After years as a vital supporting player, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) seems to finally—if reluctantly—step into the spotlight in Secret Invasion. The rest of the cast is also excellent, but this new trailer focuses largely on Fury, who is back on Earth after a long absence, and insisting, in proper one-last-battle form, that this new war is one he has to fight… alone.
Fighting wars alone always goes so well for people, doesn’t it?
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Marvel’s synopsis is very vague:
In Marvel Studios’ new series 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.
A recent Vanity Fair piece on the show hyped the show’s Cold War, spy-story vibes, and also revealed details about the characters played by Emilia Clarke and Olivia Colman: The former is Talos’s daughter, now radicalized by a new Skrull leader; the latter a steely MI6 agent who refers to Fury, in this trailer, as “old friend.”
Of course, anybody could be anybody else, since this is a Skrull story. (The Fury we saw in Spider-Man: Far From Home wasn’t even Fury.) Secret Invasion also brings back the Skrull Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), of course; long-suffering Fury colleague Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders); Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman), and James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Don Cheadle), along with Kingsley Ben-Adir, Charlayne Woodard, Killian Scott, Samuel Adewunmi, Dermot Mulroney, Christopher McDonald, and Katie Finneran.
Secret Invasion is created by Kyle Bradstreet, who was a writer and producer on Mr. Robot. It premieres June 21st on Disney+.
