After a lot of new rewrites and delays in shooting, not to mention the halting of production due the Hollywood strikes, MCU’s latest outing ‘The Marvels’ has released its final trailer and it harbours some of the old-school MCU energy back into its fold.
Beginning with a blurry clip of ‘Avengers: Endgame’, where Tony Stark and Steve Rodgers are discussing their prospects of winning before time travelling, Nick Fury is narrating his belief regarding heroes and saying that while it is an old-school notion the world nonetheless needs them.
While the previous trailer for the film was much more comical with no clear hint as to who the villain is, this time ‘The Marvels’ looks a lot darker and more serious, which makes the stakes much higher as well.
‘The Marvels’ follows Carol Danvers – Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), who has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. However, the resultant unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilised universe.
When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of her Jersey City super-fan, Kamala Khan a.k.a Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris). Together, this unlikely trio must team-up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as ‘The Marvels’.
Three completely different women with different mindsets — Carol Danvers, Kamala Khan, and Monica Rambeau — must team up together to fight off an other-worldly reality tearing enemy.
All three are different versions of Captain Marvel and are capable of space flight, energy absorption, super-strength, and more. However, against their new villain Dar-Benn, these powers are useless.
This is due to their enemy being able to redirect their powers against them and due to her wielding an apocalypse hammer much like Ronan The Accuser from ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.1’, they are individually no match for her.
As their powers are already entangled together, the three must work together to fight off this new threat who can tear a literal hole through the fabric of space.
Featuring far better VFX, a more polished look, and a far more serious look, this trailer really drives home the point of ‘The Marvels’. To add to the excitement, apart from Nick Fury there is also an appearance from Valkyrie thus hinting at more MCU cameos.
‘The Marvels’ will have the shortest runtime yet in the MCU, with the film clocking in at only one hour and 45 minutes. This distinction was previously shared by ‘Thor: The Dark World’ and ‘The Incredible Hulk’ as both films were over one hour and 52 minutes.
Directed by Nia DaCosta, ‘The Marvels’ stars Brie Larson, Iman Vellani, Teyonah Parris, Samuel L Jackson, Zawe Ashton, Park Seo-joon, Mohan Kapur, and Saagar Shaikh.
The film will hit theatres on November 10.