Angelina Jolie in talks to direct female-driven superhero flick ‘Captain Marvel’

Angelina Jolie in talks to direct female-driven superhero flick ‘Captain Marvel’

Actress and director Angelina Jolie is being considered to direct 'Captain Marvel.'

Angelina Jolie is under consideration to direct the Disney-owned studio’s debut female-fronted superhero movie Captain Marvel, according to Collider.

Earlier this week, Marvel hired a pair of high-profile female screenwriters such as Guardians of the Galaxy’s Nicole Perlman and Inside Out’s Meg LeFauve, to oversee the new film. If Jolie decides to signs on, Captain Marvel would most likely be her fourth movie behind the cameras since her 2011 film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, recent second world war drama Unbroken, upcoming intimate romantic drama By the Sea.

Collider had also considered replacing Michelle MacLaren with Jolie, a potential candidate to replace on rival studio Warner Bros’s debut female-led comic book movie of the modern era, Wonder Woman. Though the sites credibility was questioned after Monster’s Patty Jenkins revealed last night to have already taken the job. Regardless, Collider is standing by its studio sources with reference to Jolie’s interest in Captain Marvel.

Captain Marvel is one of Marvel’s recently announced group of nine superhero movies due to debut between 2016 and 2019. The current story plot is based on the main character who has the alter-ego Carol Danvers. She’s a part-time US Air Force pilot who develops cosmic superpowers such as flight, super-strength, and “energy projection” after gaining extraterrestrial DNA during an accident on a restricted military base.

Danvers was first introduced in 1968, debuting as Ms Marvel in 1977, before turning into Captain Marvel around 35 years later. The character was chosen by Marvel as a surprise choice for its first female-centered superhero movie despite Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow.

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