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.

Following an unreleased Roger Corman-produced feature in the 1990s, the Fantastic Four hit the big screen with director Tim Story’s 2005 movie that starred Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis as the titular group. Although critics were unimpressed, the movie did well at the box office and spawned a 2007 sequel.