How Captain Marvel Almost Ended Up In Avengers: Age Of Ultron

For months, during the long lead up to Avengers: Age of Ultron, we've heard rumors that Captain Marvel would make her debut appearance on screen in film. Well, she doesn't, as confirmed by Marvel and early screenings of the film.

She came pretty close though. As Badass Digest reports, director Joss Whedon even shot special effects plates with Captain Marvel in them, but those effects were used for someone else instead.

Here's what Kevin Feige had to say on the matter, but be warned that the interview excerpt contains some SPOILERS for Avengers: Age of Ultron:

There were drafts that maybe people somehow got their hands on and read early on that included some characters - maybe others, but certainly one, which is why it's dangerous to read scripts early on, and talk about them early on…

[Captain Marvel] was in a draft. But to me, it would have done that character a disservice, to meet her fully formed, in a costume and part of the Avengers already when 99% of the audience would go, 'Who is that?' It's just not the way we've done it before.

Thanos is the good 'Who's that,' because he's clearly a bad guy, for comic fans he represents a specific storyline, you can get the buzz started from fans to non-fans with that cameo - as opposed to a title character, who deserves their own story. Even Black Widow you don't meet in the last two seconds of Iron Man 2 wearing her costume - you evolve that going forward.

The way we reveal Scarlet Witch [in costume] at the end of the movie? Those were Captain Marvel plate shots. Joss said, 'We'll cast her later!' And I said, 'Yeah Joss, we'll cast her later.' [Whispers to an invisible associate who isn't Joss] 'We're not putting her in there!'

Finally Joss was like 'Let's use those plates to let Scarlet Witch fly into frame, give her a big entrance?' And that makes sense - she's come to their side, and she deserves the cool intro, which will feed into another movie we start shooting in a few weeks.

Avengers: Age of Ultron opens May 1.

Captain Marvel is scheduled to release on November 2, 2018.

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