Marvel Studios didn’t use AI to make the new poster for their upcoming big July release, The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
A rep from Marvel Studios tells Deadline that AI wasn’t used. There was speculation online that the comic book powerhouse used AI to make the poster given that two women had the same face and some people are shown with four fingers in the one-sheet.
You’ll remember that Marvel Studios did in fact use AI to create the opening sequence of their Disney+ series Secret Invasion as it fit the series’ shape-shifting plot; the show following Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury who is investigating shape-shifting alien Skrulls who’ve populated Earth.
The First Steps poster dropped today along with the movie’s first teaser — which, don’t be shocked if it appears during the Super Bowl on Sunday.
The movie directed by WandaVision‘s Matt Shakman stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch. What we know is that the foursome will go toe-to-toe with super bad guy Galactus, voiced by Ralph Ineson. John Malkovich also makes a cameo in the pic which is set in an alternative version of the 1960s.
Out of the top ten domestic openings at the July box office, Marvel owns three of them including Deadpool & Wolverine (No. 1 with $211.4M), Thor: Love & Thunder (No. 7, $144.1M) and Spider-Man: Homecoming ($117.1M). Overall, Deadpool & Wolverine was the sixth highest opening in U.S. and Canada of all-time; that pic easily becoming the highest grossing R-rated movie ever at $1.3 billion.