Ms. Marvel: We Speak with Directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah and Executive Producer Sana Amanat

Two episodes in and we are absolutely head over heels for Ms. Marvel. We recently sat down with some of the brains behind the colourful, wonderful series, directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, as well as executive producer Sana Amanat (she is also one of the co-creators of Ms. Marvel), to talk Kamala Khan, their inspirations, and the pressure they felt bringing this latest addition to the MCU superhero pantheon.

Marvel Studios’ Ms. Marvel is a new, original series that introduces Kamala Khan, a Muslim American teenager growing up in Jersey City. An avid gamer and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, Kamala is a Super Hero megafan with an oversized imagination – particularly when it comes to Captain Marvel. Yet Kamala feels like she doesn’t fit in at school and sometimes even at home – that is, until she gets superpowers like the heroes she’s always looked up to. Life gets better with superpowers, right?

Ms. Marvel was created by Bisha K. Ali and stars Iman Vellani, Aramis Knight, Saagar Shaikh, Rish Shah, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Matt Lintz, Yasmeen Fletcher, Laith Nakli, Azhar Usman, Travina Springer, and Nimra Bucha. The series was executive produced by Sana Amanat, with Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directing the first and last episodes.

Check out our review of Ms. Marvel here. Want to know more about her comic book origins? Click here to read our primer.

We also spoke with Mohan Kapur, Mr. Khan himself. You can read that interview here.

The first episode of Ms. Marvel premiered on Disney Plus and Disney Plus Hotstar on Wednesday, June 8, with new episodes dropping every consecutive Wednesday.