We’re now deep into Fantastic Four casting speculation season, as Marvel continues to fill out the ranks of the upcoming 2025 feature with very big names, typically coming attached to some very big question marks about who they’ll be playing. (There is, for instance, still nobody attached to the part of Doctor Doom, one of Marvel’s top three bad guys. Unless it’s the just-cast John Malkovich. But nobody will say!) Luckily, the film’s latest casting notice actually comes with a name attached for once: Say hello to your new Galactus, Marvel fans, in the form of The Green Knight’s Ralph Ineson.
Anyone who’s seen—or, more specifically, heard—Ineson will understand pretty immediately how he got the part: The British actor (whose other credits over the last few years include The Witch, Harry Potter, Game Of Thrones, and more, in addition to some very prominent video game roles) has one of the most impressive voices in all of movie-dom, a slow-moving bass growl that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand immediately to attention. Given that his character will probably be mostly CGI—although hopefully not to the extent of 2007 Fantastic Four disappointment Rise Of The Silver Surfer, which depicted the classic Jack Kirby design as a big dumb cloud—it’s going to be Ineson’s voice doing the heavy lifting here, selling the planet-devourer’s cosmic-level threat.
Reported by THR, Ineson’s casting is our first real confirmation that the MCU’s stab at the Four would feature this particular character; plot details about the film, which will star Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the titular team, are still being kept tightly under wraps. In addition to Malkovich and Ineson,