When she agreed to helm the Captain Marvel sequel, The Marvels filmmaker Nia DaCosta said she was completely aware of the level of power and control Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige would have. DaCosta stated in an interview that she understood she had to answer to Feige, who has managed the MCU from its creation, even if other filmmakers, like James Gunn, enjoy virtually complete creative authority for their Marvel Cinematic Universe productions. The filmmaker declared, “It is a Kevin Feige production; it is his film.” “So I think you live in that reality, but I tried to enter with the knowledge that some of you is going to take a back seat.” DaCosta did co-write the screenplay for The Marvels with Megan McDonnell, who also worked on WandaVision and its planned spinoff, Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, despite not having complete creative authority. Speaking of the film’s plot, DaCosta said she was always eager to examine the sibling-like bond between Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) and Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Brie Larson). Since Carol was not present when Monica’s mother, Maria Rambeau, died away, the filmmaker hinted that there would be resentment between the two characters. “I thought it would be cool to map an estranged family history and sister story onto them,” she remarked. Carol is the oldest and the prodigal, followed by Monica, the middle sister, whom Carol knew when she was younger and had pledged to reconnect with but had never done. The resolution between these two is what interests me more than all the switching things.
The fact that DaCosta and McDonnell collaborated on the storyline for the movie makes sense given that Monica Rambeau, as an adult, first appeared and acquired her abilities in WandaVision. DaCosta said that the character never fully got to grieve her mother’s passing in WandaVision, so that story piece was clearly a goal for this film, further foreshadowing Monica’s emotional character arch in The Marvels. “For a child to lose their aunt, and then to lose their mother — although she wasn’t a child when her mother passed away — she’s left to feel like she has no family,” said DaCosta. “This movie gives Monica the chance to finally address a wound,” Despite there being no word on a third Captain Marvel film, DaCosta has admitted that she is considering the character’s potential in the MCU. I’ll give Kevin 17 scenarios of what may occur with all these ladies, including the whys, the hows, and this and that, she said. And when he says, “Okay, girl,” I occasionally feel like I’ve got a movie on my hands. Sometimes I think, “Oh, they have this whole other plan that I’m not a part of,” and other times I don’t.
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