Nia DaCosta, the director for the upcoming The Marvels film bragged about the film’s female representation behind the camera while promoting the film with Good Morning America.
DaCosta was asked by one the program’s hosts, “What’s really cool about this movie is the superheroes, women. You’re a woman. This is like a girl power moment. How has that been?”
She replied, “It was great. It’s really great. Like my Executive Producer Mary Livanos, my VFX Supervisor Tera DeMarco, my Production Designer, Costume Designer, all women. So exciting to– ’cause I know how important that is, that kind of representation. So it’s really exciting for us.”
“And then we put our heads down to do the work to get all those women onto the screen,” she added.
Speaking of Livanos, the Executive Producer previously revealed the entire film was designed to target women from all walks of life.
She told Total Film, “The Avengers movies are these epic conclusions to chapters of storytelling, whereas this is a team-up within the narrative that we didn’t necessarily expect for Marvel. Usually, you wait for characters to show up all together in Avengers movies.”
“We were excited to design a team-up featuring characters that women from all walks of life could relate to,” she declared.
Ironically, Livanos previously claimed the idea of having the characters’ powers get entangled was taken from the original Captain Marvel comics that saw Mar-Vell (the first Captain Marvel) split a body with Rick Jones.
Entertainment Weekly reported, “Livanos notes that the idea of location swapping harkens back to early Captain Marvel comics from the 1960s, where Mar-Vell (the first Captain Marvel) and human Rick Jones would swap places using magical Kree bracelets called Nega-Bands.”
What do you make of DaCosta’s comments about The Marvels and female representation?