Early on in “Captain Marvel,” when Vers (Brie Larson) lands inside of Blockbuster Video, she blasts away a standee from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “True Lies” to hilarious effect.

So how did the filmmakers land on that to be the standee that gets blasted, and were there any other not-great ’90s movies that almost got that spot? During the “Captain Marvel” press conference which took place last month at The Beverly Hilton, co-director Ryan Fleck gave the answer.

“I think we tried to use ‘The Mask’ with Jim Carrey and we thought that would be funny,” said Fleck.

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“But the studio did not give us permission to use it, so, ah — bummer,” he added.

Right now, independent trackers have the latest MCU film earning an opening weekend of as much as $145 million. But between the overwhelming interest in seeing the first Marvel solo female superhero movie and its connection to the even more anticipated “Avengers: Endgame,” analysts who spoke to TheWrap say there’s a chance that “Captain Marvel” could beat the female lead opening record of $158 million, which was set by “Catching Fire” in November 2013.

And if “Captain Marvel” really over-indexes, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that it could break the March opening weekend record of $174.7 million, set by the 2017 remake of “Beauty and the Beast.” Already, Fandango notes that “Captain Marvel” has had the most ticket presales on their site of any film since “Avengers: Infinity War.”