Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Bloodline and Una star Ben Mendelsohn is reportedly in talks to play the main villain in the planned Captain Marvel movie for Marvel Studios. Variety reports the news that directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are in talks to reunite with their Mississippi Grind star for the planned movie, which sees Brie Larson in the title role. More on the Ben Mendelsohn Captain Marvel news below.
Ben Mendelsohn Captain Marvel news. Is he in as the main villain?
Ben Mendelsohn Captain Marvel News: In Talks For The Main Villain?
The trade says that Mendelsohn will possibly assume the role of the leader of the Skrulls in the movie, which sees Larson play Carol Danvers, an Air Force pilot whose DNA is fused with that of an alien during an accident. The resulting alteration imbues her with the superpowers of strength, energy projection, and flight.
Marvel has more on the Skrulls:
The Skrulls are an extraterrestrial humanoid race who have created a vast interstellar empire, the oldest known empire still in existence, within the Andromeda Galaxy. The Skrull-race began on the planet Skrullos in the Drox System hundreds of millions of years ago. While the Skrulls were still in their early stages of evolutionary development, the Celestials, a star-spanning race of genetic engineers, landed on Skrullos and selected a number of natives upon whom to experiment. With one sample group, they affected a series of genes related to longevity, and created Skrullian Eternals. With another, they tested for genetic stability and diversity, and created Skrullian Deviants. In a third group, they implanted a gene series which would enable rapid benevolent mutation under the right conditions when the species matured. This group, its genetic modifications latent, remained the Skrullian “Normals”. After performing their genetic diversification, the Celestials left. The Deviant branch of the race, developing powers of mimicry, began to dominate the planet and eventually eradicated both the Eternal and Normal branches of the species (this is in marked contrast with the human race, another subject of Celestial experimentation, where the Normal branch continued to dominate the species).
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Geneva Robertson-Dworet wrote the most recent draft of the script, with Inside Out writer Meg LeFauve and Nicole Perlman penning previous versions.
The word is that the film will be set in the 1990s with Samuel L. Jackson also on board to reprise his role as Nick Fury.
Mendelsohn will next be seen in WWII movie Darkest Hour in January, and then in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One in 2019 as Nolan Sorrento. He also has the big-budget Robin Hood reboot Robin Hood: Origins, where he is set to play the Sheriff Of Nottingham.
We’ll bring you more Ben Mendelsohn Captain Marvel news as it comes our way.
