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Johansson's Black Widow and Elizabeth Olsen's Scarlet Witch are already on the roster, but this will be the first time a female
superhero — Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel — leads her own
movie in the new Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Now the studio is starting to address the lack of
superhero films with leads who are not white men, including upcoming projects such as «Captain Marvel,» starring Brie Larson, and a Black Widow
movie with Scarlett
Johansson that is
in development.
Directors Anthony and Joe Russo showed they can handle a
superhero - heavy
movie with 2016's Captain America: Civil War, but the size of the cast and sheer number of heroes
in Infinity War is unprecedented: Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett
Johansson (Black Widow), Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Paul Bettany (Vision), Anthony Mackie (Falcon), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Sebastian Stan (Winter Solider) Paul Rudd (Ant - Man), Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Benedict Wong (Wong), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Tom Holland (Spider - Man), Chris Pratt (Star - Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Pom Klementieff (Mantis) and Karen Gillan (Nebula), along with the voices of Bradley Cooper (Rocket Raccoon) and Vin Diesel (Groot).