We may still be a few months out from Marvel’s Secret Invasion, the incoming Disney Plus series that could very well step up as Marvle’s Andor equivalent, but the hype train is nevertheless due for a refueling.
And per Vanity Fair, we’ve gotten a delectable peek at the Nick Fury-centric spy thriller series, which stars Samuel L. Jackson as the aforementioned Fury as he gets tangled in a global conspiracy involving shapeshifting aliens known as the Skrulls, who have secretly been taking the place of some high-profile political players on Earth.
Joining Jackson is Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, the leader of a sect of Skrulls and a close friend of Nick Fury, as well as fellow MCU veterans Martin Freeman, Cobie Smulders, and Don Cheadle as Everett K. Ross, Maria Hill and James Rhodes (aka War Machine), respectively.
But if there’s anyone we should be looking forward to, it’s Olivia Colman‘s ice-cold Sonya Falsworth, an MCU original character and MI6 agent who will stop at nothing to protect England’s national security interests, even if that means harboring a dubious relationship with Nick Fury and the Skrull conspiracy as a whole.
In the accompanying interview with Vanity Fair, Jackson had nothing but praise for Colman’s deft take on the character, while series executive producer Jonathan Schwartz teased that this isn’t the first time that Fury and Falsworth have tangoed.
“It’s somebody that you’ve never seen her play before. She’s coldblooded and just relishes being that person.
She is a high-ranking agent in the British Intelligence Service who has a past with Nick Fury. Sometimes [she’s] working with Nick Fury, and sometimes working against him as their goals either align or collide.”
Also joining Colman in the newcomers department are Kingsley Ben-Adir, who plays the radical Skrull resistance leader Gravik, and Emilia Clarke, who portrays G’iah, the rebellious daughter of Talos who harbors more than a bit of resentment for her father.
Secret Invasion will premiere on Disney Plus on June 21.