Captain Marvel General Discussion and Speculation

[Brutalitops]

I love KB, but Carol Danvers is no pixie, imo.

That said, I would LOVE to see KB in Joss Whedon project sometime. She was born to speak his brand of dialogue.

My dream for Wasp is still brunette Kristen Bell.

 

[Loki882]

Well hello there Veronica, I mean Anna, I mean Sarah, I mean Kristen.

 

[eon001]

Skimmed through the posts. Has anyone considered the Captain/Ms Marvel origin from Avengers, Earth mightiest heroes cartoon show? It's a Carol focused story that still acknowledges Mar-Vell.

I also found the cover of the new Captain Marvel issue, interesting. Maybe I'm reaching but are they trying to tell us something?

 

[Young Superman]

well hello there veronica, i mean anna, i mean sarah, i mean kristen.

lol

 

[Dr. Evil]

Skimmed through the posts. Has anyone considered the Captain/Ms Marvel origin from Avengers, Earth mightiest heroes cartoon show? It's a Carol focused story that still acknowledges Mar-Vell.

I also found the cover of the new Captain Marvel issue, interesting. Maybe I'm reaching but are they trying to tell us something?

I don't see anything

 

[flickchick85]

My dream for Wasp is still brunette Kristen Bell.

She's much better suited for that role than for Carol, imo. I'd certainly prefer her over Evangeline Lilly, at any rate.

 

[Young Superman]

Another actress who I think would a Carol would be Laura Vandervoort.

 

[Doppelganger]

Another actress who I think would a Carol would be Laura Vandervoort.

Spoiler

Eh. I don't see it. Well she is blonde and hot and good enough on Bitten but I would not cast er as an Air Force Officer, let alone Carol Danvers.

Perhaps she has more range than I give her credit for but I remain unconvinced.

 

[DrCosmic]

Captain Marvel


Plot:
A group of abducted civilians and an Air Force squadron end up trapped on an alien ship at the mercy of a race called the Kree, who perform experiments on them and are bent on harvesting the Earth for their great war. Can the humans survive? Can they save the world?

Cast:
Carol Danvers: Elizabeth Banks
Monica Rambeau: Naomie Harris
Mar-Vell: Aaron Eckhart
Yon-Rogg: Bryan Cranston
Maj. Michael Rossi: Joe Manganiello
Patsy Walker: Jena Malone
Jessica Drew: Jessica Biel
Abigail Brand: Maggie Q
Col. James Rhodes: Don Cheadle
Rick Jones: Aramis Knight
Robert Hunter: Jackie Earle Haley
Sentry-459 (voice): Val Kilmer
Supreme Intelligence (Voice): Malcolm McDowell
Una: Amanda Seyfried

 

[cph9fa]

Captain Marvel


Plot:
A group of abducted civilians and an Air Force squadron end up trapped on an alien ship at the mercy of a race called the Kree, who perform experiments on them and are bent on harvesting the Earth for their great war. Can the humans survive? Can they save the world?

Cast:
Carol Danvers: Elizabeth Banks
Monica Rambeau: Naomie Harris
Mar-Vell: Aaron Eckhart
Yon-Rogg: Bryan Cranston
Maj. Michael Rossi: Joe Manganiello
Patsy Walker: Jena Malone
Jessica Drew: Jessica Biel
Abigail Brand: Maggie Q
Col. James Rhodes: Don Cheadle
Rick Jones: Aramis Knight
Robert Walker: Jackie Earle Haley
Sentry-459 (voice): Val Kilmer
Supreme Intelligence (Voice): Malcolm McDowell
Una: Amanda Seyfried

Interesting idea. I can't speak to the casting except that it seems a bit large. Not so much a Captain Marvel movie as a "throw a bunch of characters together and see what happens." Which could still work, I guess?

At any rate, if you have Kree experimenting with humans, you could borrow aspects of Zarek's splinter group, the Lunatic Legion (or at least one such group to have that name -- I think there may have been several). Desiring racial purity for the Blue Krees (that part could be ditched), the group set up a base of operations on the Blue Area of the Moon and, most notably, genetically modified one Robert Hunter into one of their agents -- Nitro. As long as you're throwing in characters, you might as well include him.

So perhaps Nitro is one of the early (unstable) prototypes for the procedure that later gives Carol powers. Like an alien version of extremis, I guess.

EDIT:
I'll also reiterate that, as long as Kree are the baddies, using Ronan as a character in some capacity would also totally make sense. His character will already have been introduced in GotG, and he's more-or-less the only known named Kree in the MCU thus far (not sure if Korath is still supposed to be Kree, given the trailer). As long as you've got the character already designed and cast (presumably with a multi-picture contract), there's no reason not to use him in this. Comics-wise, Ronan has collaborated with Zarek in the past to overthrow the SI, helped to instigate the Kree-Skrull War on Earth, and was also sent to investigate how the Kree Sentry was disabled. He's clashed several times with both Mar-Vell and Danvers.

EDIT 2:
Or, when you said "Robert Walker" above, did you mean "Robert Hunter"? A quick google didn't reveal a "Robert Walker" except as a penciler.

 

[DrCosmic]

Yeah, it is large. In my head its a bit of a female Avengers, where Carol and Monica are the standouts. It spun out of the abduction conversation from a few pages back, as well as my theories on what does and does not make an action heroine popular as far as relying on friends and the type of vulnerability that happens with the horror motif where the ensemble gets picked off one by one. Still, it's not a coincidence that the three main characters have all gone by Captain Marvel at some point.

And I have no idea why I thought Nitro's name was Robert Walker. I edited that. I would definitely include his genetic modification along with Carol and Monica's. But he'd be that one that kinda goes off the deep end under the pressure of, well, everything. I think the Kree having their own genetic diseases (Mar-Vell has it and is dying!), perhaps that's why the ship is so empty and death-filled or whatever, I think that idea is super solid. Very Trek-like too. Adding to that the idea that they simply are experimenting on humans the same way that humans do on animals just makes sense to me.

I do think the idea of the Kree being a splinter group is interesting, put Yon Rogg on that, but not too splinter, as it probably should be used to build up the Kree-Skrull war as well.

 

[cph9fa]

So, after CA:TWS, here's a setup that could be used for a Captain Marvel movie.

In the aftermath of SHIELD's dissolution in CA:TWS, and no longer trusting the Avengers, the government secretly sets up an elite, joint-operations task force called "Operation: Lightning Storm" to fill SHIELD's role of dealing with global threats. An alien craft or outpost is detected on earth, and they are sent in covertly to investigate. Among their members are USAF pilot Carol Danvers, Coast Guard comms officer Monica Rambeau, and a mysterious scientist named Dr. Lawson who claims to be a "xenoarchaeologist" (really a Kree who has been in deep-cover on earth for years now). But when the team is abducted by the aliens, and their leader (Col. Rossi?) is killed, Carol finds herself in charge of rescuing the rest of the team.

 

[Mcnancy]

I don't see you could pick anyone other than these girls

Carol Danvers: Katee Sackhoff
Monica Rambeau: Hayley Marie Norman

 

[Dr. Evil]

I don't see you could pick anyone other than these girls

Carol Danvers: Katee Sackhoff
Monica Rambeau: Hayley Marie Norman

If they have actresses in mind for Monica, she's at the very, very bottom of the list. I think that their top three choices for Monica Rambeau would be Kerry Washington, Rosario Dawson and Paula Patton with Naomie Harris and Nicole Beharie under consideration as well.

 

[Reh]

Amber Heard as Captain Marvel.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Emily Blunt, good sirs.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Yvonne Strahovski

 

[BobJM]

After Edge of Tomorrow, Emily Blunt deserves all the praise she gets.

DC missed the boat on casting her as WW, but Marvel should scoop her up for Carol no doubt.

 

[cherokeesam]

Kate Upton, dammit. With super-jiggle powers.

 

[Jasyn]

If we get a Carol Danvers - MS/CAPT MARVEL movie in the next few years, these ladies are at the top of my wish list:

1. Charlize Theron
2. Kate Hudson
3. Kate Beckinsale
4. Emily Blunt (have not seen "Edge of Tommorow" yet, but she was very good in "Looper")
5. Abbie Cornish (she was great in the "RoboCop" reboot)

 

[SpideyFan866]

I'm all for Taylor Schilling as Carol Danvers.

Make it happen, Marvel.

 

[KangConquers]

Margot Robbie (Wolf of Wall Street.)

 

[Young Superman]

Margot Robbie (Wolf of Wall Street.)

Good pick. if not her though, how about Adrianne Palicki {G.I. Joe: Retaliation} as Carol Danvers?

BTW I also like the Emily Bunt suggestion.

 

[SpideyFan866]

Thats a terrible picture of Adrianne Palicki.

 

[DrCosmic]

It really is. Blunt is the most prolific choice but to keep their traditional 'catch someone on the way up' Palicki might just be the best call.