Jude Law is the latest actor to get sucked into the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Marvel’s first female superhero has found its male lead.

Jude Law has entered talks to join Marvel’s Captain Marvel, as first reported Wednesday by Variety. He’ll Dr. Walter Lawson a.k.a. Mar-Vell, who becomes a mentor to Carol Danvers (the title character, to be played by Brie Larson).

The Captain Marvel cast is currently small, but growing. Besides Larson and Law, Ben Mendelsohn is on board to play the villain, because being on board to play the villain is what Ben Mendelsohn does. Nick Fury is confirmed to appear, so we can likely expect Samuel L. Jackson to come on as well. Read more…

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