Captain Marvel: Everything We Know So Far

9. It's An Action-Comedy

Sticking with the screenplay for the movie, and its writer Geneva Robertson-Dworet has spoken about what exactly we can expect from the script, and how her work on Tomb Raider helped influence it.

Speaking to EW, she revealed that her Tomb Raider story started out more comedically tinged, before becoming more dramatic and serious as Alicia Vikander found more of a voice in the character. That shift, in turn, inspired Robertson-Dworet to make Captain Marvel even funnier:

“Captain Marvel has a very funny voice, and it’s more of an action-comedy, more like what we were talking about doing in the first draft I wrote for Tomb Raider…. [but] that tone survived in Captain Marve. I love funny female characters, so as Tomb Raider got more serious, I got even more committed to the idea of Captain Marvel being hilarious.

“Carol Danvers is one of the funniest comic book characters. She’s so sassy, she’s such a smartass, she won’t take sh— from anyone, and the comic books do an amazing job at capturing that voice, and it was important that the entire Captain Marvel creative team [kept to that].”