The first trailer for Josh Trank’s reboot of Marvel’s Fantastic Four has been released!
In the clip, a grave voiceover from Dr. Franklin Storm (Reg E. Cathey) says, “Human beings have an immeasurable desire to discover, to invent, to build. Our future depends on us furthering these ideas. Our responsibility rests on the shoulders of generations to come. But with every new discovery, there is risk, there is sacrifice and there are consequences.”
We are shown throughout the trailer each of the titular Four as young twenty-somethings before they become Fantastic. Miles Teller will take on the role of Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Kate Mara will portray Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman, Michael B. Jordan will play Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Jamie Bell will tackle Ben Grimm/The Thing. It will feature Toby Kebbell as Victor Domashev, a new take to the classic Fantastic Four villain Dr. Doom.
The film will be an origin story of the Ultimate Fantastic Four comics, where Reed Richards helps discover and develop teleportation technology. According to Screen Rant, “instead of the original Fantastic Four origin of the characters flying to the moon and getting hit by a cosmic rays which grand them powers, they instead teleport to another dimension where they are mutated.”
Below is the official Fantastic Four plot synopsis:
A contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
In a previous interview with Collider, producer Simon Kinberg mentioned how the first trailer would feature a hidden Easter egg. ScreenCrush seemed to have found it, writing that the scene with Sue Storm looking at a handful of computer screens includes a set of numbers at the bottom left (23.21.190.125). If you were to enter those numbers into a browser address bar, it will open a Wikipedia page on “Latveria,” the fictional Marvel nation ruled over by the Four’s arch nemesis Dr. Doom.
Twentieth Century Fox’s upcoming feature is the third in the franchise; the first Fantastic Four debuted in 2005, followed by 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
Trank directs the action-adventure from a script he wrote with Jeremy Slater and Simon Kinberg. It is produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman.
Fantastic Four hits theaters August 7th. Check out the trailer below!
