Captain Marvel: New trailer arrives, plus launch date, solid, plot data and extra

Who’s the captain now? If you happen to watched the post-credits scene in Avengers: Infinity War, you recognize it is Captain Marvel (Brie Larson). And after EW’s cowl reveal and a trailer reveal in September 2018, we all know *lots* of information awaits us — head to the plot part beneath for extra on these particulars, and head to our sister website GameSpot for theories on how Carol Danvers will save us all.

Within the Infinity Conflict scene, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) discover themselves in the course of the Thanos-sparked chaos as half the universe’s inhabitants disappears. Fury manages to make use of his pager and apparently sends a message to Captain Marvel simply as he, too, disappears into mud. Since her movie arrives earlier than the following Avengers movies, it might appear she’s acquired an essential position to play in Avengers 4, presumably saving the universe from an invasion of the Skrulls.

And when Infinity Conflict was launched on digital in August, a keen-eyed Reddit user pointed out that one in all Thanos’ youngsters, Cull Obsidian, was seen carrying a chunk of material with Captain Marvel’s colours and design on it. What which means is but unsure, but it surely provides much more anticipation to the combo.

Captain Marvel? Not precisely the best-known superhero ever. However her movie would be the 21st in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and if she’s going to get that type of post-credits consideration, followers had greatest brush up on her file earlier than her movie comes out. 

Now that filming has officially wrapped, keep tuned for much more updates and (*fingers crossed*) some footage coming our approach quickly!

Who’s Captain Marvel?

You possibly can dive deep into her background and historical past with this explainer. A brief model: This iteration of the character, Carol Danvers, was created in 1968, and was an Air Pressure pilot, CIA agent, safety director for NASA and author. She’s additionally struggled with alcohol, like Iron Man Tony Stark, and her private battles have been depicted in quite a few comic-book points.

Her superpowers got here from a Kree alien named Mar-vell, the unique Captain Marvel, and embrace flight, tremendous power, the power to soak up and use vitality, and to shoot vitality blasts and lasers from her palms.

Quite a few characters have taken on the Captain Marvel identify, and even DC Comics has had an (unrelated) Captain Marvel character (aka Shazam), although thus far the Marvel universe would not have a ‘Captain DC.’

Launch date, plot, images

Captain Marvel is due out March 8, 2019, within the US and UK (no Australia date but), about two months earlier than Avengers 4 hits. And after today’s EW cover reveal, we have now much more data concerning the villains (Skrulls) and the heroes (kind of).

For instance, due to EW we all know a bit extra about the place we’ll start the movie and what we’ll see: ‘Captain Marvel sidesteps the standard origin-story template, and when it begins, Carol already has her powers,’ writes Devan Coogan.

And Larson gave us extra on the extraordinarily human character when talking to EW: ‘She might be aggressive, and she will have a mood, and he or she could be a little invasive and in your face. She’s additionally fast to leap to issues, which makes her superb in battle as a result of she’s the primary one on the market and would not all the time watch for orders. However the (not) ready for orders is, to some, a personality flaw.’

We have additionally realized that when it begins along with her powers, we’ll see Danvers as part of the elite Kree army staff Starforce, which is led by Jude Legislation’s (nonetheless) enigmatic commander, and that her foremost foe would be the Skrulls, with Ben Mendelsohn as their chief Talos, who’s spearheading a Skrull invasion of Earth.

So will this Skrull invasion be the beginning of the MCU model of comedian crossover occasion Secret Invasion?? No method to know for certain but, but it surely’s undoubtedly hinted at within the EW report:

‘Earlier than lengthy, Carol finds herself again on Earth with new questions on her previous. And he or she’s acquired a formidable enemy within the type of the Skrulls — the infamous Marvel baddies made all of the extra harmful by their shape-shifting talents.’

The movie is not focusing solely on Captain Marvel discovering out about Thanos’ slaughter of half the universe (see: Avengers: Infinity War) and leaping in to assist. It is set within the 1990s, which can clarify why Nick Fury is reaching out to her on a pager, not a smartphone.  (Talking of the 1990s, star Brie Larson was nearly born in that decade — Oct. 1, 1989 — which makes a few of us really feel as historical as an unopened bottle of Zima.)

Why the 1990s? Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige says all shall be revealed within the story, but additionally told the Toronto Sun the time interval would really feel recent. ‘It permits us to play in an space that we have now by no means performed in earlier than, and tapping right into a ’90s motion style was enjoyable for us,’ Feige mentioned.

Who’re the combatants? The Skrulls are a race of shape-shifting aliens that may tackle not simply the form, however the recollections and powers of these they mimic. The Kree are a scientifically and technologically superior militaristic race, a few of whom have blue pores and skin. Getting in the best way of both of them is about as good as tugging on Superman’s cape — oops, wrong comics company.

As for Captain Marvel herself, it’s possible you’ll know star Larson greatest from her Oscar-winning position as a kidnap sufferer pressured to bear and lift her son in captivity in 2015’s Room. She additionally starred in 2017’s Kong: Skull Island.

Backing her up within the movie are some acquainted faces for Marvel followers, and some new ones.

• Samuel L. Jackson will play a younger (pre-eye patch) Nick Fury (as you noticed above). 
• Clark Gregg is returning as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson, who’s useless within the fashionable Marvel film timeline, however alive within the 1990s-set movie. 
• Lee Tempo returns as Ronan the Accuser, a fanatical member of the Kree alien race final seen in Guardians of the Galaxy. (In August 2018, Tempo posted what appears to be a vacation video the place he is carrying a Captain Marvel hat and sporting a cute, scruffy trip beard.)

• Djimon Hounsou returns as Korath, a Kree ally of Ronan and feared intergalactic hunter, who additionally appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy. 
• Gemma Chan performs Captain Minnerva, a Kree geneticist. (Some sources give her identify as Minn-Erva, or Physician Minerva.)

• Jude Legislation performs Walter Lawson/Mar-Vell, Carol’s mentor as she takes on her superpowered position. (Or does he? See beneath.)
• Ben Mendelsohn performs the movie’s foremost villain, believed to be the leader of the Skrulls. 
• Annette Bening has signed on, in what would be the four-time Oscar nominee’s first-ever comic-book film. She’s reportedly playing a scientist, and Variety reports that scientist is more likely to be Carol’s mom.

Massive doable spoiler forward. Extra rumors concerning the solid leaked out in November 2018, when a Reddit user shared images of Captain Marvel Funko Pop figures. Till now, studies have mentioned Jude Legislation is taking part in the unique Mar-Vell. However then within the unique Funko picture, Legislation’s character was labeled as Yon-Rogg. 

That identify would possibly imply nothing to many, however CNET sister website Comic Book.com says, ‘Within the comics, Yon-Rogg is a villain who hates Mar-Vell and makes a number of makes an attempt to shame him among the many Kree or to outright kill him.’ 

When the figures really went stay on the market, that character had been renamed Star Commander. So is Marvel attempting to cover an enormous character secret? Typically, toys turn into extra than simply child stuff.

Solid

• Brie Larson
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Ben Mendelsohn
• Annette Bening
• Djimon Hounsou 
• Lee Pace
• Lashana Lynch
• Gemma Chan
• Algenis Perez Soto
• Rune Temte
• Mckenna Grace
• Clark Gregg
• Jude Law
• Robert Kazinsky