>Reed Morano, Niki Caro, Elizabeth Wood, Emily Carmichael, Jennifer Kent, Rebecca Thomas, Rachel Talalay, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Leslie Linka Glatter and Lorene Scafario were approached to direct before Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck were hired.
>There were talks about introducing Captain Marvel in AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, joining the battle against Thanos in Titan and surviving the snap alongside Iron Man and Nebula, but it was ultimately decided it would be better to introduce her in her own movie.
>Although Brie Larson was always the studio’s choice for Carol Danvers, Katee Sackhoff, Kathryn Winnick, Blake Lively and Evan Rachel Wood, among others, were also considered.
>DeWanda Wise was originally cast as Maria Rambeau, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and was replaced by Lashana Lynch. Gugu Mbatha-Raw was also considered.
>Keanu Reeves was originally cast as Yon-Rogg, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and was replaced by Jude Law.
>Early drafts featured Helen Cobb, a veteran pilot and Carol’s mentor at the Air Force.
>Early drafts featured the Sentries, giant robots controlled by Ronan that Carol would have fought to protect Earth.
>Minn-Erva originally had a bigger role, exploring her rivalry with Carol and her resentment at being spurned as Yon-Rogg's favorite because of her.
>Mar-Vell was originally a man who masquerades as Dr. Walter Lawson and recruit Carol to test the Tesseract-powered lightspeed engine. Believing both Mar-Vell and Helen Cobb felt superfluous to the narrative, the writers decided to merge them into one.
>Early cuts feature an extended confrontation between Carol and the Supreme Intelligence at Mar-Vell’s ship.
>A deleted scene features Yon-Rogg meeting the Supreme Intelligence and seeing it as the thing he admires the most: Himself.
>An alternative post-credits scene features Yon-Rogg getting stranded in Sakaar and forced to become one of the Grandmaster's gladiators.
