Sophia Michaels
It’s a Marvel team-up unlike any other. “The Marvels,” heading to theaters this fall, sees Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel, Teyonah Parris’s Monica Rambeau, and Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan join forces thanks to some mysterious entanglement happening between their powers. Marvel Studios released the first trailer for the movie on April 11, and it sees all three women struggle with what they might mean to each other under absurd circumstances.
The new movie will start directly after the last moments of the “Ms. Marvel” Disney+ series, which charted Kamala’s heroic origins as Ms. Marvel. But when “Ms. Marvel” star Vellani spoke to POPSUGAR in July 2022, she was very mum on details about the movie.
“I can say that it’s going to star Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel and Monica Rambeau,” she revealed. “And they are going to be a really fun, interesting team-up that we haven’t seen in the MCU yet. Also Nia DaCosta, our director, is one of the most incredible humans ever. Period. She really goes searching for nuance in all of our scenes, and it’s just so helpful as an actor. I’m excited for people to see what she brings to the table because I think that she has a really unique voice.”
Larson, Vellani, and Parris opened up more about the film in an Entertainment Weekly interview published on July 18. “I’m excited that the MCU has three lead women, all from very diverse backgrounds, and they’re all baddies in their own way,” Parris said. “It’s going to be really exciting just to see these smart, fun, intelligent, and troubled women find their way.”
Larson added that a big part of the film is the three women learning that they can (and need to) depend on each other. “You almost want to take on all of the burden yourself. So I think this is an incredible metaphor for learning how to be in a team,” she said. “It’s a very clear example that no one person can do it all. You need all kinds of skill sets, all kinds of people with different viewpoints, and different backgrounds in order to save the world.”
Ahead, here’s everything we know about “The Marvels” so far, from the first trailer to the stacked cast.
— Additional reporting by Kelsie Gibson and Victoria Edel
