Actor Benedict Cumberbatch from Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange (L) and actress Brie Larson announced as Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers at Comic-Con. Amid fog and lasers yesterday, Marvel gave frenzied fans at Comic-Con their first look at a new Black Panther movie cast, the mysterious Doctor Strange, a Spider-Man teen movie and an Oscar-winning actress as the new Captain Marvel.
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British actor Tom Hiddleston and Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson were among the cast of Kong: Skull Island to attend the event as they unveiled the first trailer for the film.
By contrast, the MCU has existed for almost a decade, yet Marvel Studios is still three years away from releasing its first solo female superhero movie. “The Ancient One is a title”.
Thankfully fans won’t have to wait too long before they are able to see Doctor Strange in all his mind-bending and instantaneous travels when the film hits theaters in November 4.
Although most of the new trailer is quite intense-and for a good reason-there’s an unexpected moment of comic relief at the end.
In the upcoming film, Cumberbatch plays the role of Stephen Strange, a neurosurgeon who becomes the Sorcerer Supreme under the tutelage of the Ancient One, portrayed by Tilda Swinton.
It’s the life of 15-year-old Peter Parker hiding his superhero alter-ego to get through the more down to earth trials of homework, puberty and girls. By this trailer, however, that’s not the case.
Wonder Woman isn’t the only female hero that took centre stage at the convention.
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Feige brought onstage Ryan Coogler, who helmed Rocky spin-off “Creed” previous year and has turned his attention to the fictional world of Wakanda for “Black Panther“, due in 2018. But this year at the San Diego Comic Con, it came out swinging. Either way, it feels aggressively naive for a movie already tinged with insensitivity about race and culture to end its big Comic Con trailer on a joke about “savages”.
