How do you portray Galactus, a gigantic, amoral, immortal superbeing who thrives by draining planets of their energy? If you’re making a film of any part of Marvel’s Fantastic Four journey, your best bet is probably to depict him as a cloud. That’s what happened in 2007, and even though fans complained about it a bit, it solved a lot of problems.
Matt Shakman, director of the new The Fantastic Four: First Steps, cast Ralph Ineson, who still sounds faintly surprised by the move. “I’ve been working for a long time,” he says. His first role was a small part in Spender, the Jimmy Nail vehicle, in 1991, and he’s in a similar mould to Nail: tall with a handsome, rough-hewn face, a guy who looks as if he knows how to do guy stuff.
