On the heels of last month‘s first trailer, 20th Century Fox has today released, via Empire, four new stills from director Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four. Check them all out in the gallery viewer below!

An origin story said to be inspired largely by the “Ultimate Fantastic Four” comics (the first arc of which was written by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar with Joe Kubert illustrating), Fantastic Four offers a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team. The story centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

A lot of fans have been dishing out hate on this movie since it was first announced.  Director Josh Trank has given these characters a whole new origin, and it actually might work. Fantastic Four will be a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

4 Fantastic Four Set Images

4 Fantastic Four Set Images

4 Fantastic Four Set Images

4 Fantastic Four Set Images

4 Fantastic Four Set Images

4 Fantastic Four Set Images

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Fantastic Four features a screenplay by Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and is set to hit the big screen August 7.