Brie Larson Shot Her ‘Avengers 4’ Scenes Before ‘Captain Marvel’
If you think the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline can get confusing, don’t even attempt to make sense of the movies' shooting schedules. But Marvel Studios is a well-oiled machine, and sometimes stars find themselves having to shoot scenes for a movie that could potentially spoil their introduction.
That was the case forBrie Larson, star of Marvel’s first female solo superhero movie,Captain Marvel. After being teased for years, she will make her highly anticipated debut in March 2019 and appear inAvengers 4a few months later. But because ofAvengers: Infinity WarandAvengers 4’s back-to-back shooting schedules, Larson found herself shooting scenes forAvengers 4before she even got to touch her solo debut.
Hopefully, Larson didn’t mind the spoilers.
Captain Marvel, which isset in the ’90s, will take place decades before the events ofAvengers 4. And yet, Brie Larson found herself having to don the Captain Marvel uniform before she got to film that origin story.
Stephen McFeely, one of the screenwriters behindAvengers 4, said that it all came down to scheduling issues in an interview withCollider:
We were in the position we were in with Spider-Man and Panther where Brie was going to have to shoot her scenes, I think its okay to say, before she shotCaptain Marvel. So, we can’t really talk about what we decided, but it was clearly a conversation we had to have with Ryan and Anna who didn’t exist yet before when we started that process. So, you are bringing directors on and were trying to set up something that will work for our movie and not screw up their movie.
Gone are the days when Marvel had time to introduce each of their major superheroes in a solo film before moving on to shoot the gigantic team-up movies.Captain America: The First Avengerwas filmed in 2010, a year before production ofAvengerswould begin — a pretty tight schedule back then, withAvengersdirector Joss Whedon stepping in to film the end-credits scene forThe First Avengerbefore heading to theAvengersset.
McFeely said it was tricky to film scenes with Captain Marvel before she’d had a movie, or even an origin story. But it’s nothing Marvel hasn’t done before — introducing Spider-Man and Black Panther in the crossover films before they got their own solo movies. It may have caused some discrepancies with their costumes — and inBlack Panther’s case,confusion in their timelines— but it’s a necessity when Marvel puts out two to three movies a year.
Captain Marvelopens in theaters onMarch 6, 2019.Avengers 4opens onMay 3, 2019.
