Secret Invasion is a Disney+ original series, set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and centering on Nick Fury and Talos investigating the Skrulls. It is the ninth MCU Disney+ series and a part of Phase Five. The series premiered on June 21, 2023 and concluded on July 26.
The crossover event series showcases a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls, who have been infiltrating Earth for years.
Synopsis[]
In Marvel Studios' new series "Secret Invasion", set in the present day MCU, Nick Fury learns of a clandestine invasion of Earth by a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls. Fury joins his allies, including Everett Ross, Maria Hill, and the Skrull Talos, who has made a life for himself on Earth. Together they race against time to thwart an imminent Skrull invasion and save humanity.
Plot[]
Following the events of Captain Marvel, Nick Fury has made it his goal to find a new home world for the Skrulls, however this has ended in failure with one Skrull in particular, Gravik, leading an army of rebels who have decided to take Earth as their own. Fury, having spent the past couple of years on the spaceship S.A.B.E.R., returns to Earth upon learning of Gravik's rise to power. He reunites with partner Maria Hill and lone Skrull ally Talos who inform Fury of Gravik's plans. Talos' wife Soren has been killed and his daughter G'iah has joined Gravik's cause. Fury is also confronted by MI6 agent Sonya Falsworth who has her own ideas on how to deal with the Skrulls.
During one particular mission, G'iah discovers that Gravik killed Soren while Hill is killed by Gravik disguised as Fury. This fuels Fury's efforts to stop Gravik at all costs as he also reunites with the Skrull Varra, who has been posing as Fury's human wife Priscilla. Talos manages to get G'iah to rejoin their cause after she discovers that Gravik has been experimenting with having Skrulls wield powers using the DNA of the various creatures and superheroes. It is further revealed that Col. James Rhodes had been replaced with a Skrull named Raava some time ago and has been working under President Ritson in an effort to fuel paranoia in him. Gravik has been keeping the missing humans on an abandoned Russian compound where the Skrulls have been staying and wants Ritson to attack said base
Gravik leads an attack on the President, during which Talos is killed. The President survives, but Raava, as Rhodey, tries to convince him that the Russians were behind the attack. Gravik's followers begin to question his methods as he continues to instill fear in them. Fury reveals to Sonya that Gravik is after "The Harvest", a collection of all the superheroes' DNA and in an effort to end the threat decides to give it to him. In a twist, G'iah, disguised as Fury, gives Gravik the DNA and tricks him into empowering both of them, while Fury and Sonya rescue the President from Raava and convince him to call off the strike on the Russian compound. G'iah successfully kills Gravik and rescues the missing humans including Rhodey and Everett Ross.
Ritson, traumatized by the event, calls for an indiscriminate attack on all Skrulls and extraterrestrials. Fury chastises the president for the decision as he has created unintentional vigilantes who are now obsessed with killing innocents and warns him of the dangers he has caused and his future as president. Sonya, now knowing the truth about the Skrulls, decides to recruit G'iah for an upcoming project. Fury decides to return to S.A.B.E.R. now that his mission is complete and informs Varra that Kree-Skrull peace talks are happening, much to her bemusement. Still in love with him, she agrees to return to space temporarily for him so that she can be an ambassador.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
- Ben Mendelsohn as Talos
- Kingsley Ben-Adir as Gravik / Super-Skrull
- Charlayne Woodard as Varra / Priscilla Fury
- Killian Scott as Pagon
- Samuel Adewunmi as Beto
- Dermot Mulroney as President Ritson
- Christopher McDonald as Chris Stearns
- Katie Finneran as Rosa Dalton
- Emilia Clarke as G'iah
- Olivia Colman as Agent Sonya Falsworth
- Don Cheadle as Raava / James Rhodes
Guest Starring[]
- Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
- Martin Freeman as Everett Ross
- O-T Fagbenle as Rick Mason
Episodes[]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Resurrection" | Ali Selim | Kyle Bradstreet and Brian Tucker | June 21, 2023 |
| In Moscow, Talos pursues Everett Ross for killing CIA agent Prescod. Maria Hill arrives to assist Ross, but discovers he is a Skrull and calls Nick Fury, who returns to Earth. Meeting with Talos, Fury learns Talos has been exiled from the Skrull Council and former ally Gravik has taken a leadership position and is rallying the Skrulls to conduct terrorist attacks in Russia. Fury is later kidnapped by MI6 agents and taken to meet an old acquaintance named Sonya Falsworth. He proposes an alliance to stop Gravik, but she refuses. Using a bug to eavesdrop on her and the Prime Minister, Fury and Talos locate another Skrull and Gravik's ally Vasily Poprishchin, but Fury kills Poprishchin after failing to interrogate him. Talos reunites with his daughter G'iah who met with Poprischin prior to acquire dirty bombs for the rebels. After he claims Gravik killed her mother Soren, G'iah reveals the rebels plan to attack Vossoyedineniye Square on Unity Day and marks the bombs' locations. However, Fury, Hill, and Talos learn too late that the locations are decoys before Gravik detonates the bombs. Then he disguises himself as Fury and shoots Hill. Fury and Talos are forced to flee and abandon her as she bleeds out. | ||||
| 2 | "Promises" | Ali Selim | Teleplay by : Brian Tucker Story by : Brant Englestein and Brian Tucker |
June 28, 2023 |
| In 1997, Fury meets a young Gravik and consoles him while giving a speech to the Skrull immigrants, promising to find them a new home. In the present day, after escaping from the bombing attack, Fury learns from Talos that there are a million Skrulls living on Earth amongst the humans. An angered Fury parts way with Talos, and later meets with Hill's mother, Elizabeth, to explain the circumstances of her death. As the United States is implicated in the bombing attack, Gravik meets with members of the Skrull Council, who express disapproval of his actions. Gravik reminds the Council of Fury's failure to deliver on his promise, and appoints himself the new Skrull General with the majority in favor. Council member Shirley Sagar, who refuses to submit, secretly contacts Talos, who asks her to set up a meeting between him and Gravik. In London, Fury meets with Colonel James Rhodes and explains to him the Skrull threat. To Fury's dismay, Rhodes gives him a military discharge, due to his presence at the bombing attack which escalated the tension between the United States and other international governments. Falsworth arrives at a butcher shop, where one of the Skrulls, Brogan, is imprisoned, and interrogates him. She learns that Gravik is building a machine for the purpose of strengthening the Skrulls, and a scientist couple named Dalton is involved. G'iah secretly discovers that the Skrulls are experimenting on various alien samples. Afterwards, she accompanies Gravik on a mission to rescue Brogan. Suspecting him of having talked, Gravik has Brogan executed. Later, Fury returns to his home where he is greeted by his wife, Priscilla, who is clandestinely a Skrull. | ||||
| 3 | "Betrayed" | Ali Selim | Roxanne Parades and Brian Tucker | July 5, 2023 |
| In 1998, Nick Fury first meets Varra at a restaurant. In the present, Gravik reveals to the Skrull Council that he intends to create Super-Skrulls using the collected foreign DNA, and that he has sent rebels to infiltrate the Royal Navy in order to launch missiles at a United Nations aircraft. Gravik later meets with Talos to negotiate a parlay, but discussion breaks down when the former threatens to kill G'iah. After Talos stabs Gravik in the hand and leaves, Gravik heals his hand with the Extremis soldier's abilities. G'iah secretly sends Talos information about the attack while Fury meets with him and pleads to work together again. Fury contacts Falsworth and learns the name of the Naval Command Headquarters' officer in charge, Commodore Robert Fairbanks. Fury and Talos arrive at the HQ and interrogate Fairbanks, but the latter provokes Talos to kill him as he regresses back to a Skrull. Talos contacts G'iah, who acquires Fairbanks' authorization code, allowing them to abort the launch in time. G'iah attempts to ride off on her motorcycle, but is spotted by Gravik who suspected her of betrayal. When Gravik orders her to return to the compound, G'iah turns him down and is shot by him. Meanwhile, Priscilla secretly contacts an unknown person with Rhodes' voice wishing to speak to Gravik. She is denied. | ||||
| 4 | "Beloved" | Ali Selim | Brian Tucker | July 12, 2023 |
| Before she attempted to run away from the rebels, G'iah used Gravik's machine to empower herself with Extremis abilities. This allows her to recover from Gravik's gunshot and meet up with Talos. He explains to her that he is planning to ask United States President Ritson to help the Skrulls after they successfully stop the rebels, which disappoints G'iah who hoped for a stronger plan to find them a new home. Priscilla meets with Rhodes—a disguised Skrull named Raava—and he instructs her to kill Fury. Both are unaware that Fury is listening in on their conversation. Fury later confronts Priscilla over this but they make amends after she reveals that she took an oath to her human counterpart to never harm her lover. Fury visits Rhodes and shares a drink with him to secretly give Rhodes a liquid tracker. Fury and Talos then follow him as he goes to pick up Ritson for talks with Russia. Gravik and the rebels attack Ritson's convoy disguised as Russian terrorists. Fury and Talos extract an unconscious Ritson but Talos is wounded in the process. Gravik fatally stabs Talos in front of Fury, who leaves with Ritson. | ||||
| 5 | "Harvest" | Ali Selim | Michael Bhim and Brian Tucker | July 19, 2023 |
| Following their failed attack on Ritson, the rebels start to lose faith in Gravik for not killing Fury and his perceived deception towards them. Beto leads a small group to mount a mutiny, but he kills them all. Meanwhile, Fury gets Ritson to a hospital and confronts Rhodes, but he reveals he leaked footage of Hill's death, placing Fury on a global watchlist. Fury later meets with G'iah, who reveals Gravik is looking for the "Harvest". After exposing her boss Derrik Weatherby as a Skrull, Falsworth locates Dr. Rosa Dalton, a disguised Skrull, and questions her about Gravik's DNA machine. Rhodes shows Ritson pictures of Gravik's Russian base New Skrullos to implicate Russia as Skrull sympathizers and advise a strike on the compound. Gravik calls Fury, offering to call off the strike if he brings him the "Harvest" in person. G'iah and Priscilla hold a funeral for Talos and fend off an attack by Gravik's men. In Finland, Fury leads Falsworth to a grave marked with his name which contains the "Harvest" (a collection of the DNA from the superheroes who fought during the Battle of Earth). Fury grabs the Harvest and prepares to confront Gravik. | ||||
| 6 | "Home" | Ali Selim | Kyle Bradstreet and Brian Tucker | July 26, 2023 |
| Fury confronts Gravik at New Skrullos and gives him the Harvest, while asking him to spare Earth and go conquest other planets. Gravik refuses and powers himself up with the Harvest's DNAs. He attempts to kill Fury with his new powers, but discovers that it was G'iah in disguise, who has also gained the same powers as him. The two battle one another, but G'iah eventually gains the upper hand and kills Gravik. Meanwhile, Raava successfully convinces Ritson to authorize a nuclear strike on New Skrullos, but is tricked by Falsworth into arranging an evacuation for Ritson. Falsworth and the real Fury confront Raava and reveal the truth to Ritson. Raava attempts to retaliate, but is killed by Fury. Ritson calls off the strike, allowing G'iah to free the humans trapped under New Skrullos, including the real Ross and Rhodes. In the aftermath, Ritson issues a new bill declaring all off-world species as hostile forces and threatens to hunt down the remaining Skrulls on Earth, causing unrest as civilians publicly murder random high-profile officials. Falsworth meets with G'iah and proposes a partnership to help protect the Skrulls against Ritson's bill. Fury asks Varra to come to S.A.B.E.R. with him to help negotiate a peace summit with the Kree. She agrees, and they leave Earth together. | ||||
Production[]
Andrew W. Marlowe was hired to write the script for a Nick Fury project in 2006. The script he wrote was loosely based on Jim Starenko's Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. series and involved the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. The script was not written for the version of the character appearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as it was constructed before Samuel L. Jackson was cast but Marlowe said that the script could be "tweaked" for Jackson's portrayal.[1]
On September 25, 2020, Variety reported that Marvel Studios was developing a series centered on Nick Fury with Kyle Bradstreet attached to write and executive produce.[2]
On December 10, 2020, Kevin Feige officially announced the series at the Disney Investors Day.[3]
On January 11, 2021, in an interview with Collider, Kevin Feige revealed that the series' first season would consist of six episodes.[4]
On March 15, 2021, Deadline reported that Kingsley Ben-Adir had joined the cast of the series and that he would portray the series' lead villain.[5]
On April 19, 2021, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Olivia Colman had joined the cast of the series in an undisclosed role.[6] On the same day, it was also reported that the series is scheduled to start filming this fall in the United Kingdom and Europe.[7] A day later, Variety reported that Emilia Clarke had joined the cast of the series in an undisclosed role.[8]
On April 30, 2021, Deadline reported that Killian Scott joined the cast of the series in an undisclosed role.[9]
On May 26, 2021, Deadline reported that Christopher McDonald has joined the cast of the series in an undisclosed role, however it is implied that he would portray an original character instead of a character from the comic books.[10]
On May 31, 2021, it was reported that the working title for the series is "Jambalaya".[11]
On September 1, 2021, it was reported that filming had officially started in London.[12]
On October 14, 2021, it was reported that Samuel L. Jackson had started filming as Nick Fury.[13]
On March 12, 2022, Samuel L. Jackson revealed in a panel that Martin Freeman is set to reprise his role as Everett Ross in the series.[14]
On April 25, 2022, it was reported that filming had officially wrapped.[15]
On July 16, 2022, it was reported that the series would premiere in Spring of 2023.[16]
On February 10, 2023, it was reported that Kris Bowers would compose the score for the series.[17]
On March 27, 2023, it was reported that the series will premiere on June 21, 2023.[18]
Trivia[]
- This is the second Marvel Studios TV show, after She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, to not receive any LEGO sets.
- Secret Invasion is notable for being one of the first productions from Disney to incorporate AI generated technology.
References[]
- ↑ 'Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D' Screenwriter Describes 'Expensive' Jim Steranko-Influenced Film
- ↑ Samuel L. Jackson to Play Nick Fury in New Marvel Disney Plus Series (EXCLUSIVE)
- ↑ Marvel Officially Announces Secret Invasion Series With Nick Fury, Talos
- ↑ Kevin Feige Explains Why Marvel's ‘Secret Invasion’ Is a Disney+ Series and Not a Movie
- ↑ Kingsley Ben-Adir To Star In Marvel’s ‘Secret Invasion’ Series For Disney+
- ↑ Olivia Colman in Talks to Join Samuel L. Jackson in Marvel's 'Secret Invasion' (Exclusive)
- ↑ Borys Kit on Twitter - April 19, 2021
- ↑ Emilia Clarke Joins Marvel’s ‘Secret Invasion’ at Disney Plus (EXCLUSIVE)
- ↑ ‘Secret Invasion’: Killian Scott In Talks To Join Marvel Series For Disney+
- ↑ ‘Secret Invasion’: Christopher McDonald Joins Marvel Series For Disney+
- ↑ Working Title For Marvel’s ‘Secret Invasion’ Series Is ‘Jambalaya’
- ↑ September 2021: London On Screen and Filming
- ↑ Samuel L. Jackson Celebrates Start of Filming on Marvel's Secret Invasion Disney+ Show
- ↑ Black Panther Star Martin Freeman Returns in Marvel's Secret Invasion
- ↑ Marvel's Secret Invasion Wraps Filming, Teases Nick Fury's New Organization
- ↑ Need a Breather From MCU Content? One of the Bigger Breaks Just Started!
- ↑ Kris Bowers Scoring Marvel Studios’ ‘Secret Invasion’
- ↑ Announces Marvel’s Secret Invasion Release Date
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