Nia DaCosta s’n Captain Marvel prosecute has now formally arrived at the stage “Okay, let’s guess who the bad guy is going to be”, with Deadline reporting that Zawe Ashton will play the villain in Brie Larson’s return to the role of everyone’s favorite cosmic MCU badass. Ashton is probably best known to the public for playing Josephina in 2019’s art horror satire Fluweel Buzzsaw, starring in Netflix’s Wanderlust and British comedy series Fresh meat.
And since Marvel will not only tell us who Ashton is playing, it’s time for those who are most sanctified AV Club traditions: unfounded speculation, powered by nothing but our knowledge of comics that are sometimes 20-40 full year old. Since Carol Danvers does not actually do that has all the many non-Kree specific enemies, we soft money here is on Ashton play Karla “Moonstone” Sofen, who served as Danvers’ evil counterpart during Marvel’s uber-gritty “Dark Reign” period in the late 2000s. While she and Carol had (relatively) little direct approach (confusion) more frequently with the first Captain Marvel and the Hulk), Moonstone is an interesting character in her own right: a rogue psychiatrist who loves killing people just as much as analyzing her enemies. And, again: there is also just really a very, very small number “Captain Marvel villains ” run around the world of Marvel Comics, so it’s finally us bis the best guess.
Or, hey, maybe Ashton is playing A scroll. (It’s always the Skrulls!)
Captain Marvel 2 is currently scheduled for November 2022, with DaCosta directing a screenplay written by WandaVision story editor Megan McDonnell.