Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American teen from New Jersey who idolizes Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, first appeared in Marvel Comics in 2013. Kamala acquired superhuman abilities, her own solo book, and her own superhero title — Ms. Marvel — by 2014, making her Marvel's first Muslim superhero.
In "Ms. Marvel," the next Disney Plus series from Marvel Studios, which premiered its first trailer on Tuesday, Kamala is creating history once again. The show will premiere on June 8th.
Iman Vellani, a newcomer, was cast in the title role after Marvel Studios conducted a thorough search. Her older brother Aamir is played by Saagar Shaikh, her parents Muneeba and Yusuf are played by Mohan Kapur (the Disney Plus Hotstar series "Crime Next Door") and Zenobia Shroff ("The Big Sick"), her best friend Bruno is played by Matt Lintz ("The Walking Dead"), and Red Dagger is played by Aramis Knight ("Into the Badlands").
The teaser opens with Kamala at the high-school guidance counselor's office, with doodles of speech bubbles, hearts, and devil horns popping up on screen, set to The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights." Kamala is stereotyped as a daydreaming superhero nerd, but she gains odd cosmic abilities, such as the ability to launch energy blasts and generate glowing stepping stones that let her to walk through the air. Later in the teaser, she dons a red-and-blue suit and unleashes cosmic punches with a big, glowing fist, as seen in the comics.
The six-episode first season was directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (the Oscar-winning director of documentary shorts "Saving Face" and "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness"), Meera Menon ("For All Mankind"), and Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah ("Bad Boys for Live"). Bisha K. Ali (Hulu's "Four Weddings and a Funeral") serves as executive producer
The studio originally planned for "Ms. Marvel" to debut in late 2021, but after the epidemic inundated the calendar with nine additional Marvel movies and shows, the company pushed the series back to the summer of 2022. This also puts the show closer to "The Marvels," the feature film sequel to "Captain Marvel," which will star Vellani alongside Brie Larson's Carol Danvers and Teyonah Parris' Monica Rambeau (from "WandaVision") as Carol Danvers and Monica Rambeau, respectively. The film is set to hit theaters in February 2023.
