Screenwriter Nicole Perlman Explains the Challenges of Writing CAPTAIN MARVEL
It has been almost three years since the project was originally announced, but it looks like Captain Marvel is finally getting on its way. Screenwriter Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy) told the Great Big Beautiful Podcast, “Meg [LeFauve] and I were hired a long time ago but we didn’t have our marching orders until recently.” They were hired two years ago, so it’s interesting that they didn’t receive the go ahead on the project — which has already been pushed back twice — for so long.
Perlman was very open about the challenges of writing the script: figuring out Captain Marvel’s place in the MCU, keeping the story fresh after so many Marvel heroes have already hit the big screen, and the pressures of Marvel’s first female headliner. Perlman explained:
"Marvel is a little bit of a house of cards in a sense that everything influences everything around it even if it's very modular. Figuring out where the story fits in the MCU influences things as well…
"She’s an incredible character, but I will also say that since Marvel has done so many movies already, you really have to go out of your way to make sure her story is fresh and doesn’t borrow too heavily from the other films. She’s an incredibly strong and wonderful hero, but all the Marvel characters are. So you just need to figure out how to bring her to life in a way that's unique to her story but in a way that honors the canon and also gearing out the roles that she needs to play with everything that’s going on in the MCU."
Perlman contrasted that with her work on Guardians of the Galaxy, which was so removed from the rest of the MCU that anything went. Captain Marvel is a bit more of a puzzle. And the first female superhero movie thing adds an extra layer of scrutiny to the project:
"I think theres a tendency to have that back-and-forth conversation of, 'Should it affect the story at all?' or 'Should it affect the writing?' There are certain tropes you can get away [with not] having to examine too much if you’re not writing the first female Marvel Studios lead; that could be read into a lot or that could diminish her own proactivity, strength and independence. There are things you wouldn’t think twice about Iron Man but you would think twice about for Captain Marvel."
Other than the hiring of Perlman and LeFauve, the only other movement on the project has been the announcement that Brie Larson will play the titular heroine. No director has been hired yet, although there are rumors about Marvel’s shortlist. Hopefully, the movie is still on track for its current March 8, 2019 release date. It was originally slated for July 6, 2018.
Via: THR