She falls in love with Norrin Radd, who is the original Silver Surfer in the comics. He is turned into the cosmic power being after offering to become Galactus' herald, in return for sparing Shalla-Bal's home planet. Footage from First Steps sees that Shalla-Bal has seems to be the one who has taken on this mantle instead.

Garner also noted that she’s portraying Shalla-Bal, a female iteration of the Silver Surfer, and not Norrin Radd, the male version of the character who was played Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne in 2007’s “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.”

But it was a little odd to hear that Marvel also planned to make the Fantastic Four a major part of the MCU’s future. Even though the Fantastic Four have always been prominent in Marvel’s comics, the characters — created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee — had never translated well to the big screen.

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Michael Chiklis, who played Ben Grimm/The Thing in 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four, shared a heartfelt message to the cast of Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. “I want to thank everyone for all the Fantastic Four love this last couple of months during the run up to the new F4 flick,

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the four stars of the film – we're assuming that means Alex Hyde-White (Reed Richards), Jay Underwood (Johnny Storm), Michael Bailey Smith (Ben Grimm), and Rebecca Staab (Sue Storm) – have a cameo in the upcoming Marvel Phase 6 movie.

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It’s commemoratin’ time. 20 years after Marvel’s First Family took their first steps onto the big screen in 2005’s Fantastic Four — with Ioan Gruffudd as elastic team leader Reed Richards, Jessica Alba as invisible woman Susan Storm,