Marvel's Secret Invasion Show MCU Timeline & Story Details Revealed
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has recently revealed the MCU timeline and story details of Marvel's highly-anticipated Secret Invasion television series. Announced in 2020, the six-episode series will adapt the popular Skrull invasion story arc from the original comics which saw the alien shape-shifting species infiltrate all aspects of life on Earth. First introduced in 2019's Captain Marvel, the Skrull were in a long-running war with another alien species known as the Kree. However, the film featured the Skrull as victims and portrayed them in a positive light.
Secret Invasion sees the return of Samuel L. Jackson to the MCU, reprising his role as former S.H.I.E.L.D head Nick Fury. He will be joined by Colbie Smulders as Fury's longtime colleague Maria Hill, Martin Freeman as CIA agent Everett Ross, and Don Cheadle as James Rhodes, also known as the armored hero War Machine. Ben Mendelsohn will reprise his role as Talos, one of the leaders of the remaining Skrull refugees. He was last seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home impersonating Fury who was off-world on a mission with the Skrulls.
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Feige (via The Hollywood Handle) has recently detailed when the Secret Invasion television series will take place within the MCU timeline. Very little information has been previously revealed about the project, or how much of it will adhere to the original source material. According to the Marvel President, the upcoming show will feature "during the Blip, when half of the Universe was decimated by Thanos, and will explore the events that happened in that period."
This revelation has great implications for Fury's whereabouts during the five-year span of
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