‘The Fantastic Four’ Cast Revealed for Marvel Movie

Marvel Studios has found its Fantastic Four. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn will star as the heroes in The Fantastic Four.

Pascal was previously reported to star as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in the feature, while the others had been heavily rumored in recent months. Kirby will star as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, while Joseph Quinn will play her brother, Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, and Moss-Bachrach will star as Ben Grimm/The Thing.

The casting caps years of speculation over who might play the team. The film now has a new release date of July 25, 2025, and hails from WandaVision director Matt Shakman. Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer penned a draft of the script, with Avatar: The Way of Water scribe Josh Friedman working on a version, as well.

Marvel announced the news early Wednesday in a Valentine’s Day Instagram message to fans. At the same time, Disney revealed the new release date and a tweaked title change (it was previously known as Fantastic Four, without a The in front of it).

Pushing back the film from early May to July isn’t a surprise, considering the cast hadn’t been finalized until now. But Marvel isn’t giving up on the prime May weekend date, which is considered the start of the summer box office season. Fantastic Four essentially swapped dates with the antihero-centric Thunderbolts, which now opens in theaters May 5. Marvel’s two other 2025 films, Captain America: Brave New World (Feb. 14) and Blade (Nov. 7), remain where they were.

The Fantastic Four has been among Marvel’s more anticipated films, perhaps because its team has never been done justice on the big screen. Roger Corman produced a low-rent version in 1994 that was never released, while Fox and director Tim Story released a pair of films in 2005 and 2007 that received a mixed response and starred Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, future MCU actor Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis. In 2015, Fox attempted to revive the franchise under director Josh Trank to disastrous results. A few years after that, Disney acquired Fox, opening the door for the Fantastic Four to enter the MCU.

The Fantastic Four are a cornerstone of the Marvel mythos, with writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby introducing the team in 1961’s Fantastic Four No. 1, the comic that would launch the Marvel Universe.

The casting for the super team has closely watched — and speculated about — with fan castings running rampant online. John Krasinski played a version of Reed Richards in May 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness who was quickly killed off.

Pascal is one of the more in-demand actors in Hollywood, with a busy schedule that includes The Last of Us and an upcoming Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian & Grogu movie.

Kirby was recently in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One. She received an Oscar nominee for Pieces of a Woman.

Moss-Bachrach is among the key cast of The Bear, the acclaimed Chicago-based restaurant series from Hulu, for which he recently won an Emmy.

Quinn is among the stars of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things and has Gladiator 2 coming up.

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