The character is the original Captain Marvel in the comic book created by Stan Lee. The key difference: Comic book Mar-Vell is a male while movie Mar-Vell is female.

Captain Marvel started out as a male, silver-blonde, albeit alien superhero. But Marvel has a storied history of creating female versions of their characters for trademark purposes. Aside from Wonder ...

If there’s one thing everyone working on Captain Marvel wants you to stop asking about in regards to Captain Marvel, it’s how they all feel about being a part of Marvel’s first female-led film.

Captain Marvel won big over the weekend with $455 million globally, the biggest launch for a female-fronted movie of all time, and perhaps one that was aided by one key innovation: how it treats ...

Among them, "Captain Marvel," set for release on July 6, 2018. This captain will be Carol Danvers, a super heroine who will be the first female lead in Marvel's movies.

Now, I'm not a Marvel superfan, by any means. In fact, the first Marvel film I ever saw was "Thor: Ragnarok" in 2017. I'm sure I didn't understand any of the things a longtime watcher would pick ...

In a male-dominated industry, Geneva Robertson-Dworet is as rare as the female superhero characters she helps craft. The breakout action-genre screenwriter will be adding a historic project to her ...

More than a decade after the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched, we finally get to see its first solo film led by a female character. “Captain Marvel,” starring Brie Larson, officially ...

Instead of giving Captain Marvel a male love interest for her (and the audience) to swoon over, she’s got a different kind of love and it’s perfectly fitting for the film.

After all, "Captain Marvel" just had the biggest opening weekend of the year ($153 million), and female-led movies consistently outperform male ones. But they deserve more thoughtful reviews than ...

While Larson is the first actress to play Captain Marvel on the big screen, Rambeau was the first female superhero to take the name after the comic’s male Mar-Vell.

Captain Marvel will be the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to focus on a female lead, but it shouldn't be the last. MCU chief Kevin Feige says there are plans for more . We've got some ...