With Doctor Strange on the eve of being released, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige said the next of his Marvel superhero pipe dreams he's excited to bring to life is seeing Carol Danvers take to the big screen in 2019's Captain Marvel

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The movie has Brie Larson playing the titular character , with Guardians of the Galaxy's Nicole Perlman and Inside Out's Meg LeFauve writing the script. In August, it was reported that four filmmakers were lead contenders to direct the film, and Feige explained to IGN why it's so important that the director chosen be a woman."I do think it will be not a requirement to make a great version of Captain Marvel, but it's something we think is important," he said after a Doctor Strange early footage screening event . "With all of our movies, we want them to be different, we want them to find the new voices. I think the fun thing is we're meeting so many great directors that we'll bring one of them onto Captain Marvel, but we have future things to come [for the others]."Of having female voices telling the story, Feige said, "It's super important. One of the things that's interesting is there's been a lot of versions of Captain Marvel, there's been a lot of stories of Captain Marvel, and we are now sharing all the source material with the writers who are working on it now, with the filmmakers who we're meeting with and have been for months. Whether they know a lot about the comics or, more likely, the filmmakers we work with don't have to be huge fans, they just have to fall in love with it once they are presented with it. It's amazing to see all of the filmmakers read through it and know, 'Oh, a female's writing it now.' When Kelly Sue DeConnick started on the books, they took on a new thing, and I think that's why, and I think that's important."Feige admitted he had expected a director announcement to happen over the summer, and credits the delay with "we're trying to get a little more of the story set before we bring a filmmaker on so we can talk about the story with the filmmaker before we bring them on."Perlman previously said that Captain Marvel's story needed a revamp because it was too similar to Green Lantern's origin , and according to Feige the writers have come up with a "cool and unique" way of telling that story."What is one of the coolest things about it is she will be by far the most powerful character we've ever introduced in the movie. 'How do you find those limitations? How do you find those vulnerabilities?' is something that is sort of at the crux of the story that we're putting together," he said. "She has -- as you know from the comics -- an interesting story, and I think we have a very cool and unique way of telling that story. I don't think it's leaked yet exactly what we're doing with her movie or how we're doing it, but it will be cool. She will prove to be a very important character in our universe for all the movies."Feige also said "the idea of all of the pre-existing Avengers interacting with her for the first time" is something he is especially looking forward to.Captain Marvel is slated to hit theaters on March 8, 2019.

Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz