Academy Award winner Brie Larson will play Captain Marvel in the upcoming Marvel Studios movie hitting theaters in March 2019. Here’s everything we know about Marvel’s first female-led superhero movie, including casting news, rumors, and how this cosmic hero ties into The Avengers.
Academy Award winner Brie Larson is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2019’s Captain Marvel, which casts her in the title role, as well as in the role of the cosmic hero’s alter ago, Carol Danvers. In the comics, Captain Marvel has been an ally and teammate to The Avengers over the years, and now we have an new trailer for the highly anticipated film version of the superhero.
Captain Marvel is directed by Mississippi Grind filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from a script by Tomb Raider screenwriter Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Meg LeFauve ( Inside Out), Nicole Perlman ( Guardians of the Galaxy), and Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch ( Glow). The film is set in the 1990s and explores the powerful hero’s adventures in the time before Captain America and Iron Man came to prominence.
Here’s everything we know so far about Captain Marvel, the studio’s first female-led solo superhero movie.
The latest trailer for Captain Marvel (see above) debuted December 3, and offers up even more scenes from the movie featuring Larson flying high as the powerful hero.
Previously, the first trailer for Captain Marvel was released September 18, and provided the first footage from the film, as well as a preview of its tone and ’90s setting — with the latter firmly established by a shot of Larson’s character crashing into a Blockbuster video store.
Larson herself posted a new poster for the film to accompany the trailer’s premiere.
After hinting that something big was going to happen September 5, Larson and Entertainment Weekly revealed the first official image of Larson as Captain Marvel that day.
The image was accompanied by a gallery of official images and a feature that offered a few more details about the plot of Captain Marvel, which will be set after she gains the abilities that make her one of Marvel’s most powerful heroes.
Among the images was the first look at the Skrulls, the shape-changing aliens that will make their debut in the film.
Also appearing in the gallery are returning characters Korath (Djimon Hounsou) and Ronan (Lee Pace) from Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as new characters played by Jude Law and Ben Mendelsohn, among others. Mendelsohn plays the Skrull villain of the film, seen in the image above in his alien form, and in a second image in his shape-changed human guise.
