Being an all-powerful and invincible force has one major downside — it makes it hard for people to relate to you. This is a major factor why it is difficult for screenwriters to pen good scripts about a hero like Superman, for example, whose great strength and lack of earthly weaknesses make it hard to believe that he has a vulnerable side.
This is the curse that the newly named screenwriters for the upcoming "Captain Marvel" movie want to avoid. Meg LeFauve and Nicole Perlman have been officially announced as the female tag-team who will write the screenplay for the movie currently scheduled to come out in 2019.
Aside from being excited about the opportunity to write the story of an extremely powerful female superhero – one who will helm her own superhero movie at that – LeFauve shared that their biggest challenge will be to show that incredible power to audiences but also show her vulnerable side.
“The wonderful thing about her and the challenge of her is going to be that she’s a female superhero. And that is awesome because she’s so powerful, and how hard is that going to be because she’s so powerful? We don’t want the Superman curse. 'What’s her vulnerability?' is what we have to figure out,” writer LeFauve shared during a press junket for Disney-Pixar's "Good Dinosaur" after she just got the call about penning the Captain Marvel movie with Perlman.
Captain Marvel will have a lot riding on her shoulders. It will be the first in the Marvel Movie franchise to stand alone from the Marvel Avengers series of crossovers and will also be the first to headline a woman super hero. As some writers have pointed out, the burdens on Captain Marvel are bigger for a female hero because of cultural predispositions about women and it will be a balancing act to find weaknesses for the new Marvel movie star without crossing over into negative female stereotypes.
However, LeFauve and Perlman seem to be the perfect women to write a female character the right way.
LeFauve's credits include "Inside Out" where she wrote about the sometimes conflicting emotions that go on inside a young girl's head, and Perlman was behind "Guardians of The Galaxy" whose female hero and villain sisters, Gamora and Nebula, were equals with their male counterparts and given just as much screen time as well.
"Captain Marvel" is set to be released on March 8, 2019. No director has been named yet and no lead actress to don Captain Marvel's suit, although the names of Rebecca Ferguson and Ronda Rousey have been rumored to be candidates.
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