Overview

• Garner wore a motion-capture suit and helmet-mounted camera while training with a surfing adviser to perfect Shalla-Bal’s cosmic surfboard movements.
• Visual effects artists added copper veining to her fully reflective design to convey decades of service as Galactus’s herald.
• The film’s Earth-828 story unfolds in a retro-futuristic 1960s Times Square, creating a self-contained aesthetic separate from the MCU’s main continuity.
• Director Matt Shakman opted for Shalla-Bal instead of the traditional Silver Surfer to explore fresh storylines with Johnny Storm.
• To ground her performance, Garner immersed herself in Shalla-Bal’s tragic comic origins and learned her fictional Zenn-Lavian language.