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74 DGA QUARTERLY PHOTOS: (TOP LEFT & BOTTOM LEFT) EVERETT; (TOP RIGHT, BOTTOM RIGHT & OPPOSITE) PHOTOFEST CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019), Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck > The latest entry to the fantastical Marvel Cinematic Universe, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, finds the superpowered Carol Danvers in the middle of a war between the alien Kree and the shape-shifting Skrulls (right), who can alter their appearance to look like anyone in the world. To bridge the gap between the intergalactic and futuristic Kree home planet and 1990s-era Earth, where much of the movie takes place, Boden and Fleck used visual influences from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Top Gun and Kelly Sue DeConnick's 2012 run of Captain Marvel comics. INTO THE WOODS (2014), Rob Marshall > For this fairy-tale mashup adapted from the 1986 Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine Broadway musical, director Rob Marshall put his all-star cast through six weeks of rehearsal and blocking. Subsequent filming took place at the U.K.'s Shepperton Studios, Dover Castle and Windsor Great Park, with its ancient pine trees. At the time, Marshall was inspired by President Obama's speech to the families of the victims of 9/11 on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. "In a very compassionate way, he was consoling them," recalled Marshall, "and he said, 'You are not alone, no one is alone,' which is a song from Into the Woods, and is the moral centerpiece of the musical." "I felt like this was a really important message for today." — R O B M A R S H A L L O N I N T O T H E W O O D S