From Entertainment Weekly, here are the first official photos of Marvel’s latest big-screen superhero, Captain Marvel. Her eponymous film sees Brie Larson in the title role, and Mississippi Grind directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are helming the ’90s-set intergalactic story. With the film hitting theaters next March, it seems likely the first teaser will arrive soon—or at least for the New York Comic Con early next month. In the meantime, have a look at the stills below.
As Captain Marvel begins, its hero—real name Carol Danvers—has already gained her powers, and has clearly mastered the stock action figure pose.
Carol is half human and half Kree—an alien race that includes Djimon Hounsou’s Korath from Guardians of the Galaxy. This is their “Starforce” doing the cool space-team walk of Armageddon.
Jude Law plays Carol’s mentor and commander of the Starforce. And since it’s the ’90s, Law still has hair.
In the film, the Kree are at war with the Skrulls, a race that looks like Thane from Mass Effect meets Sam Raimi’s Green Goblin test makeup meets Thanos’s chin. They can shape-shift, though, so Carol may accidentally end up thinking one of them is hot.
Ben Mendelsohn plays the Skrull’s leader, Talos. This is Talos (with directors Fleck and Boden) in disguise as Ben Mendelsohn.
Other consequences of this being set back in the ’90s? Lee Pace’s Ronan the Accuser hasn’t yet been danced to death…
A Nine Inch Nails shirt under a beat-up, oversized leather jacket was popular for the first time, not as a revival like it is now…
And, thanks to the magic of computers, Samuel L. Jackson still looks like he did in The Negotiator.
Before taking on the mantle of Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers was a pilot in the Air Force. This is her showing how a dog would ride in a jet.
Lashana Lynch co-stars as Maria “Photon” Rambeau, a fellow Air Force pilot and a single mom, so let’s hope she fares better than Goose.
And all this time, as you’ve been judging the film, Brie Larson has been quietly judging you back.
