The production of Secret Invasion has been through “development hell” long enough over the years; Marvel Studios has finally shared a brand-new trailer for the upcoming series while announcing an official premiere date happening in the near future. The new Disney+ series stars Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Ben Mendelsohn as the Skrull Talos, both characters who first met in Captain Marvel. The crossover comic event series showcases a faction of shape-shifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years. You can check out the official trailer for Secret Invasion below.
Secret Invasion Will Have a HUGE Crossover Story
The official synopsis for the long awaited series read as: Nick Fury uncovers a conspiracy to install shapeshifting Skrull double agents into positions of power around the world. Alongside Jackson and Mendelsohn, the series will also star along Cobie Smulders, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Martin Freeman, and Don Cheadle. The series will pick up the threads of a number of the character storylines that have been left to dry in the past, including Jackson’s Fury as well as Cobie Smulders’s Maria Hill, Martin Freeman’s Everett Ross, and Ben Mendelsohn’s Talos. The series will tie the characters together in a new adventure that will also help pave the way to both upcoming MCU projects The Marvels and Armor Wars.
Having originally been announced as a feature film, Secret Invasion was originally teased back in the post credit scene of Spider-Man: Far From Home. It was revealed that Nick Fury wasn’t on Earth during the events of Far From Home and Skrull Talos was the one imitating him. Following that post credit scene, the official announcement was made that Secret Invasion was in the works, but over the following last few years it transitioned from being a movie into a six-part event series on Disney+. The upcoming series has been through more changes, delays, and complete reworks than any other MCU project to date.
It seems that the upcoming Marvel Studios series will certainly have plenty of surprises in store as it premieres later this summer. Secret Invasion will be the twenty-second television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the third installment of Phase Five. It has also been confirmed that each episode will have a run time of roughly between 40-50 minutes. The first season will consist of six episodes and is currently set to premiere on June 21, 2023, exclusively on Disney+.