Captain Marvel

The Character of Carol Danvers first made an appearance in Marvel comics back in 1968. Introduced as an officer working within a top secret military base, and rescued by a doctor named Walter Lawson / The original Captain Marvel during a near fatal incident.  The essence of that initial run carries over into the 2018 film adaption, now 50 years later.
Co-written and Directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden,  a collaborative duo who achieved critical success on their first motion picture debut film Half Nelson (2006) a film that garnered it's star Ryan Gosling critical praise and positioned him in Hollywood to be taken as a serious leading man.

Actress Brie Larson coming off her Academy award winning performance in the Room, was cast in the title role, which drew the attention of the indie directors to Disney and pitch their version of Captain Marvel. Bringing a special attention to character development with relationships, personal flaws, struggles, and the nuance of what makes a fully realized character.  

The movie became a period piece taking place in two specific periods of time 1986 and 1995, its reflected in retail markets of the time like radio shack and blockbuster video, with the level of available technology like computer loading times,  pagers and corner phone booths, as well as the popular music of its time, with reference to music group Nine inch nails from a tee-shirt and  songs from artists Lita Ford, Heart, Salt-N-Pepper, and No Doubt all of which can be found in the motion picture soundtrack.

This film also served as an origin story for level-3 Shield Agent Nick Fury, played by
Samuel L. Jackson, It is here that Nick Fury is introduced to the existence of extra-terrestrial life, beings of tremendous powers, and a much larger looming threat that lie beyond the stars.
Agent Coulson played by Clark Gregg and largely Samuel L. Jackson were given a near flawless
de-aging special effects process, making the seventy-year old Jackson appear near Forty years of age. The year 1995 is provided to the audience by the final living cameo appearance of Stan Lee, playing himself reading the script for the movie Mallrats (1995) to which he would have a cameo appearance in.

Ben Mendelsohn as Talos

Rounding out the cast are leading co-stars Annette Benning, Lashana Lynch, Ben Mendelsohn and Jude Law .

Mendelsohn who had worked on the directors last project Mississippi Grind found casting him as an alien leader Talos was  an easy decision, knowing the actor personally for

that stretch of filmmaking and knowing his strength as one of the best character actors of his generation.

Heralded as the 21st film released by Marvel Studios,
Captain Marvel was released on March 8, 2018.
International Women's Day.
The first ever Marvel film to be headlined by a woman,
that thematically endorsed, and became an ambassador towards female empowerment. 

With an estimated budget of 175 million US the film made 1.12 Billion dollars worldwide; and is currently placed 26th as the highest grossing film of all time. The sequel is rumored to be released in 2023, as part of Marvel's phase 5 rollout.