The new Fantastic Four cast’s best roles and where to watch them
Marvel Studios has finally announced the long-awaited cast for its upcoming Fantastic Four movie, the latest attempt at making one of comics’ most popular and endearing teams into a successful movie franchise.
None are big surprises, but it’s still a very interesting group. Pedro Pascal will star as Reed Richards, and will be joined by up-and-coming stars Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
Pascal has become a household name after his roles in Game of Thrones, The Mandalorian, and The Last of Us, and now he gets to anchor one of Marvel’s biggest properties. Reed Richards is basically the Marvel Universe’s collective father figure, even before he was an actual dad, so picking a man who’s spent most of the 2020s so far playing the most popular father figures in TV makes quite a bit of sense.
There’s not much else known about the movie at this time, besides that it will be directed by Matt Shakman (WandaVision, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and it’s slated to hit theaters July 25, 2025, but there sure are a lot of excellent Fantastic Four stories from Marvel’s back catalog to take inspiration from.
With July 2025 still quite a bit away, that leaves plenty of time to familiarize yourself with the new Fantastic Four’s greatest hits. Check out some of their best previous roles while you wait for the new movie.
Where to watch: For digital rental/purchase on Apple and Amazon
Everyone may know Pascal as the adoptive father of Grogu, but a year before that he was a helmet-wearing father in a much smaller sci-fi project called Prospect. The movie follows Pascal and his daughter, played by Yellowjackets’ Sophie Thatcher, as they make their way through the forests of a strange moon. Pascal wasn’t quite a household name when this one came out, but he’s no less engaging, fatherly, and fascinating than he would be a few years later in The Last of Us. —Austen Goslin
Where to watch: Netflix
While paternal tenderness might be Pascal’s current calling card, he’s
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