Four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening is appearing in her first superhero movie. The famed actress is joining Brie Larson in Captain Marvel, Marvel Studios’ first female-led feature film.
Some reports have her playing the role of Captain Marvel’s mother, Marie Danvers while other reports have her playing the role of an as yet unknown scientist, but at this point Marvel isn’t giving out any details.
The Marvel film is being helmed by Mississippi Grind directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck while Kevin Feige is producing. Geneva Robertson-Dworet wrote the most recent script, with “Inside Out” scribe Meg LeFauve and Nicole Perlman penning previous drafts.
The film stars Larson as the titular character Carol Danvers, an Air Force pilot who is thrust into an intergalactic adventure after her DNA is fused with that of an alien. Although the solo movie is set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel got a major tease for those who stayed for the after credits scene in Avengers: Infinity War.
The cast already includes Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn and Gemma Chan, as well as Djimon Hounsou and Lee Pace, with the latter pair reprising their characters from 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
The film hits theaters on March 8, 2019.