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The Marvels

The Marvels

The Marvels is the sequel to Captain Marvel, directed by Nia DaCosta. It follows Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), who due to Kree shenanigans caused by their new Supreme Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) ends up entangling her powers with Captain Monica Rambeau aka Photon (Teyona Parris), her ‘niece’ as well as Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel (Imani Vellani), her greatest fan. The three must work together to stop Dar-Benn creating new, unstable jump points into the universal teleportation network, which would overload and potentially destroy it, threatening everyone.

Oh, and Nick Fury is there.

This movie was a mess. It was a lovely, entertaining, funny mess, but a mess nonetheless. There are so many structural problems with its plot that I almost wonder if this film was shot without a script. It is still, and I cannot stress this enough, fun. I had a good time. There are 2 excellent action scenes, the power-entanglement was a very cool concept that the filmmakers used to its full potential, the dance scene was very fun, as was the subplot with Goose’s kittens. All the actors are great, especially Imani Vellani as Kamala, and while I had many problems with this movie I still think you should see it. You will have a good time.

If you have seen it, or you don’t mind SPOILERS, let’s talk about it.

The TV Shows

The first thing, right off the bat, is that Marvel set this movie up to fail. Yes, it did come out at the tail-end of the SAG-AFTRA and WAG strikes, meaning that none of the cast or crew could promote it. Yes, it came out after a historically bad summer blockbuster season, in which every large superhero film underperformed. It also didn’t help that Marvel themselves did next to no promotion for this film, releasing only 2 trailers, the second of which barely contains any footage of this film.

That’s not what buried this movie, and at the risk of sounding naive, I also don’t think it’s the small but vocal minority of sexist and racist pundits who are now rejoicing at this film’s lowest opening weekend numbers. No, what buried this movie is the same thing that’s buried every single Marvel project in Phase 4: terrible scripts, unfocused plots, inconsistent worldbuilding and most importantly - HOMEWORK.

I have said this time and time again; I even talked about it here as a separate issue. Marvel’s insistence on connecting their film universe to their TV universe is a rake they inevitably keep stepping on.

I know people are countering this by saying that you don’t need to watch the shows to understand the movie. First, as I’ll demonstrate here, that’s not ALWAYS true. Second, the lone fact that one MIGHT have to have watched hours of TV to be able to enjoy a movie is enough to deter most people from going.

Marvel simply can’t decide how their shows fit into this universe. They can’t tell audiences which projects stand alone and which don’t, because then no one would watch the shows unless they are fans of that specific character. And seeing as these shows have budgets upwards of $212 million dollars, they NEED everyone to watch them. But how is it fair to expect a regular person to devote 21 hours of watchtime between 3 separate shows just to be able to follow the plot of this film?

Everything about the marketing of this film highlighted that this isn’t Captain Marvel’s movie: from the title, to the first trailer which heavily involved Photon and Miss Marvel, to the Secret Invasion show heavily involving both Nick Fury and the Skrulls.

There is nothing wrong with introducing new characters in a franchise. There is nothing wrong with introducing really popular characters into a franchise, without doing their origin story either - one of the best decisions the MCU did was to introduce Spiderman in Civil War as an already established character.

The problem is that the Marvels isn’t introducing the AUDIENCE to Ms. Marvel and Photon; it’s introducing Carol Danvers to them. This isn’t the same thing. Not only is Carol not this movie’s PoV character, but she already has a complicated history with Monica, history that the audience isn’t privy to unless they watched Wanda Vision.

The Problem of Monica

Captain Monica Rambeau is the daughter of Captain Maria Rambeau, Carol Danvers’ best friend and pilot partner. She was introduced in Captain Marvel as a child, but we meet her as an adult for the first time in the Wanda Vision TV series.

In the show we learn that Maria was suffering from cancer, and died while Monica was blipped. When Monica came back, she got involved in Wanda’s scheme in Fairview which is how she got her powers.

If you hadn’t seen Wanda Vision, the last time you saw Monica she was a kid. She didn’t have any superpowers, and she certainly wasn’t working with Nick Fury. It takes the movie over 40 minutes to get around to EVEN telling us that Monica was blipped. It doesn’t help that the scene we learn this in, is a very contrived bit where she, Carol, and Kamala have to share their memories in order to track down Dar-Benn.

This should be the emotional core of the conflict between Monica and Carol. Her mother was sick, and Monica missed 5 years of life during which her mother died. Carol, her aunt, the closest person to her and Maria, wasn’t there for any of it: Maria getting ill, Monica disappearing, Maria dying, or Monica reappearing and putting her life together.

That’s the real reason why Monica is mad at Carol. It isn’t as the movie implies, because Carol made a promise to her when she was 10, and a fully adult Monica is simply choosing to hold on to it out of spite. It’s because after everything, after knowing Maria was sick and Monica came back from the dead, she still wasn’t there for her. But because to know any of this, we would’ve had to have seen Wanda Vision, Monica’s character comes off as incredibly immature and juvenile for the full first act of the film.

Her and Carol have a clear animosity that we have no context for, and the movie expects us to have it, but how could we, when in order to know any of this, we needed to have watched a separate show where she wasn’t even the MAIN CHARACTER.

As for Ms. Marvel, her introduction isn’t the issue; it’s that after she’s introduced, she has nothing to do for the remainder of the film. Let me explain.

Kamala gets an animated stinger (which unintentionally comes off as a cheap ripoff of Miles’ introduction in Into the Spiderverse, especially because it’s never once used for the rest of the film), which introduces her and her family. However, because none of the other characters know who she is, nothing that happens in her show is at all mentioned or relevant to the events of this film. All that we learn is that Kamala has inherited a golden bangle from her grandmother, which is part of an ancient set of Kree bangles that Dar-Benn is after.

How Kamala’s grandmother got to be in possession of one is never explained, which sucks in a movie that revolves entirely around these stupid bangles. If it’s explained in Ms. Marvel, it’s never mentioned here, and if it isn’t, then that makes the only interesting aspect to them nonexistent.

It’s not that watching Ms. Marvel would materially change my understanding of Kamala’s character or her powers; it’s that I, as a viewer, have to gamble with my time because of Marvel’s inconsistency with its own properties, and that hurts my experience of this film. I shouldn’t have to be a superfan to be able to watch the sequel to a film I’ve already seen, just so I can understand the character relationships. It’s a bad way to go about stories, and it’s what made many people not want to see this film.

Kamala Has Nothing to Do

Multiple times during the film, I turned to my friend and said ‘it sure would’ve been nice if we saw that!’

For the majority of the film, I felt like I was watching the sequel to a movie that doesn’t exist, but I’d rather be watching. Somewhere between Captain Marvel and now, Carol flew back to the Kree homeworld of Hala, and SINGLE HANDEDLY destroyed the Supreme Intelligence, the AI which rules and controls the Kree Empire. This plunged the Kree into a devastating civil war which depleted their resources into ruin; their sun is dying, the water has evaporated from Hala and the air is no longer breathable.

Doesn’t that sound like a super interesting direction to take the character? Isn’t that something that would give Carol some much needed moral complexity? Maybe even examine the way in which superpowers interfere in the politics and structure of cultures they don’t understand or are a part of, leading into a cycle of violence and turmoil that is then blamed on said culture? I sure would like to see that!

Instead, this movie takes place after all the interesting things happened. Our villain isn’t Yon-Rogg, Ronan, or even Carol, but a new character who has no connection to Carol outside of just being Kree. Dar-Benn is after the bangles, because she wants to use them to open portals into other worlds and siphon their resources back to Hala.

How is this the plan she came up with? Wouldn’t opening literal jump points into Hala’s atmosphere allow immediate access to any army that wants to attack the Kree? Not to mention there is no guarantee that the same way the resources are siphoned to Hala can’t be siphoned back to the original planet.

But it becomes even stupider when we talk about the bangles. Dar-Benn’s meddling in the teleportation network is bad because the more jump points she creates, the more unstable the network becomes until it collapses entirely. I am completely unsure how finding both bangles would in any way prevent this from happening, or why Dar-Benn would need both bangles when she succeeds in what she sets out to do with just the one.

I am not joking. Using just one bangle, Dar-Benn manages to get both water and air, and even starts stealing the Milky Way’s sun. Once she gets both bangles and uses them, all she does with them is open a hole in space and time which kills her, and allows a different reality to seep into ours. WHY DOES SHE WANT TO DO THIS?

Dar-Benn’s only stated motivation for this entire film is saving Hala. Even her desire for revenge against Carol is secondary. So then why on God’s Green Earth would Dar-Benn want to a) destroy the universe in which Hala is located or b) want to kill herself and leave her people without a Supreme, and therefore once again leaderless?

Moreover, why does she need both bangles? Even the film forgets she’s supposed to want them until about ⅔ of the way through at which point Dar-Benn learns that Kamala, the girl she’s fought with, who was on her ship, actually has the second bangle. By this point, she has already siphoned the air and the water from the other two colonies, and is able to do the same to the Earth’s sun!

Dar-Benn doesn’t need the bangles; hell, Kamala doesn’t either! It’s made pretty clear that Kamala’s powers don’t come from the bangle; she could’ve easily left it on Earth. The film tries to explain that it’s because the trio needs both to close the jump points Dar-Benn is opening, but if that’s the case, why not just leave the one Kamala has behind, and come back for it once they have the second one? Dar-Benn has no idea Kamala has it, it’s not stated or implied that the bangles can find each other, and by this point Dar-Benn has already sucked the air from the Skrulls; it's not like things can get worse!

Poor Zawe Ashton; she is having a blast with this role, but she has NOTHING to work with. Everything we know about her character is her acting the shit out of this blank slate; what’s in the script actually makes her worse. Did she know Carol before Carol destroyed Hala? Did she know Ronan? How did she learn about the bangles? Why does she think this is the best way to go about saving Hala? WHY DOES SHE ATTACK CAROL AFTER CAROL PROMISES TO RESTORE HALA’S SUN?

This terrible plot bleeds into Kamala’s character as well. It makes no sense that Kamala’s powers become entangled with Monica and Carol’s; she wasn’t touching the light energy they were. She was nowhere near either of them. Moreover, because Kamala’s only utility to the plot is her bangle, until the bangle becomes relevant, she has nothing to do. Carol and Monica don’t treat her as an equal, she is always sidelined in fights and action scenes, she isn’t involved in the personal drama between them, and she isn’t even there to provide any emotional conflict for either.

That’s not to say that there aren’t attempts to give her a conflict; it’s just that this film is allergic to it.

No Conflict Allowed

There’s this growing mindset in fandom that I really don’t like; I call it the Coffee Shop AU syndrome. It’s this idea that any conflict, especially between characters that are ostensibly on the same side is ALWAYS bad. That people aren’t allowed to disagree or have different ideas on how things are supposed to be run. And this movie falls for this hard.

Kamala is the most obvious victim to this, but Carol suffers for it too.

Kamala is Carol’s biggest fan; Carol is her idol. After they meet, Carol insists that Kamala leave behind Skrull refugees because the ship is full and they need to take off, an objectively horrible and callous thing to do, especially for someone who can fly, is super-strong, and can BREATHE IN SPACE. Kamala is hurt by this; it’s clear this act of Carol’s is shattering the image she had of her, and Carol isn’t what Kamal imagined her to be.

It’s a very simple set up. Kamala is young and earnest, and she is there to remind Carol that Carol isn’t fighting for the vague concept of peace, but real people. Carol is there to teach Kamala that even heroes are flawed humans who make mistakes and get overwhelmed.

The arc of this film, if you can call it that, is that Carol, can’t, shouldn’t, mustn't make decisions alone. Her insistence on solving the Kree problem by herself is what leads to the Kree’s civil war and their subsequent targeting of the Skrulls. Her insistence that she can see through the Kree’s intentions during the peace conference, and her meddling is what gives Dar-Benn the excuse to attack the Skrulls. Her repeated favoring of grand ideas instead of the actual people who have to live with these ideas are the reason she’s willing to leave refugees behind.

Instead of the film doing anything with this, immediately after the Skrulls are shipped off to New Asgard, Carol apologizes to Kamala for yelling and all is forgiven! The issue wasn’t that Carol yelled at Kamala, it was that she LEFT PEOPLE BEHIND TO DIE.

You’d think that in a movie that clearly sets Kamala and Dar-Benn as ideological opposites, as two extremes to Carol’s personality, that Kamala would have a much clearer conflict with Dar-Benn. Dar-Benn loathes Captain Marvel, the Annihilator; Kamala adores Captain Marvel, the Avenger. Both see Carol as an idea instead of a person, and both represent ideas: Dar-Benn is militaristic, vengeful and selfish. Kamala is earnest, idealistic, and naive. Through their conflict, Carol is supposed to change.

Instead, Dar-Benn has no idea who Kamala is for 90% of the movie, their only interactions revolve around a fucking gold bangle, and their conflict boils down to ‘good guy punches bad guy’.

Where in the World is Carol Danvers?

Marvel doesn’t know what to do with Carol Danvers. They can’t agree on anything about her character, which is why she’s so inconsistent over the 3 films she’s appeared in. The best version of her is still Captain Marvel; there Carol is confident, funny, and determined. She knows her abilities and her powers. Her struggle is internal; the Kree have stripped her of her memories and are trying to control her by constantly undermining her worth in a parallel to the U.S. military undermining the female pilots. Carol coming to terms with the fact that she has been lied to and used, but that she has a real home and people who love her is what allows her to come into her powers fully.

In this sequel we learn that Carol has apparently taken all the wrong lesions from the first film. She has once again rejected her family, she is still hunting after old memories instead of building new ones with the people she loves, and she still is fighting first and thinking second.

Like I said, this is an interesting direction for the character. Carol getting worse isn’t the issue; it’s that the film refuses to commit or develop any of these ideas.

Is Carol a flawed character who needs to grow? Or is she perfect as is, and it’s the rest of the world that needs to see her be vindicated? Objectively, deciding by yourself with no input from the people who will be the most affected by your decision, to destroy the Supreme Intelligence is a bad thing. Meddling in peace talks between the Kree and the Skrulls when neither side wants you there is a bad thing. On a personal level, running away from the people who love you and rely on you because you know they won’t approve of your actions is also a bad thing.

Instead of dealing with this, the film contorts itself in pretzels to justify Carol at every step. Sure, Carol fucked up by killing the Supreme Intelligence, but she did what she had to! The Kree themselves are just genetically predisposed to war and destruction so much that they destroyed their own planet! Yes, Dar-Benn is objectively right to want to save her planet, but we have to make her so cartoonishly, stupidly evil, that she’s willing to make insane decisions just so she can hurt Carol. Yes, Carol did abandon Maria and Monica, but she felt bad you guys! It’s ok!

No one is allowed to confront Carol on her bad decisions; hell outside of one single scene no one is allowed to acknowledge that Carol made bad decisions at all! Everytime the film seems like it’s going to introduce an actual conflict it undercuts itself. Kamala and Carol fight? Carol immediately apologizes. Carol puts Kamala and the rest of the universe in danger by wanting to prove that she’s a better pilot than Dar-Benn? She just felt so guilty for failing the Skrulls, she had no choice! She abandoned Monica because she was afraid Monica would hate her for being a war criminal? Guess, she was wrong, because Monica immediately forgives her!

Because the film can’t decide what kind of character Carols is supposed to be, she’s the worst kind of character: confused, unfocused, empty. She stands for nothing and she cares about nothing. If this is how she’s being treated in her own franchise, we can’t blame the Russos for ‘running’ her in Avengers.

Conclusion

Yes, the film isn’t good. But that’s not the real problem. It’s that it’s a distillation of everything Marvel has been doing wrong for years, even before Endgame. It’s a movie about nothing, told through characters who serve only to dump exposition and move the plot along. It’s at moments really pretty to look at, but that just makes it worse. Seeing this many talented people working so hard to produce such a soulless, empty project, genuinely pains me. I hate that this is the bar that’s deemed acceptable to release, and I worry what it means for the future.

Oh, and Nick Fury was there.

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bylillian · 9 months

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The cast and crew of The Marvels had an unofficial motto on set: If you don't know, ask Iman Vellani.

"I've just learned to trust Iman because she really has her timelines in order," says Brie Larson, a.k.a. Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers, shaking her head. "She's the one that's always schooling us. I wouldn't know how old Carol is without her. She really does the math."

Like Kamala Khan, the fresh-faced hero she plays on Ms. Marvel, Vellani is the kind of comic book aficionado who doodles pictures of Galactus on her sneakers or nitpicks about the differences between Earth-616 and Earth-199999. That knowledge served the 20-year-old well when she teamed up with Larson and WandaVision star Teyonah Parris on the set of their upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe entry The Marvels. Vellani had no problems correcting franchise veterans about obscure comic lore — that is after getting over the fact she was working with franchise veterans. The young actress was so starstruck on her first day with costar Samuel L. Jackson that she literally hid behind director Nia DaCosta before emerging to pepper him with questions. (Did the Nick Fury actor answer all of her inquiries? "Of course I did," Jackson, 74, says with a laugh.)

Even now, as the three lead actresses join EW for a Zoom conversation in June, Larson and Parris turn to Vellani for answers whenever they're stumped. At one point, the three disagree on the first time they actually met. Was it over Zoom? Was it filming a Disney promo video? No, Vellani corrects them: It was when they met up in 2021 to see Black Widow together. Yes, the other two decide. Iman was right. Iman is usually right.

“I just say things with enough conviction," Vellani deadpans, "and they believe me."

Zooming with the three Marvels is a bit like Zooming with three sisters who are reuniting for a long-overdue brunch. The conversation is a mix of gushing praise for one another's talents and the occasional playful insult. (At one point, Vellani pokes fun at her elder costars, causing an indignant Larson, 33, and Parris, 35, to retort: "We're like 30!") Together, the trio have an easy chemistry that reflects on screen, even when they're whooshing across the cosmos or blasting energy beams from their fists. "It was a very sisterly bond on set," DaCosta, 33, says of her leads. "It was really fun to see how their relationship mirrors their relationship in the movie."

And when The Marvels finally hits theaters on Nov. 10, the three actresses hope audiences will connect with them the same way they connected with each other. "I'm excited that the MCU has three lead women, all from very diverse backgrounds, and they're all baddies in their own way," explains Parris. "It's going to be really exciting just to see these smart, fun, intelligent, and troubled women find their way."

When Captain Marvel hit theaters in 2019, female-led superhero movies weren't a total anomaly — but they were far from frequent. Carol Danvers became the first solo female lead in the MCU, and the movie later made history as the first female superhero flick to earn $1 billion at the global box office. But even before Carol's debut, Larson says Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was already looking to the future, brainstorming how to bring other beloved heroines from page to screen. At the top of that list were Monica Rambeau (the original female Captain Marvel in the comics) and Kamala Khan (a Jersey City teenager who modeled her career after Carol). Instead of a traditional Captain Marvel sequel, the goal was to bring in even more heroes.

"This was something Kevin and I had talked about from the beginning, that this was the way this story made sense to go," Larson explains of Kamala debuting with last summer's Ms. Marvel and Monica popping up as a child in the '90s-set Captain Marvel before making her present-day debut in 2020's WandaVision.

The new film — a sequel to those three projects, as well as Avengers: Endgame and Disney+'s new drama Secret Invasion — finds Carol, Monica, and Kamala uniting for the first time under unusual circumstances. Somehow, the three women have become linked, causing them to physically swap places every time they use their powers. It's a classic comic book quandary, forcing the three lone wolves to form a reluctant pack. (Well, Carol and Monica are reluctant. Kamala is downright psyched to be hanging with her super-powered idols.)

“I understand that feeling of being afraid to let go of control, of being afraid of passing on responsibility to others," says Larson, who won the Best Actress Oscar in 2016 for Room. "You almost want to take on all of the burden yourself. So, I think this is an incredible metaphor for learning how to be in a team. It's a very clear example that no one person can do it all. You need all kinds of skill sets, all kinds of people with different viewpoints and different backgrounds in order to save the world."

Since helping to knock out Thanos in 2019's Endgame, Carol has largely left Earth behind, choosing instead to hunt down villains on the far edges of the galaxy. "The way I was able to tap into it and understand it is the concept that Carol kind of became a workaholic, and she lost touch with her heart and with family and friends," Larson says of her character's absence from recent MCU adventures. "That's certainly something I can relate to."

Those family and friends include Jackson's Nick Fury, who forged a close friendship with Carol in Captain Marvel. But that was decades ago, and Fury has lost touch with his original Avenger — until all that interstellar body swapping starts interfering with his spy work. "He's been calling her, and she's off in galaxies far, far away," Jackson explains. "She's like, 'Fury, why are you calling me? I told you not to use this [number].' He's like, 'You gave it to me, so I'm gonna use it. And I'm calling you because I need your help!'"

One of the other people left behind is Monica, the daughter of Carol's old Air Force buddy Maria Rambeau (played in Captain Marvel by Lashana Lynch). Monica first met "Aunt Carol" as a young child, but she's since grown into a hero in her own right, complete with her own powers. "Carol is such a huge part of Monica's life in Captain Marvel," Parris explains. "When we see her in WandaVision, you get a sense that she has not talked to Carol in a very long time. So, we have to address the elephant in the room."

Executive producer Mary Livanos says Marvel was already thinking about the future payoff when including Monica as a smaller child in Captain Marvel. "Always in the back of my head was a story based on family reconnection, and how hard that can be to navigate," she says.

Livanos notes that the idea of location swapping harkens back to early Captain Marvel comics from the 1960s, where Mar-Vell (the first Captain Marvel) and human Rick Jones would swap places using magical Kree bracelets called Nega-Bands. Livanos remains tight-lipped about exactly how Carol, Monica, and Kamala's powers get tangled together, but she notes that all three have light-based abilities: Carol can absorb energy and shoot powerful photon blasts; Monica can manipulate all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum; and Kamala can harden light, which she uses to make giant fists or stepping stones in mid-air.

It all makes for a trippy interstellar odyssey that DaCosta couldn't wait to direct. The filmmaker broke out with the acclaimed 2018 indie Little Woods and helmed the 2021 horror reboot Candyman — and, like Vellani, she has an impressively nerdy pedigree. As a kid, she would obsessively pore over her uncle's old Marvel issues. Later, as a college student, she stumbled upon the original Ms. Marvel comics, which first introduced teenager Kamala Khan.

"I'm a big nerd from New York City, and here was this hero who was a big nerd from Jersey City, writing fan fiction the way I used to when I was that age," explains DaCosta, who is also the first Black woman to direct a Marvel Studios film. "It was really fun to feel close to that character in that really specific way, in a way you don't often feel when it's Iron Man or Thor. That was so exciting to me, knowing that I could be a part of bringing this character who I've loved for a decade to the big screen."

Parris previously starred in DaCosta's Candyman, and she raves about her director's distinct voice and ability to find a new perspective on an existing franchise. "Even if you work with her once, you do feel like, 'Oh, we're the best of buds,'" Parris says. "I love how smart she is. I love how strong her point of view is. And I love that she has a very fresh take on material."

"She has a really calm vibe, too," Vellani adds. "These movies are not easy to make at all. There's like a million, bajillion little moving pieces. She and Mary [Livanos] did such a great job to keep morale high. Even if there were days where they wanted to rip people's heads off, they would never show it and never put their stress on anyone else."

Still, helming a massive sci-fi blockbuster has its hurdles — especially when you want to do right by your geeky inner child. "The biggest challenge was finding the balance between my point of view as a director and as a comic book nerd," DaCosta admits. "Obviously, there are changes between the comics and the movies, and sometimes I'm like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa!' Sometimes Kevin [Feige] would be like, 'You're being too much of a nerd. Please stop.'"

The Marvels also introduces a few new faces, with Parasite star Park Seo-joon, 34, joining the MCU in a role that's being kept secret for now (though Livanos reveals he plays an "ally to Carol"). Meanwhile, Zawe Ashton suits up as the villainous Kree revolutionary Dar-Benn, who's fighting to restore her homeland after a long civil war.

Known for films including Velvet Buzzsaw and Mr. Malcolm's List, Ashton, 38, had auditioned for other Marvel projects in the past, but The Marvels wasn't even on her radar. The British actress tells EW that she's long been a fan of DaCosta's work, and in the early days of the pandemic, she met with the director via Zoom, hoping to collaborate on a future indie film. Almost a year later, Ashton received an unexpected phone call from a U.S. number. It was her agents, ringing to say DaCosta was offering her a role. "I was like, 'Oh, the tiny movie we talked about in the pandemic, brilliant,'" Ashton recalls. "They were like, 'No, it's actually to join the cast of Captain Marvel 2.'"

Ashton was stunned. She quickly threw herself into stunt training and comic research, but she also turned to another iconic Marvel villain for advice: her fiancé Tom Hiddleston, who's played trickster god Loki since 2011.

"It led to some incredible conversations about his experience being part of this franchise for over a decade," Ashton says, noting that it went beyond the "very good" practical advice to make sure there were "enough zippers to go to the bathroom" in her costume. "One of the main takeaways from our conversations was 'What you put into Marvel, you get back.' He said, 'If you go into this with an open heart and a great work ethic and just want to provide an amazing experience for the fans, you'll have an amazing experience on those sets.' He really empowered me in that way."

Rounding out the cast is one more key player — one with whiskers and a long fluffy tail. In Captain Marvel, Carol adopted a small orange cat named Goose, who turned out to be a Lovecraftian alien called a flerken. (Despite their cuddly appearance, flerkens are known for their deadly, man-eating tentacles and their seemingly bottomless stomachs.) In The Marvels, Goose is primarily played by two feline actors named Nemo and Tango, who quickly became crew favorites. But Goose wasn't the only four-legged star on set: The film's trailer teases a whole cascade of kittens — or are they flerkens? "The crew was delighted whenever the kittens were around," Livanos says. "It was like Christmas when we had our bigger kitten scenes. Everyone had their own favorite."

But not everyone bonded with the feline talent. As with the first movie, Larson's allergies meant that she had to keep her distance from the cats on set. She jokes that even with all the wild stunts and wire work she does in The Marvels, the only stunt she couldn't perform was being in the same room as a cat.

"I'm still allergic," Larson says, sadly. "I hope that changes. But until it does, a lot of the CGI budget goes towards me and the cat."

"And your runny nose," Parris jokes.

Each Marvels character has a unique combat style, which meant that while Parris spent months practicing boxing, Vellani was perfecting Kamala's parkour-inspired moves. One of DaCosta's early priorities was making sure her cast didn't look (or fight) the same, and Ashton remembers an early conversation with the director where DaCosta encouraged her to prioritize agility and strength over physical appearance.

"I was saying how much I was loving working out and getting physically strong, and she was like, 'Whatever you do, please do not turn up here on day one looking like a pencil!'" Ashton remembers. "That was the most freeing thing as a performer who thought the only way to be on camera in movies like this is to present aesthetically in a certain way. Having Nia's empowerment — and the empowerment of the stunt team — to know that it's about your mental attitude, your agility, and your strength was life-changing."

As the cast would come to learn, training on land is one thing. Taking to the sky is much more difficult. "Baby was hanging on by a wire a lot of the time — literally," Parris jokes of herself. "It was a lot of wire work for Monica." At one point, remembering long days dangling above the ground, Parris, Larson, and Vellani dissolve into laughter, wiping tears from their eyes. Once they compose themselves, they explain: There was one scene where Parris had to take off, leaping and zooming high into the air on a wire. Instead of a graceful ascension, she flailed, legs askew as the wire jerked her high into the air.

"I fell onto the ground," Larson recalls, giggling. "I fell over. I couldn't believe it. It was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in my life."

"I thought I held it together!" Parris adds, shaking her head. "So, I'm up at the top, swinging in the sky, like, 'Damn, that wasn't a good one, but no one noticed.' But I looked down, and Brie is on the floor in tears, and Iman is holding her face. I was like, 'Oh, I guess everybody did see that."

The cast hopes that silliness shines through when The Marvels flies into theaters this fall. "It doesn't have to be intense and heavy," Larson says. "There's a lot of humor. I think this movie's very funny, and we laughed a lot while making it." In between takes, Larson, Parris, and Vellani would bond over card games like Uno, and at one point, Larson began making pizzas in her trailer, wandering around the set each day to make deliveries to crew members.

After Captain Marvel and the pressure of being the MCU's first female-led superhero movie, there's something nice about no longer being an outlier. After all, it's much easier to handle the spotlight when you're sharing it. "It's this all-female sci-fi extravaganza, with a woman on the other side of the camera," Ashton explains. "I felt very moved, actually, being involved in it. It's not an environment you're often in — a huge-budget movie with all these badass women and Samuel L. Jackson. That just doesn't happen."

We're really lucky because we have such a plethora of female characters with real flaws and real arcs," Vellani says of the evolving MCU, which has flanked its Marvels with the female-led Black Widow, She-Hulk, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and more. "Time and time again, it's proven that not only do these stories have such a robust fan base, but they sell."

She continues: "Marvel has always championed that idea of finding this idealized version of yourself through their characters — a version of yourself that can fly in space or stop a train with one hand. I think that aspiration to be greater than who you are is such a universal feeling, regardless of gender identity. I hope people recognize that and find ways to identify with all of our characters."

Larson and Parris nod, beaming at their teammate. "See?" Larson says with a smile. "We should just let Iman answer all these questions."

Additional reporting by Sydney Bucksbaum.

These interviews were conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

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Confira a lista de quais são as adições mais recentes ao acervo da plataforma de streaming O Prime Video, a plataforma de streaming da gigante Amazon, tem um dos mais vastos e ricos catálogos entre as empresas do ramo. Para manter-se atual, assim como as outras plataformas, o catálogo é renovado e atualizado frequentemente com novos títulos, sejam eles lançamentos recentes ou clássicos do cinema e da TV. Veja quais são os filmes que entraram recentemente no acervo do Prime Video e estão disponíveis para você maratonar. Animais Noturnos (2016) Susan (Amy Adams), dona de uma galeria de arte, é surpreendida com um presente de seu ex-marido, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal), um escritor. Ele enviou à sua ex-mulher uma cópia de seu novo manuscrito, um novo romance com uma história inquietante, onde um homem e sua família passam por um ataque de uma gangue, desencadeando traumas e situações de violência. Susan se questiona do porquê recebeu uma cópia do livro, e enquanto passa pelas páginas, também relembra coisas de seu antigo casamento. A Lenda de Candyman (2021) Anthony (Yahya Abdul-Mateen III), um artista, e sua namorada Brianna (Teyona Parris), uma diretora de galeria de arte, se mudam para o bairro de Cabrini Green, em Chicago. Os dois passam a morar em um condomínio de luxo no bairro que aparenta ser completamente novo. No entanto, Anthony acaba conhecendo um antigo morador, que conta o histórico de massacre e terror que o local já foi palco, eventos que foram provocados pelo espírito Candyman. As histórias passam a inspirar as pinturas do artista, que se atrai pelo aspecto macabro do lugar, mas tudo muda quando o espírito, que é invocado através de um espelho, retorna e passa a aterrorizar novamente os moradores da região. A Família Addams 2: Pé na Estrada (2021) A animação acompanha a divertida e assustadora família Addams em uma viagem. Morticia e Gomez, preocupados com o crescimento de seus filhos, decidem que é o momento perfeito para realizar uma viagem com toda a família e passar um tempo especial com eles. Eles pegam a estrada em um trailer e percorrem todo o país em uma grande aventura, introduzindo novos personagens e vários momentos engraçados. Legalmente Loira (2001) Um clássico da comédia e um grande sucesso, está agora no catálogo da Amazon. Os filmes acompanham as aventuras de Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon), uma patricinha estereotipada típica dos filmes norte-americanos, que prefere roupas rosas ao invés de vestir calça ou colete jeans. Quando seu namorado é aprovado para estudar na faculdade de Direito de Harvard, ele termina seu relacionamento com ela, a subestimando e sugerindo que ela não é inteligente o suficiente para ficar com ele. A partir de então, Elle se dedica para entrar na mesma faculdade, e, a todo momento, prova que ela é muito mais que apenas uma jovem bonita e com bom gosto. *Todos os artigos publicados são de responsabilidade exclusiva de seus autores e não expressam a linha editorial do portal e de seus editores.

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Marvel Studios has unveiled footage from its upcoming film, miracle At D23 Expo. Featuring Miss Marvel star Brie Larson, the first look of the film promises a fun experience for all MCU fan. This time around, the superhero drama stars Larson as Captain Marvel, Iman Vellani as Miss Marvel and Teyona Parris as Monica Rambeau. The Marvels will pick up from the post-credits scene of Miss Marvel. The…

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Today in Fandom History: January 15

Fandom: Marvel

January 15, 2021, WandaVision’s first episode premiered. The start to the new Marvel tv line up originally consisting of WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki, this show started 2021 (a fairly questionable year) with a positive bang. I loved Wanda since I first watched Age of Ultron and even dressed as her for Halloween 2017/18, so I was so glad when she finally got to lead her own show. I was even more excited that they finally called Wanda the Scarlet Witch, as officially in the MCU canon she was only referred to by her name. The show stars Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany as Vision, roles they have both had since the second Avengers movie, though Bettany previously voiced Jarvis all the way back to the first Iron Man movie. It also introduced Agatha, played by Kathryn Hahn, and Monica Rambeau (Teyona Parris) who in the comics goes on to be the second official Captain Marvel, but we already got one of those so I’m not sure what hero she’ll become. Not to mention, WandaVision also introduces MCU fans to the more mystical side of Marvel that has always existed but has only had a little introduction with Doctor Strange being a wizard. There were no witches. It also brings back Kat Denning’s Darcy Lewis and Randall Park’s Jimmy Woo.

This show was so brilliantly done. The eclectic use of sitcoms from different decades was utterly unique, and the execution with the black and white and transition to solid color, not to mention the laugh tracks, exaggerated expressions/physical comedy, and Modern family interview style was fantastic. Nobody knew what the hell was going on in the first three episodes, the media was in a frenzy trying to figure out what on God’s green Earth was happening and failing at every turn. Wanda’s costuming was a personal favorite aspect of mine. From the 50′s style midi dress with evening heels and perfectly styled hair ending just above a strand of pearls around her collar bone, to the 70′s high brown boots, almost psychedelically striped top and faintly hippie-esque straightened hair, the realistic everyday decades outfits were perfect. And then introducing her classic Scarlet Witch costume in the Halloween episode with the crown and cape in that shiny red latex with her shoulder length hair having that little flourish at the end, brilliant! But thank God they did that modern Scarlet Witch outfit in the last episode, bringing this classic, powerful X-Men character into the 21st century. It was gorgeous, and badass, and the perfect mix of mystical and superhero.

I cannot praise this show enough. It was so perfect and worked around all the holes of the separation between X-Men and MCU universes while still trying to stick to some of Wanda’s origins. And who didn’t freak the hell out when Pietro/Peter showed up? (Why’d Marvel have to kill off the funny speedster?) It was just so great, if you haven’t watched the show, you really have to. I was so impressed with the entire cast and every technical aspect of it from set design to dialogue, to effects (that glitching out effect that occurred when Wanda lost control of her magic and the snowing thing that always happened on those old box television sets was great.)

Elizabeth Olsen was a comedic goddess, Bettany was simultaneously hilarious, loving, and just done by the end, and Agatha was one of the more entertaining Marvel film villains we’ve had. Happy one year anniversary WandaVision!

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Just finished rewatching Captain Marvel and Maria and Monica and Carol live in Louisiana!! I know that sadly now Maria is dead but can we get some interactions between our fav " couple of guys" and Monica??? I would like to see it!! Especially bc both Sam and Maria and I'm going to assume Monica were in the air force and so their service + connection to superpowered ppl is something they could bond over. Also the casting for Monica as Teyona Parris in wandavision is perfect she literally looks just like young Monica in Cap Marvel it's fucking insane

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Die ersten kritischen Kritiken zum Superheldenprojekt „Wanda / Vision“ wurden auf Twitter veröffentlicht. Experten nennen es "komisch" und "lustig". Die Serie ist eine Parodie auf eine Sitcom für die Familie, die sich auf das häusliche Leben von Wanda Maximoff ("Die scharlachrote Hexe") und ihrem Partner, einem Android namens Vision, konzentriert. Dann nannte der Fandom-Redakteur das Projekt „psychedelisch und faszinierend“ und teilte mit, dass er es kaum erwarten kann, die gesamte Saison zu sehen. Stephen Weintraub von Collider lobte die Macher des Projekts für das Eingehen von Risiken. Dorian Parks (ebenfalls von Collider) nannte die Show „auf gute Weise komisch“ und kam zu dem Schluss, dass Marvel großartig darin ist, Familiensitcoms zu parodieren. Der unabhängige Kolumnist Hermann Lassier beschrieb die ersten drei Folgen der Serie als "urkomisch" - und sagte auch, er sei gespannt, was als nächstes kommt. Das Projekt soll am 15. Januar bei Disney + beginnen. Die nächsten hochrangigen Premieren auf der Plattform sind The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (19. März) und Loki (Mai). Die Handlung konzentriert sich auf die Scharlachrote Hexe (Elizabeth Olsen) und Vision (Paul Bettany), die gerade geheiratet haben und glücklich in Westview leben. Ihre Realität ist jedoch nicht so, wie es scheint. Es war ursprünglich geplant, das Projekt vor Ende 2020 zu starten, aber die Coronavirus-Pandemie hat einige Anpassungen vorgenommen. Der erste Trailer der Serie am ersten Tag hatte 53 Millionen Aufrufe. Damit stellte er einen Rekord unter allen Projekten auf, die bereits in Streaming-Diensten gestartet wurden. Dies ist keine separate Geschichte in der MCU, sondern eine Art Prolog für Sam Raimis Fortsetzung von Doctor Strange. Die Serie wird bis zum 5. März eine Folge pro Woche ausgestrahlt. Die Hauptrollen spielten Elizabeth Olsen und Paul Bettany. Auch Katherine Hahn, Randall Pak, Teyona Parris und Kat Dennings traten hier auf. Wanda / Vision ist eine Geschichte über die Helden von Wanda Maximoff und ihrem Android-Ehemann Vision. Sie führen ein normales Familienleben, aber bald hört Wanda ständig Lachen außerhalb des Bildschirms und vermutet, dass in ihrer Welt eindeutig etwas nicht stimmt. Die Serie ist von klassischen amerikanischen Sitcoms des 20. Jahrhunderts inspiriert. Die Ereignisse der Show werden mit der Handlung des nächsten Films „Doctor Strange und das Multiversum des Wahnsinns“ verbunden.

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El esposo de Wanda Vision es un verdadero robot. Fue creado por el villano Ultron, por lo que luchó con Hank Pym y el resto de los Vengadores. Después de crear el robot, los científicos incrustaron cristales en su cabeza, lo que le permitió controlar todos sus movimientos. Pero en la última misión, todo cambia. La esperada serie de Marvel "Wanda / Vision" se lanzará en Disney + el 15 de enero. Mientras tanto, Marvel está despertando interés con prometedores avances y avances. Las películas de Año Nuevo más exitosas nombradas En el nuevo clip de un minuto, los personajes, como vemos, descubren la respuesta a la pregunta sobre la objetividad de la realidad. El teaser recibió más de 800.000 visitas en menos de un día. Al igual que los videos promocionales de programas anteriores, el último video confirma que Wanda / Vision está filmada en un género que puede definirse como una comedia retro psicodélica. Anteriormente se conocía que el estreno vendrá precedido por el lanzamiento de otra serie del universo Marvel llamada “Legends”, donde los dos primeros episodios estarán dedicados a Wanda y Vision. "Legends" se lanzará el 8 de enero. A mediados de noviembre de 2020, se conoció que la serie “Wanda / Vision” se estrenará el 15 de enero de 2021 y continuará luego de los eventos de la película “Avengers: Endgame”. Ahora Disney +, que estrenará el programa, ha revelado el recuento de episodios del programa. El programa recibirá 9 episodios. La serie será más larga de lo previsto, ya que anteriormente se dijo solo unos seis episodios, y un poco más tarde, unos ocho.

Las primeras reseñas críticas del proyecto de superhéroes “Wanda / Vision” comenzaron a aparecer en Twitter. Los expertos lo llaman "extraño" y "divertido". La serie es una parodia de una comedia de situación para la familia, centrada en la vida doméstica de Wanda Maximoff ("La Bruja Escarlata") y su pareja, un androide llamado Vision. Luego, el editor de Fandom llamó al proyecto "psicodélico e intrigante" y compartió que no puede esperar para ver toda la temporada. Stephen Weintraub de Collider elogió a los creadores del proyecto por asumir riesgos. Dorian Parks (también de Collider) calificó el programa como "extraño en el buen sentido" y concluyó que Marvel es excelente para parodiar comedias familiares. El columnista independiente Hermann Lassier describió los primeros tres episodios de la serie como "divertidos", y también dijo que estaba ansioso por ver lo que viene después. El proyecto está programado para comenzar en Disney + el 15 de enero. Los próximos estrenos de alto nivel en la plataforma serán The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (19 de marzo) y Loki (mayo). La trama se centrará en Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) y Vision (Paul Bettany), que se acaban de casar y viven felices en Westview. Sin embargo, su realidad no es lo que parece. Originalmente se planeó que el proyecto comenzara antes de fines de 2020, pero la pandemia de coronavirus ha realizado algunos ajustes. El primer tráiler de la serie en el primer día tuvo 53 millones de visitas. Así, estableció un récord entre todos los proyectos ya lanzados en servicios de streaming. Esta no es una historia separada en el MCU, sino una especie de prólogo para la secuela de Doctor Strange de Sam Raimi. La serie emitirá un episodio a la semana hasta el 5 de marzo. Los papeles principales fueron interpretados por Elizabeth Olsen y Paul Bettany. Katherine Hahn, Randall Pak, Teyona Parris y Kat Dennings también aparecieron aquí. Wanda / Vision es una historia sobre los héroes de Wanda Maximoff y su esposo androide Vision. Llevan una vida familiar normal, pero pronto Wanda comienza a escuchar constantemente risas fuera de la pantalla y sospecha que algo está claramente mal en su mundo. La serie está inspirada en las clásicas comedias de situación estadounidenses del siglo XX. Los eventos del programa estarán conectados con la trama de la próxima película "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness".

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