Captain Marvel writers struggling with believable challenges

The Marvel universe if rife with amazingly complex and layered characters and with the success of the MCU, there’s been a lot of questions posed about when some of the juggernaught ladies would be getting their due with stand alone films. Back in April, Marvel gave the formal announcement that there would be a Captain Marvel film penned by Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out).

A Carol Danvers film is definitely something to get excited about. She can fly, she’s impervious to just about any physical attack, she’s got a healing factor and fans of the X-Men will also recognize her as the source for Rogue’s 90’s era power set. She’s also former military and a recovering alcoholic with Kree DNA spliced in her.

That all sounds super but the film got bumped all the way back to March of 2019. With that in mind it makes sense that a script isn’t even in the nascent stages. "Yeah, we haven’t started yet! We have not started yet," LeFauve told Collider "We just got the phone call to come over to Marvel. But for me personally, the wonderful thing about her and the challenge of her is going to be that she’s a female superhero. And that is awesome because she’s so powerful, and how hard is that going to be because she’s so powerful? We don’t want the Superman curse. “What’s her vulnerability?” is what we have to figure out."

There’s obviously plenty of time for them to get going and polish it. And in the category of extreme optimism, bordering on delusion, perhaps Marvel will somehow regain rights to the mutants. A showdown between Rogue and Carol would clear up the question of vulnerabilities and provide a way to redeem the Fox narrative for the X-Men franchise. One can dream.