Director Nia DaCosta has a shocking response to The Marvels‘ field workplace efficiency two years after the film was launched. The Captain Marvel sequel grew to become the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s biggest box office bomb of all time, solely grossing $206 million towards a reported manufacturing funds of $270 million.
Throughout an interview with Deadline for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, DaCosta was requested about what her evaluation is when she seems again at The Marvels. She reveals that she solely has gratitude for the expertise and enjoys the relationships she made alongside the way in which, which even led to her visiting the Avengers: Doomsday set. Try DaCosta’s feedback under:
It’s so fascinating, as a result of the Marvel machine had a lot chatter round it. However after I look again on it, everybody tried their greatest. Everybody was making an attempt to make a terrific movie…and I’ll say I’m actually completely happy to have these relationships. I used to be simply visiting the Avengers set final summer time, which was actually enjoyable, catching up with the producers, seeing the Russos, and a few of my pals have been within the film. So it was very nice, regardless of how every part went with the field workplace and the evaluations, figuring out that the relationships are so good. I look again and everybody tried their greatest and everybody was making an attempt to do the precise factor, and it’s what it’s.
Regardless of the warmth that she took for The Marvels‘ field workplace numbers, together with the truth that it had a combined reception from critics and followers, DaCosta has a optimistic outlook due to the enduring relationships that got here from it. This consists of quite a few people engaged on Avengers: Doomsday alongside administrators Joe and Anthony Russo.
On Rotten Tomatoes, The Marvels has a 63% rating from critics and 79% from audiences.
DaCosta’s feedback include a possible tease of characters showing within the Avengers: Doomsday cast as nicely. Since she says she has pals within the film, this might embrace The Marvels‘ Brie Larson as Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers, Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan, or Teyonnah Parris as Monica Rambeau. None of those stars have been confirmed to seem within the film as of this writing.
No matter the way it fared on the field workplace, The Marvels helped arrange Avengers: Doomsday by bringing again Beast/Hank McCoy (Kelsey Grammer) into the MCU in the course of the post-credits scene when Monica wakes up in one other universe. Grammer is confirmed to have reprised the function for the upcoming Avengers movie, which is able to focus closely on the multiverse.
Whereas DaCosta’s most up-to-date feedback about making The Marvels are optimistic, she has been extra candid in regards to the challenges she confronted in prior interviews. She advised The Hollywood Reporter in August 2025 that “One of many points I had with Candyman and Marvels was the dearth of a extremely strong script, which is at all times gonna simply wreak havoc on the entire course of.” DaCosta co-wrote The Marvels‘ script alongside Megan McDonnell and Elissa Karasik.
Co-writing the script didn’t permit the filmmaker to make her plan for The Marvels turn out to be a actuality, although, as she beforehand shared with ComicBookMovie.com that “there was a sure level after I was like, ‘Okay, this isn’t going to be the film that I pitched and even the primary model of the film that I shot.'”
Filming 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple seems to have been a far smoother course of for DaCosta in comparison with The Marvels. Nonetheless, she nonetheless sees the superhero film as a beneficial expertise. The film has additionally performed an essential function in shaping the trajectory of the Multiverse Saga, which is able to conclude with Doomsday‘s sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars.
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November 10, 2023
- Runtime
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105 minutes
- Director
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Nia DaCosta
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Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel
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Teyonah Parris
Monica Rambeau
