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"Captain Marvel" co-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
Unlike many of her predecessors in the MCU with introductory origin stories, Danvers, played by Larson , arrives on the big screen already a super-being.to shoot powerful energy blasts from her fists, and is more than happy to make use of them as a soldier caught in a war between the militaristic alien Kree and their shape-shifting enemies, the Skrulls.
Returning to an Earth she doesn’t remember, she lands on the radar of government agent Fury, faces off with the Skrull leader Talos and reconnects with erstwhile BFF Maria Rambeau , a friendship Larson calls the“Captain Marvel” is, notably, a film in which a woman overcoming her harshest, and primarily male, critics — the ones who have said her entire life that she’s“That’s something that was really meaningful for me,” said Boden, “because when you’re doing something that you really care about...
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