The Silver Surfer has returned to movie screens, but this time, the character is not who longtime fans were expecting. Instead of the well-known Norrin Radd, Marvel Studios is introducing a different version of the character in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

After nearly 20 years, the Silver Surfer is back on the big screen -- though, probably not the one you expect. "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" reboots Marvel's First Family with an all-new, all-different cast: Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic,

As the filmmaker’s three-year journey wound down on the project, he realized a key moment was missing, and managed to shoot it within a few months of the film's opening.

Though the Fantastic Four go to the very origins of Marvel Comics, their movie forays have been marked by missteps and disappointments.

Garner also noted that she’s portraying Shalla-Bal, a female iteration of the Silver Surfer, and not Norrin Radd, the male version of the character who was played Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne in 2007’s “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.”

Marvel announces Silver Surfer Facsimile line at San Diego Comic-Con, reprinting classic issues. The first seven issues of the 1968 Silver Surfer solo series are set for facsimile re-release. Stan Lee and John Buscema's acclaimed Silver Surfer stories to be restored in their original format.

The unmade Silver Surfer film nixed the silver, gave the hero a teen sweetheart, and also featured...the Punisher?

The wielder of the Power Cosmic and one of the few aliens worthy enough to lift Thor's hammer come to Marvel Cosmic Invasion's roster.