Next Summer's Silver Surfer

The Silver Surfer debuts (left, a new photo of the shiny, intergalactic anomaly) in next summer's "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" (June 15), and the new teaser trailer for the sequel, to debut before "Night at the Museum," will be available to download in due time. As for the Silver Surfer, USA Today reports:

With computer-generated imagery techniques similar to those used to create Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings," the slippery Surfer, voiced by Doug Jones, "will look somewhere between gun metal and fluid metallics so you can see the body motion, the breathing, the muscle tone, the mood," says Marvel Studios CEO Avi Arad. The Surfer's mood is key to the story. After striking a deal with the evil Galactus to save his planet, the once-human Surfer wreaks havoc throughout the cosmos. "He is a highly emotional being, trapped inside fluid metal," Arad says.