'Captain Marvel' Finally Has a Trailer and Brie Larson Is Everything
The first trailer for Captain Marvel has finally arrived, giving us a first look at Brie Larson as the titular superhero. The preview premiered on Good Morning America, which debuted the clip with Larson from The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum.
Larson stars as Carol Danvers, an air force pilot who’s part Kree (a warrior alien race) and part human, with superhuman powers. The trailer teases her resulting inner conflict from her mixed backgrounds-though we see her literally fall out of the sky and onto earth, she feels as if she’s had a previous life on the planet. “I keep having these memories, I see flashes. I think I had a life here,” she says.
Danvers’ story kicks off in the ‘90s, if you couldn’t tell from the Blockbuster Videos cameo, beepers, and young Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) in the trailer.
Other stars include Jude Law (Danvers’ mentor and commander of the Starforce), Crazy Rich Asians star Gemma Chan (Minn-Erva, a Starforce member on the planet Hala), and Lashana Lynch (Danvers’ old friend Maria Rambeau).
Larson's Danvers is the first female superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to headline her own film, and co-director Anna Boden is the first woman to helm an installment of the MCU.
Captain Marvel arrives a whole decade after Robert Downey Jr. debuted as Iron Man, after three different iterations of Spider-Man, and after Chadwick Boseman became the revolutionary Black Panther. But she'll be “the strongest character [Marvel has] ever had,” studio head Kevin Feige teased to Entertainment Weekly in 2016.
Captain Marvel releases in March 2019.
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