DC Comics has its Superman, the
face of its label and the definitive evil-beating superhero who also rescues
from disaster. Their longtime rival Marvel does not traditionally go for such
paragon characters, preferring heroes that are also so human that they risk
failing and ruining their lives in doing the right thing. Still Marvel, or
rather Marvel Studios, sees the need for a super among its hero stable to be
the face of the MCU, and they chose Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel, as
portrayed by Brie Larson on her first solo film last 2019. Almost a year later,
her sequel has been officially announced.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the plans are in place to begin development
of “Captain Marvel 2,” the direct sequel to the initial film from last year
introducing the eponymous character, real name Carol Danvers (Brie Larson).
Enough conceptualizing has been done for inside sources to reveal that the
timeframe of the follow-up will shift from the original’s 1990s to the
present-day setting of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As the writing-directing
team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck was reportedly not able return for the
sequel, Marvel Studios is getting a new writer somewhere else.
That would be from the production
teams of the official MCU tie-in series that are set to stream exclusively on
Disney+. In particular, negotiations are now under way for Megan McDonnell to
take over writing duties for “Captain Marvel 2.” McDonnell is a staff writer
for “WandaVision,” the Disney+ MCU show starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul
Bettany as Avengers Wanda Maximoff and Vision. Talks between the studio and
McDonnell are said to be completed with the writer likely to accept.
It is not yet known if McDonnell
will be getting any help in screenwriting the “Captain Marvel” sequel, seeing
as the 2019 movie had a whole team in Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, Nicole Perlman,
Meg LeFauve and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. It is also not known if any of the
original main cast aside from Brie Larson are set to reprise any roles, though
at the very least one of the supporting cast, Monica Rambeau (Akira Akbar)
could be played as an adult if she should appear, possibly played by Teyonah Parris,
who is cast as Monica for “WandaVision” which McDonnell is writing for. As for
Boden and Fleck, it is reported that they might also be tapped for another Disney+
MCU series sometime in the future.
“Captain Marvel 2” has been given
the release date of the year 2022. It is not clear if it will be part of Phase
4, which starts this year with “Black Widow” coming this May.
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