In order to bring Marvel's newest Avenger to the big screen, the producers of 'Captain Marvel' contacted linguistics professor Michael Weiss with a task: Develop an alien language for the people of Torfa to be used in a scene that was to be shot that same week. Weiss gave the Herculean job to his Ph.D. students Ryan Hearn and Joseph Rhyne and they responded like heroes. Video by John Munson | Cornell Chronicle