She’s back! After a Christmas/New Year break, Captain Marvel returns with a new “special look” trailer that offers quite a lot of new footage from the upcoming blockbuster ahead of its release in just a couple of months.
The next installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain Marvel sees human/Kree superhero Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) return to Earth to save the world from an invasion by shape-shifting alien baddies the Skrulls.
Set in the ’90s – way before Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark became Iron Man and SHIELD discovered a frozen Captain America – the film is a prequel that sees Danvers make first contact with a digitally de-aged Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) and Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg, in his first big-screen MCU appearance since Loki skewered him with a sceptre in Avengers Assemble).
You can watch the latest sneak peek below…
As well as giving us a better look at Jude Law’s Kree mentor Mar-vell and showing off a wisecracking side to Larson’s character that we haven’t seen much of before, the trailer also ties the film into the whole Avengers initiative a lot more, showing us where Fury got the idea from in the first place. “You think you can find others?” asks a baby-faced Coulson. “She’s just the beginning,” Fury replies.
And with Danvers’ spaceship-battling mega-powers on full display here, it looks like Thanos might finally meet his match when it comes to his and Captain Marvel’s expected showdown in Avengers: Endgame.
One thing’s bothering us, though – with Fury introducing Danvers to the “SHIELD logo” on that cap, it kind of renders the whole acronym gag from Iron Man a bit pointless. Unless, that is, Coulson somehow managed to miss the memo. Someone call the continuity police!
Captain Marvel lands in UK cinemas on 8 March 2019.