Marvel Studios has released a new 60-second promo for The Marvels, which features Carol Danvers ominously warning that everything will end if she can’t stop Kree villain Dar-Benn.
The promo also shows how much of a threat Dar-Benn, played by Zawe Ashton, will be to Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau/Photon (Teyonah Parris). The Kree warlord has somehow acquired Kamala’s bangle, giving her a matching set and allowing her to have unmatched power.
The promo concludes with multiple different shots of Carol and Dar-Benn locked in combat as a Nick Fury voiceover states, “I’m asking… for one last fight.”
The Marvels gives birth to a new Avengers-level team
“Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe,” reads the synopsis for the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. “When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan, Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team-up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as The Marvels.”
While the MCU hasn’t featured many super-powered teams beyond the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, it looks like that will change in Phase 5 with the introduction of the Marvels and the Thunderbolts. The latter, basically Marvel’s answer to DC’s Suicide Squad, features several reformed villains and anti-heroes including the Winter Soldier, Yelena Belova, Ghost, Red Guardian, and U.S. Agent.
The Marvels is tracking for a good, but not great, opening weekend
At the time of writing, The Marvels is tracking to earn $75-80 million during its domestic opening weekend. While that number is better than the previously reported $50-75 million, it is still a long way off from the $153.4 million that Captain Marvel opened with back in 2019.
If The Marvels comes in under $100 million, it will be the first MCU entry to not cross that benchmark during its opening weekend since Eternals (2021). The opening weekends for the last six MCU titles are as follows: Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260M), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($187M), Thor: Love and Thunder ($144M), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ($181M), Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($104M), and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($118M).
Directed by Nia DaCosta, The Marvels hits theaters on November 10, 2023.
