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The year was 2008 and the world was familiarizing itself with the fetal Marvel Cinematic Universe. But while the fans were busy falling in love with Robert Downey Jr. and Iron Man simultaneously, elsewhere, the Skrulls descended upon mankind in the comic book pages of Brian Michael Bendis’Secret Invasionthat very same year under Marvel’s publication.
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Now, 15 years later and five Phases into the narrative arc of the ubiquitous and all-encompassing MCU,Secret Invasiongets its first taste of the live-action wonders of Marvel through Disney+ as a horde of familiar faces from the golden age of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes waltzes in to take control of the developing story.
Emilia Clarke and Ben Mendelsohn as G’iah and Talos [viaVanity Fair]Also read:Despite Starring in $1.5B Avengers Movie, Cobie Smulders Says ‘Secret Invasion’ Portrays Maria Hill Better: “Most depth I’ve been able to show of Maria Hill”
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MCU Brings Back a Taste of Old Wonder inSecret Invasion
By the time Marvel introducedSebastian Stan‘s Winter Soldier to the world, MCU was already 8 films deep into the live-action lore and Phase II of the Infinity Saga. But the movie’s grounded approach to espionage, lack of the superheroic element, and the threat of societal downfall due to the evolution of technology added with a mix of mayhem across the organizations that control a global network of spies madeThe Winter Soldierone of the most enduring and critically successful films of Marvel’s cinematic canon.
Skrulls [Secret Invasion]Also read:Secret InvasionStar Cobie Smulders Signals Series Will Ditch Marvel’s Trademark Spoon-fed Humor: “It’s a very different tone than I’ve seen”
Now,Kevin Feigewants to bring back the magic that guided the narrative threads and framework ofThe Winter Soldier.The latest in a slew of Disney+ releases,SecretInvasion, which adapts the work of Brian Michael Bendis into live-action becomes the perfect battleground to test the on-screen representation of the spies that usually work in the background of MCU’s more heroically-inclined stories. And after the execution of the poorly-received experimental Phase Four, Kevin Feige needs a strong hand to parlay the lost fandom back into the room, especially after the negative publicity related to the events surrounding Victoria Alonso,Jonathan Majors, and Tenoch Huerta.
Kevin Feige’s High Hopes For Disney+ ShowSecret Invasion
Marvel Studios President, Kevin Feige, whose latest production has just launched on the Disney+ streaming platform has taken up the audience’s undivided attention for the ideas it supports and promotes. Feige promises it to be a“darker, grittier spy show”as opposed to the fortunately optimistic and happy-go-lucky, sitcom-style, tongue-in-cheek productions that populated MCU Phase Four.
We love to do different genres for everything, and this was an attempt to really dive back into things we touched upon inThe Winter Soldier. I really loved Winter Soldier, so that tone flows into Secret Invasion in a very real kind of way. It’s a story about people doing people stuff, without, you know, all those supers coming in to save you.
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And to look at the realistic side of things, there aren’t many superheroes left to swoop in and save the day anymore. The Avengers are essentially disbanded and scattered all over and there is a power vacuum in the group’s leadership role since the events ofEndgame. The new MCU is still in a fetal stage of development with the young Avengers just coming into their powers.
As such, it is a good time to go back and dive into the characters of the past who have helped shape the world of MCU in such a monumental way (we are looking at you,Samuel L. Jackson) and invoke the stories that were left incomplete in favor of the larger, more necessary plots leading up toEndgame, especially the Skrulls fromCaptain Marvelwho have chronologically been on Earth since the 90s, decades before the Iron Man or the First Avenger landed in the real-time setting of the MCU.
Secret Invasionis available for streaming on Disney+.
Source:Discussing Film
Diya Majumdar
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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.
