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Image: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Stringer (Getty Images)Ali Selim was tapped to direct Secret Invasion—Marvel’s six-episode limited series on Disney+—precisely because of his work on spycraft historical fiction. But it seems like his focus on the “grounded” world of Secret Invasion meant that he didn’t think much about the superheroes flying around in the rest of the MCU.What Rules Were Written for Skrulls and Their Powers in Secret Invasion? | io9 InterviewTalking to The Hollywood Reporter, Selim admits that he wasn’t…

When Samuel L. Jackson appeared in Captain Marvel, the actor was digitally recreated to look like an age-appropriate version of himself for the 1990s-set film. But underneath that was the modern actor’s performance, not mere computer graphics. So Jackson is no hypocrite when he swears he won’t allow himself to be digitally recreated in any projects, whether in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or Star Wars, after his death.The Woman Who Would Be PhotonThe portrayer of Nick Fury, finally leading his own Marvel project with…

Secret Invasion, Marvel’s newest Disney+ series, takes notes from spy thrillers, focusing on Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury as he struggles to maintain world peace amid an alien invasion. Much of the backstory for the events in the series comes from 2019’s Captain Marvel, starring Jackson alongside Brie Larson as Carol Danvers.She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Episode 9 Finale ReviewAll six episodes of the limited series were directed by Ali Selim, and the first installment was written by Kyle Bradstreet and Brian Tucker. While…

Image: Marvel StudiosMarvel’s Secret Invasion is only a few weeks away from its premiere on Disney+, but if you can’t wait to see those shape-shifting, alien Skrulls take over the planet, you’re in luck. Marvel Studios has semi-secretly (and rather cheekily) released a massive amount of new footage from the series featuring Samuel Jackson’s Nick Fury preparing for a war a very, very few people know about.She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Episode 9 Finale ReviewIf you head to The InvasionHasBegun.com and enter the correct code,…

Image: HasbroA new Marvel movie on the horizon means new Marvel movie merch, and The Marvels is kicking things off at Hasbro with the first action figures based on the upcoming team-up movie. Check out the new figures for Carol, Kamala, and Monica—as well as a few comic book faves joining them.The first wave of Hasbro Marvel Legends figures featuring characters from The Marvels is actually pretty light compared to some prior Hasbro waves tied into upcoming movies. The seven-figure wave contains just three figures from The…

Image: Marvel StudiosWith a full month to go before Secret Invasion, it’s about that time for Marvel to start stepping up its promo game. Disney’s put out a new commercial for the upcoming miniseries that offers a deeper look at the espionage at play by the Skrulls and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Unlike the last couple of alien invasions, he doesn’t feel the need to call in the Avengers to help with this—as he gravely intones, he has to be the one to handle this. (Which he apparently can’t do without his…

Image: Marvel ComicsYes, Monica Rambeau was Captain Marvel before Carol Danvers. And no, unlike Carol, she had nothing to do with the original Captain Marvel, the alien spy-turned-hero Mar-Vell who died in 1982, the same year Monica debuted. After getting some help managing her immense, newfound powers from Iron Man, Monica was inducted into the Avengers almost immediately. She fought villains both on Earth and throughout the galaxy, not only becoming an essential member of the team, but eventually the leader of the…

Back when Captain Marvel was first introduced to audiences in 2019 through her solo film and Avengers: Endgame, it seemed like the character was intended to be a big cosmic player going forward. While Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers has shown up a handful of times in other Marvel properties, Carol hasn’t yet gotten to the “Big Deal” position she initially seemed ready for years ago.The Woman Who Would Be PhotonThe Marvels—which just dropped a new trailer—aims to address that by grouping Carol with the other two big members of…

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosThere’s more to it than that though, as voiceover from Monica begins to explain her own recently discovered powers to Kamala—an ability to “manipulate light energy,” which is a distinctly mild way of describing Monica’s abilities in the comics. There, where she has gone through many code names—including the first female Captain Marvel, Pulsar, Spectrum, and Photon—Monica’s energy abilities let her convert her physical form into any form of energy on the electromagnetic spectrum, making her an…

Nick Fury hasn’t been seen in the MCU in a hot minute, and even longer when you remember that his last live-action appearance technically wasn’t even him. With Secret Invasion, the former SHIELD director is back on Earth to get to the bottom of something that’s been quietly going on in the background of various multiversal calamities and wars between secret cities.Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future TechWith the other MCU heroes caught up in their own problems, it falls to Fury and his longtime right hand Maria Hill (Cobie…