Captain Marvel (2019), dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

sic will be in soon to undo your absurd claim by detailing his mom's pointedly Ms. Marvel-free comics scripting history.

my mom threw out all the comics I'd written in my life when I was 15, due no doubt to professional jealousy

sad lol

<3

Hmmm

https://www.thewrap.com/djimon-hounsou-clark-gregg-lee-pace-captain-marvel/

But tucked into the announcement was the reveal that “Guardians of the Galaxy” stars Djimon Hounsou and Lee Pace will also be a part of the film.

In the first “Guardians” film, Pace played the film’s villain, Ronan The Accuser, with Hounsou playing one of his most formidable warriors, Korath The Pursuer. While their roles in “Captain Marvel” haven’t been made official, the upcoming film takes place in the 1990s, so it is possible that the two actors could reprise their characters from several years before they faced the Guardians.

“Captain Marvel” follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the MCU’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. The cast also includes Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg, who will be reprising their roles as SHIELD icons Nick Fury and Agent Coulson. Ben Mendelsohn, Gemma Chan, Lashana Lynch, Algenis Perez Soto, Rune Temte, McKenna Grace, and Jude Law also star.

So that's more or less a confirmation of a Kree/Skrull War adaptation. Cool beans.

Awwww shiiiiiiit

Rick Jooooooooones

Jude Law has been cast as Mar-Vell.

i look forward to seeing the hairpiece they choose for him

Maybe they can just attach it to the costume’s headpiece and he never takes it off! win-win

So basically this movie is now going to be ridiculously essential to the wider MCU plot machinations.

what, you think they’re going to rewind the Avengers movie battle and replay it with Carol and her squad in the mix?

EXACTLY no wait.

honestly the first thing I thought of was Temuera Morrison as Abin-Sur. Followed by Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight.

I'm still riding for this movie though. It's going to be amazing.

And now amazinger:

Exclusive: Annette Bening in talks to join #CaptainMarvel https://t.co/m0kCFMRtys pic.twitter.com/wNQDk4Ggb2

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 9, 2018

Wait, 'in talks'? Isn't this thing currently filming, if not already in post-production?

it is currently filming

they did a quick week in January so they were within the time restrictions of a tax break, then filmed in one location during march

annette bening IS beta ray bill

I might've gone a little more in the direction of a Diane Keaton as Bill, but I can accept it.

beta ray barbra imo

EW finally has some exclusive first look images: https://ew.com/movies/captain-marvel-first-look-images/

And there are FUCKING SKRULLS MOTHERFUCKERS

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmWCfU2VAAAsPXh.jpg

Carol in a Nine Inch Nails t-shirt is clearly the key image

https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/opw-05957_r.jpg

skrull kill krew spin-off or gtfo

^^^^

lol yung SLJ

The film also introduces Lashana Lynch as Maria Rambeau, one of Carol’s oldest friends. She’s a top-notch Air Force pilot with the call sign “Photon,” and she’s also a single mother to a young daughter.

xp they should've made him look like Mister Senor Love Daddy

And there are FUCKING SKRULLS MOTHERFUCKERS

https://doctorwhofromthestart.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/curse-of-fenric3.jpg

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/7/7c/Imageseadevils.jpg, surely

I couldn't find a pic that showed the haemovore makeup clearly AND had them coming out of the water, but the tunics and skin colour are pretty close

Higher. Further. Faster. Watch the trailer for Marvel Studios’ @CaptainMarvel in theaters March 8, 2019. #CaptainMarvel pic.twitter.com/a7KsE8f7Y3

— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) September 18, 2018

I'm in just for Young Coulson and Carol Danvers punching an old lady in the face.

tonally kind of weird for a Marvel trailer. No jokes!

(unless you count punching the old lady)

looks cool!

man, marvel's de-aging tech is getting really good huh

Rather.

I’m impressed how they transformed an actor in skrull makeup into that old lady

Chewie more or less confirmed

https://www.cnet.com/news/captain-marvel-cat-in-poster-is-really-an-alien/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j

lookin' good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LHxvxdRnYc

Pssh, have fun with your children's movie which is for infants and toddlers (ie, you, who are a baby).

(I'm just mad because I forgot to watch this before my work-instituted YouTube blackout began.)

i am a screeching hog and i demand my slop

This little piggy needs his Marvel.

FYI for those interested, we will almost certainly get a leak tomorrow morning of the new Avengers title (I'm banking on Avengers: What The..?. myself) prior to the trailer release, as the tie-in prequel comic is also dropping tomorrow.

It must be so hard to act in these sorts of movies, with rubber suits on and dots on a soundstage in front of a screen, etc.. As an actor, you just have no idea until you see it all put together. You're saying the dumbest stuff and then going pew pew with your fingers and you just have to trust that when the CG magic and music and other stuff kicks in it'll look cool. You'd think that's a lot of pressure on both actor *and* director, but after decades of this they seem to have the rhythm down. Still, it's a miracle it works as often as it does.

this one is a documentary iirc, no cg required

xp I mean . . . Fay Wray didn't have a giant gorilla on set, you know?

all other films do have orchestras off-camera playing the score live though

I never cottoned to improv because a scene partner would pretend he was handing me something and I would just be all like, what are you even doing with your clearly-empty hands right now, you look so stupid.

more of a 'yes... and?' kinda guy huh

I thought the Carol Corps was specific to the Kelly Sue DeConnick version from 2012 (prior to which her profile seemed pretty low)?

I like the character but I don't think there's a been single comic with Carol Danvers in the starring role that I've really connected with. Comics-wise, she seems to work best as part of an ensemble.

"I thought the Carol Corps was specific to the Kelly Sue DeConnick version from 2012 (prior to which her profile seemed pretty low)?"

yeah that may be: I should watch what i'm talking about cuz I don't read modern superhero shit.

as far as I remember the carol corps was a grassroots thing kicked off around 2012ish (as Andrew mentioned), partially as a reaction to Marvel's inability to market their own releases in any intelligent way

I mean, it's doing Disney/Marvel a great service by building enthusiasm for a character, but (and with a resigned sigh, here) the fact is that we're in a Marvel character moment and writers/artists pushing that attention toward characters that might actually be interesting or change the landscape seems like a lesser evil

Monica Rambeau > Carol Danvers

was that ever in question?

finally saw this over the weekend, thought it was pretty meh besides samuel l., who was incredible, and the cat, who was a very good cat indeed. i also liked that the directors let mendelsohn keep his natural accent, even though none of the other skrulls sounded like they came from the planet down undah.

i'm not familiar with the comics version of carol, but it feels like she'll suffer from the superman problem, namely that they'll have to nerf her abilities for 3/4 of whatever movie she's in before unleashing the glowing CGI version for the last 1/4 of the movie. maybe the inevitable sequel will match her up against a cosmic-scale villain that would actually pose a challenge.

The inevitable sequel is out later this month, so the chances are pretty good?

im talking captain marvel 2, not MCU 22 or whatever

Oh, you mean Shazam, that's in theaters rn

i mean kazaam

critical support for comrade carol’s compassion for the plight of space palestinians

imho this movie was a good colorful fun time, kinda missing that extra sprinkle of something that would have made me really fall in love with it... whether that was a sparkle of OTT silliness and defiantly geeky world-building (e.g. aquaman, alita) or a slightly more focused emotional arc. there were little bursts of Feelings but they didn't lock together for me. i think it needed another editing pass at the script stage - the Ronan stuff serves no real purpose within the movie that couldn't be served by characters that captain marvel actually knows and has some kind of relationship with. so we end up having to duck away from the main story of the movie for an (admittedly awesome) showdown with his spaceships, and then burn time getting back to the main story, so she actually has two final showdowns with her actual main antagonist. combined with the one-too-many-times gags (e.g. everything to do with the cat) i just had a strong sense that it could have been an unbelievably fun 105-minute movie and was instead a pretty fun 125-minute movie.

and yeah the needle-drops were a problem for me. if you're going to do nostalgia and really create a "woah yeah this feels like it's back then" vibe, do it right: pick one specific summer or at least one specific year and dial into songs a little ways down the chart, ones people remember but which have actually gone away in the interim. the failure to use chumbawamba's "amnesia" is particularly unforgivable. hire me, marvel! i've got the playlists you need!

larson was interesting throughout, very different take than most of these films have for their leads. i guess playing an amnesiac with a seemingly limited interior and personal life for most of the film does present some hurdles to getting to know a character, but it was a nice change of pace from the formulaic "establish that they're brave and plucky, but also smirky and they have a problem with authority" type stuff. the very brief flashbacks to her earlier life were surprisingly effective and made it feel like a real payoff when she does finally meet back with her old friends.

the failure to use chumbawamba's "amnesia" is particularly unforgivable.

fry_take_my_money.jpg

I have literally never heard this song before in my life

(joke writes itself)

seeing sam jackson’s slightly thick-waisted nick fury in endgame really underscored what a great job they did of turning a 70-year-old man into a very creditable fit-looking fortysomething here

i hope she gets to continue being a person out of time, like a captain america who got frozen in the early 90s and is struggling with the idea of pearl jam being played on classic rock stations.

back in the late 90s in my high school comics i had this running idea of a lost predecessor high school that got sealed away in the depths back in 1991. even back then that era seemed super removed (tho of course this has a lot to do with being 18) so there could be a lot of comedy there. as a superhero she has this dope costume, by day she's wearing hypercolor looney tunes jerseys or w/e. but that would require more commitment to the idea of period style than we saw in this movie, which doesn't even bother to give the extras 90s haircuts. the "grunge outfit" gag barely even registered.

this was good, plot predictably ludicrous but all the main turns were slick, larsen in particular is a superstar, hashtagging didnt over intrude, 8/10

saw this at a drive-in on a double feature with the Avengers flick

Mendo was pretty good

mendo is never not good

Cosi was a bit of a wank tbh

He dresses like that and carries a hammer because of he's the commander of a special strike force called the Accusers. And he was working with Thanos because Thanos gave him an Infinity Stone which helped him push his own political agenda. All of this was explained in the GotG movie and this one, you don't need any knowledge of the comic book Ronan

also, Josh, I saw the first Guardians twice and the second one once and the entirety of my thought process when he turned up was "oh it's that guy that Danny Hellman made jokes about some poster on the old TCJ messageboard who worked at FBI having the same name as, and... he... works for the big space-god-monster in these or something. Or maybe not yet? w/e, bad guy."

lol double feature were you in your car for like five hours

miss the days when my friend's dad had an old van and we were allowed to sit on sleeping bags on the roof of it at the drive-in as kids

Reminds me of the first time we flew to Australia, when iirc I watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy on the plane with plenty of more time to kill.

i'm choosing to read that as mh's story reminds you of the time you flew to australia in sleeping bags in the roof of the plane

watching the cinema of the sky, soundtracked by the roar of the jet engines

Which Mendo characters are the most Mendo? https://t.co/TTvUj3rCNE

— Tony Martin (@mrtonymartin) November 25, 2017

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Mendo in the Year My Voice Broke is still my favorite Mendo

I wonder if "eating a pie while driving and punching a dart" would have made it past Twitter's offensive content filters

lol double feature were you in your car for like five hours

sat in lawn chairs for Carol, got into the car for Endgame

due to the 47th parallel, though, apart from going for a piss during the credits, this meant being in the car from 23:45 til 04:15