First Steps’ debuts Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer, pregnant Sue Storm

Julia Garner is surfing into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps unveiled a new trailer at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday, and the footage debuted an exciting first look at the Ozark Emmy-winner’s highly-anticipated take on Marvel villain the Silver Surfer.

The brief look at the world-devouring space god Galactus’s (Ralph Ineson) herald had audience members clapping and “ooh-ing” and “ah-ing” as she glided across the screen on her silver board. And, as Garner guessed, the character is plenty shiny.

But that wasn’t the only part of the trailer that shocked fans, as the footage also revealed that Vanessa Kirby’s hero Sue Storm is pregnant — giving new meaning to the movie’s title. 

After opening on an old-timey talk show’s puff piece on “Marvel’s First Family” — Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Kirby’s Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn’s Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Ben Grimm/The Thing — the trailer returns to their retro-futuristic home, where Richards and Sue arrive late for their family dinner. That’s when Johnny guesses correctly that Sue is pregnant.

Later, during a battle sequence, Sue tells Reed, “We can do this.” Later, when Reed expresses that he “doesn’t know” if they’re safe, she appears strong and confident again, telling him, “I’m not giving up.”

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After the Silver Surfer delivers a crushing blow, Sue once again comforts and strengthens Reed. “We will face this together,” she says. “We will fight it together, as a family.”

“One of the things we decided early on was not to do an origin story,” director Matt Shakman previously told Entertainment Weekly. “One of the ways we’re making it our own thing is we’re not telling the story of them going up and being changed and starting our story [there]. There’s a lot of well-known narrative that leads into that moment, right? And then you’re making up your new story starting basically at the end of the first act, and we thought, ‘Well, let’s just start this thing off on a completely new foot.’ So we are beginning after that.”

The Fantastic Four: First Steps surfs into theaters on July 25.

With reporting by Lauren Huff.