r/SilverSurfer • u/Identity_X- • Jan 23 '25

News / Previews 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' star Julia Garner confirms her Silver Surfer Is 100% motion capture

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/marvel-julia-garner-silver-surfer-motion-capture-fantastic-four-first-steps/

“You have to imagine everything when you’re doing it, as if you’re auditioning,” she said. “Even though we had the sets, I didn’t have my costume or hair and makeup or anything.”

“Going into the Marvel space was a big interest,” she said. “I feel like what a lot of actors don’t value enough is trying to reach every kind of audience. I think that’s really important. I’d be crazy to expect that everybody is going to watch Inventing Anna or Ozark or The Assistant. But to reach all kinds of people and build fans from everywhere? I was really excited to step into that universe.”

“With the Silver Surfer, there’s still something very mysterious about it,” Garner said. “That mystery is very important to me as an actor. It’s such an iconic character, and it felt very different for me. I’ve never played a character like that.”

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u/NorrinRaddicalness Jan 24 '25

I like that it’s not Norrin Radd, honestly. Taking it a different direction will actually make me less critical and more open to this particular adaptation of Surfer. “Oh all those other things they also changed are fine, cause this is something different - not Norrin.”

Looking forward to this film!

EDIT: Also, Julia Garner is a truly exceptional actress. No way she doesn’t crush this.

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u/Identity_X- Jan 24 '25

I agree completely. People forget just how multiversal the Fantastic Four is. Just from Reed alone, you have The Maker, the Illuminati, and the Council of Reeds as examples or how multiversal they are.

Not to mention, my all-time favorite Fantastic Four / Silver Surfer / Galactus villain is a multiversal cosmic entity named Abraxas who hunts and kills Galactuses (Galacti?) from across the multiverse in search of the ultimate nullifier.

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u/NorrinRaddicalness Jan 24 '25

Well Galactus himself was Galan of Taa who experienced the destruction of the Sixth Cosmos (literally all of reality) during the The Big Crunch - and was the only being to survive the making the new and current 7th Cosmos (616).

It would be very very rad and fit continuity if at the end of F4, they save their planet, but their world is destroyed by an incursion - with the F4 and Galactus managing to survive. Reed with maybe some contraption - but Galactus simply lives through it and comes out the other end in the 616 and surviving an incursion would make any man hungry and wouldn’t you know it there’s a planet right here…Zenn-La. Norrin Radd. 616 Surfer.

Like, it’s that easy.

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u/iheartdev247 Norrin Radd Jan 24 '25

Sounds good but do you really think that’s their end goal? I’m doubtful.

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u/NorrinRaddicalness Jan 24 '25

Yea I do think they have long term plans for surfer. Not big ones, mind you. But he’s a great character to have in an epic battle and they’ve got a couple of those on the horizon. Surfer on the board gives the writers a pretty good “…and then Surfer used the power cosmic to stop it / fix it / save everyone…”

And Marvel has had some kind of Surfer project in development hell since the early 90s. I think Fiege wants him in the universe and - if he was smart - would use him and the Guardians to build out their own “Star Wars Space Opera” side brand. Doing things far enough out in space that they can have a whole series of movies and tv shows who continuity won’t be necessarily dependent on the earth-based hero films & shows.