Julia Garner plays the Silver Surfer in The Fantastic Four: First Steps - but not the main one we know from comics. Instead of the original Norrin Radd Silver Surfer, Garner portrays Shalla-Bal, ...
Julio is a Senior Author for Collider. He studied History and International Relations at university, but found his calling in cultural journalism. When he isn't writing, Julio also teaches English at ...
Fantastic Four: First Steps Director Doesn’t Rule Out Seeing John Malkovich’s Cut Villain (Just Not in Theaters) Garner couldn’t say if Shalla-Bal’s background parallels Norrin Radd’s origin story as ...
In The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), the story unfolds on Earth‑828 around 1964, four years after Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm gained superpowers. When Reed and Sue ...
Julia Garner is enjoying her chrome era. There was instant fan love when Garner's Silver Surfer first appeared in a trailer for Marvel’s “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” (in theaters now). Since then ...
The Silver Surfer made a cosmic splash in Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966), where Jack Kirby introduced him unannounced alongside Galactus to serve as his herald. Stan Lee embraced the character's ...
The release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps has brought Marvel’s first family into the MCU, but it has also sparked a reappraisal of 2005’s Fantastic Four movie and its sequel, Rise of the Silver ...