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Please Welcome The Fantastic Four! Check Out The Brand New Trailer For THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS And First Look At Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer
Showcasing Marvel’s First Family, Silver Surfer, H.E.R.B.I.E. and the retro-futuristic, 1960s vibe of Marvel Studios’ FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, a new trailer and poster have arrived.
Opening in theaters July 25, Marvel Studios’ FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS introduces Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm/Human Torch Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they face their most daunting challenge yet.
Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.
The action adventure also stars Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich, Natasha Lyonne and Sarah Niles. FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS is directed by Matt Shakman, produced by Kevin Feige and executive produced by Louis D’Esposito, Grant Curtis and Tim Lewis.
“Your planet is now marked for death.” So who is this Silver Surfer?
Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer first appeared in The Silver Surfer #1 (August 1968), created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Buscema. She was the love interest of Norrin Radd. In the 2000 comic “Earth X, Chapter 12” (Jim Krueger, Alex Ross) Shalla-Bal was transformed into the Silver Surfer by Franklin Richards / Galactus before she is later killed in battle against the Celestials.
“Shalla-Bal was Norrin Radd’s girlfriend before Norrin sacrificed his freedom to become Galactus’ new herald in exchange for Galactus agreeing to spare Norrin and Shalla’s home world of Zenn-La.
However, some time later, during Silver Surfer’s time on Earth, Mephisto used some torment of Shalla-Bal to mess with Silver Surfer’s head. That seemed to be the end of it, though, with Shalla still being on Zenn-La.
Things changed, though, when Surfer (still stuck on Earth) visited Latveria in 1975’s Fantastic Four #155 (by Len Wein, Rich Buckler and Joe Sinnott). In it, Surfer was shocked to see a poster up of a woman who sure looked like Shalla-Bal that referred to her as the queen of Latveria (by the way, it’s kind of hilarious that he falls specifically into Latveria of all places. They should have put some bit like “The barrier was weakest in Latveria, as that was the place where Doctor Doom almost burst through it when he had my powers, so that’s why I went there”).
Doctor Doom reveals that he will return Shalla-Bal’s memories to her if the Silver Surfer agrees to take down the Fantastic Four for Doctor Doom.”
Read this fantastic article on her over at Comic Book Resources: https://www.cbr.com/silver-surfer-fantastic-four-shalla-bal-doctor-doom/
Reed and Sue announce in the trailer that they are having a baby. But which child are they having, fellow movie geeks?
See Marvel Studios’ THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS in theaters on July 25.
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