Over a year and a half after first announcing the project, Marvel finally has a real contender to take on the title role of Captain Marvel. Fans and trades alike have tossed around names like Katee Sackhoff, Emily Blunt, and Rebecca Ferguson, but it’s Oscar winner Brie Larson who is closest to donning the Captain’s famous red and blue costume.

Variety reports that Larson is in “early talks,” and while that’s far from a confirmation, the Room actress is reportedly leaning toward taking the role and would be Marvel’s first choice.

Screenwriters Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) are working on the script which many expect will be based on Kelly Sue DeConnick’s extraordinarily popular run of the comics. The film would follow Carol Danvers, an air force pilot whose DNA is fused with alien during an accident that gives her the superpowers of strength, energy projection, and flight. Many insiders expect that Danvers—like Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther—will make her big screen debut before her solo 2018 movie. Should that happen in either the space-set Guardians of the Galaxy 2 or Thor: Ragnarok, Larson would have to finish her deal pretty quickly. Guardians is wrapping up production and Thor is just about to start.

As for Larson, she’s a pretty solid fit for the part. We’ll see a bit more of her in action mode when she appears in 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, but she has plenty of wit and charm to take on the heroic role. And, as fans of her great work in Scott Pilgrim know, she can take on comic-book dialogue with ease. While devout lovers of United States of Tara know, she looks pretty great in outlandish costumes.

Princess Valhalla Hawkwind may ride again, but this time with a sporty, Danvers hairstyle.