Marvel Studios has released a new TV spot for Captain Marvel. Set in the 1990s, the story follows Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), a former Air Force pilot who becomes part-alien and becomes embroiled in an intergalactic war between the Kree and the shapeshifting Skrulls.

I’m very curious to see how Captain Marvel will perform. Presumably, it will do at least as well as any other Marvel film, but I’m curious if it will hit the zeitgeist in the same way that Black Panther did. You can see from this TV spot that Marvel is really hitting the theme of female empowerment (“I’m kind of done with people telling me what I can’t do,” says Captain Marvel), and I wonder if that will get people talking as Marvel finally puts a female superhero front and center.

Check out the new Captain Marvel TV spot below. The film opens March 8th and also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Rune Temte, Algenis Perez Soto, Mckenna Grace, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg, and Jude Law.

Here’s the official synopsis for Captain Marvel:

Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.

 

The film stars Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Rune Temte, Algenis Perez Soto, Mckenna Grace, with Annette Bening, with Clark Gregg, and Jude Law.

 

Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” is produced by Kevin Feige and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Jonathan Schwartz, Patricia Whitcher and Stan Lee are the executive producers. The story is by Nicole Perlman & Meg LeFauve and Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet, and the screenplay is by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet.