They starred in “Bad Boys for Life” (Stephan Cardinal/Getty)
A new series from the “Marvel” world has been launched on the Disney Plus platform to watch series and movies, called “Miss Marvel”Which includes the first Muslim superhero in Hollywood history, and behind it are two Moroccans famous for achieving success in the world of entertainment.
“Miss Marvel”…the first Muslim superhero
“Miss Marvel” is about a Muslim teenage girl, Kamala, who is a fan of superheroes, before she turns into a superhero.
Work composed by Bisha K. Ali, starring Iman Filani, Matt Lintz, Rich Shah, Aramis Knight and Crystal Lee, and directed by a group of directors, including Adel Al-Arabi and Bilal Falah.
This series is the sixth in the Marvel universe, after all of “Moon Night”Wanda Vision, Loki, Hawkeye, and What If?
Al-Arabi and Falah…the makers of success
Marvel’s management chose Adel Elaraby and Bilal Falah, the Moroccan duo behind Bad Boys for Life, to be behind the new series as well.
Al-Arabi and Falah succeeded in reviving the “Bad Boys” experience, which earned the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence movie $425.6 million globally, and in 2020 in the midst of the Corona virus pandemic.
When two Moroccans tried to persuade the director of “Marvel”
The two Maghreb-Belgian filmmakers (known together as Adel and Bilal) immediately saw that “Miss Marvel” should be full of colour, life and a celebration of different cultures.
Bilal said in a statement to the website “Insider”: “When we learned about the project, we took the opportunity because we felt that we could bring our Moroccan flavor in a distinct way while giving it an ethnic and cultural dimension.”
The heroine lives intertwined cultures similar to the lives of Adel and Bilal, and the latter says: “We never feel that we are Belgian when we are in Belgium, and we do not really feel that we are Moroccan when we are in Morocco.”
It tells how the duo put together a presentation with their inspirations and headed to Marvel’s offices to present their vision to studio head Kevin Feige and his team.
“The American high school from the 80s and 90s was a huge inspiration for us, so colorful and so young,” Bilal continued.
The duo admitted that they didn’t know if they had persuaded the president when they left the meeting, but eventually got a call telling them that they were not only filming two episodes of the six-episode series, but that they would be executive producers as well.