“Captain Marvel” Will Be an Original Origin Film

The early days of the Marvel Cinematic Universe were filled with origin stories to better inform the non-comics-fluent audiences. Now that the MCU has been around for just over a decade, the form that origin films has taken has had to change. The first chance for audiences to see this new take on the origin film will be 2019’s “Captain Marvel”.

In a recent interview regarding “Black Panther’s” release on home media, producer Nate Moore mentioned that Carol Danvers’ solo film will be a markedly different beast than a film like “Captain America: The First Avenger” or “Spider-man: Homecoming.” Moore drew specific attention to the character arc of Carol Danvers and how it will be a rather unique beast, describing it as atypical from the formula of

• Character introduction.
• Character has problem.
• Character gets powers by the end of act one.
• Character better learns powers by act two’s end.
• Character spends act three fighting an antagonist with similar powers.

Moore remarked that Marvel’s introduction of new characters will work hard to conceive new approaches to the structure of an origin film in order to prevent complacency from the audience.

Without going into exacting specifics, Moore stated on Screen Rant that Captain Marvel would still function as a means of introducing audiences to the character while being less predictable than other origins. Notably, Captain Marvel is also a period film, being mostly, if not entirely, set within the 1990s. Moore describes the film as enjoyable both and an interesting film thanks to being a period piece.

The character of Captain Marvel made a virtual debut in the single post-credits sequence for “Avengers: Infinity War.” As Nick Fury slowly registers that people, including Cobie Smulders’ S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill are disintegrating into nothingness, he hastily reaches into a special compartment and sends a message via a pager with several high-tech-looking after-market components grafted onto it. As Fury struggles to get the message out, he disintegrates midway into uttering Samuel L. Jackson’s most frequent swear word, causing the camera to focus on the dropped piece of technology. The pager flashes “Sending…” several times before changing to a blue, yellow and orange symbol that has become iconic for Captain Marvel.

The Captain Marvel film is currently filming and hits theaters on March 8, 2019. While Avengers: Infinity War is still playing, “Black Panther” is now available to own or rent.