Clark Gregg, Lee Pace & Djimon Hounsou Sign Up To ‘Captain Marvel’ Movie
Marvel’s new female-led MCU movie ‘Captain Marvel’ will have a few more familiar faces when it comes to cinemas in 2019 – Clark Gregg, Lee Pace & Djimon Hounsou.
The story follows Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, ‘Captain Marvel’ is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The fact it’s set in the 90’s is what has allowed the MCU to bring back Clark Gregg as agent Phil Coulson, prior to the events of the previous MCU movies. Although Coulson is alive and well again in the ‘Agents Of SHIELD’ tv series after being “killed” by Loki, they’ve avoided inserting him back into the movie franchise to avoid confusing moviegoers who don’t watch the tv show.
Lee Pace & Djimon Hounsou are set to reprise their ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ roles as Ronan the Accuser and Korath the Pursuer. They will be joined by new cast members Gemma Chan (‘Humans’) as Minn-Erva, Jude Law as Walter Lawson / Mar-Vell and Samuel L Jackson returning as Nick Fury. Ben Mendelsohn, Lashana Lynch, Algenis Perez Soto, Rune Temte, and McKenna Grace are also set to star.
‘Captain Marvel’ is currently shooting in Fresno, California and Louisiana with Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (‘Billions’, ‘Mississippi Grind’) set to direct, and is due in cinemas on 8th March 2019.
