Jude Law is the latest actor to get sucked into the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marvel's first female superhero has found its male lead.
Jude Law has entered talks to join Marvel's Captain Marvel, as first reported Wednesday by Variety. He'll Dr. Walter Lawson a.k.a. Mar-Vell, who becomes a mentor to Carol Danvers (the title character, to be played by Brie Larson).
The Captain Marvel cast is currently small, but growing. Besides Larson and Law, Ben Mendelsohn is on board to play the villain, because being on board to play the villain is what Ben Mendelsohn does. Nick Fury is confirmed to appear, so we can likely expect Samuel L. Jackson to come on as well.
Details on Captain Marvel are still mostly under wraps, but we know it'll be an origin story set in the early 1990s. Carol Danvers is an Air Force pilot who gains superpowers after an accident fuses her DNA with that of a powerful Kree (alien) warrior.
Law's had an interesting year, becoming an internet meme with HBO's The Young Pope and trying to make the best of Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
He's just finished shooting Woody Allen's next movie (ugh), due out next year. He'll also be seen in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, playing Young Dumbledore opposite Johnny Depp (ugh) as Young Grindelwald.
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson) are directing Captain Marvel for release on March 8, 2019.
