We recently learned that The Marvels will likely clock in at just over 90 minutes, a perplexing decision on Marvel Studios' part after the complaints surrounding the 2-hour runtimes of movies like Thor: Love and Thunder and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
The studio clearly feels that's enough time to deliver a satisfying team-up for Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and Photon, but we're curious about exactly how much of what was shot has ended up on the cutting room floor.
According to one reliable scooper, an early idea for the sequel - which was never shot - featured an A-List actor playing a fan-favourite hero from the comics. However, they'd have died in the first act, and it sounds like Clive Owen and George Clooney were both on Kevin Feige's radar before the idea was dropped.
Who is the hero in question? We don't currently know, though we'd bet on it being Nova. Thankfully, Marvel Studios came to the conclusion this would be a waste of Richard Rider and we're still anticipating the character appearing in his own movie or TV show, likely alongside the young Sam Alexander.
Between this and The Marvels' reported runtime, we're sadly not anticipating much in the way of world-building or a satisfying follow-up to Secret Invasion. On the plus side, everything we've seen from the movie thus far looks pretty solid.
In The Marvels, 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, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as "The Marvels."
The movie stars Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Samuel L. Jackson, Zawe Ashton and Park Seo-joon.
The Marvels is currently set to arrive in theaters on November 10.