Devourer of Worlds - Ralph Ineson is Galactus

[Silvermoth]

‘Fantastic Four’ Casts Ralph Ineson as Galactus (Exclusive)

The actor, known for genre work such as 'The Witch' and 'Game of Thrones,' is in talks to play a (very) big bad for Marvel Studios.

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Can’t wait to see a proper galactus on screen

 

[Spider-Fan83]

not personally familiar with his work... but, from the few clips of looked up on the guy, he has a very unique/distinctive voice for it

given some of the more high profiles names that were rumored for the role... this is such brilliant pull for them as obscure as it might seem

like someone in casting department was really like, "this is the voice reference I want for the character, who can we get that sounds like that... wait can we just get him? someone get his agent on the phone"

 

[psylockolussus]

I'm assuming this will be a 1 and done villain. I'm interested how they are going to pull off Galactus.

 

[Silvermoth]

I reckon that’s wise. The thing with galactus is, he can’t actually eat earth or the story ends. So the more he keeps coming back, the less of a threat he becomes

 

[Bren]

Love his voice! Wonder if he will change his accent or not.

 

[Silvermoth]

Why not? Lots of planets have a north

 

[psylockolussus]

I reckon that’s wise. The thing with galactus is, he can’t actually eat earth or the story ends. So the more he keeps coming back, the less of a threat he becomes

Being a 1 and done doesn't surprise me anymore, given what they did to Hela and Red Skull (yup, he was only in Endgame for like 5 minutes). I'm just surprised they are doing it for the first FF film.

But i guess thats better to use the character now than never, especially if the reboot doesn't get a sequel which imo, is a big possibility.

 

[TheFuture]

I don't necessarily see Galactus as one and done, as he can be both a foe and ally. He's much more complex than than what he gets credit for.

I'm familiar with the actor and it's one of those castings that nobody would have guessed, but makes complete sense as the choice. Not just his voice, but his menace and presence on screen. These are all great things for playing Galactus. He'll be able to scare and unsettle people as a villain within a PG film.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

I'm fairly non-plussed about this--but his voice is grand. Truthfully, I'm disappointed that they didn't land Javier Bardem for the role for the sheer star power he would've brought to the film. Also...I don't understand why we're even doing this again? They really should've saved this retread for a future film considering we already covered the Galactus storyline in 2007 (yes, it was horrible, but still.... it's rather fresh in people's minds to an extent--"last seen, first remembered,", etc.,).

Annihilus would've been a much better villain for this first movie--in my humble opinion. A galactic threat of a different sort, and something we haven't seen on the silver screen yet.

 

[Lily Adler]

I'm fairly non-plussed about this--but his voice is grand. Truthfully, I'm disappointed that they didn't land Javier Bardem for the role for the sheer star power he would've brought to the film. Also...I don't understand why we're even doing this again? They really should've saved this retread for a future film considering we already covered the Galactus storyline in 2007 (yes, it was horrible, but still.... it's rather fresh in people's minds to an extent--"last seen, first remembered,", etc.,).

Annihilus would've been a much better villain for this first movie--in my humble opinion. A galactic threat of a different sort, and something we haven't seen on the silver screen yet.

It'll hide for over a year again.

 

[Chris B]

I'm fairly non-plussed about this--but his voice is grand. Truthfully, I'm disappointed that they didn't land Javier Bardem for the role for the sheer star power he would've brought to the film. Also...I don't understand why we're even doing this again? They really should've saved this retread for a future film considering we already covered the Galactus storyline in 2007 (yes, it was horrible, but still.... it's rather fresh in people's minds to an extent--"last seen, first remembered,", etc.,).

Annihilus would've been a much better villain for this first movie--in my humble opinion. A galactic threat of a different sort, and something we haven't seen on the silver screen yet.

I was rooting for Bardem too but Ineson has won me over due to just his voice alone. Hopefully Bardem will pop up in another role down the line.

 

[Silvermoth]

I think if Javier had gotten it I would have been like “that’s Javier”. I wouldn’t have thought “that’s galactus”.

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

We’ve seen a lot of films (from Marvel and others) with planet level threats, but I think there have been some elements missing that hopefully this film can pull off better.

The big one to me is Earth-threatening events never feel as intense as they should. No films I can think of have really felt like: “This is it. This is serious. Everything we know could end.”

We also haven’t seen a cold, emotionless threat.

Typically, even if the threat is alien, there are human-like emotions/motivation behind it all.

There’s something particularly frightening, for example, about getting eaten by a great white shark. You’re simply food to it. Your fear and emotions mean nothing to it.

Thanos, Dormammu, etc. have plans, schemes, motivations etc. that we can relate to on some level.

Galactus, if done right, is completely emotionless. He’s not thinking: “Should I do this? Is this the right thing? Should I consider something different?”

His consumption of a planet is a simple act that he hasn’t put any thought to. The lives affected are completely meaningless to him.

I’m hoping they can pull that off to give us something different than we’ve seen before.

 

[Captain Tired]

I hear his first act of ruthlessness will be to throw the silver surfer over a pub.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

quick interview with Ralph Ineson about playing Galactus....

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

There we go. Our first description of the script: “Cool as f***”

 

[TheVileOne]

We’ve seen a lot of films (from Marvel and others) with planet level threats, but I think there have been some elements missing that hopefully this film can pull off better.

The big one to me is Earth-threatening events never feel as intense as they should. No films I can think of have really felt like: “This is it. This is serious. Everything we know could end.”

We also haven’t seen a cold, emotionless threat.

Typically, even if the threat is alien, there are human-like emotions/motivation behind it all.

There’s something particularly frightening, for example, about getting eaten by a great white shark. You’re simply food to it. Your fear and emotions mean nothing to it.

Thanos, Dormammu, etc. have plans, schemes, motivations etc. that we can relate to on some level.

Galactus, if done right, is completely emotionless. He’s not thinking: “Should I do this? Is this the right thing? Should I consider something different?”

His consumption of a planet is a simple act that he hasn’t put any thought to. The lives affected are completely meaningless to him.

I’m hoping they can pull that off to give us something different than we’ve seen before.

Quick and easy way to beat Galactus. Force Galactus to feel empathy.

 

[Carlo Comicus]

Someone can explain me why, in a recent poster released before San Diego, there are two Silver Surfer?

 

[psylockolussus]

Hmm I don't know this alternate realitywill be connected to Earth 616, but I want to see Galactus devour the Earth here. That would be different, similar to Infinity War in which the main threat succeeded. But this time in a Marvel, our Earth is truly destroyed. That would be a unique way to end a Marvel movie.

 

[Silvermoth]

That would be cool. Plus I think it re-establishes the fantastic four as the explorers who basically discovered the marvel u. Basically, they’re legends in their reality but their reality got et and that’s why we haven’t heard of them.

Plus, it’s a fascinating angle for Doom if he’s also like a refugee from a different reality who hates Richards because he didn’t have the balls to save their reality and he’s going to do whatever it takes to save our reality

 

[psylockolussus]

That would be cool. Plus I think it re-establishes the fantastic four as the explorers who basically discovered the marvel u. Basically, they’re legends in their reality but their reality got et and that’s why we haven’t heard of them.

Plus, it’s a fascinating angle for Doom if he’s also like a refugee from a different reality who hates Richards because he didn’t have the balls to save their reality and he’s going to do whatever it takes to save our reality

I think their Earth being destroyed would give more weight to their next appearance (Doomsday).

And the end of the world montage would be a vfx feast. It would be Marvel Studios' doing their equivalent of a disaster film.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Having the movie end with your heroes losing in their first appearance and letting an entire universe die is a bad debut. They have to save the Earth somehow. When you are rehabilitating their image, having them lose like this will make people say "Wow, the FF kind of suck at their jobs don't they?" You can work them into Doomsday through whatever means of traveling the multiverse or incursion shenanigans or whatever in that movie.

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

When I was a kid, in the days Marvel comic books were huge, there was a simple comcept. There were heroes and villains. The villains had selfish goals that would hurt people and the heroes risked themselves to defeat the villains and protect people.

Of course the heroes weren’t perfect and there were complexities to the villains, but that basic premise is what made comic books work.

It may seem cheesy, and writers are always trying to shake thimgs up, but I think if you look across the spectrum of comic-book films, the ones that work best maintain that basic idea, and the ones that fall flat lose sight of it.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

I don't think the movie ending with a major loss would have people saying the FF suck if the movie will really establish the FF as the heroes of their reality, having already defeated several villains and established the Future Foundation to improve Earth as a whole. If you depict Galactus as this unstoppable threat who is the first real loss the FF have experienced and have them redeem themselves in a future movie by saving the 616 or whatever universe they find themselves in after everything is done, that works for me. Similar to how Garfield's Spidey felt a sense of redemption from saving MJ in No Way Home.

Heroes fail sometimes, but this time instead of losing one person like what happened to Rachel in TDK, this time it's an entire planet or even universe worth of souls.

 

[Spider-Fan]

But you don't do that on their first outing. TDK was a sequel, and Batman beats Joker at the end. Having a situation where the FF have to peace out and let their reality die without saving anyone is a bad look.