News Summary

• The Silver Surfer was gender-swapped in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
• Julia Garner plays Shalla-Bal, a woman who is the love interest of Norrin Radd.
• In the comics, she is the empress of her planet, Zenn-La and Norrin’s love interest.
• Her origin story of giving herself up to save her own child served as a nice parallel to the Fantastic Four's difficult decision with Galactus and Franklin.
• I thought it worked really well in the context of the story, and its themes about parenting.