Marvel Studios didn’t use AI to make the new poster for its 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 its Disney+ series Secret Invasion as it fit the series’ shape-shifting plot. The show follows Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, who is investigating shape-shifting alien Skrulls who have populated Earth.
The First Steps poster dropped today along with the movie’s first teaser — and don’t be shocked if it appears during the Super Bowl on Sunday.
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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.
Marvel owns three of the top 10 domestic openings at the July box office, with 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-biggest opening of all time in U.S. and Canada; that pic easily became the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever at $1.3 billion.