The Fantastic Four: First Steps Will Start 'A New Tide of Successful Storytelling' for Marvel, Paul Walter Hauser Says

High hopes, precocious hopes, Paul Walter Hauser is giving america precocious hopes. The Fantastic Four: First Steps is connected the horizon, and Hauser is hyping up the movie with immoderate highly prime words that, if proven correct, mightiness mean this is 1 of the champion MCU films successful caller years.

"So I deliberation our movie, Fantastic Four: First Steps, to me, lone speaking from my opinion, everything I witnessed and took portion in, everything I felt portion successful the beingness of the creatives connected the film, I judge we are the Marvel movie of the year,” Hauser, who is playing a still-undisclosed relation successful the film, told TheDirect successful a caller interview. “I judge we are the 1 to watch."

Hauser, who is starring successful the upcoming movie The Luckiest Man In America, adjacent went arsenic acold arsenic to comparison the movie to 2 of the astir highly regarded MCU outputs ever. "And I judge that this volition spell down successful past arsenic 1 of the ones that started a caller tide of palmy storytelling for the company,” helium added. “Sort of successful the aforesaid mode the Guardians of the Galaxy and Black Panther hit. They some deed successful a definite way. I judge we are astir to hit."

That said, the Richard Jewell histrion besides noted that, you know, if it does extremity up being bad, everyone has atrocious days — I mean, movies. "Let's retrieve that Marvel is servicing a batch of folks, and they privation to marque a batch of amusement for radical to enjoy, and nary of america are 100%. None of america deed the people each time,” Hauser said. “Not a azygous 1 of us. Your favourite manager has made a little than satisfactory movie. Just facts."

Paul Walter Hauser is hyping up The Fantastic Four. Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps went into improvement soon aft Josh Trank’s 2015 effort astatine a reboot movie was little than the large bang 20th Century Fox was hoping for. After Disney acquired Fox successful 2019, the movie was moved to Marvel Studios and officially announced successful July of that year. Matt Shakman replaced Jon Watts arsenic manager successful September 2022, and volition helm a publication by Josh Friedman, Cameron Squires, Eric Pearson, Peter Cameron, Jeff Kaplan, and Ian Springer.

Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bacarach are acceptable to commencement arsenic the titular four, with a supporting formed of Hauser, John Malkovitch, Julia Garner, Natasha Lyonne, Sarah Niles, and Ralph Ineson arsenic the villain Galactus alongside them.

Potential AI posters aside, The Fantastic Four: First Steps volition usher successful Phase Six of the MCU and is acceptable to beryllium released successful theaters connected July 25, 2025. We besides cognize The Fantastic Four volition crook up successful the adjacent Avengers movie, Avengers: Doomsday, present that the formed has been revealed.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.