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Samuel L. Jackson Will Be De-Aged 25 Years For Entirety Of Captain Marvel

July 7, 2018 | Posted by Joseph Lee
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In an interview with Slash Film, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige revealed that Samuel L. Jackson will be de-aged 25 years for the entirety of Captain Marvel next year. Here are highlights:

On de-aging actors in Marvel movies: “Well, I think having the option is pretty amazing. And I think having the technology and even without spoiling anything, Sam Jackson is shooting a movie for us right now that takes, where he’s entirely 25 years younger the whole movie [Captain Marvel]. So that’ll certainly be the one…And Coulson. So that’ll be the first one where it’s a character for the whole movie, as opposed to a glimpse at a certain period of time. It’s the whole movie. So it’s possible, assuming that works. It’s possible. It’s very good when you are starting by the way with somebody like Michelle Pfeiffer or Michael Douglas or for that matter Sam Jackson or Clark Gregg. All four of them.”

On making Infinity War stand alone: “The whole time it was, we knew that we wanted to feel like a standalone movie. We wanted to tonally do a very different movie from Infinity War. And as [director Peyton Reed] said on the panel today, that it was more interesting for us to deal with the fallout of Civil War. To deal with what kind of rift that caused. ‘Cause they seem to be a good trio at the end of Ant-Man 1. Hank and Hope and Scott. But knowing how Hank felt about it, knowing that Wasp was not there in Germany in Civil War, what did that do to the relationship. And he was in prison and got broken out. So what, we had to address that. And it led to this very good notion of the final 48 hours of, final three days of house arrest.”

On the rumors of Mysterio: “It does. I mean, I think much like Ant-Man and the Wasp, which when you see the movie connects and you see how it connects. In the marketing, we don’t show that part. I think we’ll very much feel like a return to the fun of Homecoming and Peter with his class and going places we don’t usually see Peter Parker and a new villain and that will be the focus both of the movie but certainly of the marketing. “