IGN reports this quote from Katee Sackhoff on her discussions with Marvel Studios: ”There’s been some stuff going on. There’s been a lot of checking of availability. … I don’t quite know exactly… There’s been a lot of questions about the first quarter of next year.”

The Battlestar Galactica and Riddick star has been connected on-line for some time to various potential comic superhero roles, including Carol Danvers, and confirming conversations with the Marvel team, whether for a part in Avengers: Age of Ultron, a Ms. Marvel film or another role in the Marvel Universe is exciting news.

Exciting not just for fans of Katee Sackhoff, but for those of us interested in seeing the Marvel Cinematic Universe open it doors to the superheroines of Marvel. A stand-alone female superhero film has been absent from the big-screen for years. And that’s a problem.

The time is fast approaching-it has to be-when this absence is rectified. Joss Whedon recently lamented to the Daily Beast on the lack of superheroine films. No one is in a better position to rectify the lack of superheroines in film than Whedon, ringmaster of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. He’s said previous g Scarlett Witch will feature heavily the next Avengers, a role rumored to be held by Elizabeth Olsen. Let’s hope there’s room for many more.

There are few actresses better equipped to end the drought of big-screen superheroines than Katee Sackhoff. Will it happen? Who knows. But the first quarter of next year happens to be when Whedon will film the next Avengers.