It's well established that the main villain of The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be the gigantic Galactus, who is big enough to devour the lifeforce of entire planets. Played by Ralph Ineson, Galactus was added to the film through motion capture, as one might expect. But rather than stopping there, the film's production team actually built a full, practical Galactus suit to aid in making the character look as real as possible while dwarfing everything else onscreen.
"I didn't want to just use motion-capture for Galactus. I wanted to actually have someone there embodying the part," The Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman tells Entertainment Weekly. "So we've built an entire costume for him, and we've done a lot of photography testing to figure out, how do you make sure that the scale is correct? How do you film Mount Rushmore?"
