Captain Marvel is a Period Movie!

[StCoop]

Well the 1990's but still.

http://deadline.com/2017/07/captain-marvel-nick-fury-samuel-l-jackson-to-return-1202124578/

 

[Chris3123]

And with Skrulls!

 

[StCoop]

And with Skrulls!

Who are absolutely Fantastic Four characters, which is odd.

 

[Greg Cox]

I confess: I read that headline and assumed that we were talking Billy Batson back in the 1930s . . ..

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Any idea why? I'm not sure for this project at least why to set it then.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I confess: I read that headline and assumed that we were talking Billy Batson back in the 1930s . . ..

Yeah, me too. And I'd already started thinking what a cool idea that was.

 

[Velocity]

I thought that the headline referred in a sly/crass way to Captain Marvel being a woman because I hardly consider the 1990s as a period piece. I may be old, but c'mon! A period movie should be anything before 1960, right?

 

[Phoenix219]

I confess: I read that headline and assumed that we were talking Billy Batson back in the 1930s . . ..

Yup, I was excited until I realized its the wrong Captain Marvel.... a period piece and Billy in the '30s is the only way to capture the innocence of the character.

 

[StCoop]

A period movie should be anything before 1960, right?

If it's set in the early 1990's most of the people going to see it won't even have been born then. That's a period piece.

 

[Velocity]

Fine. Make me feel even older, sigh.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I was gonna let it go, but everyone keeps referencing it...the Billy Batson Captain Marvel's first appearance was in 1940.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

For a second I was excited because I thought it was about "Shazam". Other than Billy Batson the only other Captain Marvel I care about is Mar-Vell. If the movie isn't about either of them, then it's an easy pass for me.

 

[kirk55555]

I also thought this was about the original Captain Marvel. I'm kind of glad its not, since the last thing that character needs is a period piece.

That said, Carol Danvers really doesn't need to be in a period piece, and I doubt they'll have a good justification for it being set in the 90s outside of "we felt like it".

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Who are absolutely Fantastic Four characters, which is odd.

I'm pretty sure it was confirmed a long time ago that Marvel and Fox share the rights to the Skrulls in general. But Fox has exclusive rights to the SuperSkrull.

 

[YLu]

At a guess, this is because they want her film to be an origin story but at the same time want her to have a lot of experience with super-stuff by the time she interacts with the Avengers, so that she'll be their peer rather than the inexperienced newbie.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Ditto for Shazam.

Setting the movie in the 90s means that Carol can be a Fuck up kid learning her shit, and Fury can be the god emperor of S.H.I.E.L.D.. It also means that in 20, 25 years that she will be awesome in Avengers 3.

Although... If the actress is going to be playing the same age, 20 years later, it's either because of relativistic space flight or stasis, probably unless one of her power sets is immortality.

 

[Dream]

It'll be a period movie because all the cool kids are doing it nowadays (Cap America, Wondy).

 

[Phoenix219]

It'll be a period movie because all the cool kids are doing it nowadays (Cap America, Wondy).

The last 3 X movies.

 

[RJDiogenes]

It boggles my mind that the 90s is a considered a "period," but it's also encouraging-- we definitely need a Big Red Cheese movie set in the 40s and, especially, an FF movie set in the 60s.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Fluro shirts and parachute pants.