Yahoo News Captain Marvel gets a revamp from Tomb Raider writer
Captain Marvel is being re-conceived by one of Hollywood's most promising writers.
The original script was being developed by Meg LeFauve and Nicole Perlman, who have had to back away from the movie to focus on Disney's upcoming Jack and the Beanstalk animation Gigantic.
To replace LeFauve and Perlman on the Brie Larson superhero movie, Disney and Marvel Studios have snapped up Geneva Robertson-Dworet (via Deadline).
Robertson-Dworet penned the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot starring Alicia Vikander, and has also been working on Margot Robbie's potential Suicide Squad spin-off Gotham City Sirens.
The writer will be working closely with Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the It's Kind of a Funny Story and Mississippi Grind filmmaking team hired by Marvel Studios to direct the movie.
The solo debut Captain Marvel is set back in the 1990s, nearly a decade before Iron Man established what would become the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Samuel L Jackson makes his return as Nick Fury, this time with two eyes, to help Carol Danvers (Larson) fight off an invasion of the shape-shifting aliens known as the Skrulls.
In terms of the film's creative vision, Brie Larson has previously said that she hopes to explore "female complexity" through the lens of a superhero movie.
"Aside from the fact that it's iconic to be part of this, to be playing the first female [lead] in a solo [Marvel] movie, I think for me personally one of the things I'm excited about is the idea of female complexity," Larson said in April.
"That's what I've wanted to bring to every genre and every film that I've done. How can we come to understand the mystique of being female?"
Captain Marvel will reach UK and US cinemas on March 8, 2019.
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