New promo material for The Marvels has surfaced online ahead of the film's November 10, 2023 domestic release date. The footage appears to originate from South Korea and rightly focuses on Park Seo-joon's Prince Yan. The Marvels opens in South Korea on November 8, 2023.
If you're unfamiliar with Seo-joon, he is arguably South Korea's most famous actor. North American audiences likely recognize him from the K-drama, Itaewon Class, which is a popular title on Netflix.
In the promo below, Brie Larson calls Park Seo-joon, "maybe the most famous person I've ever worked with in my life."
Recently, early projections for the film have the Captain Marvel sequel slated for a $55-$75 million domestic opening, well below the opening weekend gross of the first film. Some projections even have the film grossing as low as $45 million domestically, in its first weekend.
The first Captain Marvel film grossed $154 million in North America and $455 million worldwide in 2019. While domestic tracking for the sequel is thought to be low, international projections are much higher.
As demonstrated by the above promotional material, The Marvels will need to rely on international box office sales to cover its $220-$250 million production budget, and Marvel Studios is certainly aware of this.
In other recent news related to The Marvels, Variety recently published a controversial piece that stated that the sequel had middling reviews during its test screening and that director Nia DaCosta had abandoned the project to go work on her next feature film. However, much of that report has come under fire from other news outlets, an unusual outcome for a Hollywood trade as reliable as Variety.
The Marvels will star Brie Larson (Short Term 12, Fast X) as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, Teyonah Parris (The Photograph, Candyman) as Monica Rambeau/Photon, Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel, Zawe Ashton (Not Safe For Work, Nocturnal Animals) as Dar-Benn.
Also appearing in supporting roles are Gary Lewis (His Dark Materials, The Bay), Park Seo-joon (Itaewon Class, Concrete Utopia), and Samuel L. Jackson (Secret Invasion).
Teaming up changes everything everyone.
Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan, Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team-up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as ‘The Marvels.'