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13.Captain

Marvel

Directors

Anna Boden, Ryan fleck

Cast

Brie Larson, samuel L Jackson,

Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law

Release date

8 M arch 2019

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It feels like we’ve been waiting a long, long
time for Carol Danvers’ solo movie. Captain
Marvel was announced back in 2014 and Brie
Larson was confirmed two years later, and now
we’re just a few short months away from seeing
the Nineties-set origin story. While a lot of the
fun is sure to come from the fact that the time
period allows for younger versions of familiar
characters both good (Samuel L Jackson’s Nick
Fury and Clark Gregg’s Phil Coulson) and evil
(both Guardians villains Ronan The Accuser
aka Lee Pace and Korath aka Djimon Hounsou
have a significant part to play in Carol’s time in
Kree military team Starforce), there can be no
question that we’re all showing up for one thing:
the title character.
So while it’s very exciting that we’re getting a
window into a time period and galactic conflict
previously unexplored in the MCU, it’s also very
telling that the first teaser for the movie (directed
by Half Nelson duo Anna Boden and Ryan
Fleck) put the emphasis entirely on Carol and
her search for her memories.
We’re also thrilled at the prospect of an origin
story that will get to go interstellar significantly
quicker than some of the MCU openers as we’ve
been promised a significant chunk of the film will
be spent off-Earth.
As we learned from the closing moments
of Infinity War, Captain Marvel’s going to be
crucial going forward and we’ve got every
confidence that she’ll knock it out of the park
first time.