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Julia Garner doesn’t want her time as Shalla-Bal to end after “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the actress said she “would love” to make a “Silver Surfer” spinoff movie somewhere down the road.
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“A hundred percent, I would love to do that,” Garner said. “The Silver Surfer is such a cool character, and I feel like it’s so rare to be presented with any sort of mystery in this day and age. So any kind of energy like that on screen, I know I want to see that, so that would be awesome if that happened.”
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Whether or not that actually will or could happen, Garner doesn’t seem to know. “Oh my God, I wish I could answer that question, but I don’t have an answer, honestly,” Garner said after being asked about appearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe after “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”. “I was just happy to be a part of this movie. But we’ll see.”
Garner uses words like “mystery” and “mysterious” a lot in describing Shalla-Bal. “But it was described as there’s this mystery about her, and there’s this sense of this ambiguous energy going on of whether she’s good or not,” Garner told EW. “She is the herald of Galactus, so she works for Galactus, but you’re not sure where she stands. Does she stand with her boss, or is she just doing what she’s told? She has this mysterious energy about her, and slowly that mystery will get solved with the audience throughout watching it.”
Garner won’t be the first person to play the Silver Surfer in a live-action film. In 2007’s “Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” the body work of the Surfer was done by Doug Jones while Laurence Fishburne voiced the herald.
“Fantastic Four” isn’t the only project Garner will star in in the near future. She’ll appear with an ensemble cast – including other Marvel stars Josh Brolin and Benedict Wong – in the horror film “Weapons”.
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” hits theaters July 25. The film is directed by Matt Shakman. It stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Lyonne, Julia Garner, Ralph Ineson, John Malkovich, and Sarah Niles.
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