Having known for a while now that the Kamala Khan incarnation of Ms. Marvel was to get her own live-action Disney+ series, we now know who’ll be stepping up to play Kamala.

As first reported by Deadline, newcomer Iman Vellani has landed the Kamala Khan gig.

In the comic book realm, the original Ms. Marvel is Carol Danvers, a member of the US Air Force who took on the moniker in 1977 following a previous tangle with explosive Kree technology. In 2012, Danvers was given a “promotion” to the mantle of Captain Marvel, and has since been regularly front-and-centre in the world of Marvel Comics. When the Inhumans’ Terrigen Misters was released back in 2014, Pakistani-American Kamala Khan developed shape-shifting and size-altering powers. Inspired by Danvers, Kamala decided to take on the role of Ms. Marvel as her own.

Bad Boys for Life’s Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have already signed on to direct several episodes of Ms. Marvel, and Bisha K. Ali – best known for being part of the writing staff for the Four Wedding and a Funeral TV show – is serving as showrunner on this Kamala Khan-centred series.

Ms. Marvel is one of several Marvel-driven TV shows in development for Disney+, with WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Moon Knight, and Nick Fury all other such live-action series on the way over the next few years – starting with WandaVision premiering this December.