Has it been a good year for movies at the box office or a terrible one? Depends on who you ask, and arguably, it would be a bad one if it were for “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” rescuing the year with great box office success. How has the usually-dependable Marvel fared at the box office? So far, one big underwhelming disappointment, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” which only grossed $476 million worldwide, the lowest-grossing Marvel movie since 2011’s “Thor” (not counting the pandemic releases of “Black Widow,” “Shang Chi” and “Eternals” which were all lower, but those were different circumstances). And one big success, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3,” which grossed $844.3 million, good, but even lower than “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (which many pundits suggested underperformed). The year’s final tally? It will be decided in November with “The Marvels.”
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Directed by Nia DaCosta (“The Candyman” reboot/legacy sequel), the film stars Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, aka Photon, and Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel. The rest of the cast includes Zawe Ashton, Gary Lewis, Seo-Jun Park, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Saagar Shaikh, and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.
What happens in this film? Well, it’s basically Marvel superheroes ladies team-up, which features all of these heroes’ powers entangled. Enter the Kree, the villains from “Captain Marvel” and S.A.B.E.R., which is like Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D., only in outer space.
Here’s the official synopsis:
In Marvel Studios’ “The Marvels,” Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as “The Marvels.”
“The Marvels” will be available in theaters and IMAX on November 10. Watch the new IMAX teaser and poster below.
