Carol Danvers has appeared in the pages of Marvel Comics since the late 1960s, but it was only in 2012 that the character assumed the mantle of Captain Marvel for the first time. It was in an ongoing series written by Kelly Sue DeConnick. So, Kelly might not be the character's creator, but she definitely is the first writer to have worked on Carol as Captain Marvel.
Following the Captain Marvel cast announcement at San Diego Comic-Con International 2016, the writer sits down with Vanity Fair to offer her opinion on the character's introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
And it is in this interview that she reveals that she wants to see Carol Danvers donning the not-so-popular helmet from the comic books on the big screen! The writer says:
I love the helmet! That is not a universal opinion. After we left the book, they got rid of the helmet. I have a lot of boring continuity arguments on the history of the helmet and a list of reasons as to why the helmet exists. I want the helmet!
I'm pretty sure that's one thing many fans would definitely not want to see in the Captain Marvel standalone movie!
During the interview, Kelly Sue DeConnick reveals that she's "psyched" about Marvel Studios landing Academy Award winning actress Brie Larson as Captain Marvel. But, is Brie her dream casting choice? Nope!
The actress who is the voice in the writer's head for Carol Danvers role is not someone Marvel can cast at this point! It's the Body Heat and Peggy Sue Got Married star Kathleen Turner, but "from about 1983"! Marvel doesn't have a means for time-travel yet! According to Kelly:
She could be both sexy and awkward and powerful. She could do all of those things at once. From what I can tell, Brie Larson can do those things too. She has a gravitas and she has a power to her. But you can see she also has a sense of humor and playfulness there.
The writer also reveals that she wished to see Captain Marvel as someone tall in the movie just like she's depicted in the comic books. She states:
The only physical thing I wanted for Carol"”I was hoping for Carol to have some height. In the books she's five-foot-eleven. There's a little bit of an intimidation factor that comes with her being so tall.
However, Kelly doesn't forget to add that she's five feet tall, and she, too, can be "intimidating"! Well, even Kathleen Turner isn't five-foot-eleven, and she apparently is the same height as Brie Larson. So, I don't think the writer actually cares that much about Captain Marvel's height.
And like many of us, Kelly thinks that Marvel has done "an incredible job" managing their cinematic universe and their casting.
