SECRET INVASION Director Says Series Is Inspired By THE WINTER SOLDIER; New Look At Nick Fury Revealed

SECRET INVASION Director Says Series Is Inspired By THE WINTER SOLDIER; New Look At Nick Fury Revealed

Secret Invasion is fast approaching, and the show's director and producer have now teased the ways in which the series is inspired by Captain America: The Winter Soldier. We also have a new look at Nick Fury!

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By JoshWilding - May 21, 2023 05:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Secret Invasion
Source: Total Film

As soon as our first look at Secret Invasion was released, fans started to compare the Disney+ series to 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Now, director Ali Selim and producer Jonathan Schwartz have both confirmed that there are a lot of similarities between both MCU projects. However, that means putting superpowers to one side for a character-driven espionage thriller.

"The first conversations I had [with Marvel] were, 'Nobody flies in the air in the show,'" Selim tells Total Film. "I realized, 'Yeah, they're doing something very different, and that's exciting.'"

Schwartz adds, "The Winter Soldier certainly gave us a lot of confidence that we could tell a story in that space that felt more like a paranoid thriller. Secret Invasion takes that a step further, and you really get to dig into Nick [Fury]. It becomes much more character-focused in a way that I really love."

Check out a new look at Samuel L. Jackson as Fury in the Tweet below. 

In Secret Invasion, set in the present-day MCU, Nick Fury learns of a clandestine invasion of Earth by a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls. Fury joins his allies, including Everett Ross, Maria Hill and the Skrull Talos, who has made a life for himself on Earth. Together they race against time to thwart an imminent Skrull invasion and save humanity.

The show stars Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Martin Freeman, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Charlayne Woodard, Killian Scott, Samuel Adewunmi, Dermot Mulroney, Christopher McDonald, Katie Finneran, with Emilia Clarke and Olivia Colman, and Don Cheadle.

Secret Invasion arrives on Disney+ on June 21!

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Fogs
Fogs - 5/21/2023, 5:32 AM
Well that's good news.
Kadara
Kadara - 5/21/2023, 5:45 AM
Well that was kinda obvious from the trailer wasn't it lol. But WS was really well written like a Bond story full of turns and twists so that's great to hear they are copying that.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 5/21/2023, 6:15 AM
@Kadara -
Copying is the key word here. It's a poor man's version of the aspects people enjoyed from other movies, just without the logic, writing or development behind them.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 5/21/2023, 11:23 AM
@Scarilian -


You haven't even seen the show🤡
KWilly
KWilly - 5/21/2023, 5:58 AM
This looks like an apology from Marvel saying, "Sorry for being goofy the past few projects. Here, take this show that's actually for adults." Lol I'm not really excited, but I'll definitely watch it.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 5/21/2023, 6:10 AM
@KWilly -
"This looks like an apology from Marvel saying, "Sorry for being goofy the past few projects. Here, take this show that's actually for adults."

It's not.

Nick Fury is a supporting character in this, once again the supposed lead is just so a bait-and-switch can occur. Unsure of what to do with the characters, they are just rehashing stuff they already did - such as Nick Fury randomly going to a cabin to go into hiding, Nick Fury being attacked and presumed dead shortly after a car chase.

The main focus and character in this is G'iah played by Emilia Clarke. The plot is the dropped plot from TF&TWS just redone. The villains are a terrorist faction who are supposed to be sympathetic because the main villain suffered loss, the same way that Erin Kellyman's Karli Morgenthau was supposed to be sympathetic and relatable while exploding civilians and committing war crimes.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 5/21/2023, 6:13 AM
This show offers nothing original. Every single aspect is stolen from another films or series in the MCU. It's a bait-and-switch advertising Samuel L. Jackson when Emilia Clarke is the main character. Nick Fury is going to do the same thing he always does, randomly turning up at a cabin, going on the run, getting into a car chase, faking his death and passing on the mantle of responsibility to the next person telling them to deal with it.

It's irrelevant also. Captain Marvel 2 is not going to follow the Skrull plotline, it follows a female knock-off of Ronan the Accuser as the main threat in a poor mans version of Guardians Of The Galaxy - until they shove the multiverse in at the last moment. Flerkin used as a convenient victory method similar to the Ants in Ant-Man 3.
MaximusTheMad
MaximusTheMad - 5/21/2023, 6:34 AM
So it's phase 2 all over again, but with Skrulls instead of Hydra?

I bet it'll be entertaining, but I feel like we've already seen this in both Cap 2 and Agents of Shield.

If this ends up having no impact on the rest of the MCU, then what's even the point?

The appeal of the original Secret Invasion was that some of the SUPER HEROES were skrulls, and no one knew. Peter Parker's spider sense couldn't pick it up and neither could the enhanced senses of Daredevil and Wolverine. Panic!

A great adaptation of Secret Invasion was done in the Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes cartoon. God, I miss that show.
AC1
AC1 - 5/21/2023, 6:35 AM
Awesome. I love the OTT, fantastical Marvel stuff like Avengers, Guardians, Spidey and all that, but we've been long overdue for another grounded, gritty, paranoid thriller in the vein of Winter Soldier.
CoHost
CoHost - 5/21/2023, 6:38 AM
Lindsay Ellis made a great point on why Winter Soldier sucked:

Kind of nice to be able to stop blaming all of our problems on misfortune, bad people, and short-sighted international policy made in America's own self interest when we can just say it's all Hydra's fault!
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 5/21/2023, 7:07 AM
@CoHost - While I see where she is coming from, I always felt that read was little too black-and-white. It isn't like in real-life there aren't neo-Nazi supporters in places of power.
mountainman
mountainman - 5/21/2023, 8:45 AM
@CoHost - Sounds like she and you both missed the point. SHIELD tracking all their potential threats and building a super weapon to then take those threats out, only to be taken over by the bad guys and used against them is an effective parallel to US foreign and domestic policy since 9/11. They passed the patriot act, spy on all of us, started a bunch of wars based on lies, spent trillions trillions of our money driving us farther into debt. Now, they are focused on “domestic terrorists”, the FBI framed the former president for colluding with Russia, Americans are held in jail with no trial or bail for political reasons, the government tells social media companies and corporate news what to say and who to ban. Essentially, the “bad guys” are using this infrastructure that they said would be used for good. Sure it wasn’t a shadowy evil organization like Hydra. But I think it’s even crazier in the real world that it’s just the cold reality that those organizations themselves have turned against the American people.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 5/21/2023, 9:29 AM
Aw man no goofy humor to not laugh at ?
grif
grif - 5/21/2023, 9:48 AM
i like the winter soldier but i wont be watching this.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 5/21/2023, 11:09 AM
Wow I’m amazed that people saw this already
Spoken
Spoken - 5/21/2023, 1:06 PM
I like Winter Soldier but I will be Netflix and Chilling to this
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