The Marvels looks set to unite Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau/Photon (Teyonah Parris), and in a new interview with Empire Online, director Nia DaCosta teased the sequel's unique family dynamic.
"I thought it would be cool to map an estranged family history and sister story onto them," the filmmaker explains. "Carol’s the oldest, the prodigal, then there’s the middle sister Monica, who Carol knew as a kid and promised she’d come back [to] but then never did."
"Kamala is the youngest, who hasn’t had the experience of living with this older sister but idolises her. Now she’s going into space and dealing with crazy space emperors, but the thing I love about Kamala is her belief in people and family."
"Even in the midst of being around Captain Marvel and out of her depth," DaCosta adds, "she’s preserved her strength."
The trio being like sisters should make for a lot of fun moments, particularly when there's still tension between Carol and Monica following their lengthy estrangement. As for Kamala, she's a huge Captain Marvel fangirl, and this meeting should help inspire the teenager to embrace her destiny as a bona fide superhero.
You can also check out a new still from The Marvels in the Tweet below.
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.