hooray Captain Marvel has officially begun principal photography as announced
in a press release that I just got my inbox from Walt Disney Studios and you
know this is a very interesting project because we're not quite sure how it's
gonna come together especially in a post black panther world because that show
worked out right is marvel gonna get more political what are gonna be the
selling points for their movies right because black panther you know very
aggressively celebrated african culture in history
so Wonder Woman already did the whole female hero thing right so what's gonna
make Captain Marvel stand out I would say that with Carol Danvers backstory it
would be a combination of the military and female camaraderie she's got a lot
of girlfriends like female friends in the comics which I think has always been
quite nice although I've also recently pointed out that those comics keep
getting canceled so I don't know how much everybody else enjoys it but anyway
with this with this press release that came out it's got tiny little print but
I read all the way through it and there were some very interesting nuggets of
information the first being that the selling point they seem to be going for
is blasts from the past now we already knew that we were gonna get Nick Fury
with two eyes and I have to say as silly as that might sound I'm actually kind of
excited about that I think that's a legit selling point they're gonna not
stop not stop there they're gonna bring back other characters as well now of
course duh they're gonna bring back some Kree characters they've already
introduced and since this story takes place the 1990s they can bring back ones
that are dead and so they're gonna bring back two from guardians of the galaxy
the first movie one is Korath the pursuer which they did
a crappy job of explaining that he was crea in the movie because I only
realised that when I was doing my notes for this video and he of course is
played by Jamar Djimon Honsou who like interest Elba I'm sure they were
probably both kicking themselves they didn't hold out for bigger roles in the
MCU I mean how could they have known the Black Panther was eventually coming but
still I think this is a good lesson don't take you know the crumbs that are
handed to you upfront because something probably something better has to come
right I mean this role is ridiculous I only remember him for being like who
when I start Chris Pratt trying to say he was star-lord
that's something but he's best known for in the movie and then also speaking of
embarrassing situations and guardians of the galaxy Lee paces Ronan the accuser
is coming back who was infamously killed in a dance-off apparently he had the
wrong training I mean here's hoping they both can redeem themselves in Captain
Marvel although the 90s did have some interesting dance moves that could be
potentially mind anyway of course Captain Marvel does focus on the
kree-skrull war so it does make sense it would bring back the few Creek
characters again there had already been established but speaking of coming back
from the dead the real kicker is that Clark Gregg is going to apparently be in
this movie that's right Agent Coulson returns to the big screen
now it's already returned to the small screen and many of you swear by agents
of shield I think that's you know it's really great that the show has such a
loyal fan base and all the time people say oh it's gotten better it's gotten
better but I just can't make myself watch it and it's interesting about
Clark Gregg he has his own infamous backstory where Joss Whedon said hey I'm
giving you your own TV show but then the the double-edged sword there was that he
found himself kicked out of the movies for good and so I think it's interesting
that fight he's allowing him to cross back into the MCU because you know of
course spike he doesn't control television at Marvel but he's coming
back and I think again you know is it a bit gimmicky to have these characters
return no I think it's a lot gimmicky and I think that I'm a little bit
worried that this is what maybe they think they're gonna have to rely on but
when you have five credited writers on your movie that's the other big takeaway
well there's one other big takeaway as well for this press release I guess that
you take whatever assists you can get that's right they have five credited
writers on the film that is a huge number to get credited no less for any
picture and that's not even including the rewrites done by the directing duo
which which they also admit to so that's the technically seven writers on this
script boy so who are they where they're all women
and that's the selling point there that they it went with they were like there's
a lot of them but it's a lot of ladies so it's Meg
LaFave who wrote inside out in the good dinosaur Nicole Perlman who did the
first guardians of the galaxy comes from a Disney writing program and she also by
the way worked on the new Damien Chazelle movie first man but we don't
know how that turned out and then Geneva Robertson direct who
wrote Tomb Raider the newest Tomb Raider and she actually talked about Captain
Marvel recently saying you know Tomb Raider was originally going to be a
comedy and they've decided she's so happy that she can she can still deliver
a female action comedy with Captain Marvel and we're all like yeah I don't
know how I feel about that I mean I thought the two major by the way had
just the right amount of comedy so I'm nervous about someone saying oh this is
gonna have a lot more and then Liz flow hive and Carli Mensch from glow or I've
also were also brought on to do some rewrites and I have to say that's the
best news in terms of who's working on this behind the scenes because I loved
glow that it was very good if the Netflix miniseries with Alison Brie very
real depiction of women very grounded a lot of fun really both fun and dramatic
so I think you know I feel good about them at their involvement but at the
same time when you consider they did a TV series and then Ana boated and Ryan
for like our directors just have done Mississippi grind and health half-nelson
this whole thing and also even considering who they're bringing in here
right you know clark gregg Djimon Honsou Lee pace the whole thing starting to
seem a little low-key and that's the best Finn I can put on it I feel it's a
little television like but you know I think we've learned not to underestimate
Marvel at this point but I said we can still be nervous I think I mean the
biggest stars that this movie has in terms of like movie talent is Ben
Mendelsohn who I have to say I don't think audiences really like him very
much I think that there he certainly has its fans I'm one of them I thought he
was great and wrote one but it just doesn't do that his movies just don't do
that well he's even in the upcoming Bernie player1 and no one's really
paying attention to his work there or that movie so I don't know how much of a
selling point Ben Mendelsohn is and then of course Jude Law is there as the
original Marvel and everyone's excited about that but I was surprised to see in
the press release that he had has an and credit at the very end which would maybe
say that his role is not that big I mean maybe it would be like a Kurt Russell
guardians of the galaxy vol 2 which was actually no decent but you know don't
think that Jude Law is the male lead here but I want to end on a positive
note because even though I don't see it reflected in the press release the words
of the press release I think the photo that they picked to go along with it a
Bree Nelson at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada researching the character and
posing with a real-life Air Force pilot is the direction that we hope this movie
will go in so at least they've got it visually I mean you've got that son in
the background right it's both got both a military feel and female camaraderie
it's really really nice and on that note I would also like to point out that
another take away when you think about it from this press release is that there
are not a lot of other women care you know female characters in this movie
they're all behind the camera you know they're focused so hard and having all
these female writers and a female co-director how many women are actually
on screen with Carol Danvers again I said that her female friendships in the
comics is one of the most wasn't one of the nicest and most unique things about
the character I look how nice it is to see her standing next to the other pilot
are you gonna have that in the movie at all
leshawna Lynch recently took over from de Wanda wise as a mystery character who
many of us believe will be Monica Rambeau she is spectrum in the comics
but she did Don the Miss Marvel mantle for a while and I hope that she's
heavily featured I didn't know would be really great you know even in Wonder
Woman you know she fought alongside a bunch of
guys and so that could be something that does make this this story that Captain
Marvel unique you know it's another female
you know superhero but you know she is a part of a group again female camaraderie
and also I would hopefully play up that military angle because look how well
American sniper did at the box office right talk about a selling point but I'm
curious how do you think Captain Marvel is coming together what direction would
you like to see it going what do you think of these returning favorites is
that a selling point or do you agree that it's kind of gimmicky I mean I
don't know I'm into it but I don't think that should be like the main selling
point and then also what do you think about having five credited writers and
how do you think that military and female camaraderie is the way to go all
right write your thoughts down below will
certainly be paying attention in this movie as it continues to develop and
also you what principal photography means maybe some more set photos we've
just basically seen her in that green crease suit that looks a lot you know
just a differ color palette than her her final suit
there's been like a shot of Jude Law on set which didn't really reveal anything
but maybe now that they're shooting an artist
we might get some cool some nice things to discuss
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