Captain Marvel (2019)

By AV Club Staff | April 6, 2017 | 9:18pm

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Release date: March 8, 2019

The story: Despite initial suggestions from Marvel that the film wouldn’t be a Green Lantern-like origin story, the studio eventually came to its sense and realized that the world needs more superhero origin stories. That’s all we know at the moment.

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