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Rumour: Rebecca Ferguson wanted for Captain Marvel role

September 10, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Get your pinch of salt ready, as Heroic Hollywood is reporting/guessing that Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation star Rebecca Ferguson tops Marvel’s hit list for the studio’s first female-led superhero movie, Captain Marvel.

Ferguson was recently in contention for another comic book role, but pulled out of the running for the female lead in Gambit in favour of Tate Taylor’s upcoming The Girl on the Train alongside Emily Blunt, another actress who has been heavily linked to the part of Carol Danvers.

Let’s hope this report is from a different Marvel source to the one who repeatedly told them Carol was in Avengers: Age of Ultron, right up to the point where we discovered she wasn’t…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL18yMRIfoszEaHYNDTy5C-cH9Oa2gN5ng&v=qvTY7eXXIMg

Originally published September 10, 2015. Updated November 8, 2019.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Captain Marvel, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Rebecca Ferguson

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flickering Myth. He is a film, television and digital content writer and producer, whose work includes the gothic horror feature The Baby in the Basket and the suspense thriller Death Among the Pines. He is also the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.

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