First Steps" was hotly contested and speculated upon before anything official came out. At first, there were rumors that Matt Smith and Adam Driver were in contention to play Reed Richards, with the latter being a terrible choice had it come to pass.

The first trailer for Fantastic 4: First Steps, the MCU's rebooted version of Marvel's first family, has dropped. The film will be led by Pedro Pascal, who joins the MCU for the first time as Mr Fantastic, and is joined by Vanessa Kirby as The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as The Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Thing.