Captain Marvel 2 may have just found an exciting new director to take on the sequel to the Brie Larson superhero.
According to the deadline, Nia DaCosta is the favorite of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who wrote and directed the first film and had great success at the box office: $ 1.1 billion worldwide. This makes Captain Marvel the first female superhero film to hit the billion dollar mark.
DaCosta is said to have met Marvel boss Kevin Feige and some other unknown candidates over the weekend. Megan McDonnell, an employee of Disney Plus' WandaVision, has reportedly already written the script for the sequel.
Marvel and Disney had no comment.
DaCosta would make another impressive director enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe with indie roots after pairing Tessa Thompson with Lily James in the addicting thriller. Western film Little Woods, her debut film released in 2019.
She went back further and directed some episodes of the excellent British crime drama Top Boy.
Her big new upcoming project is Candyman, a supernatural slasher written by Get Out's Jordan Peele. The trailer is out and Universal plans to release the film in theaters later this year (keep an eye on it).
Other directors who have achieved superhero blockbusters are Chloe Zhao with Marvel's upcoming The Eternals and Cathy Yan with DC's Birds of Prey.