It Sounds Like Marvel Definitely Has Live-Action Plans For Kamala Khan's MS. MARVEL
Captain Marvel is headed to the big screen, but what about Carol Danvers' replacement as Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan? Joe Quesada seems certain we'll see the character in "other media" at some point...
When Carol Danvers was promoted to Captain, the Ms. Marvel mantle was taken up by Kamala Khan, who quickly became one of Marvel Comics' most popular young characters. Because of this, there has already been some speculation/rumors that Marvel might be planning to bring Khan into one of their live-action universes - but now we have something a little more solid to go on.
In an interview with CBR, Marvel Chief Operating Officer Joe Quesada explains that the readers do inform some of the big decisions in terms of which characters wind up being utilized for the screen, and assures fans that we will be seeing Ms. Marvel "in other media" at some point in the future.
“Our readers are the Johnny Appleseeds. They tell us something is resonating, something is hitting a core, and that’s something we should try to cultivate. Another great example of this: Ms. Marvel. If we had put this book out ten years ago, it probably would never have succeeded. Not only did we find the audience, but we had the right people on the book and we had the right editor on the book, the right creators on the book. And now we have a character that’s very recognizable — very, very quickly.
That doesn’t happen a lot. Who knows where Ms. Marvel’s going to end up. You can be sure that, somewhere down the road, she will be a part of the future of Marvel in other media.”
Obviously this isn't confirmation that Marvel is actively working on something, and we shouldn't expect to see Kamala make the jump to live-action any time soon - but it's good to know plans are being discussed, at least.
It was recently announced that Marvel and ABC were shopping around a New Warriors TV series, so could that be a possibility? One would assume the studio is going to be looking at some fresh heroes to introduce to the MCU after the events of the next two Avengers films, so that's also an option.
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