Stars: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Lewis, Park Seo-joon, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Saagar Shaikh | Written by Nia DaCosta, Megan McDonnell, Elissa Karasik | Directed by Nia DaCosta
Directed by Nia DaCosta (who helmed the recent Candyman remake), The Marvels is the 33rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and a direct sequel to Captain Marvel (2019), which introduced Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel. It’s also a continuation of the events of both the Ms Marvel TV show (2022), which introduced Iman Vellani as Pakistani-American New Jersey teen superhero Kamala Khan / Ms Marvel, and WandaVision, which showed Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) getting light-based superpowers of her own.
The plot is essentially a superhero team-up story, of the type beloved by comics fans everywhere. It begins with Kree revolutionary leader Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) discovering a cosmic bangle that is identical to the one that gives Kamala her powers.
Directed by Nia DaCosta (who helmed the recent Candyman remake), The Marvels is the 33rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and a direct sequel to Captain Marvel (2019), which introduced Brie Larson as Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel. It’s also a continuation of the events of both the Ms Marvel TV show (2022), which introduced Iman Vellani as Pakistani-American New Jersey teen superhero Kamala Khan / Ms Marvel, and WandaVision, which showed Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) getting light-based superpowers of her own.
The plot is essentially a superhero team-up story, of the type beloved by comics fans everywhere. It begins with Kree revolutionary leader Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) discovering a cosmic bangle that is identical to the one that gives Kamala her powers.
- 2/20/2024
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
The Marvels is almost ready to fly higher, further, and faster on Digital and Blu-ray! The Captain Marvel sequel starring Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Teyona Parris (Captain Monica Rambeau), and Eman Velani (Ms. Marvel) takes flight on Apple TV+ and Prime Video beginning on January 16, 2024, and on Blu-ray and DVD on February 13.
The digital and physical releases of The Marvels pack a punch with exclusive bonus content, including deleted scenes, a gag reel, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and an audio commentary from co-writer/director Nia DaCosta and VFX Supervisor Tara DeMarco.
While The Marvels is the lowest-grossing installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s worth noting that many who saw the film had a blast and enjoyed the adventure’s lighter tone and shorter runtime. The Marvels banked $197 million worldwide, becoming a casualty of the SAG-AFTRA strike restrictions preventing the cast from giving the film a proper promotional lead-in.
“In Marvel Studios’ The Marvels,...
The digital and physical releases of The Marvels pack a punch with exclusive bonus content, including deleted scenes, a gag reel, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and an audio commentary from co-writer/director Nia DaCosta and VFX Supervisor Tara DeMarco.
While The Marvels is the lowest-grossing installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s worth noting that many who saw the film had a blast and enjoyed the adventure’s lighter tone and shorter runtime. The Marvels banked $197 million worldwide, becoming a casualty of the SAG-AFTRA strike restrictions preventing the cast from giving the film a proper promotional lead-in.
“In Marvel Studios’ The Marvels,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
2023 will forever be remembered as the year the superhero bubble finally popped. While multiple DC Comics films fell flat on their face at the box office over those 12 months, it was the "The Marvels" and its shockingly poor commercial performance that made it clear: the Marvel Cinematic Universe can no longer coast by on the sheer staying power of the brand.
Fortunately, there was some good news to report on that front. "The Marvels" star and ever-enthusiastic Kamala Khan actor Iman Vellani emerged fully unscathed from the wreckage, ensuring the franchise is in safe hands going forward. The film around her also has its fair share of defenders, who found writer/director Nia DaCosta's cosmic superhero adventure to be one heck of a good time despite all the obvious behind-the-scene turmoil that DaCosta clearly had to navigate while making it. That's our polite way of telling Disney CEO Bob Iger...
Fortunately, there was some good news to report on that front. "The Marvels" star and ever-enthusiastic Kamala Khan actor Iman Vellani emerged fully unscathed from the wreckage, ensuring the franchise is in safe hands going forward. The film around her also has its fair share of defenders, who found writer/director Nia DaCosta's cosmic superhero adventure to be one heck of a good time despite all the obvious behind-the-scene turmoil that DaCosta clearly had to navigate while making it. That's our polite way of telling Disney CEO Bob Iger...
- 1/8/2024
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Imagine you're given the ability to play in the Marvel Cinematic Universe sandbox, getting the opportunity to bring some of your favorite comics characters to the screen. A dream come true for many a fan, no doubt, but then reality sets in: How does one go about actually making these movies? How do you work out the logistics of shooting scenes in outer space while balancing the various continuities of several major characters, not to mention introducing new ones?
Executive producer Mary Livanos is someone who's stepped up to just such a challenge. She's no stranger to the expansive, cosmic side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, helping shepherded such hits as "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," "Captain Marvel," and "WandaVision" to the big and small screens, respectively. With "The Marvels," Livanos tackles arguably her biggest project yet, bringing Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau...
Executive producer Mary Livanos is someone who's stepped up to just such a challenge. She's no stranger to the expansive, cosmic side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, helping shepherded such hits as "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," "Captain Marvel," and "WandaVision" to the big and small screens, respectively. With "The Marvels," Livanos tackles arguably her biggest project yet, bringing Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau...
- 11/9/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
For the wacky “WandaVision” series on Disney+, in which Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) conjures an imaginary sitcom world to cope with the death of Vision (Paul Bettany), Marvel tapped old-school VFX to recreate the various TV tropes, while at the same time relying on digital effects whenever necessary in pulling off the clever conceit.
“It was fun to be able to do [retro] visual effects for the sitcom and then to be able to do full modern for a few of the episodes,” said Marvel’s production visual effects supervisor Tara DeMarco of the 3,010 shots that technically outnumbered the shot count on “Avengers: Endgame.” The black-and-white scenes for the first two episodes (“Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience” and “Don’t Touch That Dial”) were depicted as era-specific as possible through makeup, costuming, camera lensing, and Tungsten lighting (used for all the period settings).
“Except for the case of Vision, where we...
“It was fun to be able to do [retro] visual effects for the sitcom and then to be able to do full modern for a few of the episodes,” said Marvel’s production visual effects supervisor Tara DeMarco of the 3,010 shots that technically outnumbered the shot count on “Avengers: Endgame.” The black-and-white scenes for the first two episodes (“Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience” and “Don’t Touch That Dial”) were depicted as era-specific as possible through makeup, costuming, camera lensing, and Tungsten lighting (used for all the period settings).
“Except for the case of Vision, where we...
- 6/9/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Now that nine-part epic “WandaVision” has wrapped and the premiere of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” is still a week away, Disney Plus has released a new documentary-style special to tide viewers over until then.
“Assembled: The Making of ‘WandaVision'” features interviews with showrunner and exec producer Jac Schaeffer, director Matt Shakman, and stars Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn and Teyonah Parris. The hour-long program also offers a delightful deep dive with the show’s visual effects and production design wizards responsible for the Marvel magic, as well as composers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
Here are some highlights from this peek behind the curtain.
“Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience” was actually filmed before a live studio audience
Sure, each episode is titled with television phrases of yore, but who knew the pilot, “Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience,” was actually filmed before a live studio audience?...
“Assembled: The Making of ‘WandaVision'” features interviews with showrunner and exec producer Jac Schaeffer, director Matt Shakman, and stars Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn and Teyonah Parris. The hour-long program also offers a delightful deep dive with the show’s visual effects and production design wizards responsible for the Marvel magic, as well as composers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
Here are some highlights from this peek behind the curtain.
“Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience” was actually filmed before a live studio audience
Sure, each episode is titled with television phrases of yore, but who knew the pilot, “Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience,” was actually filmed before a live studio audience?...
- 3/12/2021
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Over the first three episodes of “WandaVision,” it’s both easy to see and hard to defend why the first Disney+ series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe needs to be a series at all.
Arguing in favor of its format, the limited series is very much about TV. Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch (and played by Elizabeth Olsen), finds herself living through a version of ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s era TV sitcoms, alongside her atypical romantic partner, a synthetic android named Vision (Paul Bettany). The couple constitutes a classic pair: a homemaking housewife and an office drone husband; she frets over fitting in with the neighbors, and he stresses over a promotion being dangled at work. Early episodes air in black-and-white, a “live” audience can be heard laughing at the rat-a-tat banter, and everything is framed in the ol’ box top’s 4:3, rather than the now-standard widescreen format.
Arguing in favor of its format, the limited series is very much about TV. Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch (and played by Elizabeth Olsen), finds herself living through a version of ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s era TV sitcoms, alongside her atypical romantic partner, a synthetic android named Vision (Paul Bettany). The couple constitutes a classic pair: a homemaking housewife and an office drone husband; she frets over fitting in with the neighbors, and he stresses over a promotion being dangled at work. Early episodes air in black-and-white, a “live” audience can be heard laughing at the rat-a-tat banter, and everything is framed in the ol’ box top’s 4:3, rather than the now-standard widescreen format.
- 1/14/2021
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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