Captain Marvel is a historic event (the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a female superhero as the sole lead), but it’s also a cog in a much larger machine, one that’s been churning out product since 2008 with the release of Iron Man. So, it’s somewhat surprising how much free reign the film’s co-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson) were given by Marvel Studios to tell the Adventures of Goose. And his buddies, I guess.
“When we came aboard, basically Marvel said, ‘Here’s what we want. We want a movie set in the ’90s, we want a young Nick Fury with two eyes, and we want some Skrulls in this movie,'” Fleck told Digital Spy (they went three-for-three), while Boden added, “I was surprised by what an awesome collaboration it was. I was surprised that instead of being told to ‘hold on, harness it, make it less weird,’ we were encouraged to make it more weird, and that was really fun.”
I find nothing weird about an Oscar winner punching an old lady in the face.
Boden also revealed that Marvel keeps “everything secretive,” so even they don’t know what’s going to happen in Avengers: Endgame. “We talked about the character [of Captain Marvel] with the Russo brothers, who are making Endgame – told them what we were thinking about who she is and what we were working on – so there would be some consistency and fluidity,” she said.
Captain Marvel, which stars Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg, Jude Law, and Goose the Cat, opens tomorrow, March 7.
Wow this movie perfectly captures 1995! pic.twitter.com/8L4P1RPsRW
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) March 6, 2019
(Via Digital Spy)