Captain Marvel (film)

Captain Marvel

Title

Captain Marvel

Aliases

Warbird, Open World (working titles)

Release Date(s)

March 6, 2019
March 8, 2019 (USA)

Film Details

Musicians

Pinar Toprak

Cinematographers

Ben Davis

Editors

Elliot Graham; Debbie Berman

Distributors

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Production Companies

Marvel Studios

Running Time

124 minutes

Rating

MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and brief suggestive language

Budget

$152-175 million

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Appearances

Featured Characters:

Vers / Captain Marvel (Carol "Avenger" Danvers) ⏵ (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

Dr. Wendy Lawson (Mar-Vell) (Only in flashback) (First appearance; dies)
Skrulls
- Talos (First appearance) (Impersonates Soh-Larr, Director Keller)
- Norex (First appearance; dies) (Impersonates Maria Rambeau, Vers)
- Soren (First appearance)
S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Agent Phil Coulson ⏵ (First appearance chronologically)
- Agent Nick Fury ⏵ (First appearance chronologically)
- Director Keller (Behind the scenes)
- Agent Whitcher (First appearance)
Maria "Photon" Rambeau (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Monica Rambeau (First appearance)

Antagonists:

Kree Empire
- Starforce (First appearance)
  - Commander Yon-Rogg (First appearance)
  - Korath ⏵ (First appearance chronologically)
  - Minn-Erva (First appearance; dies)
  - Bron-Char (First appearance)
  - Att-Lass (First appearance)
- Supreme Intelligence (First appearance)
- Accusers (First appearance)
  - Ronan ⏵ (First appearance chronologically)
- Soh-Larr (Behind the scenes) (Deceased)

Other Characters:

LAPD
Stan Lee
Kevin Smith (Named only) (Topical Reference)
Brad Pitt (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
United States Air Force (Main story and flashback)
Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. (First appearance chronologically)
NASA (Mentioned)
Goose (First appearance)
Steve Danvers (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Joseph Danvers (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Carol's mother (Mentioned)
Tom (First appearance)
Hannibal Lecter (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
The Marvelettes (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
Avengers (Cameo)
- ⏴ Captain Steve Rogers ⏵ (Cameo)
- ⏴ Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) ⏵ (Cameo)
- ⏴ Dr. Bruce Banner ⏵ (Cameo)
- ⏴ Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes ⏵ (Cameo)

Races and Species:

Humans
Kree
Torfans (First appearance)
Skrulls
Flerken

Locations:

Earth-199999
- Hala
- Torfa
- C-53 / Earth (First appearance as C-53)
  - United States of America
    - California
      - Los Angeles
      - Rosamond
      - Mojave Desert
        Edwards Air Force Base
        
        Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Facility
    - Louisiana
      - New Orleans
    - New York State
      - New Avengers Facility
  - Northern Ireland (Mentioned)
    - Belfast (Mentioned)
  - Serbia (Mentioned)
    - Belgrade (Mentioned)
  - Hungary (Mentioned)
    - Budapest (Mentioned)
  - Romania (Mentioned)
    - Bucharest (Mentioned)
  - Cuba (Mentioned)
    - Havana (Mentioned)
- Skrullos (Mentioned)

Items:

Kree Militia Uniforms
Translator Implant (Behind the scenes)
Universal Weapon
Tesseract
Space Stone (Behind the scenes)
Black Widow's Suit
Nick Fury's Eyepatch (First appearance chronologically)

Vehicles:

Helion (First appearance)
Accuser Warship (First appearance chronologically)
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
Quadjet (First appearance as Quadjet)
Mar-Vell's Laboratory (First appearance)

Events:

Kree-Skrull War

Plot

Plot not yet listed

Cast

Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel^[1]
- Mckenna Grace^[2]^[3] and London Fuller^[4] play younger versions of Carol

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury^[5]

Ben Mendelsohn as Talos^[6]^[7]^[8]

Djimon Hounsou as Korath^[2]

Lee Pace as Ronan^[2]

Lashana Lynch as Maria Rambeau^[9]^[8]

Gemma Chan as Minn-Erva^[10]

Annette Bening as the Supreme Intelligence and Mar-Vell / Wendy Lawson^[11]^[12]^[13]

Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson^[2]

Jude Law as Commander Yon-Rogg^[14]^[15]
- This role was initially reported to be Mar-Vell^[14]

Rune Temte as Bron-Char^[2]^[16]

Algenis Perez Soto as Att-Lass^[2]^[16]

Reggie, Archie, Rizzo and Gonzo as Goose

Akira Akbar as Monica Rambeau^[17]
- Azaru Akbar as a younger Monica Rambeau

Chuku Modu as Soh-Larr

Kenneth Micthell as Joseph Danvers

Colin Ford as Steven Danvers

Additionally, Robert Kazinsky^[18] appears as a biker cat-calling Carol, and Vik Sahay^[19] appears as a Torfan. Captain Marvel writer Kelly Sue DeConnick has a cameo in the film. Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle and Mark Ruffalo make uncredited appearances in the mid-credits scene as Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, and Bruce Banner, respectively.

Alternate Posters

Notes

The release of this film coincided with the date of International Women's Day.
The film was announced during Marvel Studios' event at El Capitan Theatre on October 28, 2014.^[20]
The original planned release date for this film was November 3, 2017, but when Marvel announced plans for Spider-Man: Homecoming, it was pushed back to November 2, 2018 and Thor: Ragnarok took its original release date. It later got postponed again to its current release date to make way for Ant-Man and the Wasp.^[21]^[22]^[23]
Location shooting for this film took place in January 2018;^[24] while principal photography started on March 19, 2018,^[25] and wrapped on July 6, 2018.^[26]
Before she was eventually replaced by Lashana Lynch, DeWanda Wise was originally cast as Maria Rambeau, but later had to exit due to scheduling conflicts.^[27]^[28]

Trivia

Early drafts of the film included the character of Helen Cobb.^[29]
Filmmaker James Cameron's '90s action movies served as inspiration for the tone of Captain Marvel. Co-director Ryan Fleck cites Terminator 2 as a specific reference point.^[30]
Earlier visions of the film were structured differently. They were told in a more linear fashion and started with with Carol Danvers life on Earth and friendship with Maria Rambeau.^[30]
Before deciding to have Annette Bening portray the incarnation of the Supreme Intelligence that Danvers sees when she communes with it, by means of having the Supreme Intelligence assume the appearance of the person an individual feels more comfortable with, a separate figure was going to be the Supreme Intelligence.^[30]
The 2004 romantic film Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind was one of the inspirations for a sequence directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck call the "Mind-frak;" the scene in which Talos trawls through Carol's muddled memories.^[30]
When Carol crash-lands into the Blockbuster Video store, she is startled and blasts a True Lies cardboard standee. Boden and Fleck's original idea that was not signed off was to have the standee be for The Mask, and to have Carol mistake the titular character's green head for a Skrull.^[30]
The mid-credits scene featuring the Avengers was directed by Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo.^[30]
A scrapped idea for the post-credits scene was going to have Yon-Rogg's pod crash-land on Sakaar.^[30]
The film includes several tributes to Stephen "Cajun" Del Bagno, an Air Force Major who consulted on the movie. He died in a jet crash in April 2018, a week after concluding his work on the film. The most prominent of these tributes is a burning piano, a traditional send-off ceremony for fallen fighter pilots, which appears for a few frames when Talos is probing Carol's memories. Del Bagno is mentioned several times in the credit roll, and the filmmakers reportedly snuck his callsign into the background of several scenes. He also has a brief cameo, playing a game of pool with Carol in a quick flashback.^[31]