If you believe the rumors, Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards could face Javier Bardem’s Galactus in Fantastic Four
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Fantastic Fourrumors are coming in thick and fast. First, Pedro Pascal washeavily linkedto the role of Reed Richards (AKA Mr. Fantastic), and now we know who he might be facing off against.
According to theInsneider, Javier Bardem is the “frontrunner” to play Galactus – but it’s a casting move that may be dependent on the No Country for Old Men actor’s schedule.
Introduced in 1966’s Fantastic Four #48, Galactus is a cosmic being that devours planets and energies across space, seemingly without rhyme and reason. He was infamously featured as a planet-sized cloud in 2007’sFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
Slightly less concrete – and not yet confirmed by the trades or byMarvel Studiositeself – is that Pascal will be joined in Marvel’s First Family movie by Vanessa Kirby, with Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn and The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach playing The Human Torch and The Thing respectively.
For her part, Kirby recentlyaddressed those Fantastic Four casting rumorsin an interview withVariety.
“I don’t know, you’ll have to ask them,” she said, adding: “I would be very honored to join.”
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