The aliens in query are the Skrulls, first introduced into the MCU in Captain Marvel, who’ve been residing secretly on Earth whereas Nick Fury and Carol Danvers have been supposedly working to search out them a brand new homeworld of their very own. Nevertheless, a rogue faction of Skrulls, led by the malevolent Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), are bored with ready and taking issues into their very own palms.
Stationed above the Earth on a S.A.B.E.R. area facility within the years for the reason that occasions of Avengers: Endgame (and having been Blipped out of existence for 5 years prior), Fury has entrusted the supervision of the Skrulls to their chief Talos (Ben Mendelsohn). However an increase in terrorist exercise and homicide, apparently pushed by Gravik and his followers, brings Fury again to Earth – the place he should confront allies – some reliable, some not — enemies, and his personal failures.
Not like the comic book arc on which the series is loosely based, Secret Invasion is just not telling a universe-spanning journey through which each superhero within the Marvel canon is probably not who they are saying they’re. The occasions that unfold are seen via the eyes of Fury and a handful of different characters, making this a extra intimate, darker telling of the Secret Invasion story.
“I feel we’re introduced into the world via Nick, Nick’s previous, his errors, and his guarantees that he has left unfulfilled,” says Selim. “So it’s numerous philosophical and psychological questions for the primary character, versus simply a difficulty of fine versus evil. [That] instantly makes it extra private and that, due to the questions that Nick is asking himself, it makes it places us a bit of extra in a grey space.”
However, provides Selim, the narrower focus of the storyline doesn’t make the stakes any much less substantial. “The stakes are excessive within the present,” he says. “And the stakes are recognizable — they’re not [on]a fictional, alien planet someplace. It’s Earth and humanity. So I feel we really feel the stakes differently than we’d in a superhero film.”
Whereas Selim says he responded instantly to the “themes of mistrust and suspicion and paranoia” in head author Kyle Bradstreet’s script, the director provides that his different main collaborator in bringing the story to life was Nick Fury himself, star (and government producer) Samuel L. Jackson.
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