‘Fantastic Four’ adds John Malkovich, Paul Walter Hauser and more to cast

The First Family of Marvel Comics has company. With a summer start date in London, “Fantastic Four,” the essential comic book IP which has yet to be integrated into the MCU, has announced new cast members that will join Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby’s Sue Storm (later Sue Storm-Richards), Joseph Quinn (Johnny Storm) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (the Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Thing). 

Giving them cosmic grief will be Ralph Ineson as Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds. Ineson has a slew of solid smaller roles in film and television—from “Game of Thrones” to “Peaky Blinders” to “Chernobyl,” and has worked with Mike Leigh in “Another Year,” Steven Spielberg in “Ready Player One,” Joel and Ethan Coen in “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” and played the Death Eater Amycus Carrow in three “Harry Potter” films. He’s currently shooting Guillermo Del Toro’s “Frankenstein.” 

Galactus, one of the more far-out Marvel creations from the 1960s, is an enormous being with God-like powers that eats planets. 

Also newly cast in Matt Shankman’s film are John Malkovich and Paul Walter Hauser in undisclosed roles. Nerds on the internet have been spitballing who they might be playing, figuring that one of them is probably voicing H.E.R.B.I.E. (Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-type, Integrated Electronics) a robo–pal that hangs around the Baxter Building with our righteous quartet, but would a voice-over part be announced early? Unless they plan on making an actor get into a face-obscuring robot suit. (Pascal knows a thing or two about that kind of thing thanks to “The Mandalorian.”)

I just hope they don’t waste Malkovich as some bland military liaison, in the mold of William Hurt in the early MCU movies, and let him go nuts.

Julia Garner was previously announced as The Silver Surfer, an alien who zooms around on a sled that, in many versions of lore, is Galactus’s lackey until they turn on him.

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