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Julia Garner Joins Marvel Studios Movie As A Shalla-bal Version O Silver Sur er

- BY JUSTIN KROLL

With the four actors set to play the iconic members of the super team, Marvel Studios‘ The Fantastic Four now has its sights set on who will play Silver Surfer, and it looks like they are going with one of the towns biggest rising stars.

Sources tell Deadline that Emmy winner Julia Garner is set to play the iconic comic book character in Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four. Pedro Pascal will play Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby is Sue Storm (aka the Invisible Woman), Joseph Quinn is Johnny Storm (aka the Human Torch) and Ebon Moss-bachrach is Ben Grimm (aka the Thing).

Wandavisio­n helmer Matt Shakman is directing Fantastic Four off a script by Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan, Eric Pearson and Ian Springer. Production

will begin this summer, and the Glm is set to bow on July 25, 2025. Marvel Studios had no comment. While plot details for this Glm are unknown, sources say Garner will play Shalla-bal, a version of Silver Surfer from the comics.

Garner’s star has been on the rise ever since she won her Grst of three Emmys for playing Ruth on the Net.ix crime drama Ozark. She also landed an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Anna Delvey on the limited series Inventing Anna.

Since the end of Ozark, Garner has built out her Glm slate starting with the recently released The Royal Hotel. Next up she has the Blumhouse and Universal pic Wolfman, in which she will star opposite Christophe­r Abbott, and also has the Paramount thriller Apartment 7A.

She is repped by UTA and LBI Entertainm­ent.

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