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Carol Danvers Will Have a New Origin for the Captain Marvel Movie
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Also it has to be repeated - it doesn't really matter how good or bad you think the comic books are. The Marvel movies have shown they have little bearing on the approach the filmmakers take. Captain Marvel Carol is attractive for MCU because she's a very powerful hero with a "major" hero look. That type of female character is something the MCU lacks and an obvious candidate for a female hero-centered movie. There's no better candidate, in fact. The quality of that movie, and of that character in the MCU following the movie, will entirely be up to the scriptwriters craft.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I thought GL's whole thing was with Abin-Sur and a big yellow cloud and Blake Lively?
Don't forget Megamind.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Will Ferrel was in Green Lantern?
Megamind post-meth.
BKatastrophe
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So they finally acknowledged that she's a female Hal Jordan, only with cosmic time rape and alcoholism
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Keep the alcoholism, ditch the cosmic time rape.
SlipperyFishes
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Who the fuck is 3D-Man and why am I only hearing about this marvelous thing now?
Wait what? Where did this come from..? Am I missing something.
Durrzerker
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Triggerhappytel
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I half expected they might lay the groundwork for her in GotG Vol 2.
To be fair, Bendis has always been shit at writing Carol. His Mighty Avengers run with her as 'leader' is really bad.
I quite like Carol's books, her current run is quite good, but I feel her best run was her last Ms Marvel run, where she was more human, and she messed up a bunch but always pushed herself to be better.
KoroEunectes
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Probably or give him a mentor/assist type role like Hank Pym/Jarvis
I feel you kinda need someone to at least explain some of the weird space stuff if she is going to be human.
I don't think you can trow Carol into all this weird cosmic stuff without someone at least explaining a little bit of it.
Civil war Spoilers:
Tony was back to his jokey self again by the end of the movie though.
He basically told Ross to piss off and seemed to accept Steve's apology
He basically told Ross to piss off and seemed to accept Steve's apology
They just updated the setting and later when the movie was successful they changed his personality on his MCU self (Which was basically just Tony from the early comics in a more modern setting)
Triggerhappytel
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Again, that's why having her in GotG Vol 2 seemed to make sense to me - they've already established the Kree and the Nova Corps. For the sake of getting her there, how about she's an astronaut who goes through a wormhole and ends up bumping into Starlord & co, then gets her powers from some dealing or other with the Kree?
(I've never read a Carol Danvers Captain Marvel comic so have no idea if this would be in-keeping with her).
Iorv3th
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Haven't read any of her origin stuff but introducing her in GotG could work. She's in a lot of the GotG comics, the entire black vortex storyline.
Phya the daughter of the original Captain Marvel, moonstone aka Bizzaro Ms.Marvel, Superima aka Bizzaro Ms. Marvel 2, and Ultra Girl former Kree Super soldier experiment
His original name was Triahtlion(cause he could do everything Captain America could but times 3) but he inherited the mantle of The 3-D man and joined the new Skrull Kill Krew
I was wondering when I finally decided to read this thread how long it would take for this to appear. Wasn't long.
KoroEunectes
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I think that would be a mistake.
GotG Vol 2 already seems pretty crowded. I don't think it is a good idea to introduce even more characters and subplots into that movie.
Then you run into the trouble of people that haven't seen GotG Vol 2 and being confused watching her solo film.
I think they can rework Mar-Vell and just give him a Alfred/Jarvis type of role where he gives Carol Intel about all the cosmic stuff.
Carol would still be out there kicking ass but you would have a character back on earth who she could talk to about all the cosmic stuff.
You can also kill him of in the third act (if necessary) after he gives her the basic information about her powers and some of the Kree stuff.
Ceallach
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I'm a card carrying member of the Carol Corps
I LOVE her book. The last few years. And she has a lot of great points, I love her friendship with Jessica, her alcoholism (a more realistic grounded take than Tonys), her struggles, but she has a LOT of dumb shit in her history (that stupid pregnancy) and she works better free of the trapping of Mar-Vell.
Plus a lot of her history is tied with the X-Men which can't be used. So I am all for reinterpreting her.
I LOVE her book. The last few years. And she has a lot of great points, I love her friendship with Jessica, her alcoholism (a more realistic grounded take than Tonys), her struggles, but she has a LOT of dumb shit in her history (that stupid pregnancy) and she works better free of the trapping of Mar-Vell.
Plus a lot of her history is tied with the X-Men which can't be used. So I am all for reinterpreting her.
I don't think much is confirmed, although her appearance in Infinity War has been strongly hinted at.
Given what we know (Casting/Movie News Spoilers)
we can rule out an appearance in GotG Vol. 2 and I strongly doubt there is enough space left in Thor Ragnarok to give her a sizeable introduction.
The real victim of whatever happens with this movie, sinking the real origin of the name Captain Marvel further into oblivion in the public's mind...
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Not really sure if worthy of new thread but apparently we're down to three directors. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/captain-marvel-director-search-narrowed-922476
Was my thought after reading the OP. You've already got a Captain Marvel who was her own thing with her own origin and was black in the 70s without being all tokenist about it (unlike, say, Falcon).
Danvers always seemed an odd choice to make into the face of a women-empowerment heroine for Marvel, aside from the character's name, not when you've got She-Hulk, the increasingly badass Scarlet Witch, or Sue Storm right there.
Version 3.0
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It's okay, at least he has Shazam to fall back on, even if that's not really his name.
You know who I feel sorry for? Wonder Man. Never gonna happen for him.
I guess I should let it go. At least Wonder Woman, unlike so many female characters, isn't a lame spin-off of a male predecessor.
And he's the star of a Tony Stark biopic, which is hilarious on multiple levels.
MHWilliams
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Based on that list, I'd go with Lesli Linka Glatter. Homeland jumps out to me.
I would be happy with any of those three, personally. I hope Kent hasn't been taken off the shortlist though, very much enjoyed Babadook and would be interested to see what she would bring.
EDIT: I wonder if Caro and Kent's link to the role suggests they might be planning on filming this in Australia like Ragnarok?
EDIT: I wonder if Caro and Kent's link to the role suggests they might be planning on filming this in Australia like Ragnarok?
Version 3.0
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No shit? How about that.
I think they shot in Australia as a favor to Hemsworth because he hadn't seen his family in like six years.
Hades Hotgun
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Well, you have to include that he mind controlled her and that he told the Avengers that he did it and they just accepted it, because holy shit comics are terrible most of the time.
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