It’s finally here! After a little bit of teasing (sorry Brie Larson Entertainment Weekly covers don’t “break the internet”), we finally have the first trailer for the much anticipated female-led, Captain Marvel and I must say it was worth the wait.
Captain Marvel takes place in the 90s and is the first MCU film fronted by a woman. Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) is an Air Force pilot who debuted in the comics in 1968 as a human companion to the original Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell). When her DNA was fused with that of an alien during an accident, the resulting alteration imbued her with the superpowers of strength, energy projection and flight.
Danvers was hinted at in the last scene of Avengers: Infinity War, called upon by Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury who looms large over the trailer that we got today. Captain Marvel also stars Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Rune Temte, Algenis Perez Soto, Mckenna Grace, Annette Bening and Clark Gregg. Law is the leader of Starforce, the elite Kree military team. Mendelsohn is Talos, head of the opposing green-skinned extraterrestrial humanoid Skrulls. Chan is Minn-Erva, a Kree geneticist and spy who has powers similar to Marvel/Danvers, per the comics-verse.
The movie will mark the penultimate installment of MCU’s Phase 3 which concludes with Anthony and Joe Russo’s untitled Avengers follow-up to Infinity War next May. Captain Marvel hits screens on March 8, 2019, with overseas rollout beginning two days earlier on March 6.
