CAPTAIN MARVEL Co-Writer On The Challenges Of Defining Her Powers/Weaknesses

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...

By MarkCassidy - Oct 12, 2015 04:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Captain Marvel
Source: Collider

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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Luminus
Luminus - 10/10/2015, 12:52 AM
How is this an article?
beto
beto - 10/10/2015, 1:29 AM
“What’s her vulnerability?”

Waiting for the woman in kitchen jokes.
XelCorp
XelCorp - 10/10/2015, 2:21 AM
It's simple. Make he really [Frick]ing strong and have her have the ability to asorb certain energy's yeah. But don't give her Kryptonian invulnerability. She can still get hurt from certain blows. All I know is that they had better not water her down and turn her into another [Frick]ing Thor
XelCorp
XelCorp - 10/10/2015, 2:21 AM
Her^*** absorb^^***
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/10/2015, 2:34 AM
Y'know, I have to say I'm definitely in the Charlize Theron camp.
I know Feige's saying that he doesn't know who would be right for the role, until they have a voice for the character in the screenplay, but whatever that tone may be, Charlize can do it all.
She's got the serious acting chops, she's got the badass action chops, she's got the epic, cosmic chops, she's got the comedy chops, she's got that Downey Jr. charisma, she's hot... on and on. She would actually bring character to the character.
The whole "too much power" thing doesn't have to be the same problem for Captain Marvel that it is for Superman. For one thing, she's fighting greater cosmic threats and for another thing, she doesn't have to be so clean-cut, nice guy, all-American, like Superman. She can have a bit of that funny arrogance that displays in certain films. Think of how she is in Young Adult and apply that to a woman who is actually awesome.
Can you imagine her flying in late to an Avengers meeting, "Oh sorry, there was this big Dust-cloud god in Sominus and then I had to take care of this guy" and she drops down Scorpion in front of Spider-Man, "Here he's one of yours isn't he?". Y'know? And that kind of attitude from a confident/arrogant superheroic woman of Charlize's age with a young Spidey of Tom Holland's age? That would be good banter, "I don't think you can own a supervillain" Spidey might comeback with only to have Charlize physically bully him, in a playful manner as if he were her little brother or nephew.
Think Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. That is what Charlize could bring to the role of Captain Marvel. But then, like I say, she can be a genuine badass, too.
And when the time comes to be epic? Furiosa, baby-dogs. Furiosa.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/10/2015, 2:37 AM
Also - And I'm not complaining- but why are female superheroes always asking for ass approval?
Male superheroes never seem to do that.
SnapperCarr
SnapperCarr - 10/10/2015, 2:46 AM
Superman has a vulnerability. It's called Kryptonite.

People clearly don't understand that Superman is defined by his humanity. Clark Kent is the real person and Superman is the identity due to how he was raised. So when people say he doesn't have flaws, they're clearly wrong.
SnapperCarr
SnapperCarr - 10/10/2015, 2:47 AM
And wasn't this same exact quote used before in a previous article about the writers?
loki668
loki668 - 10/10/2015, 2:49 AM
I thought that her vulnerability was Parker's Peter?
loki668
loki668 - 10/10/2015, 2:51 AM
@DukeAcureds

Actually, Guy Gardner is quite proud of his ass!!

DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/10/2015, 12:15 PM
Loki668@ I approve Guy Gardner's ass.
Well done, Guy.
gamecreatorjj
gamecreatorjj - 10/11/2015, 12:23 AM
I got really excited until I realized they meant Marvel's Captain Marvel
SuperCat
SuperCat - 10/12/2015, 4:09 AM
I've never been much of a fan but I'd see the movie.

marvelstudios
marvelstudios - 10/12/2015, 4:21 AM
I wouldn't mind her being over-powered. The heroes are going to need all the help they can get.

Also, hopefully in Thor: Ragnarok we get to see the true power of Thor.
Baka
Baka - 10/12/2015, 4:36 AM
People clearly don't understand that Superman is defined by his humanity. Clark Kent is the real person and Superman is the identity due to how he was raised. So when people say he doesn't have flaws, they're clearly wrong.



GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/12/2015, 5:01 AM
"Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race. Sorta like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plimpton" .- Bill. kill bill
Zer0squad
Zer0squad - 10/12/2015, 5:12 AM
Oh, great. Here come the nurture vs. nature arguments on the existentialism of Superman...

But yeah, to sum up this article, she basically answered the question by rephrasing the question? Got it. They haven't given this movie a second thought yet.
gambgel
gambgel - 10/12/2015, 5:21 AM
there isnt a script yet??

What the hell has Marvel and writers being doing all these years then? talking and talking?? chhh.

Some movies move so fast, while with others is just talk and talk. Lame
SageMode
SageMode - 10/12/2015, 5:24 AM
Well, Danvers is a planet buster, at least in her Binary form.
RamonSuarez
RamonSuarez - 10/12/2015, 5:24 AM
If she's facing the Kree she won't be that invulnerable.

BlackHulk
BlackHulk - 10/12/2015, 5:27 AM
I don't see the big challenge. Its not like they are basing the character on source material. And its not like the Kree in GOTG were shown to have any standalone powers. Marvel will approach "Captain Marvel" like they do with most characters, create a story completely opposite from the source material and hope the GA accepts it.
DallasAvenger
DallasAvenger - 10/12/2015, 5:28 AM
I'm sure they'll get her power level right. Marvel Studios has done a great job of balancing the heroes and not making one or two uber-ridiculously powerful as to negate the need for the other heroes. The movies don't have to deal with decades of power creep that has naturally occurred in the comics.
DoctorDoomSayer
DoctorDoomSayer - 10/12/2015, 5:34 AM
Emily Blunt...make it happen Marvel!
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