Fantastic Four MCU cast revealed, featuring Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm

Marvel Studios has finally revealed the cast of its new Fantastic Four movie.

The last of usPedro Pascal will lead the cast as Reed Richards, aka the stretchy Mister Fantastic; Vanessa Kirby (Mission Impossible: Fallout) will be the forcefield-manifesting, light-warping Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman; Joseph Quinn (Stranger things) stars as Johnny “Human Torch” Storm; And The bearEbon Moss-Bachrach will embody The Thing, aka Ben Grimm. There’s no word yet on who will oppose Marvel’s first family, but whoever the villain ends up being will certainly be one of the biggest threats in the Marvel Cinematic Universe yet.

The cast was announced on Valentine’s Day, with a very strange tweet from Marvel revealing both the cast and our first look at them via a Valentine’s Day card. The map has features of a retro-future design, including an old, almost Jetsons-esque robot serving Ben his morning coffee – presumably the FF’s returning helper bot, HERBIE (Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-type, Integrated Electronics).

Pascal will have a busy schedule in the coming years when it comes to franchise work. In addition to joining the MCU, he will also appear in a new Star Wars film, reprising his role The Mandalorian‘s Din Djarin, and in HBO’s second season The last of us. Pascal previously worked in the DC Extended Universe, where he played the villain Maxwell Lord Wonder Woman 1984.

Fantastic fourthe fourth live-action attempt to bring Marvel’s first family to movie screens will be directed by Matt Shakman, who previously directed all nine episodes of Disney Plus. WandaVision. From dramas (Game of Thrones, House, Crazy men) to comedy (You are the worst, Psych, Children’s Hospital), Shakman has done just about everything, including directing 43 manic episodes of It’s always sunny in Philadelphia.

Fantastic four is expected to hit theaters on July 25, 2025 and will play a pivotal role in Marvel’s Multiverse Saga, which kicked off with Phase 4 projects such as WandaVision, LokiAnd Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings. The launch film for Phase 6 of the MCU will include two Avengers films, Avengers 5 And Secret Warswhich will hit theaters in 2026 and 2027 respectively.

Marvel first announced its new Fantastic Four movie in 2019 at San Diego Comic-Con. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige teased it at that year’s convention, but Disney didn’t formally place it on the MCU schedule until 2022.