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The Fantastic Four First Steps Movie Featurette - Crafting Fantastic Four

US Release Date: July 25, 2025
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Director : Matt Shakman
Synopsis: The further adventures of the Fantastic Four.
Transcript
00:01Yeah, thank you, everyone.
00:04The Fantastic Four were created in the 60s.
00:06It was the time of optimism, of looking to the stars.
00:09We're putting in our own version of the 60s in this retro-future world.
00:13Matt challenged us in the early stages to try and do as much as we could practically.
00:18We built this incredible Times Square backlot set,
00:21unbelievable sets for Reed's lab and the Baxter Building Department.
00:24We went on location to Spain.
00:27There was just so much care that was put into what the movie looks like.
00:31And I think that that aesthetic really informed a rich way of realizing these characters.
00:38It was such an imaginative space.
00:40It wasn't something that anyone had ever seen, so it was a magical experience.
00:44Herbie!
00:45Having a practical Herbie just felt like having another actor on set.
00:49I was very excited about Herbie, the reality of how big of a character he was going to be,
00:53just grew and grew.
00:54He pretty much does everything that we'll see him do on screen.
00:57There's just something about Herbie.
00:58I kind of fell for him pretty quickly, and they're so cute.
01:00I felt like we had a shorthand.
01:01I felt like Herbie and Ben maybe spent a lot of time together.
01:04They were homies in a way.
01:05With Matt Shackman's approach, he's always done it through the lens of what was available to filmmakers in the 60s.
01:11It was practically what can you achieve in camera.
01:13So, why not shoot a miniature rocket?
01:15The miniature of the Excelsior spaceship behind us is 1 30th scale.
01:19It's about 13 and a half feet long.
01:21It feels very much of the time, but also retro future as well.
01:24Are we safe?
01:26And then Galactus is huge, you know, and one of the things we wanted to make sure that we captured was that scale.
01:33We approached it practically. It needs a tremendous amount of light. It needs special lenses.
01:38The biggest challenge was to make something on a human scale that we know is going to be blown up into an absolutely gigantic character.
01:45So, every little bit of detail on him has to be minute so that when he is blown up to that huge scale, it all feels very real.
01:54With all of these things, what they've done with this world is beautiful.
01:59It was just so fun to step into an era that felt so familiar and yet so otherworldly.
02:07So nostalgic and futuristic at the same time.
02:10It's very intentionally a cinematic experience.
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