CAPTAIN MARVEL Co-Writer On The Challenges Of Defining Her Powers/Weaknesses
The Good Dinosaur screenwriter Meg LeFauve will pen the Captain Marvel movie along with Guardians of the Galaxy scribe Nicole Perlman, and offered an update on their progress to Collider after a screening of Pixar's latest. Click on for the details...
Carol Danvers is a very powerful superhero... to say the least. She's generally depicted as having superhuman strength, speed, stamina, and durability. She can also fly, and has a limited precognitive “sixth sense". The character has been likened to Superman for obvious reasons, but unlike DC's iconic Man of Steel, Captain Marvel doesn't have a go-to plot device like Kryptonite that can be used to establish her weaknesses.
So how do you ensure Danvers doesn't come across as "over-powered"? That seems to be the biggest challenge facing one of the movie's writers, Meg LeFauve. Here's what she had to say to Collider when asked for an update.
"Yeah, we haven’t started yet! We have not started yet. We just got the phone call to come over to Marvel. But for me personally, the wonderful thing about her and the challenge of her is going to be that she’s a female superhero. And that is awesome because she’s so powerful, and how hard is that going to be because she’s so powerful? We don’t want the Superman curse. “What’s her vulnerability?” is what we have to figure out."
Now that the Captain Marvel movie has been pushed back to March 8, 2019, hopefully LeFauve and Perlman have a bit more time to get to grips with the character. Carol Danvers was being set up to be Marvel's first headlining female superhero, but that honor will now go to Evangeline Lilly's Hope van Dyne (well, she'll co-headline!) in Ant-Man And The Wasp, which is set for a 2018 release.
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