Nick Fury hasn’t been seen within the MCU in a sizzling minute, and even longer once you do not forget that his final live-action look technically wasn’t even him. With Secret Invasion, the previous SHIELD director is again on Earth to resolve one thing that’s been quietly occurring within the background of assorted multiversal calamities and wars between secret cities.
With the opposite MCU heroes caught up of their own issues, it falls to Fury and his longtime proper hand Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) to dig into what’s been occurring with the Skrulls. Fury first met the race of shapeshifting alien refugees again within the 90s through the occasions of Captain Marvel, and whereas he was pals with them again then, the connection between them has turn into strained over the a long time. As such, a sect of Talos’ (Ben Mendelsohn) individuals—together with G’iah, his now grown up daughter performed by Emilia Clarke—have opted to take issues into their very own arms and insert themselves into key positions all over the world with the intention to make Earth the brand new house of the Skrulls.
Secret Invasion relies on the 2008 comedian ebook occasion by Brian Michael Bendis and Lenil Francis Yu, and has beforehand been tailored for TV with the second season of Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. A technique wherein the six-episode miniseries differs from these two variations is that it received’t have “which Marvel hero is secretly a Skrull?” as its major hook. Showrunner Jonathan Schwartz just lately likened the present to the likes of Homeland and The People, saying the first conflict could be between loyalty and identification. “What you discover is there are individuals that you simply belief otherwise you assume you’ll be able to belief—or you’ll be able to solely belief to a sure level,” he informed Vanity Fair.
Additionally starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, Don Cheadle, Carmen Ejogo, and Olivia Colman, Secret Invasion will premiere June 21 on Disney+.
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