Samuel L. Jackson Learned About His Captain Marvel Role In An Odd Way
If you were otherwise preoccupied during San Diego Comic Con, you should know you missed some [...]
If you were otherwise preoccupied during San Diego Comic Con, you should know you missed some major Marvel updates. The studio held its annual panel at the event where it confirmed Nick Fury would join Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel. The film is slated to get underway next spring, but it doesn't look like anyone told Samuel L. Jackson he would be needed for the movie.
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Recently, the star sat down with Fandango to talk about his new film with Ryan Reynolds, The Hitman's Bodyguard. Jackson was asked how he felt about returning to the MCU, and the actor admitted he hadn't been told about the reprisal until reports of it surfaced online.
"Yeah, I didn't know that until I read about it," Jackson said. "I'm good. I can work with two eyes."
Continuing, Jackson went on to explain how Nick's eye-patch derailed his first takes of the character. The actor said his visual memory went awry thanks to the SHIELD director's defunct eye, forcing him to learn his dialogue with a patch on.
"It'll be easier to learn my lines. It's one of those weird kind of things. The first day I shot as Nick Fury with one eye, I couldn't remember my lines," Jackson explained. "I was tired since we were coming from somewhere, so I thought it was fatigue. Then I realized I had learned my lines with two eyes. So, I had to start blocking my eye to learn my lines. It's a stupid kind of thing, but it totally worked."
There's no hard details explaining how Nick will fit into Captain Marvel, but fans are already starting to speculate. The movie will be set in the 1990s and feature one of Marvel's most famous alien races, the Skrulls. The shape-shifting baddies will more than likely invade Earth and require Brie Larson's Carol Danvers to save the day after she gets her extraterrestrial powers. With the world at stake, Nick will probably team up with Carol to prevent a global disaster, but it will come at a cost. The prequel is expected to detail how the spy lost his eye, and Nick has said before that the injury occurred the last time he trusted someone.
Or, well, when he trusted something rather. If a Kree is behind Nick's injury, the man would not have put faith a person so much as he did an alien.
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Larson will headline Captain Marvel in 2019, with Samuel L. Jackson co-starring. Marvel recently brought on directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, responsible for Half Nelson and Mississippi Grind. Now that directors are in place and the lead star is already hitting the ground running, more casting news should soon follow.
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Spider-Man: Homecoming are both in theaters now, and will be followed by Thor: Ragnarok on November 3, 2017. After that Black Panther debuts on February 16, 2018, while Avengers: Infinity War hits theaters on May 4, 2018. Ant-Man and the Wasp is slated for July 6, 2018, followed by Captain Marvel on March 8, 2019.
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