Captain Marvel Won't Appear In 'Avengers: Infinity War'

Some Marvel news: Brie Larson will not — I repeat, not — be appearing in “Avengers: Infinity War” as Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel. With Larson’s standalone ’90s-set “Captain Marvel” currently slotted for release in 2019, there’s been much speculation that the third Avengers movie would introduce her character much like “Captain America: Civil War” did Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man.

Showing up at Comic-Con to party-poop, ‘Infinity War’ co-director Joe Russo squashed these rumors with the authoritative strength of a thousand Hulks. He said, fairly directly, that “[Captain Marvel] is not in ‘Avengers 3.’ ” That’s that then.

Except that there’s a long history of directors and actors out-and-out lying about such things to keep their films’ secrets a surprise for their audiences (I’m thinking specifically about the J.J. Abrams Khan debacle, as well as the slightly lower-scale insistence by all involved that Steve Carell would not be returning as Michael Scott in the finale of “The Office.”) It would not be shocking, to say the very least, if Captain Marvel was to turn up in direct contradiction to Russo’s statement. Maybe in a post-credits scene?

If you’re hyperventilating, worrying that Russo isn’t lying and that we are, in fact, still years away from being introduced to Captain Marvel, maybe this piece on the Comic-Con reveal of Brie Larson suited up as the Captain can tide you over for a day or so.

“Captain Marvel” will star Brie Larson as the titular character, as well as Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. It will be directed by the directorial team behind “Mississippi Grind,” Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It hits theaters on March 8, 2019. [ComicBook]