As soon as the first trailer of the Secret Invasionfans started comparing the series Disney+ with a hugely successful movie like Captain America: The Winter Soldier of 2014. Now, the director Ali Selim and the manufacturer Jonathan Schwartz both confirmed that there are many similarities between the two projects mcu. However, that means setting aside superpowers for a character-driven spy thriller.

“The first conversations I had [con la Marvel] were, ‘No one flies in the air on the show’”, says Selim a Total Film. “I realized, ‘Yeah, they’re doing something very different, and it’s exciting.’” Schwartz adds: “The success of The Winter Soldier definitely gave us a lot of confidence that we could tell a story in that narrative space that felt more like a paranoid thriller. Secret Invasion takes it a step further and you can really dig into Nick [Fury] It becomes a lot more character-driven in a way that I really love.”

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Samuel L. Jackson And Ben Mendelsohn will reprise their roles respectively of Fury And Talosand will be flanked by Olivia Colmanrumored to play an incarnation of the Union Jack, ed Emilia Clarkewhich may or may not be depicting Abigail Brand. Kingsley Ben-Adir he will be the bad guy as Gravik. Ne cast of Secret Invasion we will also review Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Don Cheadle as James “Rhodey” Rhodes e Martin Freeman as Everett K. Ross.Thomas Bezucha (Let Him Go) and Ali Selim (The Looming Tower) directed the miniseries, written by Kyle Bradstreet (Mr Robot).

Secret Invasion will premiere on June 21, 2023 on Disney+ and also sees the participation of Ben Mendelsohnwho reprises his role as Skrull Talos, Olivia Colman, Emilia ClarkeKingsley Ben-Adir, Christopher McDonald and Killian Scott. The crossover comic event series showcases a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years. Smulders reprized the role in several pictures Marvel among which Spider-Man: Far From Home, Captain America: Civil War and all the Avengers movies. She recently received rave reviews for her portrayal of Ann Coulter in American Crime Story: Impeachment.

Ali Selim directs the series and serves as executive producer, together with the other executive producers Kevin Feige, Jonathan Schwartz, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, Samuel L. Jackson, Ali Selim, Kyle Bradstreet and Brian Tucker. bradstreet is also the head writer and Jennifer L. Booth, Allana Williams and Brant Englestein are co-executive producers.