The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Vanessa Kirby Issues Franklin Richards Tease: ‘It's Not Just Adults That Have Superpowers'

In The Fantastic Four: First Steps we’ll nary uncertainty get to spot Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and The Thing amusement disconnected their powers arsenic they conflict to support Earth against the mightiness of Galactus. But could we besides spot Franklin Richards get successful connected the action, too?

In an interrogation with Empire Magazine, Vanessa Kirby, who plays Sue Storm, dropped an absorbing tease that’s acceptable tongues wagging wrong the MCU fandom: “It’s not conscionable adults that person superpowers.”

Kirby’s Storm is large successful The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which means the MCU volition present Franklin Richards astatine immoderate point. This is simply a immense woody for the MCU, arsenic IGN has explored. As we said successful April:

Anyone acquainted with the Fantastic Four comics volition cognize that this is simply a large woody for the team. Marvel Studios is astir to present arguably the astir almighty mutant successful existence. And possibly his super-genius sister for bully measure? Let’s instrumentality a person look astatine wherefore Sue’s gestation has large implications for the MCU and the Marvel movie multiverse.Franklin is easy 1 of the astir almighty beings successful the Marvel Universe. He has the quality to warp world and substance astatine will, a powerfulness that adjacent allows him to make full pouch dimensions retired of nothing. This powerfulness besides manifests successful different ways, giving Franklin everything from telepathy and telekinesis to the quality to task his consciousness crossed the astral plane.Essentially, Franklin is the 1 being connected Earth whose powerfulness is truthful large it rivals that of cosmic entities similar the Celestials and Galactus. And he’s destined to lone turn much almighty with age. The FF person met aggregate big versions of Franklin from the future, suggesting that he’ll 1 time turn to go an immortal defender of the full Marvel Universe.

So, with this successful mind, could Franklin beryllium the 1 to fend disconnected Galactus? Kirby’s remark surely suggests we’ll spot the quality show his powers to immoderate degree.

The formed of The Fantastic Four are of people acceptable to prima successful adjacent year’s Avengers: Doomsday alongside different established MCU characters. Perhaps Franklin volition play a cardinal relation successful the conflict against Doctor Doom.

Earlier this week, we got a confirmed runtime for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which is the longest MCU movie since 2023's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Last week, we got our champion look yet astatine the film's mentation of Galactus, arsenic played by Ralph Ineson, via a Snapple promo that leaked the character's design. That followed a revealing Funko Pop! spoiler for The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

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