The Marvels push back the release date and reveal a first poster that makes it clear: this is no longer Captain Marvel 2

Marvel only has three movies scheduled for 2023, and the last one to be released is also the strangest. With Ant-Man 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy 3, we all know what to expect, more of the same, but... what about The Marvels? Although the movie was long known as Captain Marvel 2, it has finally been retconned to not only focus on Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) but also include the story of two of the newest additions to the Marvel Universe.

We are referring to Iman Vellani's Kamala Khan, whom we saw in action in Ms. Marvel, the acclaimed Disney+ series, and Teyonah Parris' Monica Rambeau, who is eager to make the leap to the big leagues after repeated cameos and supporting roles in the MCU (such as WandaVision, Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness and the first Captain Marvel movie). This is precisely what the first poster of the film makes clear, in which we see the three superheroines under a slogan that seemed to be written by Daft Punk: "Higher. Further. Faster. Together.

The poster comes with a delay that moves the Marvels from July 28 to November 10, 2023, leaving us without a synopsis or villain. We do know that while Captain Marvel was set in the '90s, the current one will be set in the present day, justifying Brie Larson's intrepid appearance as she did in Avengers: Endgame (because of her powers from the Tesseract and her half-Skrull, half-Kree blood, which can slow aging).

Rumors suggest that it could be a story in which Captain Marvel will play the role of mentor to her companions and would go to the cosmic level (after all, we have already entered the multiverse phase and saga with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania post-credits scenes). The betting pools are on Veranke as the villain, because in the comics, the queen of the Skrull empire introduced all kinds of members of her species to Earth, and that is precisely the leitmotif of Secret Invasion, the Marvel series that Disney+ has planned for the coming months and which, seen this way, could serve to introduce the antagonist of The Marvels.

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In case you're interested, here's the Marvel Cinematic Universe calendar for the months following the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (now in theaters).