
Thomas Seitz |

Thomas Seitz |

MMCJawa,
Like Ambrosia said, Captain Marvel will be in Infinity War Part I (or whatever they name the bloody thing).
So yeah we'll see in the same vein as Black Panther and Spidey getting introduced.
ALSO of note, not only is Iron Man showing up, but Thor, Black Widow, and Hawkeye. Those are cameos however so...who knows...

ShinHakkaider |
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Emily...is a little old for most people. Admittedly Carol is no spring chicken in some respects, but she's MUCH more in her mid-late 30s than 40s- early 50s.
???
Emily Blount is 33 years old man.

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I remember her as Envy in Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
Ah ha! I knew that Larson chick looked familiar. I just couldn't remember where I'd seen her before.
Otherwise, I'm not too up on the most recent Carol/Captain Marvel. Last time I recall reading about Danvers is when her persona and Rogue were sharing a body in X-men.

Norman Osborne |
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Thomas Seitz wrote:Emily...is a little old for most people. Admittedly Carol is no spring chicken in some respects, but she's MUCH more in her mid-late 30s than 40s- early 50s.???
Emily Blount is 33 years old man.
Blunt....no O needed.
And how in the hell do you think she is late 40's / early 50's ???

Alex Martin |

While I am excited to see a Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers movie, the choice of Brie Larson...meh. I would have leaned more toward Emily Blunt or Olivia Wilde (who's 32, if that matters) as a possibility.
The ambivalence is that this is someone who's background is in indie/art-house films. She's never done an action-superhero type of movie. She's starring in Kong: Skull Island, so I will be curious how she does in a movie with more fictional elements and less personal introspection.
That being said, Marvel has had good success in taking these types of actors and making them shine. I wasn't sure about Paul Rudd and Scarlett Johansson as the superhero types either when they were signed - so more of wait and see on this.

MMCJawa |

While I am excited to see a Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers movie, the choice of Brie Larson...meh. I would have leaned more toward Emily Blunt or Olivia Wilde (who's 32, if that matters) as a possibility.
The ambivalence is that this is someone who's background is in indie/art-house films. She's never done an action-superhero type of movie. She's starring in Kong: Skull Island, so I will be curious how she does in a movie with more fictional elements and less personal introspection.
That being said, Marvel has had good success in taking these types of actors and making them shine. I wasn't sure about Paul Rudd and Scarlett Johansson as the superhero types either when they were signed - so more of wait and see on this.
I would think a greater degree of skill in acting is much more needed in a indie/art house film than an action movie. With a proper work out regime I don't see any issue with Larson taking the role.
I mean a good chunk of the more recent Marvel castings have been folks with no experience whatsoever in action movies.

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Alex Martin wrote:While I am excited to see a Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers movie, the choice of Brie Larson...meh. I would have leaned more toward Emily Blunt or Olivia Wilde (who's 32, if that matters) as a possibility.
The ambivalence is that this is someone who's background is in indie/art-house films. She's never done an action-superhero type of movie. She's starring in Kong: Skull Island, so I will be curious how she does in a movie with more fictional elements and less personal introspection.
That being said, Marvel has had good success in taking these types of actors and making them shine. I wasn't sure about Paul Rudd and Scarlett Johansson as the superhero types either when they were signed - so more of wait and see on this.
I would think a greater degree of skill in acting is much more needed in a indie/art house film than an action movie. With a proper work out regime I don't see any issue with Larson taking the role.
I mean a good chunk of the more recent Marvel castings have been folks with no experience whatsoever in action movies.
I don't know. A lot of big name actors have claimed that there's a lot of difficulty in acting in a big budget, effects heavy action movie.
Some of it's not constantly laughing.
A lot of it is the difficulty of believably acting against a tennis ball on the end of a stick.

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Krensky wrote:Well, war can speed that up, but so can, you know, being a superhero. See Captain Steve Rogers.Not sure he's a great example, given that he's been stuck at O-3 for well over 70 years now. :P
Yeah, but he was arguably retired for most of it. The relevant part is he went from E-1 to O-3 in, what, ten minutes?
Also, wasn't Danvers a Major for most of her time as Ms./Captain Marvel? I thought she was only promoted to Colonel upon retirement.

Thomas Seitz |

Belle Sorciere wrote:Relevant to age, Carol Danvers would have to be at least 40 years old to hold the rank of colonel.So we know she's a colonel in the MCU?
Hell, do we know she's military in the MCU?
We don't know that for a fact but one assumes a level of continuity when it comes origin stories.
Most of the time.
As for her promotion, yeah it was kind posthumous in the sense I think it was just after Rogue ate her...sort of.
No idea about Sam Carter but it would be a nice nod and wink for some fans.

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thejeff wrote:Belle Sorciere wrote:Relevant to age, Carol Danvers would have to be at least 40 years old to hold the rank of colonel.So we know she's a colonel in the MCU?
Hell, do we know she's military in the MCU?We don't know that for a fact but one assumes a level of continuity when it comes origin stories.
Most of the time.
As for her promotion, yeah it was kind posthumous in the sense I think it was just after Rogue ate her...sort of.
Well, I doubt they're going with the whole caught in the explosion of a Kree Psyche-Magneton device with Captain Mar-vell, then depowered and brain-wiped by Rogue, then augmented into Binary by the Brood then slowly dropping back to close to her previous power level.
All before she actually takes the name Captain Marvell. (Along with a fake pregnancy/mind rape and a bout with alcoholism.)I'm not sure what one more minor change to the origin would mean.

Thomas Seitz |

Jeff,
My assumption is there will be Kree involved if only to keep that element alive in further parts of the MCU.
Whether or not Mar-vell plays a role is unclear. My opinion, they'll just have her be like a test pilot that the Kree found and experimented on.
Much like the Brood did when she went Binary but on lesser scale.
You are correct they'll probably skip the Rogue part along with the Brood. (Not sure about that but seems likely.)
The alcoholism MIGHT show up but maybe further down the road. Certainly not in this movie.
Regardless I'm pretty sure we won't have Ms Marvel before becoming Captain Marvel. Just plain ole Marvel.

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The Clash at Demonhead - Black Sheep featuring Envy Adams a.k.a. Brie Larson.
~grins~ I figured, why not post it here.
Edit - In a way she already has been in a "super hero" action flick.

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Relevant to age, Carol Danvers would have to be at least 40 years old to hold the rank of colonel.
Actually, in today's military, if she got off to an early start and into the academy at age 16, she could be graduated by the time she was 20 as a 2nd lt.
2 more years at 22 to be a 1st LT
2 more years after that at 24 to be a Capt.
3-5 years to be a Major, so we'll say 4 years to be major at 28.
another 3 years for Lt col at 31, though more realistic probably at 34.
NOW if she is on the short list somehow for excessive valor, another year to be Colonel at 32...
Otherwise Colonel at 35 to 37.
How old is Brie Larson, how old will she be in 2017/18?
PS: These days, war rank normally doesn't transfer over to peacetime rank. For example, there were a lot of those who made Major or Lt. Col or Col (and even several generals) as a wartime rank in WWII but, when it was over, were back to what they would normally be in rank during peacetime.
Now sure how that worked, or works, but there's that.

Sharoth |
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The thing is... Carol Danvers is like Wolverine... she's a veteran in both the superhero world, and in the old-school black ops world as well. I'd prefer an actress that reflects that maturity.
~shudders~ Oh no! You have just cursed the movie. Now Wolverine will show up and turn it into a Wolverine movie!
~grins~

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Not sure about Black Ops since I never seen her do that. Now Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird, SHE'S definitely black ops.
It's pretty much established during the Genosha adventure where Wolverine was dying due to his healing factor being turned off.( it turns out that having your bones laced with adamantium means you have no bone marrow, a terminal condition, which Wolverine's healing factor circumvents.) And the Carol Danvers personality had assumed dominance within Rogue.

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She was trained as a spy by USAF intelligence.
Now, please note that in the real world the Air Force doesn't have special forces the way people usually think of them. Combat meteorologists, air traffic controllers, and flying taxi drivers abound though. Closest would be pararescue, but they're really more heavily armed EMTs and SAR specialists than operators like the other branches have.

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The thing is... Carol Danvers is like Wolverine... she's a veteran in both the superhero world, and in the old-school black ops world as well. I'd prefer an actress that reflects that maturity.
She's also older school Women's Lib so she always seems a bit more contemporary with that era to me. I have nothing against Brie Larson, but a woman with a little more mileage would fit my preference better - some one like Lena Heady.
But I figure they're going with someone more coming into their prime and having an origin story. I can see why they'd prefer that. Just hope they keep some Mar-Vell connection

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While I am excited to see a Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers movie, the choice of Brie Larson...meh. I would have leaned more toward Emily Blunt or Olivia Wilde (who's 32, if that matters) as a possibility.
Actually I think Brie Larson is much closer to Captain Marvel than Blunt or Wilde...

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When superhero movies are being made I avoid staring too much at the comic books history of the character. Maybe she's not a colonel, but the rank is not really that important to me. Her being still not so experienced and learning while having these umbeliavable powers is, to me at least, more interesting story.
What interests me more is the "NPC Gallery" of this movie. Is Mar-Vell gonna show up? Are they gonna have ties to AoS and Tahiti in any way? Coulson cameo would fit this good. Is Moonstone the BBEG or Yon-Rog? Yon is in her origin story so that would fit, though I looove me some Moonstone. Maybe one of the runner-ups should be her :D
Has there been any rumors about the director?