With a new trailer released at D23 2022, Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury will lead a cast including Captain Marvel’s Ben Mendehlson, Black Panther’s Morgan Freeman, and Avengers’ Cobie Smulders in a comic adaptation that could be as big as any Marvel movie. Here’s what we know about the release, actors, and characters so far.
Secret Invasion might be slated for a 2023 premiere on Disney Plus, per an announcement at Disney’s D23 2022, but it’s starting to feel like the most crossover-y-est Marvel Cinematic Universe series yet. Samuel L. Jackson heads up the show as Nick Fury, alongside actors from Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and the Iron Man franchise.
With the release of the first trailer for Secret Invasion, let’s run down everything we know about Marvel’s tense, alien spy thriller.
A little like Marvel’s answer to John Carpenter’s The Thing, or the Dominion story arc in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Secret Invasion event showed Marvel superheroes facing, well, a secret invasion. The Skrulls, long-time antagonist aliens in the Marvel universe who also have the handy ability to shapeshift, claimed the Earth for their own. Throughout the event series, it was revealed that certain heroes had in fact been Skrulls for years, a twist that Marvel played up with the tagline “Who do you trust?”
The comic version of Secret Invasion was a 2008 crossover storyline written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Leinel Franics Yu.
