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“Wandavision” Writer Megan McDonnell to Write ‘Captain
“Wandavision” author Megan McDonnell is in talks to jot down the sequel to “Captain Marvel,” in keeping with a person with information of the venture.
“Captain Marvel” made $1.1 billion in 2019.
Directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who co-wrote and directed the primary “Captain Marvel,” won’t return to direct the sequel however are in talks to nonetheless work with Marvel Studios and direct a doable Disney+ sequence. Marvel is hoping to land a feminine filmmaker for the sequel and is eyeing a possible launch in 2022.
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“Captain Marvel” starred Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, an Air Force pilot who was recovered by the Kree after mysterious circumstances and was reworked into the titular superhero at the price of her reminiscences. After crash-landing again on Earth in the course of the 1990s, Carol should get well her previous self and save the planet from getting caught in an intergalactic battle with the assistance of future SHIELD director Nick Fury.
Marvel studios head Kevin Feige teased the sequel finally yr’s San Diego Comic Con, “We didn’t even point out that we’re making Black Panther 2and we didn’t point out that Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is coming. We didn’t even have time to speak about Captain Marvel 2, by the best way. I didn’t even have time to speak concerning the Fantastic Four. And there’s no time left to speak about mutants.”
McDonnell obtained her first writing credit score on “WandaVision” and the sequence is only one of a number of Marvel Studios tasks in growth at Disney+. “Falcon and the Winter Soldier” — starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan — will even debut this yr. Starring Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen reprising their roles as Vision and the Scarlet Witch from the Marvel movie franchise, “WandaVision” is ready to debut on Disney+ in 2021. Few story particulars have been made public up to now, however Marvel mentioned at Comic-Con that the present would lead immediately into the occasions of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” It was additionally introduced on the time that the present would characteristic Photon, a grown-up model of the “Captain Marvel” character Monica Rambeau.
McDonnell is repped by Verve.
Marvel had no remark.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported the information.