Marvel released a series of colorful character posters introducing the cast of Disney+'s Ms. Marvel series.
Marvel Entertainment shared a series of character posters for the upcoming miniseries featuring the main cast, including a poster for Kamala/Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani) dressed in her superhero costume. Other posters feature her friends Nakia (Yasmeen Fletcher), Bruno Carrelli (Matt Lintz), Kamran (Rish Shah) and Zoe (Laurel Marsden), as well as her brother Aamir Khan (Saagar Shaikh), his wife Tyesha (Travina Springer), and Kamala's parents Muneeba (Zenobia Shroff) and Yusuf Khan (Mohan Kapur).
Each character poster is colorful in its design, highlighting the unique style from the original comics that the series will emulate. According to creator Sana Amanat, Ms. Marvel will be every bit as quirky and colorful as the original comics. "The comic was very much a guiding light for us, she said. "We needed to make sure that it worked in the MCU, of course, but we wanted to make sure that we had that quirkiness and the stylistic distinction that the comics did so well. We wanted to find our own MCU version of it."
Ms. Marvel will also intermix animation and live-action as a way to give life to the fantasies of its protagonist, Kamala. "It was important to us that you come right into Kamala's world and see it through her eyes," said co-director Adil El Arbi. "It really shows that her head is in the clouds and she's always fantasizing." Ms. Marvel will also be the first TV-PG-rated project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Created by editors Sana Amanat and Stephen Wacker, writer G. Willow Wilson and artists Adrian Alphona and Jamie McKelvie, Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan made her Marvel Comics debut in 2012. Starring Iman Vellani, the Disney+ series will, like the comics, follow the Pakistani-American teen as the titular hero, who was Marvel's first Muslim character to star in her own series and will be the MCU's first onscreen Muslim hero.
"The fact that the show is being made and they’re including this character in the MCU is [what's important]," Vellani said in August 2021 on being the MCU's first Muslim hero. "I don't really have to go out of my way and talk about being a Muslim and being Pakistani -- it all comes out in the show. People seeing a person like me involved in a project as big as this is, I think, inspiring enough."
Ms. Marvel lands on Disney+ on June 8.
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