Fantastic Four: Pedro Pascal to lead cast of new Marvel movie

Marvel released an illustration of The Fantastic Four cast as their characters on Wednesday

The cast of the upcoming Marvel movie, The Fantastic Four, has been announced.

Rumours about who will play the four lead characters have been swirling for months.

But Marvel has finally put those rumours to rest with an illustration of the cast in their future roles.

The movie will star Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as the Invisible Woman, Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn as the Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the Thing.

What is the Fantastic Four?

Fantastic Four is a long-running comic book series created by Marvel's Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.

This was Stan Lee's first superhero team creation, and gave him an opportunity to try out a new style of comic.

Mr Lee said he wanted to make a series where the characters would be more realistic.

In his Origins of Marvel Comics book from 1974, he wrote: "For just this once, I would do the type of story I myself would enjoy reading.... And the characters would be the kind of characters I could personally relate to..."

Stan Lee said Fantastic Four gave him the chance to create more relatable characters

The first Fantastic Four comic was published in November 1961, and to date is one of the most popular superhero teams series in Marvel's history.

There have been a few attempts to turn the comics into movies, but this is the first time that Disney will be adapting the series.

The comics star four astronauts who gain super powers while on a mission in space.

Marvel's illustration also revealed a new character who was joining the line up - a robot called HERBIE

What do we know about The Fantastic Four film?

Actor Pedro Pascal, who plays the lead in Star Wars' series The Mandalorian, shared Marvel's post to his Instagram profile.

In the post's caption he wrote, "From our family to yours", and confirmed the movie's release date would be 25 July 2025.

The illustration also teased another character joining the line-up - a robot called HERBIE who was first featured in a TV series based on the Fantastic Four comics in 1978.

Some fans think the poster hints at possible themes of the upcoming film and have suggested it will be set in the 1960s.

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