According to critics who have already seen Captain Marvel, the '90s-set movie is an perfect blast, but let's slope it: We're all in fact just interested roughly the cat, right? Well, some of us are! Goose the Cat is straight from the comics, but his indigenous proclaim was Chewie, named after the famous Star Wars character. The filmmakers opted to go for a top Gun citation for the cat's name, which they did to tie the cat a bit more to Captain Marvel's past.
Just the idea of having a citation that would have been so specific to Carol Danvers past, as her afterward in the movie itself bodily a pilot in the 1980s afterward top Gun was out and having a citation that felt a little bit more specific to her. Whereas Chewie, afterward the comics were bodily written, was a categorically specific citation in epoch but now afterward all the movies out it feels more contemporary and not so specific to her past.
In the comic books, Carol Danvers has a cat named Chewie. The cat is obviously named after Chewbacca, which makes sense because Carol is usually spending a lot of epoch in melody and she keeps the cat afterward her. However, Chewie doesn't in fact action as a proclaim for her movie cat, and the filmmakers settled that they needed to change.
Co-director Anna Boden told Collider that portion of the excuse for the proclaim fiddle with to Goose was so that they could better tie the cat to her past. Goose is a citation to top Gun, the ultimate pilot movie. top Gun was out during the '80s afterward Carol was an freshen Force pilot, so it's a more specific citation to her tastes and past.
Additionally, Chewie is nice of distracting. As co-director Ryan Fleck sharp out, Star Wars movies are everywhere these days, and they wanted to have an effect on away from that. Chewie evokes a distinct nostalgia, and even if the '90s character no doubt indulges a fair bit in that, the movie just wanted to bashful away from the name.
Plus -- in this writer's assistance -- Goose is just a better name.
That vagueness is solved, but we're not done afterward this cat yet! In the comics, the cat isn't a cat at all. He's just an alien species that looks and acts afterward a cat, but upon the inside, it has a combine bunch of tentacles that arrive out its mouth. We'll have to wait and look if the movie settled to save that not-so-little detail.
Captain Marvel arrives in theaters upon March 8, and forward word says Goose is a big scene-stealer. To learn more roughly the movie until then, here's what we know so far.