It's no secret that some of the female members of the
Avengers: Endgame cast approached Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige during production to pitch an all-female team-up movie, and now
Captain Marvel star Brie Larson has talked more about what happened, just how serious those discussions were, and what might come next.
"It is something," the actress said before asking the interviewer, "Well what do you mean truly discussed?" When she replied with "You tell me," Larson added: "I will say that a lot of the female cast members from Marvel walked up to Kevin and we were like, 'We are in this together, we want to do this.' What that means, I have no idea."
"You know, I’m not in charge of the future of Marvel, but it is something that we’re really passionate about and we love, and I feel like if enough people out in the world talk about how much they want it, maybe it’ll happen.
"I love Carol Danvers so much and I love playing her and I love the way that she interacts with people and the way that she’s grown into herself. So, I’m excited to see where that goes. But there’s so many other new characters that I love, as well, that I’m excited to see and it’s so hard to imagine now where we’re at with these stories. Them existing without any one of those characters."
"It’s hard to pull that apart," she concluded.
As of right now, Captain Marvel doesn't have a place in Phase 4, but it's easy enough to imagine the character's sequel turning into a female-led team-up where the heroes assemble to tackle a Secret Invasion! In other words, it could be an unofficial
Avengers movie, and that would ensure this sequel succeeds at the box office.
Captain Marvel: A-Force, perhaps?
For now, we'll have to wait and see.
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teased the MCU's future ahead of Avengers: Endgame!
No Secret Invasion?
I think it's fair to say that we went into Captain Marvel expecting the stage to be set for a big screen adaptation of Secret Invasion. However, Talos and the rest of the Skrulls are portrayed in a sympathetic light and the movie does not wrap up with them infiltrating our planet. Does this mean Marvel Studios plans to portray them as the good guys moving forward?
Not necessarily.
Talos makes it clear that there are a lot of Skrulls scattered throughout the universe, and it's entirely feasible that at least one of them would like to make our planet home. If nothing else, at least this movie introduces us to the concept of the shapeshifters!