{"id":624332,"date":"2023-04-01T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/marvels-secret-invasion-series-actually-sounds-kind-of-fascinating\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T14:49:17","slug":"marvels-secret-invasion-series-actually-sounds-kind-of-fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/marvels-secret-invasion-series-actually-sounds-kind-of-fascinating\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel\u2019s Secret Invasion series actually sounds kind of fascinating"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Occasionally, people will (incorrectly) insist that Marvel\u2019s comics and the cinematic stories inspired by them would be better off if they were somehow devoid of any political themes or ideas. But in a recent interview with Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>, Secret Invasion <\/em>executive producer Jonathan Schwartz likened the series to John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s classic Cold War-era spy thrillers and pointed to more recent shows, like FX\u2019s The Americans <\/em>and Showtime\u2019s Homeland, <\/em>as sources of inspiration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe often see Nick Fury doing the right thing,\u201d Schwartz said. \u201cWe don\u2019t always see him doing it in a perfectly morally correct way. All of those things have ramifications. Without getting too specific, the things that Nick Fury\u2019s had to do to protect the Earth have costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Set some time after Avengers: Endgame<\/em>, Secret Invasion<\/em> tells the story of how Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) finally comes out of hiding to deal with a long-simmering issue involving the shape-shifting Skrull refugees first introduced in 2019\u2019s Captain Marvel<\/em>. When last we saw the Skrulls in Spider-Man: Far From Home<\/em>, many of them, like Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), were still willingly living as humans and working as secret agents for Fury as he worked to find them a suitable new homeworld somewhere off in space. According to Jackson, though, Fury\u2019s inability to make good on his word is a big part of what sets Secret Invasion <\/em>in motion, and the series will focus on what happens when some of the aliens decide to take matters into their own hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cNick had a whole Skrull spy network because they could shape-shift and go places that people couldn\u2019t go,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cThey kept their word. They worked for him, but he hasn\u2019t done what he said he was going to do. They want a home. They want to live. They want to live like they are. They want to live in their skin. They don\u2019t want to live in ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson said that the uneasiness of not knowing \u201cwho\u2019s a friend, who\u2019s the enemy\u201d is what animates Secret Invasion<\/em> and described the show as tapping into our own current political moment by asking, \u201cWhat happens when people get afraid and don\u2019t understand other people?\u201d <\/p>\n

Obviously, Fury will have more than enough reason not to trust Secret Invasion<\/em>\u2019s core antagonist Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), the Skrull separatist who leads the charge to infiltrate the world\u2019s governments by posing as ordinary humans. But the story\u2019s likely going to be much more complicated when it comes to Gravik\u2019s fellow separatist G\u2019iah (Emilia Clarke), who also happens to be Talos\u2019 estranged daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a kind of punk feeling that you get from this girl,\u201d Clarke said. \u201cShe\u2019s a refugee kid who\u2019s had Talos for a dad, you know what I mean? Maybe the fact that we didn\u2019t know he had a kid up until this point tells you everything you need to know about their relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the past, Marvel\u2019s reluctance to really spend time digging into the ramifications of things like the Skrulls\u2019 displacement in Captain Marvel <\/em>has had a way of making the movies\u2019 attempts at political commentary feel rather flat, which might have been the point. But Secret Invasion <\/em>sounds very interested in both picking up on those threads and really tugging on them with some intention, and that might just be what it takes to make the series land with some heft when it premieres on June 21st.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Charles Pulliam-Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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