The truth is, 'The Marvels' never really stood a chance. It is the first film in the franchise to be made by a Black female director, Nia DaCosta, and it features three female superheroes: Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel and Teyonah Parris as Captain Monica Rambeau.
Genre films like the MCU installments are particularly guilty of this: It took Marvel 10 years to make a film with a majority Black cast and creative team, and women have been leads in less than a handful of MCU films (the Disney+ spinoffs are more diverse, but television has always been the place where executives take risks).
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