Actress Brie Larson is the frontrunner to play Captain Marvel, a superhero from Marvel that will join the roster of Avengers when her film comes out in 2019.
It's unknown where negotiations currently stand, but Larson is, "leaning toward playing the part," according to Variety. The site also reported that Marvel wants the actress early to possibly put the character in another film before her 2019 solo film. Kind of like how Black Panther and Spider-Man appeared in Captain America: Civil War before their standalone movies come out.
When alien DNA mixes with her human genes, Carol Danvers gains superhuman strength, resistance to poison, the ability to fly and shoot blasts of energy from her fingertips, and more. She joins the Avengers as the superhero Captain Marvel.
No director is attached to Captain Marvel yet, but Meg LeFauve (Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur) and Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy) are writing the screenplay.
Larson recently won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Room. She also starred in Trainwreck, The Gambler and 21 Jump Street. Larson's next set project is Kong: Skull Island coming out in March. She has roles in the crime movie Free Fire opposite Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer, the musical Basmati Blues and the drama The Glass Castle with Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson.