The Marvels is set to unite Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) on-screen for the first time – and the film could have major ramifications for the future of the MCU, according to director Nia DaCosta and executive producer Mary Livanos, as they explain in the new issue of Total Film magazine, which is out on newsstands on Thursday, August 17.
It all ties to an artefact in villain Dar-Benn's possession: the second bangle that forms a pair with the one Kamala Khan wears. Kamala's bangle unlocked her latent mutant powers, but one of the questions hanging over the conclusion of Ms. Marvel was around the location of the second bangle. Now we have our answer. "You'll get enough of the story of how and why Dar-Benn has acquired the bangle," says DaCosta.
Livanos says that's revealed early on. "In Ms. Marvel, we learned that the bangle, paired with some other form of power, can force a temporary hole in space and time to lead to somewhere else," she explains. "With the power of both bangles, more is definitely possible. And we see the culmination of that over the course of this movie. It definitely leads to plentiful opportunities for the future of the MCU, whatever the Avengers and Secret Wars teams may want to do with them."
Ah, the future of the MCU. Back in 2019, Captain Marvel was sowing its own seeds, with Ms. Marvel, WandaVision, Secret Invasion, and more growing out of those kernels. It stands to reason that The Marvels is similarly planting acorns for upcoming MCU oak trees, including the Avengers team-up movies that are set to conclude the Multiverse Saga – Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, and Avengers: Secret Wars. So how does The Marvels fit into the bigger
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