.”
Release info
The Fantastic Four: First Steps gets released on July 25, 2025. Matt Shakman is the director.
Set in a 1960s-inspired retro-futuristic world, The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduces Marvel’s First Family, Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn), and Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach).
As they struggle to balance heroism and family, they face their greatest threat yet: Galactus (Ralph Ineson), a cosmic god bent on consuming Earth, and his Herald, the mysterious Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). But when the threat turns personal, everything changes.
