With a full month to go earlier than Secret Invasion, it’s about that point for Marvel to begin stepping up its promo sport. Disney’s put out a brand new business for the upcoming miniseries that provides a deeper take a look at the espionage at play by the Skrulls and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Not like the final couple of alien invasions, he doesn’t really feel the necessity to name within the Avengers to assist with this—as he gravely intones, he must be the one to deal with this. (Which he apparently can’t do with out his eyepatch.)
Impressed by the 2007 comedian ebook arc by Lenil Francis Yu and Brian Michael Bendis, Secret Invasion sees Fury come out of hiding to cope with the rising Skrull drawback. The shapeshifting aliens first got here to Earth within the 90s as refugees in Captain Marvel, and within the final 30 years have began changing key figures across the globe. With the assistance of Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) and his Skrull BFF Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), Fury has to determine who’s actually who they are saying they’re and minimize the invasion off on the head.
And which means lots of spy work that the MCU hasn’t totally gone again to since Captain America: The Winter Soldier practically a decade in the past. The promo has lots of the spy thriller beats you’d anticipate, from grabbing weapons out of secret compartments to shootouts in the midst of the road and a helicopter getting shot down. However the huge query surrounding the present is that if it’ll be capable of hit its “anybody might be a Skrull” plotline as onerous when it’s counting on the MCU’s supporting human characters reasonably than the big roster of superheroes within the supply materials.
Additionally starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, Emilia Clarke, Martin Freeman, and Olivia Colman, Secret Invasion premieres June 21 on Disney+.
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