In actuality, he’ll be playing the leading Skull baddie, Talos, who is leading an invasion force on Earth.
Mendelsohn was rumored to be joining Captain Marvel back in October 2017, and his casting was finally confirmed five months later.
There’s a lot of speculation about how Fury will lose his eye in the upcoming blockbuster, and a lot of signs are already pointing toward Talos.
Over the last half decade, Ben Mendelsohn’s fame has slowly been rising thanks to roles like Danny Rayburn in the Netflix series Bloodline, Orson Krennic in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and, most recently, Nolan Sorrento in Ready Player One.