Marvel Studios lately revealed a brand new trailer for The Marvels at San Diego Comedian-Con 2023, and it proves there’s loads to stay up for. Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan, Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers, and Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau are set to group up and save the universe from Zawe Ashton’s new supervillain, however the trio should get used to working as teammates in addition to continually being pressured to change locations. Their powers have turn into inextricably linked, and it’s sure to check their persistence and their superhero dynamic.
And for these of you questioning—sure, everybody’s favourite murderous alien cat Goose is again too, together with a plethora of different suspiciously lovable kittens. You possibly can watch the trailer right here.
With the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s streaming enlargement on Disney+, the franchise’s timeline has gotten extra difficult. Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson)’s look in The Marvels trailer—wherein he seems to be moderately well-adjusted and even, some would possibly say, joyful—could depart followers questioning if The Marvels takes place earlier than or after Secret Invasion, a present wherein Fury seems to be significantly extra burdened.
The Marvels is a sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel, the film which launched the all-important and elusive Skrulls. As a substitute of going down within the Nineties, like its predecessor, The Marvels takes place in present-day MCU, someday after the fallout from the Blip in Avengers: Endgame. The occasions of The Marvels need to happen after WandaVision, as that’s the present wherein Monica Rambeau’s light-based powers manifested. Extra precisely, although, The Marvels will happen immediately after the Ms. Marvel sequence on Disney+, which launched Kamala Khan. That present’s closing post-credits scene depicted Kamala and Carol buying and selling locations, a sequence which is proven within the official trailer for The Marvels too.
So the place do Secret Invasion and Nick Fury match into all of this? The Nick Fury-led present offers with a subsect of Skrulls attempting to take over Earth as their new dwelling, after Fury and Carol failed to search out them someplace appropriate. The occasions of Secret Invasion actually take their toll on Fury, and he’s completely different from each different look within the MCU—nonetheless sharp and secretive, but additionally drained and anxious. How can that be the identical charismatic Fury we see in The Marvels trailer?
And but, it’s. In Empire Journal‘s unique Secret Invasion cowl story, Jackson stated concerning the present: “This sequence has to occur in order that The Marvels can occur. All these items are related in an fascinating kind of method.”
Maybe that shouldn’t be a shock. Carol Danvers was deeply concerned with the Kree vs. Skrull conflict, having unwittingly aided the Kree’s Imperial conquest after shedding her recollections. The Kree are as soon as once more coming to the forefront in The Marvels, as confirmed by the trailer, so the Skrulls’ destiny will undoubtedly come up as nicely. How they really feel about Carol Danvers and her efforts to search out them a brand new dwelling now, 30 years later, is a special matter completely.
This piece was written through the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. With out the labor of the writers and actors at the moment on strike, the work being coated right here wouldn’t exist.
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