CAPTAIN MARVEL Is Compared to 80s and 90s Buddy Cop Movies and a Big MCU Cameo Has Been Teased
A new trailer for Captain Marvel recently dropped giving fans a taste of some more cool footage from the film that fans seems to be loving.
While talking to Fandango, the directors of the film, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, shared some insight on the tone of the movie. They explained that it has a 80s and 90s buddy cop movie vibe and used Lethal Weapon as an example. Anna said:
"We approached this movie as being, at the heart of it, this mystery of self-identity for Captain Marvel. It has a lot of playfulness in it, and that kind of buddy-cop vibe that Captain Marvel has with the Nick Fury character was really an important touchstone for us."
Ryan then added:
"Yeah. Like the '80s and '90s buddy-cop movies, like 48 Hrs. or Lethal Weapon. We have some of that. Those movies, even the serious ones, they have a really terrific sense of humor, and we wanted to maintain that as well."
It’s not hard to see that tone in the trailer that we’ve seen, especially when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) are together.
Then things took a spoilery turn as the directors when on to tease a possible big MCU cameo in the movie. Before we get into that, though…
I’ll just jump right into the conversation the two directors had:
Boden: All we can say is this is a '90s film, a '90s period film. Where Sam Jackson is a younger version of Nick Fury.
Fleck: And Tony Stark hasn't figured out how to become Iron Man yet, so ...
Boden: That's all we can say.
Will we see a younger 90s version of Tony Stark make an appearance in the film? It certain sounds like it! We just don’t know exactly how he would be utilized in the story. As of right now, that’s all up for fan speculation and theories!
If this is the case, Tony would be in his late teens or early 20s in the 90s. It’s not too far-fetched to think that he would make an appearance, especially after a comment like that made by the directors. What do you think?