Oscar winner Brie Larson has a new title to add to her resume — superhero.
Disney and Marvel announced on Saturday at Comic-Con that Larson will star in Captain Marvel as the butt-kicking air force pilot Carol Danvers who gets special powers after an alien encounter.
Captain Marvel will be the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to centre on a female character. The film is scheduled for release in March of 2019.
Call me Captain Marvel. >pic.twitter.com/IgqRIb9ijM
— Brie Larson (@brielarson) >July 24, 2016
Guardians of the Galaxy writer Nicole Perlman and Inside Out ’s Meg LeFauve are co-writing the screenplay. No director has been announced.
Larson won the Best Actress Academy Award this year for her performance in Room . She was on stage earlier in the day promoting the upcoming King Kong film Kong-Skull Island .
