Despite the fact Nick Fury will be a key supporting character in The Marvels, it's widely believed the upcoming movie won't actually reference the events of Secret Invasion.
We can no longer blame the pandemic for that, though it is probably because of the overlapping production schedules of movies and TV shows like these. With Talos, Gi'ah, Gravik, and Varra all either dead or busy elsewhere, they're not showing up, meaning the best we can hope for is a quick mention of that attempted invasion.
Despite all of that, many fans couldn't help but wonder why Secret Invasion didn't conclude with a post-credits scene setting up the Captain Marvel sequel. Now, director Ali Selim has suggested there were never plans for one.
"That’s a good question for Kevin Feige and the MCU at large," he stated in an interview with TV Line. "I know that they use these movies and series to launch things, or to wrap things up, and post-credit sequences serve to do that."
"I don’t know what they’re launching with this show."
"I do know what they’re wrapping up, which is Nick Fury’s internal struggle with aging and with his sense of purpose and his sense of ‘other,’ which I think gets wrapped up really well," Selim continued. "And there’s not much else to say about that, so I don’t know that a post-credits sequence would help."
The filmmaker concluded by saying, "I also am certain they’re launching some things with what’s going on at the end of this series, and I guess they didn’t feel that any of those things warranted a post-credits sequence.”
We know at least one of those is Armor Wars, but seeing as that's been a TV show and movie and doesn't currently have a release date, perhaps we shouldn't be shocked that there was nothing to set the stage for a project surrounded by such uncertainty. It's hard not to be disappointed, though.
In the same interview, Selim revealed "there is a ton of stuff on the cutting room floor," but if and when we'll ever get to see that remains to be seen.
All episodes of Secret Invasion are now streaming on Disney+.