This is a blog that I decided to write for people that need the proofs of the canonicity of the Marvel TV shows, I'm constantly editing it, and later I will make a better order and design, for now I'm only compiling the information. And sorry for the bad English but I speak Spanish.
2012[]
-Deadline exclusive report [July 27, 2012]:
"EXCLUSIVE: After scoring huge at the box office with its Avengers movie, Marvel is looking to explore the mythology on the small screen too. I’ve learned that Marvel’s TV division is in conversation with ABC and ABC Studios about doing a drama series in the Avengers world. I hear that the connection to the Avengers franchise would be light as the project is expected to be set in the universe and feature some of its themes and feel, but may not include any characters from Joss Whedon’s blockbuster. I hear the project is in a nascent stage, described as “a kernel of an idea,” with a number of scenarios being explored, including a high-concept cop show. It is unclear whether Whedon would be involved in the TV project, referred to as Shield. Marvel has already given the Avengers the animated treatment with Disney XD’s The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the upcoming Avengers Assemble.
Establishing a primetime foothold has been a priority for Disney-owned Marvel."
https://deadline.com/2012/07/abc-marvel-avengers-themed-tv-series-308430/
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-Deadline exclusive report [August 28, 2012]:
"EXCLUSIVE: ABC has ordered a pilot for S.H.I.E.L.D, a live-action series from The Avengers writer-director Joss Whedon, Marvel TV and ABC Studios. The project is based on Marvel’s peacekeeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D (which stands for Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate or Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) found in both the Marvel comic book and feature film universes, including the blockbuster 2012 movie The Avengers, in which S.H.I.E.L.D director Nick Fury, recruits Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, and Thor to stop Thor’s adoptive brother Loki from subjugating Earth.
S.H.I.E.L.D. will be written by Whedon and frequent collaborators, his brother Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen. Joss Whedon also is set to direct the pilot, schedule permitting. Production on the pilot, which marks the first live-action Marvel TV project to get a green light, will start immediately. Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon and Tancharoen executive produce with Jeffrey Bell and Marvel TV’s Jeph Loeb.
The project had been in the works at Marvel TV and ABC Studios for some time. Earlier this month, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that it had signed an exclusive film and TV deal with Joss Whedon, which included him writing and directing The Avengers sequel and develop a live-action series for Marvel TV and ABC, both owned by Disney."
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-Entertainment Weekly article of an exclusive interview to Joss Whedon [August 30, 2012]:
"“The S.H.I.E.L.D. show kind of dropped in my lap, and I love working in TV,” Whedon told EW.com on Thursday, without revealing any more details. “I get to really build a show with people I really trust and love. What we’re building is entirely autonomous from The Avengers. It’s gotta be a show that works for people who haven’t seen the Marvel movies. It will please Marvel fans, I think.”
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“The Avengers sequel, I’m pretty on fire with that,” he said, revealing some nervousness about when shooting for such a massive undertaking would actually begin. “We’re slated to come out May of 2015. Last time [with The Avengers] we started shooting in April, which was pretty hilarious. I wanted to murder people, they wanted to murder me.”"
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-MTV article of an interview to Joss Whedon [September 12, 2012]:
"How will a "S.H.I.E.L.D." TV series work without Nick Fury, Agent Coulson or Maria Hill? Creator Joss Whedon has an answer: by introducing a completely new cast of characters.
Speaking with MTV News while promoting "Much Ado about Nothing" at the Toronto International Film Festival, Whedon revealed that he's "very far" in the process of creating the "S.H.I.E.L.D." show, complete "with a full framework and a full cast." Whedon also said that the cast would consist of new characters separate from the ones we've seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe already.
"It's new characters. It needs to be its own thing," said Whedon. "It needs to be adjacent [to the MCU] but you don't want to do a show where you're constantly going, 'Iron Man just left, but he was totally here a minute ago.' You want them to do their own thing."
So, what exactly is their own thing? That's the question that Whedon and his compatriots had to answer before pitching the series.
"Well, what does S.H.I.E.L.D. have that the other superheroes don't? And that, to me, is that they're not superheroes," said Whedon. "But they live in that universe. Even though they're a big organization, that [lack of powers] makes them underdogs, and that's interesting to me.""
(http://splashpage.mtv.com/2012/09/12/joss-whedon-shield-new-cast/)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. announcement at NYCC, articles of TV Line and Comic Book Resources [October 13, 2012]:
"Clark Gregg will appear in Joss Whedon‘s Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot for ABC, reprising his role as agent Phil Coulson, whom he has previously played on the big screen in the Iron Man movies, Thor and, most recently, Whedon’s The Avengers.
“Did you ever think there would be a S.H.I.E.L.D. show without Agent Phil Coulson?” Marvel Studios President Kevin Feig said in announcing the news Saturday at the New York Comic-Con. (Though the way The Avengers ended raises questions about how the Coulson character could figure into a TV series, Whedon has said the pilot will be “autonomous” from the film franchise.)"
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"Loeb segued to "Ultimate Spider-Man" and introduced Agent Coulson himself, Clark Gregg! The audience went crazy as Coulson took the stage.
"I have to thank Cobie Smulders because courtesy of the gag reel, everyone says, 'Coulson! Coulson! You will be avenged!" said Gregg, who is currently working on a film that he wrote and directed, "Trust Me."
Loeb also hyped "Much Ado About Nothing," Whedon's Shakespeare production that Gregg participated in.
"I don't know how you make a great movie of Shakespeare with the cast of Firefly in ten days at your house, but Joss is amazing," said Gregg, segueing to "The Avengers" (after an audience member shouted out "Cabin in the Woods.") Loeb said Marvel had something special for Gregg, something that's never been seen before. It featured a trailer of Coulson's moments starting with "Iron Man."
"An Honest Man. An Honorable Man. A Man of S.H.I.E.L.D." the trailer read interspersed between some of Coulson's best moments. "We thank him for his bravery."
The reel went to his heroic death scene. "We remember his Legacy. Always," said the trailer. "Rest in Peace, Agent Phil Coulson 1969 - 2012." At the end of the trailer, Gregg looked to be crying.
An emotional Gregg took the stage.
"I grew up loving comics," he said. "One of the greatest things about it is that I got to connect with people like you, so thank you for being apart of it."
The crowd began chanting "COULSON! COULSON!"
"I just want to say because I won't have another chance to ask this -- 'Have you heard of a Life Model Decoy?'" asked Coulson. "I don't know if you've read the theories from the people on Twitter, but there's this guy called the Vision. I don't know if you saw the UK version of the DVD, but the blade wasn't coming out of his chest. There's a tesseract!
"All around the globe you can see graffiti, bumper stickers that say 'Coulson Lives!' You have the power, Jeph! I feel like we could make this happen right now!"
"This is not like Tinkerbell, you don't get to clap!" said Loeb.
And then, suddenly, Joss Whedon showed up onscreen amongst applause.
"We all love Clark Gregg, there's no doubt about that," Whedon said. "From before we made 'The Avengers,' we discussed whether there was a way for him to be a part of the Marvel Universe, perhaps a part of a TV show even after his death. ... The fact of the matter is, as much as we love him, now that I'm really running Marvel, I like to keep a type of artistic integrity, which means we don't stretch the bounds of reality."
"There was never going to be a 'S.H.I.E.L.D.' show without Agent Phil Coulson!" said Feige, who appeared behind Whedon, wearing a COULSON LIVES shirt.
"He's headlining the S.H.I.E.L.D. show and always was." said Whedon.
Loeb confirmed Clark Gregg is the first member cast in Whedon's "S.H.I.E.L.D."
With that, Gregg exited the stage to incredible applause."
https://tvline.com/2012/10/13/shield-casting-news-clark-gregg-as-phil-coulson/
https://www.cbr.com/nycc-coulson-lives-in-whedons-s-h-i-e-l-d-updated-with-photos/
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-Marvel official site deleted article of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot shared on Marvel account on Facebook [October 13, 2012]:
"Breaking News: Coulson lives in the live-action "Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D." pilot!"
"NYCC 2012: Coulson Lives in Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Clark Gregg set to reprise role of Agent Coulson in ‘Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.’ TV pilot"
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/posts/533188436694954
(https://www.marvel.com/articles?fbclid=IwAR206UzLkvLqYa8ocBUnVglnDBf35Txv3HH-RimmbJlxebudK-rbfeAPFb4)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. first post on its Facebook account (description) [October 16, 2012]:
"Coulson Lives!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/421546957910158
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-Collider article about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast [December 19, 2012]:
"As we reported back in August, Whedon says the storyline for S.H.I.E.L.D. will be largely "autonomous'" from the Avengers sequel feature that is also in the works. We also don't know if the series will take place before the events of The Avengers or if the TV series will involve a little resurrection for the beloved Agent Coulson."
https://collider.com/marvel-shield-tv-series-chole-bennet/
(https://collider.com/joss-whedon-shield-live-action-tv-series/191798/)
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2013[]
-IGN article of an exclusive interview to Paul Lee at the TCA [January 11, 2013]:
"Last night at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, I spoke to ABC president Paul Lee about S.H.I.E.L.D. and when I asked him how tied into the ongoing Marvel films the series would be, he replied, “There is no question that it is part of the Marvel Universe. In fact, the story takes place after the battle for New York."
Having confirmed that the series was one set post-Avengers, Lee went on to say that still, S.H.I.E.L.D. had to stand on its own. “This is S.H.I.E.L.D. They’re following their own particular stories. There are characters in it, Coulson, who clearly come from Avengers. So it’s part of the world, but we’re going to be very, very careful that we don’t tread on the toes of the features and build a whole new world. And that’s what Joss Whedon does better than anybody else. He’s built a world for us.”
https://collider.com/shield-tv-series-after-avengers-movie/
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-io9 article of Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., article of The Mary Sue [January 28, 2013]:
"“The commitments to [How I Met Your Mother] don’t affect it. And I can’t really say but there are definite talks about it.” — Cobie Smulders on the possibility of Maria Hill badassing the place up a bit in S.H.I.E.L.D.. Please happen, please happen, please happen…"
https://www.themarysue.com/maria-hill-cobie-smulders-shield/
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-TV Line article of an exclusive interview to Joss Whedon [February 18, 2013]:
"In addition to being very hopeful (and “very Joss,” as ABC boss Paul Lee has said), Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. — not surprisingly — will very strongly evoke its source material. “We’re trying very hard to be true to [Marvel’s] ethos and also to the structure of their universe,” Whedon shared. “So it is definitely a Marvel show.”
That said, Whedon says to expect “not a ton” of familiar faces from the Marvel-verse, though “there’s a little bit of talk of that” for any possible future the project has in primetime. “Right now, I want to involve people in the characters that we’ve created for the show,” Whedon said, “and then we’ll worry about [the other stuff].”
Currently, the cast for S.H.I.E.L.D. — which wrapped filming on the pilot last week and is being fast-tracked by ABC — includes ER alum Ming-Na (as former soldier Melinda May), Clark Gregg (reprising his big-screen Avengers role as Agent Phil Coulson), Nashville’s Chloe Bennet (playing superhero culture-obsessed Skye), British beauty Elizabeth Henstridge (science expert Gemma Simmons), Scotsman Iain De Caestecker (tech whiz Leo Fitz) and Brett Dalton (rising star Agent Grant).
Last month, there was talk that Cobie Smulders might sneak away from How I Met Your Mother to at least cameo as Maria Hill, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent she played in Whedon’s The Avengers. In actuality, Whedon cautions that Smulders’ schedule “will permit very little” involvement, “but if we can get a hold of her anytime, we will.”
After all, the auteur said, weaving in previous inhabitants of his own Whedonverse is nice, but never imperative.
“You look for the best person for the role, and if that person is someone you already know, then great. That’s some work done for you,” he told us. “But as much as I would love to — and once did — make a movie just with my friends, you always want to increase the family.” (With reporting by Scott Huver)"
https://tvline.com/2013/02/18/shield-tv-series-spoilers-joss-whedon-maria-hill/
https://collider.com/joss-whedon-s-h-i-e-l-d-tv-show-cobie-smulders/
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-Collider article of an interview to Clark Gregg [April 1, 2013]:
"Gregg found his exit from the Marvel Universe to be bittersweet when Coulson was killed off, and while he would have loved to make that death less-than-permanent, he never took talk of a resurrection seriously until Joss Whedon came calling:
I've been so happy and living this geek fantasy as they kept adding Agent Coulson to everything including The Avengers and then gave him this magnificent, almost Shakespearean death scene, and I found out on that day how much I loved this guy and had come to identify with him partly because of the way fans responded to him, and also because he had such a great niche in those movies. He got to be funny, he got to be, in this case, heroic. And then I got to say good-bye to him, and it was a very emotional day. And yet I feel what Joss did with that was a fantastic conclusion of the character. And even though my friends at Marvel said, "You know, we spent a lot of time talking about how Coulson lives, and we know that there's a movement out there, and there are t-shirts and people paint on bridges 'Coulson Lives', we're going to bring you back", and it's one of the many things people tell you that never ever happens. And then I get this call from Joss saying, "Well…there's a script. And here's what we're thinking, and it's after The Avengers, and here's the concept." By the time Joss finished telling me, I was in.
But the biggest question is how they're bringing Coulson back. Personally, I'm wondering how they'll manage to retain the emotional impact it had in The Avengers if Coulson isn't so dead after all. At the very least, Gregg assures us that his character's resurrection won't be a simple matter in terms of the show's plot:
After people see the show, they'll have some clue as to why I'm still there, still breathing. But I don't think they'll know everything…
Steve then followed up by asking "Could this something that plays out over the course of the season?" and Gregg responding, "That sounds like a good idea." It seems like Coulson's return will be one of the big arcs of the season.
Coulson will be the show's tether back to the movies, but he'll be working alongside a new cast of characters, and he'll be doing it on a budget that's much smaller than the blockbuster features. Gregg talked about making the jump to TV:
I'm not going to lie. It was a little frightening. I'm used to coming in and doing my scene. And letting Robert and Scarlett do their thing, and then going back to the trailer. And now it's, "Where's Robert? I need someone really beautiful like Scarlett standing right here!" No one is going to want to look at this mug for that long. Because then I would go on to do the next thing. And luckily, they put together a pretty spectacular ensemble around me, and I don't know where they found them. I didn't know many of them. Every day I would just show up and be impressed. I think there's something people responded to in Coulson's through-line and who he is. He's the human factor of S.H.I.E.L.D. The people who's job it is to keep things running smoothly; the keepers of the secrets, and to kind of be the first line of defense and welcoming. The thing that really works well on a smaller context for that. I've never seen anything like we shot on a television screen before, so I'm really excited for people to see that.
Gregg went on to talk about how there was some slight hesitance about signing a multi-year contract, but how that was pro forma for the Marvel movies, and he was on board with what Whedon and showrunners Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen have planned:
I signed a multi-year deal for Agent Coulson when it was just three lines. It just turned into something more. It's always a little nerve-wracking because it's not something you're used to. We have designed obsolescence, we actors. At the same time, the relationship between Agent Coulson and the fans is moving to me, and I don't think it comes along very often, and I've been doing this a while. And some of this stuff is happening to me when I'm not in my 20s, not by a long shot. Once I knew that Joss and his brother Jed and Maurissa, his wife, were involved, and I saw the script, and thought, "This is what it's going to be like," then there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
So if Coulson will live on the small screen, is there a chance he'll live again on the big screen? Gregg was curious to know as well:
Joss is right over there. That's a really good question. I want to go ask him. I don't know. If my schedule doesn't conflict, and they need him in one of the movies, will they come calling? My feeling is that there's no breaks in continuity with this and the Marvel movie universe. It makes sense in that universe, and I certainly feel like his chances of appearing in those movies are far better than when he was far out dead.
Here's the part of Steve's interview with Gregg on the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series. Look for the full interview soon and here's everything we've posted on the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series."
https://collider.com/shield-tv-series-details-clark-gregg/
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-Yahoo exclusive interview to Joss Whedon, alos shared by Clark Gregg on Twitter [April 25, 2013]:
"Watch Yahoo! Movies Talk to Joss Whedon at the 'Iron Man 3' Premiere:
[Video]
And for fans still saddened by the death of Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) in "The Avengers," Whedon said that the character's back alive in the upcoming television spinoff "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"We've finished the pilot, Agent Coulson is in it, we will explain why in the pilot, and it is wonderful and [Gregg] is phenomenal in it," Whedon said. "And we should find out in the very near future whether or not everyone gets to enjoy it as much as we already have.""
"Some Avengers 2 and SHIELD updates from Joss http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/joss-whedon-reveals-status-avengers-2-resurrection-agent-035428385.html"
https://twitter.com/clarkgregg/status/327566658405269505
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive interview to Kevin Feige, article of Collider [May 2, 2013]:
"We know that Clark Gregg’s Agent Coulson returns as the star of the show (under some strange circumstances) and the series takes place after the events of The Avengers, but further details about how Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would fit into the larger Marvel universe have thus far been unclear. EW’s recent cover story on Phase Two provides a closer look at the show, however, with Marvel’s Kevin Feige addressing the possibility of using the series to introduce new characters and Robert Downey Jr. talking about a possible appearance on the show. Hit the jump to read on.
While Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. certainly marks new territory for Marvel, many have wondered if the show could be used as a sort of “minor leagues” to test out new characters before incorporating them into the film universe. EW asked Feige if we could see some as-yet-unused heroes pop up in the show, and he sounded optimistic:
“If that works the way everyone expects it to work I think that would open up another avenue, another outlet for some of those characters,” Feige acknowledes. “Maybe they guest star, I don’t know. I think they’re avoiding the cameo of the week on that show, which is very smart.”
Speaking of cameo of the week, it’s difficult to imagine the entirety of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. taking place without at least some acknowledgement of the film characters, and while we’ve heard that Cobie Smulders will probably be popping up, Iron Man himself Robert Downey Jr. was asked point-blank if he would consider appearing on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in character, to which he replied:
“You know what? There’s no telling. I am open to everything.”
While it would likely be quite expensive and/or difficult to actually get RDJ on the show, it’s nice to know that the actor hasn’t entirely ruled it out. Before that’s even considered, though, there’s the matter of re-negotiating Downey’s very, very lucrative contract."
https://collider.com/shield-tv-show-robert-downey-jr-kevin-feige/
https://www.themarysue.com/agents-of-shield-new-superheroes/
http://www.mtv.com/news/2602480/kevin-feige-doctor-strange-s-h-i-e-l-d/
(http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/05/02/iron-man-3-marvel-phase-two/5/)
(http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=78817)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) using the hashtag #CoulsonLives [May 10, 2013]:
"Agents. ABC has officially picked up Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.! #CoulsonLives"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/513901288674724
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promo 1 (videos and descriptions) on Marvel Entertainment accounts on YouTube, Facebook and shared on Twitter, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook including references to MCU movies, using the hashtag #CoulsonLives [May 12, 2013]:
"The Saga that began in Marvel's The Avengers continues on television"
"Get your first look at "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." starring Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson and coming soon to ABC!"
https://youtu.be/ySsw-6aetys?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
"Get your first look at "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." starring Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson and coming soon to ABC!"
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/posts/10151569861477488
"The saga that began in The Avengers continues on TV in @AgentsofSHIELD. Here's a first look. #CoulsonLives
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ODnz78XTI
The Avengers saga continues on ABC. Coming soon.)"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/333749972312920064
"The saga that began in Marvel's The Avengers Movie continues on television in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Coming soon to ABC! #CoulsonLives"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/10151383022453204
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10151383022453204
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-Rising Tide videos on its YouTube account (videos and description) including references to MCU movies [May 12, 2013]:
"Watch this clip to see Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man, take flight."
(http://www.wearetherisingtide.com/blog/%7C)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promo on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube, using the hahstag #CoulsonLives (video and description) [May 13, 2013]:
"Watch the latest preview for "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," coming soon to ABC! #CoulsonLives #DontTouchLola"
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer 1 (video and descriptions) on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies, besides shared on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Facebook account [May 14, 2013]:
"Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel's feature films as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. Together they investigate the new, the strange, and the unknown across the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary. Coulson's team consists of Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), highly trained in combat and espionage, Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) expert pilot and martial artist, Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker); brilliant engineer and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) genius bio-chemist. Joining them on their journey into mystery is new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet)."
https://youtu.be/T3T-evQZiQo?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
https://youtu.be/T3T-evQZiQo?list=PLK5HARgNfgj92hCytP-Ep4sX6a0YV3KAH
"#CoulsonLives! Here is the official trailer for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Thanks to all of our faithful fans for tweeting!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/10151385466123204
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10151385466123204
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) using the hashtag #CoulsonLives [May 20, 2013]:
"#CoulsonLives"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/518232334908286
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-Rising Tide video shared on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook including references to MCU movies [May 28, 2013]:
"Why is The Rising Tide tracking Iron Man, and what are they after?"
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"Footage from Stark Expo Attacks"
"Footage from Stark Expo Attacks Surveillance footage shows super powered chase."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/posts/521396584591861
(http://www.wearetherisingtide.com/blog/%7C)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer 1 shared on The Avengers official account on Twitter including references to MCU movies (video and description) [June 5, 2013]:
“Welcome to Level 7.” – Agent #Coulson (https://youtu.be/T3T-evQZiQo) Watch for @AgentsofSHIELD, on @ABCNetwork this fall!
https://twitter.com/Avengers/status/342311019558891520
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-IGN exclusive interview to Clark Gregg [June 20, 2013]:
"There have to be some distinct differences in terms of working on The Avengers, Much Ado About Nothing and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as some similarities. I imagine that those differences/similarities are obvious - but maybe they're not."
Clark Gregg: "You know honestly, certainly my stuff wasn't tons of CGI and green screen stuff - for the most part. So my scenes were about people talking. So I might have a slightly skewed vantage point on this. But I found them to be very similar. You know Joss kind of, in his mad genius, loves story, loves actors, loves to find the deep stuff in the material. And he's there in it with you, and there's a monitor, and you're there in it with him and that's the same on Much Ado and the same on the set of The Avengers. If you look a little further outside on The Avengers you'll see 75 people making sure all of the effects are in place. That wasn't the case on Much Ado - it's just the walls of his house. But if you keep it within that bubble it's very similar. So far I guess I would say that Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is kind of a fusion of the two."
"In the sense that it's a little smaller scale..."
Clark Gregg: "A little smaller scale and definitely has some fantastical special effects elements that are much more like The Avengers than they are like any TV show that I've seen. At the same time, it's a character piece about the people that are like the people that Agent Coulson has manifested up until now. The vulnerable people who have elite skills, who do this, and put themselves in harms way, because they love it."
"Again, this is kind of an obvious question: But for you, what do you think this means for the Marvel Universe? In a way, being on television opens up a whole new realm of possibility. I mean everyone saw The Avengers, but this is a way to tap into a deeper experience in some ways, with both a new and established fanbase."
Clark Gregg: "It's true. When we were shooting the pilot I thought, 'How are we going to do this?' I've been on these movies, each one is a different chapter, and each one was an origin story, to a certain extent, of a new hero and world. And in this one the heroes were the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, there are people with superpowers, but that's not the focus of the show. And probably it's wise to do it that way because I don't think that they could pull that off for 22 episodes in a year. But when I was doing it, it reminded me of stuff that I would watch when I was really little that was already in reruns then. I would see Flash Gordon and things that were serialized before movies. There was a heroic component and a serialized ongoing episodic plotline. So, then I thought. 'This is made for this stuff.' And the exiting part is going to be seeing the way that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. interacts with the S.H.I.E.L.D. component in Captain America 2, and the other movies, and whether those movies will then effect our show."
"Do you have any sense of that yet?"
Clark Gregg: "Well we've only done the pilot. My sense is that Marvel uses everything at their disposal and that nothing will happen on our show that will not impact, or be impacted by, the movies."
"We've seen Coulson be a worker bee in a way, but now this is a leadership position."
Clark Gregg: "Yes. I felt you got a real hint of him in that way in Thor. This is different in that he's not kind of managing a major S.H.I.E.L.D. operation at the forefront of S.H.I.E.L.D.. This is a...The secret name for the pilot, so that people didn't see the name S.H.I.E.L.D. on the signs, was Ragtag. This is kind of Coulson's unit that he's put together to go out, highly mobile, anywhere in the world, and deal with old S.H.I.E.L.D. business and new S.H.I.E.L.D. business. Most specifically in a world after The Avengers where suddenly the world has watched the battle of New York and they know about Asgard, and they know about Chitauri, and alien invaders and superheroes and there's a lot of people who want in."
"It's interesting because it's no longer about managing the secret, seemingly, because the cat's out of the bag."
Clark Gregg: I think there's some secrets still left to manage. I think there's some cats that are not yet out of the bag - even to the viewers.
"Mmmm, intriguing. [Both laugh] Well while he's managing the secrets, what kind of a leader is he?"
Clark Gregg: That remains to be seen. He's been through some fairly interesting stuff in The Avengers, and as a fan of those movies I'm interested to see who he is now.
"Will we have an explanation for his return early, late or never in the pilot?"
Clark Gregg: "I think we will get an explanation in the pilot and the question only remains: Is it true?"
"Do you think you'll make your way back into the cinematic universe?"
Clark Gregg: "I hope so. I certainly would miss working with some of those actors, The Avengers felt like family. So I hope that Agent Coulson makes his way into some of those films, or that they come visit me in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.."
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) using the hashtag #CoulsonLives [June 26, 2013]:
"Not all heroes are super. #CoulsonLives"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/534551243276395
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) using the hashtag #CoulsonLives [June 28, 2013]:
"Saving the world has never looked this good! #CoulsonLives"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/535465023185017
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Level 7 Access With Agent Ward' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [July 10, 2013]:
https://youtu.be/AYZ_zf2Z54Q?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
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-Entertainment Weekly article of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. panel on Comic-Con [July 11, 2013]:
"1. The pilot hints at how mild-mannered kick-ass bureaucrat Agent Coulson (Clarke Gregg) was resurrected to lead the team after being killed off in The Avengers (his S.H.I.E.L.D. colleagues say he must “never know the truth” about his death). Yet you’ll have to keep watching to learn the full story. “We can’t wait to pull the curtain back on that,” says co-creator Jed Whedon. “[But] we’re going to take our time.”
2. The S.H.I.E.L.D. story will work in tandem with the Marvel films, both past and upcoming. In fact, the first episode will pick up a storyline that’s familiar from one of the Marvel hits — and it’s not The Avengers. “We plan on trying to weave in between the films and try to make them more rewarding on both ends,” says Jed Whedon, who points out the trick is to make the audience not ask a certain fanboy-bar-fight-style question: “In any of these [episodes], you can always ask: ‘Why don’t they just call Iron Man?'” Yeah, that would be annoying! So our next question is: Why don’t they just call Iron Man? “They are aware of each other,” Whedon says of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team and the metal-suited Malibu playboy, “but they do have to have their own lives.”
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5. S.H.I.E.L.D. won’t look like a $200 million dollar Marvel movie, but it won’t look like the infamous boat scene in Ringer, either. “When fans see this pilot, they’ll be pretty astonished by what we pulled off and the challenge is to do it every week,” Loeb says. “The magic of television is that it’s about characters, and fortunately that’s also what Marvel is also about. We’re not built around a cape and a cowl.” Oh if this blog were a comic book, you’d see a “SMACK!” on the page right now."
https://ew.com/article/2013/07/11/shield-comic-con/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130714010941/http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/11/shield-comic-con/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. official account tweet [July 11, 2013]:
"True or False: Coulson is the most powerful character in the Marvel Universe. Pretty sure he could take the Hulk in an arm wrestling match."
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/355372229808226305
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-Marvel Entertainment official account tweet [July 19, 2013]:
"And now fans get to see that @CobieSmulders' Agent Maria Hill is in the #AgentsofSHIELD pilot! (https://www.marvel.com/news/story/20846/sdcc_2013_liveblog_central) #MarvelSDCC"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/358332639658254336
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. official account tweet [July 19, 2013]:
"We will see some people from the Marvel universe that is yet cinematic, but most importantly we'll see these people every week!"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/358330293284900864
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [July 22, 2013]:
"Now that Comic-Con is over, we're happy to confirm that Maria Hill is definitely in our first episode!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/546409795423873
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-ComingSoon.net article of an interview to Joss Whdon [July 23, 2013]:
"In an interview with the The Associated Press, writer/director Joss Whedon says that Coulson is not present in his current draft of the sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron, when asked if he could return for the film.
“He could. Right now it’s not something I’m pursuing because I have so much going on in ‘Avengers 2.’ Finding out that Coulson is alive would be an entire B story. And I already have too much movie. That’s better than the other thing.”
Whedon elaborated on why this is the case when speaking about Samuel L. Jackson appearin in the upcoming TV series.
“But we also have the movies and we have TV and we need to make sure there’s some crossover, but not so much that people go, ‘Well, I don’t need to see that movie. I saw it on TV.’ If we do that (Marvel Studios President) Kevin Feige is going to come after me with a pitchfork.”"
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-Marvel Entertainment tweet sharing the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer [August 1, 2013]:
"See how the tables have turned after the Battle of New York in the trailer for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.! (...)"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/363072443700613120
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) using the hashtag #CoulsonLives [August 15, 2013]:
"Our producer Jeph Loeb at D23. #CoulsonLives"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/557641097634076
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Level 7 Access With Coulson' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [August 20, 2013]:
https://youtu.be/z3aYXim7AEw?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
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-Marvel Entertainment tweet using the hashtag #CoulsonLives [August 20, 2013]:
"Get #Level7 Access to #Marvel's @AgentsofSHIELD with a new look at Agent Coulson! (...) #CoulsonLives"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/369957725309894656
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-Entertainment Weekly article of an exclusive interview to Joss Whedon, also shared on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook [August 21, 2013]:
"Then we’re off to the top-secret set of S.H.I.E.L.D., which brings the sprawling Marvel universe to television for the first-ever live-action series in the company’s 74-year history. But instead of starring Hulks and Thors, the show focuses on the “other guys” of the Marvel universe, with Clark Gregg playing a resurrected version of his affable government bureaucrat Agent Coulson, who gathers a team of highly skilled (and easy-on-the-eyes) young agents to protect humanity from super-powered threats.
“This is basically a TV series of ‘The Zeppo’ [episode of Buffy], which was a very deliberate deconstruction of a Buffy episode in order to star the person who mattered the least,” Whedon says. “The people who are ignored are the people I’ve been writing as my heroes from day one. There’s a world of superheroes and superstars, they’re celebrities, and that’s a complicated world — particularly complicated for people who don’t have the superpowers, the disenfranchised. Now obviously there’s going to be hijinks and hilarity and sex and gadgets and all the things that made people buy the comics. But that’s what the show really is about to me, and that’s what Clark Gregg embodies: the Everyman.”"
https://ew.com/article/2013/08/21/this-weeks-cover-joss-whedon-agents-shield/
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/560203170711202
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer on its Facebook account including references to MCU movies [September 3, 2013]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/10151569828898204
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10151569828898204
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer on Marvel Entertainment UK account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [September 11, 2013]:
"Coulson Lives! ABC Studios and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - starts Friday 27th September at 8pm on Channel 4. From Executive Producers Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen. Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel's feature films as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D.
Together they investigate the new, the strange, and the unknown across the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary. Coulson's team consists of Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), highly trained in combat and espionage, Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) expert pilot and martial artist, Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker); brilliant engineer and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) genius bio-chemist. Joining them on their journey into mystery is new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet)."
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. featurette on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [September 11, 2013]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV spot 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [September 12, 2013]:
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-Jeph Loeb at D23 (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [September 17, 2013]:
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-MovieWeb report of Agent Carter series [September 19, 2013]:
"Marvel reportedly has plans to pursue a series based on a Marvel One-Shot project that is being featured as an extra on the Iron Man 3 Blu-ray titled Agent Carter.
Directed by Marvel Studios co-president Louis D'Esposito, the short film centers on Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). The project tells the story of what happened to Peggy Carter after Captain America disappeared during WWII.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. followed the same process in it's journey to the small screen. The story was hinted in the Marvel One-Shot: Item 47, which led to the fruition of the series. That short was featured on the Marvel's The Avengers DVD. The series' Pilot is set to premiere on Tuesday, September 24th on ABC.
No writer or director have been announced and it is currently unknown if Hayley Atwell would reprise her role as Peggy Carter. Nothing has been confirmed by the studio, so stay tuned for more information."
https://movieweb.com/marvel-planning-agent-carter-tv-series/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. BTS video on Marvel Entertainment Deutschland (video and description) including references to MCU movies [September 19, 2013]:
[Translation:] "This is sort of a sequel to Marvel's The Avengers on TV.
According to Joss Whedon (executive producer of the series), the new series is about the world of superheroes as it is perceived by ordinary people.
Not all heroes are great! Convince yourself here!"
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-Marvel interview to Ming-Na Wen at SDCC, video on its YouTube account and also shared on Twitter [September 22, 2013]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/381949794949685249
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-Marvel exclusive interview to Clark Gregg at SDCC, video on its YouTube account and also shared on Twitter [September 23, 2013]:
"Fan-favorite @clarkgregg tells us about his return as Agent #Coulson in #Marvel’s @AgentsofSHIELD tomorrow:"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/382217916189384705
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-ABC News exclusive interview to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast (video and title) [September 23, 2013]:
"Marvel's 'Agents of SHIELD' Continues 'The Avengers' Story"
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-Metro exclusive interview to Clark Gregg, also shared on Marvel Entertainment UK & Ireland on Twitter [September 24, 2013]:
"Clark Gregg: Even though I was killed off in The Avengers it’s great to star in Agents Of SHIELD
Clark Gregg, 51, was Agent Coulson in the Marvel superhero films. Despite being killed off in The Avengers, he’s the lead in TV series Agents Of SHIELD.
Why isn’t your character dead? That’s a good question. In a universe that isn’t based on comic books I wouldn’t be here but because it isn’t unprecedented in that world, I received a call saying they had an idea for what might have happened to him. I enjoyed what they did with Coulson in The Avengers; his story was an important part of that movie, and when [director] Joss Whedon explained that the question of what Coulson is doing alive has far reaching implications for the series and that there’s a mystery involved, I signed up immediately.
Were you surprised to be offered this spin-off series? I was. Agent Coulson was a supporting player, he didn’t have super powers, no flying suit, he didn’t turn into a rage monster but when they explained to me how much the way Coulson and what he represented in that world – a person working a job, trying to protect the ordinary from the extraordinary – registered with them it made sense to me. The character has a cult following – have you received any unusual gifts? I’ve received bottles of Coulson hot sauce, a lot of art, a handmade plush Coulson toy and I’m told there’s erotic fiction involving him and various members of the Avengers.
Isn’t that a bit disturbing? It is disturbing but it’s also flattering.
Did you expect him to last longer than the first Iron Man film? There was much less to him in the script than there was in the final movie. I was happy to do a couple of days and expected to get cut out. Then this thing that never happens to ageing character actors happened – the part got bigger and Marvel made him a SHIELD agent. I don’t think that was what they were originally thinking, and they kept adding scenes. By the end of the movie, he’s explaining what SHIELD means; then they called and said: ‘Now you’re the one who puts the Avengers together.’ The fan boy part of me can’t get over it.
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Are you hoping they’ll appear in the series? If Iron Fist was there, it would make me happy. Even if the show is focused on this team tracking villains and alien technology it seems to be an open game with the Marvel universe, so I don’t know if an Avenger or other characters will show up. I’ve been very vocal about my fandom for Warlock and Iron Fist, so I hope they’ll appear.
"Agent Coulson himself (@ClarkGregg) talks to @MetroUK about his return to active duty in #AgentsOfSHIELD - (https://metro.co.uk/2013/09/24/clark-gregg-even-though-i-was-killed-off-in-the-avengers-its-great-to-star-in-agents-of-shield-4089829/)"
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/382442497076895744
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-SuperHeroHype exclusive interview to Louis D’Esposito and Brad Winderbaum [September 24, 2013]:
"At the Comic-Con Q&A following the short’s premiere there was a question about Hayley Atwell potentially reprising her role on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” I couldn’t help but notice that that question came from Marvel Studio’s Victoria Alonso."
Louis D’Esposito: "(Laughs) Her and her big mouth! She’s a strong female character, Victoria Alonso, also."
Brad Winderbaum: "She’s our personal Peggy Carter."
Louis D’Esposito: "She’s Hayley Atwell, Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johansson all rolled into one. Listen, there’s obviously a drumbeat that is banging louder and louder that we want a female lead superhero. We didn’t consciously set out to make a female lead superhero. It just happened that in our last two shorts, the protagonists were female. I just hope we found the best story possible."
Brad Winderbaum: "With “Item 47,” we didn’t think about it at all. We were just going, “A couple finds a weird alien gun and goes on a bank robbing spree!” We didn’t know it was going to be Lizzy Caplan."
Loius D’Esposito: "We always knew that the Lizzy Caplan character was the lead of that. That was more of an ensemble. It’s obvious that Hayley Atwell is the lead in this. Maybe that’s Victoria manipulating us behind the scenes!"
"Speaking as a fan who reads too much into things, I couldn’t help but notice that the bar in “Agent Carter” is called Nelson’s. That’s not a reference to Foggy Nelson in any way is it?"
Louis D’Esposito: "(Laughs) Oh, geez. That’s a reference to a joke. A dirty joke that I can’t tell you. So yes, you’re reading into it. And now I’m blushing."
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"Is there any chance that the 40’s S.H.I.E.L.D. might pop up on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? He might not play the nicest guy in the world, but I’m always glad for more Bradley Whitford."
Louis D’Esposito: "Right? He’s got another show on ABC. He’s such a great actor and he’s wonderful in the role. It would be great to go to flashbacks, however we haven’t fully discussed that yet. We’ve heard a lot of speculation. We read the comments that people are making. It seems that people would like to see that. We hear it. It’s back there in our brains. Hopefully it manifests itself somehow."
"Can you talk a little about how the cast for “Agent Carter” came together. There’s a number of interesting guest-appearances, including even Shane Black as a voice."
Louis D’Esposito: "So, first and foremost, Hayley Atwell. We called her up. “Are you available? Are you interested?” We sent her the script. She didn’t realize she’d have so much fighting in it. “Yeah, I want to do it. It’s great.” So she’s on board. Then we started casting like we do on any of our films. We go through our casting director Finn. She reads the script. I explained to her some of the things we’re looking for and she send over a list, just like if we’re doing a feature. We went after Bradley Whitford immediately. We knew we wanted him. There were some scheduling issues. It was touch and go and then he finally became available. So we jumped that hurtle and it was great. Dominic Cooper was also touch and go for awhile. He was going to actually be in the office and actually walk into the office. He couldn’t be there on the day. A couple of weeks later he became available and that’s when we decided to do it as a phone call. Dum Dum Dugan was, at one point, going to come in the office with Howard Stark. When that couldn’t to fruition, we added the tag scene. These things are very planned out when we do them. Every line of the script and every shot. Every visual effect. That was one where we sort of ad-libbed it and had some fun."
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-ABC News exclusive interview to Clark Gregg, video on ABC News YouTube channel, also explaining the #CoulsonLives [September 24, 2013]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Recon: Clark Gregg' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [September 24, 2013]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'This Season' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook including references to MCU movies [September 25, 2013]:
https://youtu.be/vkKiXBJmPfs?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/10151611841803204
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10151611841803204
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-Marvel Entertainment UK & Ireland tweet and response to 'Leo F@#$%kin Cyanide' [September 27, 2013]:
Marvel UK & Ireland tweet: "'Agent Coulson' is trending. It's official, the UK loves the Son of Coul @clarkgregg #AgentsofSHIELD"
'Leo F@#$%kin Cyanide' response: "@MarvelUK @clarkgregg To be fair, is there anybody who doesn't love the son of Coul? Just do away with Fury and make him Director of SHIELD!"
Marvel UK & Ireland response: "@LoadedDoorknobs is the world ready for Director Coulson? It might just be... #AgentsOfSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/383674293265002496
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/383675069480062977 > https://twitter.com/LoadedDoorknobs/status/383674693569363968
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promo on its Facebook account including references to MCU movies [September 29, 2013]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/10151618634393204
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10151618634393204
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) using the hashtag #CoulsonLives [September 30, 2013]:
"Australia! The wait is almost over #AgentsofSHIELD is coming to you 7.30pm Wednesday on Seven #Coulsonlives"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/577191215679064
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-Thor: The Dark World TV spot 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (description and comment), besides shared on Marvel account on Facebook [October 2, 2013]:
"The menace of Malekith looms large in the latest TV spot for Marvel's "Thor: The Dark World," as originally seen during "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." on ABC! Get your tickets now and don't miss Thor's return to the big screen November 8!"
"Re-live the sneak peek at Marvel's #ThorDarkWorld from last night's Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD: (...)! What is your favorite moment?"
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10102286400451969
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-Clark Gregg introduction video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube, also shared on its Twitter account [October 3, 2013]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/385807720206434306
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-Marvel Entertainment UK & Ireland tweets [October 4, 2013]:
"Shhh...Don't let Tony hear you say that *Agent* Coulson #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/386205684615749632
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"Melinda May & Agent Grant Ward - best duo since Black Widow & Hawkeye? #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/386207528301768704
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-Comic Book Resources exclusive interview to Jeffrey Bell [October 7, 2013]:
"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is certainly a multifaceted prospect -- it's based on the existing world of the movies, which is a hugely successful franchise, and also touches on the world of comics, but it still has to be its own thing. What kind of unique experience has that been for you?"
Jeffrey Bell: "I think what made it easy was that Joss brought a really fun, emotional life to the Marvel characters in "The Avengers." If you took a Venn diagram of Marvel over here, and ABC over here, and you overlap them, that overlapping area is what Joss does really well. There are relationships, there's humor, and there's character, and there's also lots of cool and scale, and the stuff the Marvel fans love. I think he brought both of those together in a great way, and Jed and Maurissa were there to sort of run with that.
Me having worked with all of them before, that part felt pretty natural. Joss has the history of working with the "Buffy" and "Angel" kind of storytelling -- they're genre stories, but they're always about character and emotion. We all agree with that as the kind of stories to tell."
"As someone who came into this somewhat removed from the Marvel world, how important is walking the line between drawing from existing mythology, while not bogging it down to make it inaccessible to non-hardcore fans? In just two episodes, there's been an element of creating new material, while also having ties to the larger Marvel world and introducing aspects from comic books."
Jeffrey Bell: "The challenge from the get-go was telling stories that non-Marvel fans will understand and enjoy, while entertaining all the Marvel fans. There are a few ways we're trying to do that. If we can tie something in from the movies, whether it's Chitauri or [last week's Nick Fury] cameo, which was a cool thing; or whether it's fallout from the battle of New York -- specific Marvel movie stuff -- that's fun, and we try and do that in a way that everyone would understand.
Then we also try and mine the Marvel comic universe. If we're looking for a doctor, we might say, "Is there a doctor in the Marvel Universe, who would be fun if the fans hear that character's name? Can we make it that person and bring that quality to it? Is there a weapon or a cool tech thing from that universe that we could use that is cool on its own, but if you're a Marvel fan, you go, 'Oh my god, they did that!'" So we're trying to do it that way.
If you look at all the Marvel movies, there are only a couple of superheroes, and they're science-based. Both Hulk and [Captain America] are science gone awry, and then you've got Thor, who I guess is technically an alien. For us to have powers every week kind of explodes their movie universe in a way we didn't want to do. Finding occasional characters who are superheroes -- and whether that's someone new like Mike Peterson in the pilot, or whether later on there are a couple of places when people hear the name, that will be meaningful to the Marvel fans. But we have to be judicious, otherwise we've got 20-some new superheroes running around at the end of the first season, and suddenly ["Avengers: Age of Ultron"] is a very different movie.
We're in contact with Marvel Studios; we pitch them the stories we're telling, and they'll give us feedback from that. "Here might be a cool thing," or "We'd rather you not do that, because that's the plot of our next movie." It's a relationship, and Marvel's been very cool about that. Going forward, we'd love to keep finding little things to bring to people, but keeping it so everyone can enjoy it."
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"Another interesting challenge of the series is that there must be the desire to have the show consistent with the look and feel of the Marvel Studios movies, but at the same time, those are movies made with some of the biggest budgets imaginable. While surely "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." has a good budget for a TV show, it's still a TV show. How do you approach that challenge? Is it something of an ongoing learning curve on how to best meet expectations?"
Jeffrey Bell: "Both ABC and Marvel have been very generous with our budget. For a network TV show, I can't complain. We want more money so we can tell a bigger show, but it's not like they're being cheap or stingy. And yet, even a show like "Game of Thrones" is more than double our budget, so even on TV, we're competing against shows with giant effects, and they're doing 10 or 13 episodes.
It's different. We decided that if none of us ever slept, ever -- cast, crew, writers -- and we just worked all the time, we could make a bigger, better show. Everybody is working so hard, and I think our visual effects look really cool.
You want those Marvel moments. You want the cool weapon, you want the cool holographic display. At the same time, the way TV lives and breathes is with characters. And we feel like we have six really wonderful actors, and the audience already know and love Agent Coulson, and they're getting to know the other five. And we love them all. We've very happy with them, they're all our first choices, and we expect them to get better and grow, and be more and more cool. Our long game is that you'll care about them.
We'll always have the cool Marvel stuff, and we'll always have as much scope and scale as we can afford, but that's still only about 10 minutes of "Iron Man," y'know? The stuff you remember in "Avengers" is the character stuff. There was a giant, cool action scene at the end with the Chutauri invading and giant flying things, but when you ask people what their favorite part of the movie was, it's "When Banner and Stark were talking in the lab, that was cool," or "When Hulk used Loki as a ragdoll. That was funny." It's always the character moments that stay with people, and that's something TV does really well, and that's something Joss traditionally also does really well. We're trying to mine that as much as possible."
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"I have to ask about the Nick Fury/Samuel L. Jackson cameo in last week's episode -- by Monday, people had started to get a sense of what might happen, but it seems like you guys did a really good job of keeping that under wraps. How did that play out?"
Jeffrey Bell: "The challenge was, in this age of tweets and spoilers, how to make anything secret happen and keep it on the DL for as long as we did. That's Marvel security, who are very efficient, plus everybody here in the cast and crew wanted to keep that secret. It was cool, and hopefully we can find other ways to do different kinds of surprises, but it's always hard in this 24-hour news cycle, never sleep, tweeting world."
"Should viewers keep an eye out -- no pun intended -- for more surprises of that nature in the future?"
Jeffrey Bell: "Part of our storytelling on this show is going to be a tag every week. We need people to know about that. The show ends, the S.H.I.E.L.D. eagle comes up, there are nine hours of commercials because it's TV, and then before we go to the next show, we're almost always going to have another minute, minute and a half of something, and those will be different from week to week.
One of the things we want people to know is, "Stick around for the tag." Having a special one like we did early is also to tell you, "Pay attention to that." I know when "Iron Man" did that after all the credits, a lot of the people left and didn't know they should have stayed. Now you watch a Marvel movie, and everybody stays until the end. We're going to be doing that, and we want people to know. Sometimes it'll be funny, sometimes it'll be a mythology thing, sometimes it'll be a self-contained thing, or an extra little reveal about something that was in the episode."
https://www.cbr.com/agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-ep-talks-ratings-nick-fury-cameo/
https://web.archive.org/web/20131009022936/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=48325
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-Marvel Entertainment tweet [October 10, 2013]:
"Titus Welliver set to return as Agent Blake in #Marvel's @AgentsofSHIELD! (...) First details & synopsis!"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/388353732221480960
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Eye Spy' promo on Marvel Entertainment Australia & New Zealand account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [October 14, 2013]:
"Channel 7's dynamic, action-packed one-hour drama, Marvel's Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D brings back Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) to lead a team of highly skilled agents to investigate extra-normal and super human people and events worldwide.
Joss Whedon, the creative genius behind the feature film ""Marvel's The Avengers,"" one of the highest grossing films of all time, and the iconic television series ""Buffy The Vampire Slayer,"" has co-created the series.
The series begins where the ""Marvel's The Avengers"" left off. It's just after the battle of New York, and now that the existence of super heroes and aliens has become public knowledge, the world is trying to come to grips with this new reality. Agent Phil Coulson is back in action and now has his eye on a mysterious group called The Rising Tide. In order to track this unseen, unknown enemy, he has assembled a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division).
The S.H.I.E.L.D. team has a mission: To investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.""
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Girl in the Flower Dress' promo on Marvel Entertainment Australia & New Zealand account (video and description) including references to MCU movies [October 20, 2013]:
""Channel 7's dynamic, action-packed one-hour drama, Marvel's Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D brings back Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) to lead a team of highly skilled agents to investigate extra-normal and super human people and events worldwide.
Joss Whedon, the creative genius behind the feature film ""Marvel's The Avengers,"" one of the highest grossing films of all time, and the iconic television series ""Buffy The Vampire Slayer,"" has co-created the series.
The series begins where the ""Marvel's The Avengers"" left off. It's just after the battle of New York, and now that the existence of super heroes and aliens has become public knowledge, the world is trying to come to grips with this new reality. Agent Phil Coulson is back in action and now has his eye on a mysterious group called The Rising Tide. In order to track this unseen, unknown enemy, he has assembled a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division).
The S.H.I.E.L.D. team has a mission: To investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.""
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-Marvel Entertainment UK & Ireland tweet [October 20, 2013]:
""Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D is up and running and we'd like to do more tv" Kevin Feige #ThorDarkWorld"
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/391913137035042816
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-The Playlist question to Kevin Feige on a Q&A, article by Slash Film [October 31, 2013]:
"Next up, bridging the gap between TV and movies, The Playlist asked if the consequences of the Phase 2 movies, specifically Thor: The Dark World, would have ramifications on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
Well, Jeph Loeb, who runs the TV division for Marvel, is in charge of that show, and is doing a great job of overseeing that show, and the studio’s involvement in that is limited to them going “Hey, we’re thinking of doing something like this, is that ok?” and we’ll go yay or nay. But I’ll say that it’s a smart question, and it’ll probably happen sooner than you realize. I think that’s part of the fun they’re having with that show is that it inhabits the same universe, so if there’s a big event, there’ll be ripples."
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'The Well' official description, article by Entertainment Weekly [November 1, 2013]:
"In the aftermath of the events chronicled in the feature film Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, Coulson and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pick up the pieces–one of which threatens to destroy a member of the team."
https://ew.com/article/2013/11/01/agents-of-shield-thor-2-crossover/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sneak peek on its Facebook account including a reference to The Avengers [November 3, 2013]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/10151684679883204
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10151684679883204
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account featuring Thor: The Dark World (description) [November 14, 2013]:
"In the aftermath of Marvel’s Thor: THE DARK WORLD, the Agents are called in to pick up the pieces. What do you think they’ll find? #SHIELDMissionBrief"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/602545439810308/?type=3
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sneak peek on its Facebook account (video and description) including references to MCU movies [November 17, 2013]:
"See the Agents deal with the fallout from Marvel's Thor: THE DARK WORLD in this sneak peek from Tuesday's all new Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/10201565376114683
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10201565376114683
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x8 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies, besides shared on Marvel account on Facebook (video and descriptions) [November 18, 2013]:
"Get a look at the first 4 minutes from this week's "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," picking up in the aftermath of Marvel's "Thor: The Dark World"! Tune in live this Tuesday, November 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10102425777055139
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-TV Guide exclusive interview to Jed Whedon [November 18, 2013]:
""One of the things that S.H.I.E.L.D. does that we never deal with is clean up," executive producer Jed Whedon tells TVGuide.com. "After the fallout of the film, we're in charge of the clean-up. We spilled into more of the ancient aspects into Asgardians and how they visited us long ago, so we get into a little bit of that aspect of Asgard and how it's affected our planet in the past and currently."
The Thor-centric episode is part of the producers' plans to begin expanding the world of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the second half of the season. "We're trying to flesh out the world," Whedon says, pointing to the S.H.I.E.L.D. introductions of Agent Sitwell (Maximiliano Hernandez), Agent Blake (Titus Welliver) and Victoria Hand (Saffron Burrows) in recent episodes. "The Marvel brand carries with it a lot of familiar faces. We're trying to flesh out the world of S.H.I.E.L.D. with the established characters and the characters we're introducing to build out the larger organization that we operate in. That's where some of the fun can be had."
But dealing with the mechanics of S.H.I.E.L.D. will also bring Coulson closer to discovering the truth about his death, which we saw in The Avengers. "It's a question that burns inside of him, but it's a question that maybe he's afraid of the answer," Whedon says. "But soon enough he's not going to let it slide anymore. It's one of those things where you feel something wrong, but you don't know what it is. Finding out might make it much worse."
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As S.H.I.E.L.D. expands the world of its organization, the producers appear to be actively planning their role in the release of the next Phase 2 film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which will hit theaters on April 4, 2014. "Nick Fury [Samuel L. Jackson] is in that one, and S.H.I.E.L.D. makes an appearance, so we will definitely try to tee-up some stuff and probably play a little bit of the fallout from that film," Whedon says. "We're hoping to do some cool stuff."
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. takes on a Level 8 mission! Who's in danger?
But a potential Captain America crossover might not be the only connection to the larger world of Marvel. It's common knowledge that comic book writer and former president and chairman of Marvel comics Stan Lee makes an appearance in just about every film — most of which you can watch here. "I would say there's a strong chance," Whedon said of Lee making a cameo on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
(http://www.tvguide.com/News/Agents-SHIELD-Thor-Crossover-Whedon-Tancharoen-1073558.aspx)
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-Thor official account tweet [November 19, 2013]:
"#ThorDarkWorld fans, tune into @Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD tonight to see the Agents pick up the pieces from Thor's battle in London."
https://twitter.com/thorofficial/status/402964270851588096
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-Elizabeth Henstridge response to Stretch on Twitter [November 19, 2013]:
Stretch response: "@Lil_Henstridge @AgentsofSHIELD @IMBrettDalton havent seen Thor2, should i stop watching?"
Elizabeth Henstridge response: "“@theonly1Avenger: @Lil_Henstridge @AgentsofSHIELD @IMBrettDalton havent seen Thor2, should i stop watching?” No!! No Thor-spoilers"
https://twitter.com/Lil_Henstridge/status/402972603943358464 > https://twitter.com/theonly1Avenger/status/402971882292801536
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-Marvel Entertainment UK & Ireland tweet [November 22, 2013]:
"#ThorDarkWorld fans, tune into #AgentsofSHIELD 8pm @Channel4 tonight to see the Agents pick up the pieces from Thor's battle in #London"
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/403792567453888512
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x11 preview 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies, also shared on Marvel account on Facebook [December 12, 2013]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10152046131332488
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-MovieWeb article of Agent Carter series [January 17, 2014]:
"Reaper creators Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas have joined Marvel and ABC's new series Marvel's Agent Carter. While the studio won't confirm the news, Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas are reportedly set to executive produce the pilot and will serve as showrunners if the project goes to series.
We first reported on the project back in September, which is based on the Marvel One-Shot short film Agent Carter that was attached to the Iron Man 3 Blu-ray and DVD. The short starred Hayley Atwell, reprising her role as Peggy Carter from 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger. While it isn't known if the actress will return, she revealed in October that she would love to be a part of the series.
The story follows Peggy Carter's ascension through the ranks of S.H.I.E.L.D. after the events of Captain America: The First Avenger, when her boyfriend Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) was frozen in ice. The pilot script, written by Captain America: The First Avenger writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, has already been completed, which ABC President Paul Lee said is "great." The show is still waiting for a green light, even though it hasn't been officially announced by the network yet. Its development schedule has been compared to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which breezed through the process en route to a series order last year.
Here's what Tara Butters had to say about Peggy Carter's character in a statement.
Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas' involvement comes from their overall deal with ABC Studios, which is producing the show along with Marvel Studios. Aside from creating Reaper, the duo have written and produced for shows such as Dollhouse, Terra Nova and Hawaii Five-0."
https://movieweb.com/marvels-agent-carter-moves-forward-with-reaper-creators/
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-Joe Quesada tweet [February 4, 2014]:
"Agent May is so bad ass that Tony Stark wears an arc reactor powered cup around her."
https://twitter.com/JoeQuesada/status/430891164641026048
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) including a reference to The Avengers [February 18, 2014]:
"Re-visit the episode that answered questions about Coulson’s resurrection tonight at 8|7c on ABC."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/650706714994180
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x14 sneak peek 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to The Avengers [February 28, 2014]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including references to MCU movies [March 8, 2014]:
"Next week, Lady Sif teams up with our Agents to track down a deadly Asgardian escaped prisoner. #SHIELDMissionBrief"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/659585037439681
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) including a reference to MCU movies [March 8, 2014]:
"Lorelei looks absolutely hypnotizing in her Asgardian garb, courtesy of Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD costume designer Ann Foley!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/659700810761437
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [March 9, 2014]:
"Lady Sif or Lola? On Tuesday, you won’t have to choose. #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/660141560717362
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-Collider article of an exclusive interview to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely [March 13, 2014]:
"Almost immediately after fans got a look at the short at Comic-Con, people began asking about a possible Agent Carter TV series. I was one of them. Thankfully, ABC thought it was a good enough idea that they started developing it with Captain America screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Yesterday at the Winter Solider junket, I asked them the status of the pilot, what the show would focus on, its timeline, whether Atwell is still interested in playing the character, and more. They also revealed that the show is envisioned as more of a limited series with 13-episode seasons or less. Hit the jump to see what they had to say.
Here are a few of the highlights I learned from the interview:
- ABC has the script for the pilot but nothing is greenlit yet.
- Markus and McFeely have recently spoken to Hayley Atwell and she is very interested in doing the show.
- Howard Stark would be a recurring character, not a series regular. This is assuming Dominic Cooper would be willing to continue to play the role. I've spoken to him about this and he seemed very interested. But this was a few months ago and things change.
- The show would start in 1946, sort of in the middle of the timeline of the One Shot. McFeely said, "We can’t get her to the end of S.H.I.E.L.D. that fast. We wanna stay in that world longer where people are disrespecting her and she’s proving herself and going on missions and things like that.”
- Unlike most network shows that are 22 or 23-episode seasons, Markus and McFeely think Agent Carter should be a limited series with a maximum of 13 episodes per season. McFeely said, "[13 episodes] is how this is envisioned, maybe even less… That’s my hope, is that it would be something like [Under the Dome]. Our case would be that it would be a limited series and you would wrap up that one bad guy and that one case, and then if you like it we’ll do it again next year and it’s 1947.”
Watch what Markus and McFeely had to say about Agent Carter below. There is a slight Captain America: The Winter Solider spoiler in the video (it concerns a character that appears in the film…which most of you already know about)."
https://collider.com/agent-carter-tv-series-christopher-markus-stephen-mcfeely/
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-MovieWeb article of an interview to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely [March 13, 2014]:
"When asked about the status of the project, Stephen McFeely revealed that the pilot still doesn't have a green light yet, but they both love the script, and Hayley Atwell is interesting in coming back.
"It's a big maybe. The script turned out great, we all think so, and those at ABC and Disney think so, and I think it's in ABC's hands. She's (Hayley Atwell) game and on board."
He also revealed that Dominic Cooper will have a recurring role as Tony Stark's father Howard Stark, a character he played in both Captain America: The First Avenger and Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter. Christopher Markus added that the show would be set in the middle of the Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter timeline in 1946.
"If you cut the One-Shot directly right down the middle, and you don't get to the next morning, you've got a whole show in there."
Stephen McFeely adds that they wanted to keep Peggy in this S.H.I.E.L.D. world for a longer amount of time.
"It's so good. Everyone saw (the One-Shot) and it's so clearly a series. We can't get her to the end of S.H.I.E.L.D. that fast. We wanna stay in that world longer where people are disrespecting her and she's proving herself and going on missions and things like that. I just really want it to go. It has not officially been green lit, but it's not dead by any stretch."
https://movieweb.com/agent-carter-tv-series-writers-reveal-time-line-and-story-details/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies [March 14, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/662663240465194
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook and Twitter accounts (videos and descriptions) [March 16, 2014]:
"How connected is the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Find out Tuesday on an all-new special."
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=662831473781704
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/662831473781704
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/445243344764280832
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-Marvel Entertainment and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. posts on its Twitter accounts [March 18, 2014]:
"Good to see you, #AgentsofSHIELD! We love how our favorite agents tie everything together. #AssemblingAUniverse"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/446084364343209984
"Get a peek into the future of Marvel in tonight’s new special, Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe at 8|7c on ABC."
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/445952834304245760
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-Ming-Na Wen response to MovieBob Productions on Twitter [March 19, 2014]:
MovieBob Productions tweet: "On the other hand... holy GAWD, Ming-Na Wen. Sexiest woman in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe."
Ming-Na Wen response: "U know how 2 sweet talk a girl! Thanks! RT @the_moviebob holy GAWD, Ming-Na Wen. Sexiest woman in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe."
https://twitter.com/MingNa/status/446147405407195136 > https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/430876973121155072
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies [March 20, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/665603020171216
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies [March 23, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/667365769994941
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-KSiteTV question to Clark Gregg at PaleyFest, video on KSiteTV YouTube channel [March 24, 2014]:
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-Whedonopolis exclusive interview to Clark Gregg at PaleyFest [March 24, 2014]:
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-HitFix exclusive interview to Iain De Caestecker and Elizabeth Henstridge [March 24, 2014]:
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica tweet [March 26, 2014]:
[Translation:] "Watch Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Assembling A Universe by @Canal_Sony! 9pm Mx, 10pm Arg, 8:30 Vzla."
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/448965138410786817
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x16 sneak peek 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [March 27, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/O4yi5l0mCJs?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
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-Ming-Na Wen interview at Paley Fest, also shared on Ming-Na Wen account on Twitter [March 28, 2014(?)]:
"My theories of #AgentsofSHIELD at #PaleyFest about May's possible fling w/ Thor. Skye is an 084, right? haha http://youtube.com/watch?v=pgh3pGjtK78"
https://twitter.com/MingNa/status/449419133461864448
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-Ming-Na Wen response to Joe Quesada on Twitter [March 30, 2014]:
Joe Quesada tweet: "Agent May is so bad ass that Tony Stark wears an arc reactor powered cup around her."
Ming-Na Wen response: "haha, May the Nutcracker! #AgentsofSHIELD RT @JoeQuesada Agent May is so bad ass that Tony Stark wears an arc reactor powered cup around her."
https://twitter.com/MingNa/status/450297958013992960 > https://twitter.com/JoeQuesada/status/430891164641026048
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-The Hollywood Reported exclusive entreview to Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon [April 1, 2014]:
"Fifteen episodes in, what's the most valuable lesson you've learned so far?"
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Maurissa Tancharoen: "We've learned what works and what doesn't, and we're sticking with the stuff that works. It's an eight-day shoot, and we knew from the outset that there were a lot of eyes on the show with very high expectations. People were expecting to see a Marvel movie every week. With the reality of our accelerated post schedule, we are living up to that standard as much as we possibly can. In the beginning, we may have tried to apply too much to an episode. Now, we understand the right balance that we need of scale as well as story and quiet moments in between. That is what our show is about: real people living in this extraordinary world. We've found how to lean into that, to show the same great universe as you see in the movies, but through a different lens."
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"What would you say to people who have checked out or have been critical of the show -- like SHIELD creator Jim Steranko, who recaps the show for THR?"
Jed Whedon: "Everything that everybody has seen that has come from Marvel has been a giant multimillion-dollar film, and we can't do that. The expectation that they're going to see a Marvel movie each week -- that's a hard expectation to live up to. The only way we can live up to it is with story and long-term storytelling. That's the one advantage we have over the films: We can develop story arcs over this period of 22 episodes. Early on, we had to be careful with making sure we honored the Marvel universe they created. They spent millions and billions of dollars, time and energy, and very cleverly created this awesome massive universe that we are playing in."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "We didn't want to bombard our new audience -- an audience that includes people that aren't familiar with the Marvel universe. We didn't to want to bombard them with a superhero week after week."
Jed Whedon: "We didn't want to undercut the films by saying, "This isn't special because there's one every week." We took our time early on planting seeds and telling standalone episodes with the concept that these elements would come together in the back half."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "That's where we are now, and it seems that people are responding to seeing how all those things we planted are paying off. So to the people that checked out, maybe they'll watch it on Netflix. That's the way we watch our TV shows; we let them all pile up and binge watch them all at once. And we are like our audience."
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"Have there been any limitations when it comes to bringing in big-name characters from the Marvel universe?"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "It wasn't one of our main goals to have one of the big stars from the movies come in week to week. We knew that would be setting an expectation that just realistically we couldn't pursue. Our goal was to have a show that stands on its own, which I think we've done. It's Marvel's goal to show and respect that it is all connected and our show has a unique opportunity to participate in that, so it's always a possibility to have someone coming."
Jed Whedon: "We've only seen it as a positive that we get to play with these big toys, but there was never an expectation that we'd use them all the time. We've created our own characters. We like it when they interact with the people from the movies, and it's rewarding and fun, but we certainly don't hinge everything on it because it would be a waste of the whole TV show."
"Will whatever connection you have to the new Captain America movie help illustrate how important it is to watch this series as it is to watch the movies?"
Jed Whedon: "We hope that it's rewarding to watch our series on its own. We don't want to make it just like a webisode that's filling in the gap between the films. We think of the movies as webisodes for us."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "But in the movies, everything happens on a much bigger scale and on our show we get to explore the details and the personal fallout the personal consequences of all the big things you see on the films. That's a unique opportunity to have."
"How much communication do you have with the movie team?"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "They're aware of every step; they're an integral part of our process. They see every script, they see every cut, they give notes, and we're very aware of everything they're doing. We read all of the film scripts before they're even finished."
Jed Whedon: "The idea with every Marvel property is for them to exist on their own and then interweave. No one backswipes; Thor didn't show up in Iron Man 3. It's not that these things are dependent on one another. They had the opportunity to interact, and they exist in the same universe, and we are in the same universe; and when we establish something in our universe, in our show, it becomes a rule in the universe, so we have to make sure we're respectful of what they're planning to do, and that we're all on the same page."
"Has there been anything that you've wanted to incorporate from the Marvel universe that you couldn't? Maybe a villain?"
Jed Whedon: "We did want the show to star Iron Man, and it turns out they wouldn't go for that one. (Laughs). We haven't. These are all opportunities. We certainly never start from that place of, "You know what would be cool? If we could get this guy." It's always us trying to tell our own stories and then finding a way to fit some of those things in as a reward."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/agents-shield-eps-respond-critics-692058
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-The Avengers official account tweet [April 2, 2014]:
"Happy Birthday to Agent Coulson himself, the amazing @clarkgregg! We think a Lola cake is in order."
https://twitter.com/Avengers/status/451383551598940160
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-Usa Today article shared on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook, also using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 6, 2014]:
Usa Today article: "Film reveal retools TV's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'
S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson is about to have a very bad day.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, released in theaters over the weekend, reveals that the secret government agency has been infiltrated to its core by sleeper agents of Hydra, an evil organization bent on world domination.
And in a bit of movie-to-TV synergy, the film's events will prompt a major retooling of ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for its first season's final six new episodes, beginning Tuesday (8 ET/PT).
"It's an extremely unique experience that doesn't exist anywhere else out there in the entertainment business," says Jeph Loeb, executive producer and head of Marvel TV.
The show's group of agents led by Coulson (Clark Gregg), introduced in the Marvel movies, are faced with not only trust issues among themselves but a civil war within the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. organization, where no one knows who's actually a Hydra operative.
Upcoming episodes feature at least one major betrayal, and what's left of Coulson's team is forced to deal on their own with the dismantling of their whole world as well as the new Hydra threat.
"Survival is a huge part of it," says executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen. "There is no more tapping into big S.H.I.E.L.D. through the holo-comm. The guns you have on the plane are the guns you have. They're basically left with the bare minimum."
Coulson's team — agents May (Ming-Na Wen), Ward (Brett Dalton), Fitz (Iain De Caestecker), Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) and Skye (Chloe Bennet) — were established as new characters in Marvel lore finding their identity in "the most massive organization ever created by man," adds executive producer Jed Whedon. "Now they really are a ragtag bunch scraping things together."
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has had bigger problems than Hydra its first season. Viewership has been disappointing — it premiered in September with an impressive 12 million viewers, but ranked behind The Voice and NCIS with 5.71 million last week, though it is expected to return next fall."
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post: "EXCLUSIVE from USA TODAY - Captain America: The Winter Soldier reveal retools Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/posts/673877126010472 > https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2014/04/06/captain-america-agents-of-shield-tv-series/7313369/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x17 preview 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video, title and description) including references to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 6, 2014]:
"After the events of Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," now in theaters, Agent Coulson and his team face a whole new set of challenges and dangers in "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Don't miss an all-new episode this Tuesday, April 8 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
"Learn how the events of Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" will begin to reflect themselves in "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." beginning with an all-new episode this Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) including a reference to MCU movies [April 6, 2014]:
"Don’t miss TONIGHT’s all-new #AgentsofSHIELD for an exclusive look at Captain America: The Winter Soldier. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/671649446233240
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [April 6, 2014]:
"Nothing will ever be the same on Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD after what you witnessed in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Tune in this Tuesday at 8|7c on ABC to see how it all plays out! #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/674041572660694
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-Vulture exclusive interview to Samuel L. Jackson [April 7, 2014]:
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier effectively blew S.H.I.E.L.D. to smithereens, what does that mean for Marvel’s television show, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? We’ll soon find out, but when Vulture ran into Samuel L. Jackson last week at the premiere of his wife’s Broadway play A Raisin in the Sun, we had to ask whether he’d be filming another cameo as former S.H.I.E.L.D. head honcho Nick Fury. Laughing, he told us, “I did! Last week! I just shot the end-of-the-season show.” He wouldn’t reveal any details, however. “You’re trying to get me fired and killed! I don’t talk about Marvel’s business. None of us do.”
Jackson has popped up on the ABC program before, as have Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill and Jaimie Alexander as Sif, and he said he appears at the discretion of Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige: “If they ask Kevin Feige and Kevin says, ‘We’d like for you to do it,’ I do.” And while it’s hard to imagine how Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will keep going now that Fury has gone underground and the titular organization is no more, Jackson promised it would all come together soon. “It ties into the TV show,” Jackson said. “They wanted to tie that up.” We can’t wait."
https://www.vulture.com/2014/04/jackson-on-agents-of-shield-finale.html
https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/04/08/samuel-l-jackson-talks-agents-of-shield
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [April 7, 2014]:
"How will the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier affect #AgentsofSHIELD? Find out TOMORROW on the shocking episode that changes everything! #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/674572842607567
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description), using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 7, 2014]:
"WHO is the Clairvoyant? Tune in to tomorrow’s can’t-miss episode of Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/674728659258652
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. featurette of the connection with Captain America: The Winter Soldier on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) [April 7, 2014]:
"Nothing will ever be the same for "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." following the jaw dropping events of the blockbuster film Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," now in theaters! In the series' latest episode "Turn, Turn, Turn," airing Tuesday, April 8 at 8:00 p.m. ET on the ABC Network, Coulson and his team come face--to-face with the Clairvoyant and must deal with the greatest threat of all...one that will hit closer to home more than they've ever imagined.
Watch an all-new video and go behind the scenes to learn how "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" will change the course of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." right now!"
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-Crave Online exclusive interview to Kevin Feige and other creative collaborators, article of Cinelinx [April 8, 2014]:
"Feige was asked how these major, unexpected events regarding SHIELD would affect the next season of Agents of SHIELD. He said, “The TV show didn’t exist when we were starting this. But they were well aware of what was happening, because I said, ‘This is what we’re doing. They haven’t been shy about talking about their connection to the Cinematic Universe, and this will be by far the biggest event that has happened for them.”
Series stars Elizabeth Henstridge and Ming-Na Wen—who play Simmons and Agent May—were interviewed by TVLine. Henstridge said, “We were in shock; and still are, honestly. We all had our theories about what might happen, because we knew there was a huge tie-in. But none of us saw this coming.” Ming-Na Wen adds, “We just kind of said, ‘Um… so what happens to our show?’
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 8, 2014]:
"Can’t get enough of Captain America: The Winter Soldier? See how the story continues with TONIGHT’s all-new Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/675146435883541/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including references to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 8, 2014]:
"The BIGGEST episode of Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD begins NOW on ABC. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/675218259209692
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including references to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 9, 2014]:
"Last night’s Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD was so good, we want EVERYONE to experience it. See it NOW on WATCH ABC and find out just how connected the Marvel Universe is. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/675447829186735
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 9, 2014]:
"Did you catch the logo at the end of last night’s Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD? Chills. #ItsAllConnected (https://agentsofshield.tumblr.com/post/82228508224/did-you-catch-the-logo-at-the-end-of-last-nights)"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/675653642499487
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) including a reference to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 13, 2014]:
"S.H.I.E.L.D. is in pieces…what will happen next? Find out on this Tuesday’s all-new Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/676172675780917
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including references to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 13, 2014]:
"Agents Fury and Weaver weren’t kidding when they said “Don’t Trust Anyone.” See this ad in Marvel Comics, now. #AgentsofSHIELD #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/677648512300000
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. posts on its Facebook account (images and descriptions) using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 14, 2014]:
"TOMORROW, Patton Oswalt makes his #AgentsofSHIELD debut. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/678197695578415
"See what the agents do to survive on tomorrow’s all-new Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD at 9|8c, following an encore of Tuesday’s plot-twisting episode."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/678241628907355
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 15, 2014]:
"TONIGHT, catch a special encore of last week’s mind-blowing Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD at 8|7c, followed by a NEW episode at 9|8c! #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/678696635528521
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 16, 2014]:
"“Flowers” joined Agent Garrett and Agent Ward on last night’s Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD. What do you think of her return? #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/679285712136280
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to The Avengers [April 18, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/680304822034369
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to The Avengers, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 19, 2014]:
"On Tuesday’s all-new Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD, we meet The Cellist. See this ad in Marvel Comics now. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/680853718646146
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to The Avengers [April 22, 2014]:
"Relationships are tested in TONIGHT’s new Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/682333005164884
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to The Avengers, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 23, 2014]:
"West Coast: Live Tweet with The Cellist, Amy Acker, during tonight's all-new Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/682531848478333
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) including a reference to The Avengers [April 23, 2014]:
"What does "Blackout" want with The Cellist? Tonight's NEW Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD starts NOW on ABC."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/682592658472252
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description), using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 23, 2014]:
"What will happen now that Skye knows the truth about Ward? #AgentsofSHIELD #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/683049795093205
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description), including a reference to MCU movies [April 24, 2014]:
"On Tuesday, Cobie Smulders returns to Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD as Agent Maria Hill. What news will she bring to the agents?"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/683440611720790/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [April 25, 2014]:
"On Tuesday, Cobie Smulders returns to Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD as Agent Maria Hill. What news will she bring to the agents?"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/683440611720790
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [April 25, 2014]:
"Can’t wait for the first few minutes of Tuesday’s Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD? Catch it this weekend at C2E2."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/684024134995771
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sneak peek on its Facebook account (video and description) including references to MCU movies [April 28, 2014]:
"The first two minutes of tomorrow’s Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD contains Agent Hill, Agent May, and references to Stark and Fury…what more could you want?! #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/685545191510332
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=685545191510332
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-Marvel Entertainment official account tweet [April 29, 2014]:
"Hooray, @CobieSmulders on the screen - glad to have you back, Agent #MariaHill! #AgentsOfSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/461294300517900288
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. official account tweet [April 29, 2014]:
"Agent Hill, The Man-Thing, Stark, Fury, Pierce...the @Marvel universe is very connected. #AgentsofSHIELD #ItsAllConnected"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/461340329086840832
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x22 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [May 9, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/nNct33_9fGM?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
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-Agent Carter post on its Instagram account (description) [May 13, 2014]:
"Marvel's #AgentCarter is a brand new show coming to ABC. Captain America's Hayley Atwell will reprise her role as Agent Peggy Carter."
https://www.instagram.com/p/n8YjOpkqdu/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) [May 14, 2014]:
"There’s another agent coming to ABC next year! Hayley Atwell will reprise her role as Peggy Carter in the new TV show, Marvel’s Agent Carter. #AgentCarter"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/694342597297258/
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-Marvel interview to Clark Gregg on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2 announcement on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [May 16, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/IIKf4VXu5As?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
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-Marvel interview to Hayley Atwell on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [May 16, 2014]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. official account tweet [May 31, 2014]:
"Catch everything in the finale? In the fight with Garrett, the gun Nick Fury gives Coulson is the one used on Loki in Marvel’s The Avengers!"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/472784591431172096
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) [June 1, 2014]:
"Experience the jaw-dropping season finale again TONIGHT at 10|9c. Did you know Cybertek first appeared in Marvel Comics Presents #62 (1990), and was first seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD episode “T.R.A.C.K.S.?”"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/703673756364142
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-Red Carpet News TV exclusive interview to Hayley Atwell [June 15, 2014]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) [June 26, 2014]:
"Season 1 of Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD is available on iTunes. While watching the Pilot, look closely at the opening sequence, and you’ll spot Stark Tower from Marvel’s The Avengers! (https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-show/marvels-agents-s.h.i.e.l.d./id689571082)"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/718703438194507
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies [July 4, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/723009034430614
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-Wired exclusive Q&A/interview to Kevin Feige [July 16, 2014]:
"How might the Agents of SHIELD TV series connect to Guardians of the Galaxy?"
Kevin Feige: "I'm not sure. They're working on the second season right now, they're cracking the episodes for that, so I'm not exactly sure what their plans are. But I know that everyone's very happy about the connectivity between Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Agents of SHIELD. They're constantly aware of what we're doing in the movies and take their lead from the feature films. I think they've already tied in a couple of blue aliens in the first season that might may or may not relate to blue aliens in Guardians -- I'm not being coy, by the way, I'm really not sure if it does or not. There's always that chance for connectivity but I'm not exactly sure what they've got in store for episode-by-episode for season two."
"How do upcoming Netflix series -- Daredevil, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and The Defenders -- contribute to the Marvel Cinematic Universe?"
Kevin Feige: "I think they're being very smart about that, approaching the shows the way we approach movies, which is to focus on the core project, make sure it's as great as it can be, beginning, middle, and end.
Then they see if there are places where it makes sense for some interweaving of continuity. Right now, their goal, and they're in production on the Daredevil series, is focusing on making it the best incarnation of Daredevil that has ever existed."
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kevin-feige-pt-2
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-IGN exclusive interview to Michele Fazekas y Tara Butters [July 16, 2014]:
"Peggy Carter is established as this great character, but when we start this show, where's she at?"
Michele Fazekas: Did you see the short?
"Yes."
Michele Fazekas: "Okay, so the short really is the basis for the series. So she's working at SSR, post-war -- so it's post-war, post-Captain America. As far as she knows, Captain America's dead. So that's where the world lives."
"How will that work with the short, because I think I’ve heard it kind of takes place in between? Does the short still exist, or are you going to be telling a new version of that?"
Michele Fazekas: "If you think of the short as sort of the end of the series, the series would be leading up to that moment where she gets assigned to SHIELD."
"That leads me to some questions about the supporting characters. There are some people we saw in that short and we've heard Howard Stark mentioned as being a part of the show. Can you talk about his involvement and also what other new characters might we meet?"
Michele Fazekas: "Um, can't talk about that. [Laughs] I don't know how much of the short will live in this series."
(...)
Michele Fazekas: "Even if the characters aren't the same characters, I think it's sort of the same feeling of a woman in a man's world."
Tara Butters: "I think obviously there'll be some exciting people that you've seen before and new characters that populate her world. But what I like about her so much is it's very much a Marvel property. It will have all those things you saw in the short, but we will really get to explore the emotional character, which I think ABC does really well. It's a strong female character, and you're going to follow her emotional arc through these eight episodes, which I also think is really great."
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"I know better than to ask you "Tell me a list of Marvel characters we'll see on the show," but are you having fun with the possibilities? Because there are the ones already introduced in the movies, but there are also a lot of untapped, era-specific ones."
Tara Butters: "Absolutely, and I think that we have a unique position, because we don't step on Marvel features, because of the time period we're in. It's been fun working with [Christopher] Markus and [Stephen] McFeely who wrote the pilot, and who wrote the movies."
Michele Fazekas: "And because this is a character from Captain America, the film side is really involved in this. I love them. They're great. They have great ideas."
Tara Butters: "There's a lot of synergy going on."
Michele Fazekas: "It's so interesting too, because the I think the Marvel film side… You would think, going from film to TV, they're not very collaborative or they don't have experience in, like, a writers room, but they could not be more collaborative. If an idea is good, it doesn't matter where it came from, they don't hold onto to anything, and they're so enthusiastic about it. Markus and McFeely are going to be working on Captain America 3. I hope we can get them as much as we can in the writers room, because they're awesome. They're so much fun to work with. They wrote a great pilot."
Tara Butters: "We're just really excited to play in their sandbox."
https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/07/16/marvels-agent-carter-will-show-peggys-road-to-shield
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-Zap2it article of an exclusive interview to Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon [July 16, 2014]:
""Once we could say 'HYDRA' and there were double-crosses and spies in our midst, the show got really interesting, and so [we're] continuing that with SHIELD and Coulson not willing to trust people and not willing to bring people in, but having to because he doesn't have as many resources; we think we can keep that 'trust no one' alive," Bell says.
But with SHIELD destroyed and Nick Fury pretending to be dead, there aren't too many allies out there for Coulson, regardless of whether he trusts them or not. Fury tasked him to rebuild SHIELD at the end of Season 1, so Tancharoen says Season 2 picks up exploring, "What does it mean to be the director of something that's fallen apart?"
"Last we saw them, they were being hunted. They were no one's friends. They're in a bit of a pickle when we find them," Whedon says.
Austin Nichols only appeared in one episode of Season 1 as Rising Tide member Miles Lydon, but he's stayed in the "Agents of SHIELD" family as boyfriend to Chloe Bennet, who plays Skye. Tancharoen says there's a possibility they'll bring back Miles in Season 2. "A huge part of Coulson's job right now is to sort of reach out and try to find all the resources he can get. Does the Rising Tide play into that? Maybe," she says.
Since Miles was a romantic interest for Skye, it would be good to have him back as a foil to Brett Dalton's Ward. After it was revealed in Season 1 that Ward was a double agent working for HYDRA, his purpose in Season 2 has been kept Level 7 classified.
"He's in the mix," Whedon hedges. Bell says, "We love who he's become. He's really fun."
(...)
Marvel is beefing up its TV slate in the 2014-15 season will the release of "Marvel's Agent Carter" during "Agents of SHIELD's" midseason break. That will divide the "SHIELD" season a bit differently than last year. "When we break and go to 'Agent Carter,' we're not going to leave you with something that is not satisfying, hopefully," Tancharoen says.
There is the chance that "Agents of SHIELD" will tie into "Agent Carter," which has Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas as showrunners. The "SHIELD" producers aren't ruling out that opportunity, or a tie-in to "Guardians of the Galaxy" after that movie comes out Aug. 1.
"It's a very cool opportunity that we have. Marvel, their whole thing is 'it's all connected,'" Tancharoen says. "Do we connect with 'Agent Carter'? Do we connect with 'Guardians'? Do we connect with anything else coming up?"
Just don't expect any movie-TV crossover to be quite as big as the "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" one in Season 1. "Fortunately there will not be a movie that comes out that destroys SHIELD, so our approach is definitely different this year," Whedon says. "In terms of game-changers, that's hard to beat.""
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies and Agent Carter [July 18, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/730492180348966
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-Marvel exclusive interview to Agent Carter creators and Hayley Atwell at SDCC, video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [July 25, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/2jPInlywwTI?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agent Carter TV panel on SDCC, video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [July 26, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/E5BaSlCjiAY?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Season 1 Blooper Reel' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [July 28, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/ihdXwAgZTcw?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account featuring Guardians of the Galaxy (description) [August 1, 2014]:
"#AgentsofSHIELD protect the earth, but who protects everyone else? Check out #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy in theaters NOW! Get tickets :"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/737851959612988
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [August 2, 2014]:
"YES! Spend your Saturday night with Lady Sif and Lola on Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD's "Yes Men.""
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/738402516224599
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-Screen Crush exclusive interview to Vincent D'Onofrio [August 20, 2014]:
"Everybody I talk to who has been involved in a Marvel project describes [the experience] almost as their childhood fantasy come to life."
Vincent D'Onofrio: "Yeah. I mean, it’s kinda cool. The thing about Marvel is that they’re not – they’re into real acting. They’re looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters, even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
Robert Downey [Jr.] is the perfect example of that. Who knew that Iron Man was going to be who Robert made him?"
"That’s true."
Vincent D'Onofrio: "And Jon Favreau. I would have never guessed Iron Man was going to be that kind of Tony Stark. Not in a million years, and, you know, that’s because of Jon and especially Robert. So, everybody is following suit with that. Personally, I felt Downey kind of led the way in that, and he’s kind of said to the studios and to the public, “It can work. These Marvel things can work.”"
"Did he give you any advice?"
Vincent D'Onofrio: "...Actually, we have discussed Marvel, but just in the kind of "great that we’re both doing characters that are in the same world.""
"Does that potential for crossover -- whether it’s branching out into other TV shows or branching out into Marvel movies -- does that entice you about this?"
Vincent D'Onofrio: "Well, I think they have some kind of plan. I’m not really allowed to discuss what the plan is, but they have a plan. I think the beginning of the plan is series stuff with Netflix, and then they have a bigger plan to branch out, but I wouldn’t be able to tell you specifically what that is."
https://screencrush.com/daredevil-vincent-donofrio-interview-kingpin-exclusive/
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica tweet (image and description) [August 22, 2014]:
[Translation:] "This Fall the Agent Carter and the Agents of #SHIELD will invade Latinoamerica, which one will keep you glued to the TV?"
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/502832595655077888
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2 teaser trailer on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [September 3, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/PahISq6DKws?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1 blu-ray featurette clip 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [September 9, 2014]:
"Jaimie Alexander talks about bringing Sif to the world of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." in a clip from a new behind-the-scenes featurette available with the complete first season now available on Blu-ray and DVD!"
https://youtu.be/ft0GJDcSfx8?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1 blu-ray featurette clip 4 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [September 12, 2014]:
"Amy Acker and Clark Gregg talk about introducing fans to the love of Coulson's life, and check out even more behind-the-scenes featurettes and deleted scenes on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - The Complete First Season," now available on Blu-ray and DVD!"
https://youtu.be/u6_B3udg7KQ?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9cUwtYprubFfFzZGW5OlNk
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1 blu-ray featurette clip 4 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [September 9, 2014]:
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-ComicBook exclusive entreview to Jeffrey Bell [September 14, 2014]:
"Jeff, tell me. Who’s your boss? Who do you answer to? And then, who answers to you?"
Jeffrey Bell: "Really, it’s me Jed and Maurissa, supervising all of the creative decisions. Last year, before Joss was doing Avengers he was part of that and we pitched to him, but he’s busy with Avengers now, though he knows what we’re doing. Now it’s us taking what we’re doing to Marvel and ABC and saying “This is what we think is cool.” Mostly they say “Yay, we think that’s cool too.”
Everybody else answers to us. There’s a writer’s room we put together, a total of ten bodies in a couple of writing teams. We work collaboratively to work out the stories. Then I have a line producer, Gary Brown, who works out the physical production.
Jeph Loeb is really our point person at Marvel. He’s the head of TV there, and he writes as well, he’s been a great creative partner. He’s usually the first person we speak to about any creative stuff.
Marvel is complicated in that we’re part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and so after Mr. Loeb we’ll run it through New York, Joe Quesada, Dan Buckley and those guys. We pitch our stuff to Kevin Feige and his movie group to see if there’s something we can tie into, to see if they’re okay about us using a character, or a weapon or some other cool thing.
Everything is interconnected, and that’s really what we have to pay the most attention to. It’s challenging but fun as we try to lace some Easter egg in, something that ties into a movie or, if not, at least the comics so fans can find those little things that nobody else knows about."
(...)
"Now, as you set your compass and you think about that overall arc of a season and where you’re going, how late in the day do you sometimes recalibrate that? I know that the narrative in the media about season one was that the story in the back nine was in your mind up front, but I’m pretty sure you must have changed direction at some point, at least to some extent."
Jeffrey Bell: "Simply, because we’re working with Marvel movies we knew that Hydra were going to be revealed in Captain America 2. We weren’t allowed to say Hydra. We weren’t allowed to say the H word, as we referred to it, at all. We couldn’t check that at all. We couldn’t even have squirrelly, suspicious double agent people in S.H.I.E.L.D. because that would set up that notion. We knew that was happening, and we knew the release date so we knew it was happening around episode 15, 16 or 17. We didn’t know specifically which week, at first, and we knew that after episode ten we were going to go off for a little bit then come back. You build towards certain targets. We knew from the beginning that if half of S.H.I.E.L.D. was Hydra, it’d be disingenuous for us to not have somebody on our team be Hydra."
(...)
"So knowing what Joss is doing in Age of Ultron, do you feel restricted? Has he set some of your architecture out for you? And how does it feel, knowing that’s coming?"
Jeffrey Bell: "It’s super exciting. Look, the Marvel movie universe is fantastic. We were sort of conceived to tell stories within that, and what we do well in television is different to what the movies can do well. Our challenge last season was, of our six characters, five of them were new to people, not from the MCU. What’s cool this year is that our characters are getting their own comics, they’re becoming a part of things, and people care about them.
Age of Ultron is coming up and we know what’s going on with that and look forward to seeing it, but it’s pretty cool to find ways to tie-in stuff and connect things. As Jeph Loeb would say, it’s unprecedented what we did with Cap 2, taking our show and blowing it up."
(...)
"Will it help people who are really into your show to watch Agent Carter? When you go off and the audience watch Agent Carter and they think it’s something different, is the experience somehow going to be tied?"
Jeffrey Bell: "Well... that’d be cool wouldn’t it?"
"I get it. Okay."
Jeffrey Bell: "Well, their story is set in 1944 or something. Here’s what I think is interesting. Agent Carter seems to be about SSR pre-S.H.I.E.L.D., but about the beginnings of something, and the basic values of that. S.H.I.E.L.D. got blown up last year and what Coulson always wanted was a return to basics, and it gives us an opportunity to return to some of those core values and even physically, some of that SSR stuff has a way of finding its way into our show that could be cool. Anyway we can tie things together, we’re going to try to do it, but it is hard when the stories are 60 years apart."
https://comicbook.com/news/exclusive-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-s-showrunner-jeffrey-bell/
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-Den of Geek exclusive interview to Hayley Atwell, Louis D'Esposito, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely [September 15, 2014]:
"So, when you first took this role in Captain America: The First Avenger, did you ever think that you’d have people dressing up as you?"
Hayley Atwell: "(laughs) No, that was so surreal. They looked more like me than I did!"
Louis D’Esposito: "Next year it’ll be twenty people!"
"That’s an impressive lineup of directors you have set for the show…"
Louis D’Esposito: "We wanted to keep it Cap-centric, because they’re all part of our family. From Joe Johnston to the Russo Brothers they all love Hayley. When we told them we were doing this, they said, unequivocally, “we’re on board.” It’s great for us, it’s great for the show, and it’s great for our fans."
Does it mean a lot to come back to this particular world after doing the one-shot and now that the Marvel Universe is so well-established?
Louis D’Esposito: "We came here with a short list. We’re all about telling good stories. We wanted to do a great one-shot. We wanted to go back and do something with Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, because Peggy Carter is one of the only people from that movie that didn’t end up frozen in ice or have any experimentation done to her. So we said, let’s go back to 1946, pick up where we left off, and get a little glimpse into the life of Peggy Carter.
When you have an actress like Hayley who is so committed to the role, and so wonderful, after it was completed we went back and showed the people at Disney and they recognized what we had was special and they said “we should make this a television show.” That’s why we’re here."
"As a “normal human” in a world of superheroes, how much action are we going to see in Agent Carter?"
Hayley Atwell: "It’s going to be very physical. There’s going to be a lot of action involved, so that in itself means it will take a lot of stamina to film it in a very short space of time. So I’ve begun a lot of strength training and physical training, my diet, my whole life has been turned upside down, with the focus on making sure that she is…"
(...)
"What kind of training are we talking about? Weapons training? Fighting?"
Louis D’Esposito: "We’ll get into all of that. In addition to the strength training and the stamina, it’s going to be things that are very episode specific. How to fire a gun, are there any special weapons, is there any Stark tech she has to use. Even some of the fighting styles from that era, although maybe being a little more advanced. I mean, I’m sure they don’t have Gracie Jiu-Jitsu back then, but they had some form of Jiu-Jitsu or Judo or Karate."
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"How do you feel about getting to do Marvel’s first solo, female project?"
(...)
Christopher Markus: "I’m really glad it’s her. When we originally wrote her she was just this person called “Agent Carter.” But then Hayley got cast and she became English and we had a lot more questions about her after the movie was over than we had answers. We had the 98 year old Peggy in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but we wondered what the hell happened in between those two points. To be handed this opportunity is a lot of fun."
"Are you happy to have the shorter season, where it’s just eight episodes, so you can just jump right in?"
Stephen McFeely: "We lobbied really hard for this. We love the cable model. There’s a place for the 22 episode show, and my heart is with the short show, where it’s one story that is told well over very few episodes. The fact that ABC was open to it and it works well with Agents of SHIELD season two is great."
Christopher Markus: "We really wanted it to be an event, and not an episode of the week, case solved by 9:50 situation. We want to tell an eight hour movie."
Stephen McFeely: "This is Marvel films coming to TV. We’d love it to get another season, but if it is just one season of eight episodes, if it’s an eight hour movie that you put on your shelf, then we did our jobs. If it goes past that, we’ll do it again the next year."
"Will there be lots of Golden Age Marvel characters showing up?"
Stephen McFeely: "We’ll use some characters you can point to. We’ll use Edwin Jarvis, who is Howard Stark’s butler and he’ll be an important figure, and kind of a link going forward."
Christopher Markus: "I don’t think we’ll be creating new superheroes, partly because, I love the aura that at this point, Steve Rogers was the only Marvel superhero, and now he’s dead. So “what do we do now?” In a way, there’s a specter of the absence of the one superhero they had. It’s back to the humans again now."
"So if we’re getting Edwin Jarvis, does that mean we’re getting Howard Stark, too?"
Stephen McFeely: "I’m allowed to say some things, I’m not allowed to say all the things."
Christopher Markus: "Magic 8-ball is cloudy, ask again later!"
https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/marvels-agent-carter-the-cast-and-crew-tell-us-what-to-expect/
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-Agent Carter official account tweet including a reference to MCU movies [September 17, 2014]:
"More exciting casting news for Marvel's #AgentCarter- James D'Arcy will play Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis. http://marvel.com/news/tv/23278/james_darcy_joins_marvels_agent_carter_as_fan-favorite_character"
https://twitter.com/AgentCarterTV/status/512302973939372032
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x1 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [September 19, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/WpCi_2MAY4g?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies [September 21, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/764462483618602
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica tweet [September 22, 2014]:
[Translation:] "Agent Peggy will appear in the season opener of #AgentsOfSHIELD! Which agent do you prefer: Coulson or Carter?"
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/514111900502593536
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-Marvel Entertainment tweet [September 23, 2014]:
"We recognize that face! Agent Peggy Carter, always good to see you (and we think Cap would agree). #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/514580716299231232
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x2 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [September 25, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/IMYQSCQ3TmU?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1 deleted scene on Marvel Entertainment Italy account on YouTube (description) [September 29, 2014]:
[Translation:] "THE FIRST COMPLETE SERIES ON DVD FROM OCTOBER 29
The astonishing Marvel saga that began with "The Avengers" continues in ABC Studios' adventurous series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D .: The Complete First Season. After the battle of New York the world has changed forever and the mysteriously revived agent Phil Coulson gathers a team of agents and investigators composed of Melinda May, Grant Ward, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons and the newcomer, the hacker Skye computer scientist. Together they investigate new, strange and unknown events in the world, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary. But each answer raises even more intriguing questions that echo across the entire Marvel cinematic universe: Who is the Clairvoyant? What is the sinister plan of the Hydra organization? What dark secrets lie behind Skye's enigmatic origins? And above all, who can you really trust?
Relive all 22 compelling episodes of the series as you unearth mysteries, discover cute and fun special content, and meet iconic Marvel characters. Then reach authorization level 7 that will introduce you to the Marvel world even more closely with unreleased content, no longer top secret for you, of this unmissable DVD box set!"
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies and Agent Carter [September 30, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/769047943160056
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Coulson & May on Season 2' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [October 2, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/xHvkk5TSlUQ?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Marvel Entertainment Spain post about Agent Carter on Twitter [October 9, 2014]:
[Translation:] "Dominic Cooper will bring back in 2015 the creator of the Stark empire in 'Agent Carter'. That's right, Howard Stark is back."
https://twitter.com/MarvelSpain/status/520154205429174272
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. "Face My Enemy" event at NYCC, article of Hypable [October 10, 2014]:
"Kind of. Loeb went through his normal speech of thanking everyone involved with the show, especially the fans, who kept sending Marvel execs messages about how Coulson couldn’t possibly be dead following the events of The Avengers. When he was done with that, he stood behind the podium and said, “Season 1 taught us that anyone can be Hydra.” Then he opened his coat and revealed his Hydra t-shirt.
The crowd erupted into booing (as you do), but were saved by Clark Gregg, who ran up on stage and confronted the head of Marvel television. And that’s when the room truly exploded.
Gregg immediately got a standing ovation, and you could tell the cheering and shouting gave him a supernatural boost of energy — especially when he vaulted the barrier between the stage and the crowd and started high-fiving fans. Once he got back on stage, the crowd started chanting, “Coulson! Coulson! Coulson!” and Gregg simply said, “It’s good to be alive.”"
https://www.hypable.com/agents-of-shield-nycc-2014-panel-recap/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including references to MCU movies [October 12, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/776199752444875
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-Entertainment Weekly interview to Adrianne Palicki, article of ComicBook [October 22, 2014]:
Adrianne Palicki: "Absolutely. That’s the nice thing. It’s the first Marvel show that’s been on television and the crossovers have happened multiple times. I hope there is that potential for the character. Anything is possible in that world, which is wonderful.”
https://comicbook.com/news/adrianne-palicki-says-mockingbird-could-appear-in-marvel-studios/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promo on its Facebook account including references to MCU movies [October 27, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/783927888338728
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=783927888338728
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x6 promo on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [October 27, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/NbKH-yUBZR4?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Kevin Feige on Disney's Marvel event [October 28, 2014]:
"Marvel also has two TV shows and Netflix shows. How does that affect your end of things?"
Kevin Feige: "Well, it doesn’t affect my end of things much at all because my end of things is exclusively the features, and Jeph Loeb runs our TV division, which is overseeing Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, and of course all the awesome Netflix series. I have some smaller involvement in Agent Carter, because of Haley and because of Louis D’Esposito did the short upon which the show is based. He directed the pilot, just finished it. It’s awesome, even in its rough form, and I had asked to be a little more involved on that one, so I’m helping them out there. But primarily, and exclusively, I want to make the movies."
"I was wondering whatever happened to The Runaways."
Kevin Feige: "The Runaways is still an awesome script that exists in our script vault, by Drew Pearce. Frankly the best thing that has happened with that script is that it brought our attention to Drew Pearce, who ended up co-writing Iron Man 3 with Shane Black. We’d love to do something with Runaways some day. In our television and future film discussions, it’s always one that we talk about, because we have a solid draft there. But again, we can’t make them all."
"Is there room for the Defenders to show up on the big screen?"
Kevin Feige: "The Netflix series are leading to a Defenders series, and Devin is asking about including them into the features at some point, because Infinity War is going to be big. There are a lot of people from the movies (chuckles) in Infinity War. A lot of it is about space, and a lot of it is about just what happens between now and then. But all of those things inhabit, however far on the outskirts, the same continuity. So certainly that opportunity exists."
https://www.slashfilm.com/marvel-phase-3-kevin-feige/
https://youtu.be/Ak_2fhZUe0s?t=676
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-Agent Carter synopsis on Marvel official site, article of Den of Geek [October 28, 2014]:
"Here’s the extraordinarily detailed release, courtesy of Marvel.
ABC presents its second action packed series from the creative minds at Marvel in “Marvel’s Agent Carter,” inspired by the feature films Marvel’s “Captain America: The First Avenger” and Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” along with the short “Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter.”
Years before Agent Coulson and his S.H.I.E.L.D. team swore to protect those who cannot protect themselves from threats they cannot conceive, there was Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell, Marvel’s “Captain America: The First Avenger,” Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”), who pledged the same oath but lived in a different time when women weren’t recognized as being as smart or as tough as their male counterparts.
But no one should ever underestimate Peggy.
It’s 1946 and peace has dealt Peggy a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy finds herself stuck doing administrative work when she would rather be back out in the field; putting her vast skills into play and taking down the bad guys. But she is also trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life, Steve Rogers – aka Captain America.
When old acquaintance Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper, Marvel’s “Captain America: The First Avenger”) finds himself being framed for unleashing his deadliest weapons to anyone willing to pony up the cash, he contacts Peggy – the only person he can trust – to track down those responsible, dispose of the weapons and clear his name. He empowers his butler, Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy, “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World”), to be at her beck and call when needed to help assist her as she investigates and tracks down those responsible for releasing these weapons of mass destruction. But Jarvis, who is a creature of habit and sticks to a rigid daily routine, is going to have to make some major life changes if he’s going to be able to keep up with Peggy.
If caught going on these secret missions for Stark, Peggy could be targeted as a traitor and spend the rest of her days in prison – or worse. And as she delves deeper into her investigation, she may find that those she works for are not who they seem, and she might even begin to question whether Stark is as innocent as he claims."
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/agent-carter-gets-detailed-official-synopsis/
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-Agent Carter first look on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [October 29, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/5XkkRVeyVnw?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Marvel official site article about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 31, 2014]:
"Peggy Carter returns to "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." with a special guest appearance in the second season's eighth episode, plus Grant Ward and his Senator brother "enjoy" a family reunion!
(...)
"The Things We Bury" - Coulson and team find themselves in an epic face-off against Hydra to uncover an ancient secret, while Ward kidnaps his brother, Senator Christian Ward, for a violent trip down memory lane, on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," Tuesday, November 18 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Director Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Agent Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons and Nick Blood as Lance Hunter.
Guest starring are B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett, Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi Morse, Henry Simmons as Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Reed Diamond as Daniel Whitehall/Werner Reinhardt, Tim Dekay as Senator Christian Ward, Kyle MacLachlan as The Doctor, Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter, Simon Kassianides as Sunil Bakshi, Lou Ferrigno Jr. as Agent Hauer, Al Coronel as Agent Rivera, Dichen Lachman as young woman, Eijiro Ozaki as prisoner, Alexander Leeb as scientist and Willem Van Der Vegt as officer."
(http://marvel.com/news/tv/23584/declassifying_marvels_agents_of_shield_the_things_we_bury)
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-Agent Carter sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies, also shared on Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica Twitter account [November 5, 2014]:
"Get your first look at the original Jarvis, plus the return of Howard Stark and more with a full scene from "Marvel's Agent Carter," coming to ABC January 2015!"
https://youtu.be/V13W9gQ_1GA?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
[Translation:] "Meet the real Jarvis in this English clip from #Marvel`s "Agent Carter" !: http://youtu.be/V13W9gQ_1GA"
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/529845548577480704
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x8 sneak peek 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [November 14, 2014]:
"Agent Carter returns in a blast from the past with a clip from the next “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”! See it yourself Tuesday, November 18 at 9:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
https://youtu.be/U9Sto1BnZPU?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-TV Guide article of Jeffrey Bell and Chloe Bennet quotes [November 19, 2014]:
""Our people don't know anything about the Kree or that there's a planet full of them," notes executive producer Jeffrey Bell. "What they do know is that the strange carvings created by Coulson after he was injected with the Kree serum are actually the map of a city, and they need to find that city before Hydra does. But where is it? Here or on another planet?""
(https://www.tvguide.com/News/Marvels-Agents-Alien-1089443.aspx)
https://www.cbr.com/confirmed-marvels-agents-of-shield-alien-is-a-kree/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies and Agent Carter [November 19, 2014]:
"She's back! Don't miss Agent Peggy Carter on Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD, staring now on ABC."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/796488173749366
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-ABC 'Field Report: The Things We Bury' on its official site [November 19, 2014]:
"Connections: The team realizes that Whitehall and Red Skull have some connection even though the latter has been dead for 70 years. Simmons finds the original 0-8-4 report signed by Agent Peggy Carter. It says that the obelisk and a Red Skull commander, Werner Reinhardt (who looks a lot like Daniel Whitehall), were captured. In the past, Reinhardt gives Agent Carter some information on some of the mysteries of what they’ve found. It’s not enough keep her from locking him away for a long time. Reinhardt makes a “special” discovery when he finally gets out."
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-ABC 'Field Report: The Things We Bury' shared on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook [November 22, 2014]:
"Connections: The team realizes that Whitehall and Red Skull have some connection even though the latter has been dead for 70 years. Simmons finds the original 0-8-4 report signed by Agent Peggy Carter. It says that the obelisk and a Red Skull commander, Werner Reinhardt (who looks a lot like Daniel Whitehall), were captured. In the past, Reinhardt gives Agent Carter some information on some of the mysteries of what they’ve found. It’s not enough keep her from locking him away for a long time. Reinhardt makes a “special” discovery when he finally gets out."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/posts/798257353572448 > https://abc.com/shows/marvels-agents-of-shield/news/fan-hq/11182014-field-report-208-the-things-we-bury?linkId=10679871&fbclid=IwAR2tgGCzMyj9oi353N3IgKaTUQMBu7NpqX5ueYRhic3Lzb4x3jpjgM972Pc
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-Agent Carter preview 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [November 25, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/CfGrwAFknpc?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agent Carter preview 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [November 25, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/-ExUzmhCm0c?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies [November 28, 2014]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/801402769924573
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive interview to Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen [December 3, 2014]:
"How early on had you guys decided that the alien was Kree?"
JED WHEDON: "We obviously showed this body a year ago at around this time. When we were breaking that and sussing out what this arc would be, we had to have a lot of the pieces in place from the get go. Yes, we had to talk to features about what their plans were and where they were going. It’s been a while."
"Does this count as your tie-in to Guardians of the Galaxy?"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "There’s more to explore with the Kree."
Jed Whedon: "It is a very far away other galaxy, so it’s a little bit harder to have one of them walk into our set, so a direct tie-in is a little bit more challenging, but it’s all one universe, so there’s always opportunity for more."
"What does the alien being Kree mean for the storyline in the future? Are we talking about Inhumans here?"
Jed Whedon: "That’s why there’s more episodes to come!"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "You will see how this Kree fact that we all now know plays out."
Jed Whedon: "It also helps tie us into the cinematic universe. In Guardians, we saw parts in our universe that we hadn’t explored yet, so it shows we’re a part of that too."
https://ew.com/article/2014/12/03/agents-shield-kree-inhumans-spoilers/
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-Comic Book Resources exclusive interview to Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon [December 9, 2014]:
"So, Jed, Maurissa -- can we say the "I" word? Can we talk openly about Inhumans now?"
Jed Whedon: "You can do whatever you want."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "And we'll nod or shake our heads. [Laughs] But yes, we can talk about the "I" word."
"Well, now that we've seen things unfold up to this point, what can you share about the decision to introduce Inhumans in this season of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."? It's been teased since the first season finale, so it must have been a plan for a while."
Jed Whedon: "It's been something in the works for a long time. It's an important property in the comics, and they have obviously announced plans for a feature in the cinematic universe. It's one of the first instances where we get to start planting the seeds on the show before the film.
It's a process, because they have their big ideas and their big plans in the feature world. It was always something we wanted to do, and early last year we landed on the idea that we would do it."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "That's how everything works in the Marvel Universe. S.H.I.E.L.D. the organization, you started to see bits and pieces of it throughout the films, and here we are with a series. Everything affects the other. How directly linked we will be to the movie -- that's a future question. But we are thrilled to be able to dive into it on the show."
"What did you find intriguing about the creative prospects of this? Not just introducing one Marvel character, but a whole classification, a whole society."
Jed Whedon: "One of the things that, early on was very important to us last season was, there were so few people in the Cinematic Universe who had powers. Really, only two humans had powers, Captain America and the Hulk. We had to be very responsible -- we didn't want to dive into this show and have a new one every week, and have it feel like we disregarded everything that they spent so much money and time building in the films.
Along those same lines, the origin of a power is always a complex thing -- Marvel cares about it feeling grounded, it feeling scientific at some level. Even on "Thor," he says, "In our world, magic and science are the same thing." So this is a way for us to sort of open up our world. It's a way to introduce, into the MCU, the idea that people can be born with a power. They don't have to be engineered in a lab, they don't need to have some freak accident with a vat of acid. They can be born with this. That's sort of a gamechanger, not just on our show, but in the cinematic universe -- for people on Earth, at least."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "We're opening up a part of the Marvel Universe. It's a property that we've been interested in for a very long time, and it's essentially us exploring a possible community of people with abilities."
"And it seems like only the starting part -- the subsequent creative possibilities seem abundant."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "Well, we certainly hope it's abundant. [Laughs] That is our goal."
https://www.cbr.com/agents-of-shield-showrunners-on-the-midseason-finales-marvel-gamechanger/
https://web.archive.org/web/20141215032156/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=57656
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-Entertainment Weekly article of an exclusive interview to Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen [December 9, 2014]:
"Now EW can exclusively reveal that the ABC series will connect to the highly anticipated Avengers sequel. “You should expect something,” executive producer Jed Whedon says. “The Avengers is the big tent that all the franchises play under. Obviously, we’re included in that.”
While it’s unclear how the series will tie in to Marvel’s big blockbuster, this probably won’t be as big a crossover as the Winter Soldier once. “I don’t think any movie has the potential to impact us in the way that Captain America 2 did,” executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen says, “but there will be connections.”"
https://ew.com/article/2014/12/09/agents-shield-avengers-age-ultron/
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-Marvel Entertainment Spain response to Chorly on Twitter [December 12, 2014]:
[Translation:] "@chorlyid2 The 'Agent Carter' series will be exclusive of the Agent Carter. A greeting!"
https://twitter.com/MarvelSpain/status/543366108947152896 > https://twitter.com/chorlyid2/status/543360256563482625
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-Agent Carter 1x1 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [December 12, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/9l5Kt_c1-7U?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agent Carter post on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies [December 12, 2014]:
"#AgentCarter is gonna need all the allies she can get."
https://www.instagram.com/p/whIbzNkqff/
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-ABC Studios UK official account tweet (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [December 12, 2014]:
"He can always see 5 steps ahead, which, for a one-eyed man, is impressive."
"Don't let the eye patch fool you...Fury can see everything! #AgentsofSHIELD on @Channel4"
https://twitter.com/ABCStudiosUK/status/543498061670920192
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-The Hollywood Reporter exclusive interview to Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen [December 19, 2014]:
"How did it come about that you got to introduce the Inhumans?"
Jed Whedon: "Everything with Marvel is a large process. There are a lot of people in the mix and a lot of properties, and obviously there are huge films that have been announced and scripts that have been announced. Anytime we play in the MCU, we have to go through a process of clearing ideas. This was a situation where we were allowed to explore this on our own."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "It's a territory that we've had our sights on since the beginning of the series."
"What is happening next in the SHIELD world?"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "With us opening up this new territory, we hope there is an abundance of places and characters to discover. "
Jed Whedon: "We've stepped into a new world, so we get to answer some questions and discover some new mysteries, seeing how our team is affected by 2014."
"We're gearing up for Agent Carter. Will that affect where we go next in SHIELD?"
Jed Whedon: "It's all one universe. But they are separate shows. While there will be some connections, we have to do this on our own. She's been on our show a little bit, and we've gotten a little sense of her. While you feel a connection, they are not directly related."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/agents-shield-skye-inhuman-reveal-755594
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-Entertainment Weekly article of an exclusive interview to Jeph Loeb, Steven S. DeKnight and Charlie Cox [December 29, 2014]:
"1. Daredevil will be a uniquely localized Marvel story. Unlike the globe-trotting Avengers or SHIELD gang, Matt will stick to his hometown. “Within the Marvel universe there are thousands of heroes of all shapes and sizes, but The Avengers are here to save the universe and Daredevil is here to save the neighborhood,” Loeb said. “It’s a very unique look at Hell’s Kitchen in New York, where Matt Murdoch grew up and continues to defend it from people who would harm the people that live there.”
2. Daredevil will feel like a crime story, not a superhero show. “We really wanted to take our cue from [films like] The French Connection, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver, and make it very, very grounded, very gritty, very real,” DeKnight said. “We always say we would rather lean toward The Wire than what’s considered a classic superhero television show.” Added Loeb: “There aren’t going to be people flying through the sky. There are no magic hammers.”
3. BUT Thor and Iron Man will still exist in the same world as Daredevil. “It does take place in the Marvel cinematic universe,” Loeb said. “It’s all connected. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that we would look up in the sky and see [Iron Man]. It’s just a different part of New York that we have not yet seen in the Marvel movies.”"
https://web.archive.org/web/20141230033134/http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/12/29/daredevil/
(https://ew.com/article/2014/12/29/daredevil/?hootPostID=86d97ba533da5f593b1f0d7ac3a86d91)
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-Agent Carter BTS clip 1 video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [December 30, 2014]:
https://youtu.be/FmwDSolYG1Q?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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2015[]
-The Hollywood Reporter exclusive interview to Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas [January 5, 2015]:
"First question: For people who are living under a rock or don't watch football where a lot of promos have been, what's the "elevator pitch" for Agent Carter?"
Tara Butters: "For people who aren't familiar with the Marvel universe, I will often pitch this show as Alias in the 1940s."
(...)
"OK, I wanted it to be clear to the readers because I want them to tune in. And because I have points in the show, essentially. (Laughs.) So Peggy Carter is a character spinning off from Captain America. How is the show integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe?"
Tara Butters: "We have connections to the Marvel Cinematic Universe."
Michele Fazekas: "Peggy Carter was obviously in Cap 1 and Cap 2, Howard Stark [Dominic Cooper], who's in Cap 1, is in this series. Jarvis [James D'Arcy], whom people have seen in the Iron Man movies, is the voice of Howard Stark, sorry, Tony Stark — that's going in the "Stark Jar" Tara has for if you mess up somebody's name, your name goes in the jar and at the end of the season, whoever gets picked out of the Stark Jar has to buy lunch for everybody."
"On Arrow, we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper and if you call Roy "Ray" and Ray "Roy," you have to put money into the jar. But because we have a different budget than you guys, the money in that jar actually goes to produce the episode — usually in its entirety. (Laughs.) So are there other characters from the Marvel cinematic universe that we might expect to see on your show?"
Michele Fazekas: "Yes."
"Do you want to say who they are?"
Michele Fazekas: "I cannot. This is actually an interesting question I would ask you: You've worked in the Marvel comic universe and I've never had such a high level of security. I understand why they do it in this day and age — even when Tara and I worked as assistants on The X Files where, when they did the first X Files movie, they were printing script pages out on red paper so you couldn't photocopy it and they were stamping everyone's name on the script. The level of security here is really high — because they don't want any spoilers out there — and as little as you can say, the better it is. They don't want anyone to know anything about it other than what they have to disclose. You're always literally looking to someone saying, "Can I say this or not?""
(...)
"In a perfect world, Agent Carter gets a second season. Would you like to come back in another eight-episode bridge [between Agents of SHIELD's presumed first and second half], or would you prefer a full 22-episode order? Tara, you have to answer as a writer, and not my wife. Tara as a wife might answer differently."
Tara Butters: "I think any type of heavily serialized show, you're going to get better scripts with fewer episodes. Now, whether that's eight, 13 or 15, the fact is, you're just going to get a more cohesive, thorough line."
Michele Fazekas: "I do feel like we certainly have more episodes in us, and because we're having so much fun and we like these characters so much, that always makes it easier to write and easier to want to spend time on. So, yes, I think we certainly can do it. We didn't say the same thing about Resurrection because it is a very different story ending, where we were very upfront with the network that you can't do 22 episodes of that show in the amount of time they wanted us to do it because there's a much more different show to break. Every episode of Resurrection is different and the stories don't start and end in the same place all the time. It's not like a Law & Order where you're just doing the case of the week. Carter has a more obvious story ending."
(...)
"It seems pretty cool, so that's got to feel very supportive. How much interaction do you have with the folks at Marvel who make the movies?"
Michele Fazekas: "Quite a bit. Because Peggy comes from their movies, Louis D'Esposito and KevinFeige are very invested in this and they've been really collaborative and very generous with their world. Kevin was down here cutting an episode [recently] and he's really good at it, which is wonderful." "Because they're coming from the feature world, they're very surprised at how quickly you have to make your decisions. Jeph Loeb, who's at Marvel TV, is really good at having synergy between our show and Agents of SHIELD [which has already featured two Carter crossovers]. He's such a comic book geek that he's pulling out all these old references from comic books of the past."
(...)
"So no romance?"
Michele Fazekas: "Look, she was dating Captain America! I don't think he has the pecs for it!"
(...)
"One question I'm always asked is, "Will you have or do you want to see superpowers on Agent Carter?""
Tara Butters: "Our show is a lot more grounded than Agents of SHIELD in some ways. Right now, where Marvel comes from [with Carter] is more in the technology. You've got Stark technology, or even SSR technology that did not exist in 1946, but because we have Howard Stark and because we have this secret spy organization, they have things that are special and they have things that approach the fantastic. But I don't necessarily need super powers to tell this story. It's not like I'm against it or we've been forbidden to use them, but we haven't needed to tell that story. We keep saying Peggy's super power is that people underestimate her."
"I feel like I have the same super power. (All laugh.) To double back to the whole fidelity to the comic books thing, you guys are going to have Anton Vanko on the show. I know I'm not spoiling your show. I've written Anton Vanko for Marvel. Do you feel a special obligation to be faithful to my version of the character?"
Michele Fazekas: "Yes!"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/agent-carter-showrunners-grilled-by-759932
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-Agent Carter BTS featurette on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [January 6, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/GnCsBOjf0R4?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [January 6, 2015]:
"Before S.H.I.E.L.D, there was the S.S.R. Agent Carter reports for duty tonight at 8|7c on ABC. #AgentCarter"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/824541834277333
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-Agent Carter 1x3 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video, title and description) including references to MCU movies [January 8, 2015]:
"The SSR Comes Knocking - Marvel's Agent Carter Season 1, Ep. 3 - Clip 1"
"The SSR comes knocking on Jarvis' door in the latest clip from the next all-new "Marvel's Agent Carter," premiering Tuesday, January 13 at 9:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
https://youtu.be/5aciXTHVpb8?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agent Carter TV spot 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [January 9, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/1i4jxBGfCxk?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-io9 exclusive interview to Michele Fazekas [January 12, 2015]:
"Will the absolutely torturous but brilliant Captain America Radio Theater be playing in the background of more episodes?"
Michele Fazekas: "It will come back."
"That was so hard to watch and so wonderful at the same time. Did you feel a little evil gleefully making this completely hilarious thing that's also so sad for Peggy?"
Michele Fazekas: "I love those scenes, and I love how she reacts to those scenes. Eric Pearson wrote the episode that had the Captain America radio show. And he did, and we did, a lot of research. You can go online and get scripts and mp4s of radio shows from that time. So we really tried to make it as authentic as possible. I love them. I think they are so much fun. People are saying, "You guys should do a real Captain America adventure hour," like a blog."
(...)
"Dealing with loss and coping with PTSD from World War II that seems like something that is running through a lot of the characters. Is that going to be a theme that gets developed?"
Michele Fazekas: "Absolutely. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who wrote the pilot and all the Cap movies, that was their big, big thing. The war damaged everyone. We sort of get into that even with the bad guys, and how did it effect everyone. In a way that you can still sort of never move past it. You can fix it but it stays with you forever. That's a big theme for everybody throughout the show."
"So how exactly does this series connect up with the one-shot that was on the Iron Man 3 DVD?"
Michele Fazekas: "The way we look at it, the end of the one shot is she gets called from Howard Stark saying, "Hey I want you to go run SHIELD." So in our mind that's sort of the last thing that would ever happen in the Agent Carter series. You will never see her going off to run SHIELD in this show. That will be the last thing that happens at the very end of the series."
"We know that Peggy Carter is the greatest hero in SHEILD early days, so we're never going to see that?"
Michele Fazekas: "There's already a show called SHIELD, so we don't need to play in that sandbox because they've got that covered. We exist before them."
"Obviously SHIELD is infiltrated by Hydra. Is that going to happen in this series? Are we going to see hints of that?"
Michele Fazekas: "In these 8 episodes… well I won't say that. Yes, you'll maybe see little hints of that."
(...)
"Golden Age Marvel is full of insane characters. There's the original Human Torch. There's the Sub-Mariner. Could we see a version of a 1940s Marvel character besides Cap and the Howling Commandoes show up?"
Michele Fazekas: "We will see other Marvel characters that exist in that world. And that's all I'm going to say."
"When you introduce a character like Dr. Anton Vanko, who is the father of Whiplash Ivan Vanko, do you worry about placing that all together, when you introduce a character like that how much research do you have to do to make sure you're not messing up the MCU? Is there a specific person who is assigned or has a job to check Marvel canon?"
Michele Fazekas: "We work really closely with Eric Carroll in Marvel Studios. He's sort of the guy who tells us, "Well, you can't really do this to that thing, because that's going to step on this project. But what if you do this?" They're really generous with that world. And they also, because there are so many different versions of these character in the comic book world, they let us create a character and it doesn't have to be exactly what was in the comic book. They let it be inspired by the character, but we have a lot of freedom to put them into the story that we want to tell."
https://io9.gizmodo.com/agent-carters-showrunner-spills-whats-next-for-our-new-1679055161
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-Agent Carter 1x3 sneak peek 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video, title and description) including references to MCU movies [January 12, 2015]:
"The Hunt For Stark Continues - Marvel's Agent Carter Season 1, Ep. 3 - Clip 2"
"The SSR continues their search for Howard Stark with new leads popping up left and right in a clip from the next all-new episode of "Marvel's Agent Carter," premiering Tuesday, January 13 at 9:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
https://youtu.be/nT_mwi8gyHQ?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agent Carter posts on its Instagram and Twitter accounts including references to MCU movies [January 12, 2015]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/xxYg3GkqdY/
"#AgentCarter EXCLUSIVE! Howard Stark's freedom hangs in the balance: (http://www.vh1.com/news/2015-01-12/agent-carter-howard-stark-freedom-exclusive/)"
https://twitter.com/AgentCarterTV/status/554736582113366016
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-Agent Carter BTS featurette 2 video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [January 13, 2015]:
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-Marvel Entertainment playlist including the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer 1 on its YouTube account [Updated until January 15, 2015]:
"Marvel Cinematic Universe Trailers"
"Watch the official trailers from the films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe--through Phase 1 and beyond!"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK5HARgNfgj92hCytP-Ep4sX6a0YV3KAH
https://youtu.be/T3T-evQZiQo?list=PLK5HARgNfgj92hCytP-Ep4sX6a0YV3KAH
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-Marvel official site article about Agent Carter [January 16, 2015]:
"Hayley Atwell stars as Agent Carter
"The Iron Ceiling" - Peggy is finally trusted with a mission and calls upon her trusted Howling Commandos squad for backup. But her cover could be at risk when SSR Chief Dooley also sends Agent Thompson with her, on "Marvel's Agent Carter," Tuesday, February 3 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Marvel's Agent Carter" stars Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter, James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis, Chad Michael Murray as Agent Jack Thompson, Enver Gjokaj as Agent Daniel Sousa and Shea Whigham as Chief Roger Dooley.
Guest starring are Eddie Shin as Agent Li, Greg Serano as Agent Ramirez, Neal McDonough as Dum-Dum Dugan, Bridget Regan as Dottie Underwood, Leonard Roberts as Happy Sam Sawyer, James Austin Kerr as Junior Juniper, Richard Short as Pinky Pinkerton, Ralph Brown as Dr. Ivchenko and Jared Gertner as cryptographer.
"The Iron Ceiling" was written by Jose Molina and directed by Peter Leto."
(http://marvel.com/news/tv/23954/debriefing_marvels_agent_carter_the_iron_ceiling)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account featuring Agent Carter including a reference to MCU movies [January 27, 2015]:
"We think we know who's behind that newspaper! Do you? Find out tonight on Marvel's Agent Carter!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/836014383130078
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about One-Shot: Agent Carter and Agent Carter TV show [January 27, 2015]:
[Translation:] "The "Iron Man 3" Blu-ray includes "Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter", ahead of the series that premieres on February 10!"
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/559908666237652993
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-Collider exclusive interview to Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus [January 28, 2015]:
"Given how much Marvel stuff you’ve got going on, how much have you been able to be involved with Carter beyond the pilot and charting out the rest of the season?"
Christopher Markus: "As much as we can be. They’re very good about placing them, geographically, very close to each other so we can run across the alley way. Steve, perhaps more than I have, has been in the room as much as he can."
Stephen McFeely: "Because they put it all in the same spot, we can just walk across the alley and take Cap 3 meetings and then sit in the Agent Carter writers’ room and try to break each episode. So it’s been really gratifying in that way."
Christopher Markus: And a little discombobulating because you're like, "Wait, that guy's dead... Oh no, he's only 30 years old!"
"Can you talk about playing with the greater architecture of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and being able to know what’s happening in Avengers, to know what you guys have planned for Cap 3 and some of the other movies, and then weave that into what you’re doing here?"
Christopher Markus: "It’s fun."
Stephen McFeely: "A light touch, but we do try to do it."
Christopher Markus: "Yeah, but you really only need to drop the tiniest bit of hint and its connected. You don’t have to go, “Howard Stark’s wearing the same pants that Tony wears!” It is a crazy kind of - Everything is enhanced just by the knowledge that its all connected. What will be a completely undisclosed scene in Cap 3, and a perfectly good scene, suddenly, with what I know about this and this… It’s like, "This is a great scene now and we didn’t have to write it any better." It’s just because of all the connections."
"We can see echoes of Howard Stark in Tony, but as he comes back into the show and we get to know him a bit more, might we see some ways he’s different from Tony?"
Christopher Markus: "Oh I think so. He’s burdened in a different way. I think Tony’s burdened with Howard, in a way. Howard raised Tony and that had all its own effects on him. I think Tony is much more flippant than Howard. Howard is a playboy but he’s quite serious about what he’s doing."
Stephen McFeely: "Partly, that’s a function of the Iron Man movies, where Pepper becomes important and he’s not a cad. We’ve not met Maria Stark, so Howard can be as caddish as we’d like him to be. They’re different in that way too."
(...)
"Having shown her at the end of her life in The Winter Soldier, showing her very young now, how much of Peggy’s life, in broad strokes, have you mapped out in your mind?"
Christopher Markus: "Very broad strokes."
Stephen McFeely: "It's not - I can’t hand you twelve scripts tomorrow.
"The Jarvis connection to present day, did you guys have that mapped out in your heads, that character?"
Stephen McFeely: "In terms of Tony names his A.I.?"
Christopher Markus: "I mean, that was in the first Iron Man movie and it sort of got extrapolated backwards from that."
"Do you guys know the through-line yourselves or are you still finding your way?
Stephen McFeely: We are not allowed to specifically talk about the complete through-line [laughs]."
Christopher Markus: "But I do think Jarvis is huge in Tony’s life. I don’t exactly know the math of when Tony was born… probably 1970-something?"
Stephen McFeely: "It depends on how old Robert thinks he is."
"You mentioned the short was the framework and inspiration for this series. Are you using that as canon? Is that going to be where it ends or is that sort of scrapped?"
Christopher Markus: "At the moment, we’re saying that’s where it ends but we all agree and understand that it’s going to get tougher if we continue."
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"You mentioned Jarvis is in Tony's life, as you're writing a movie right now that will have both Steve and Tony in very prevalent roles, have you thought about who Peggy was to Tony Stark?"
Stephen McFeely: "Yes. We have. [Laughs] As we have not started shooting and I'm on my fourth draft of many, that question has been in and out all over the place. So, who knows. So many things can shake out. We've had conversations, and we have scenes; some stay, some don't. But we know Peggy - we saw her in Winter Soldier, so I know she's around."
"When she's working with Howard it makes you wonder."
Stephen McFeely: "Yeah, there's a nexus somewhere. Where is that nexus? I can't gguarantee it's in our movie or not."
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"There are these larger questions of Peggy building a family at some point in between where she is now and The Winter Soldier. Is that something, if Agent Carter gets future seasons, you plan to answer in the show?"
Stephen McFeely: "We like to raise the question… Well, I find it funny – this is a bit of a tangent - because I read a bunch of reviews over the first two weeks but it was all, “What a great, empowering show.” And the whole feminist conversation, I really like that. And then the next week was, “Who is she going to marry?” And I was like, “Is that the same publication?” We always knew that if people really caught it in The Winter Soldier, and we introduce enough candidates in Agent Carter it would come up. I’m perfectly happy for it to come up now. But if you told me we had three more seasons, we’d probably get closer."
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"[Laughs] You also, with Winter Soldier, put in this history of Hydra, that is going to make people have a lot of questions about everything going on in Agent Carter. Obviously, that’s going to be in your mind as well. Is that something where you toss around a lot of ideas about, “Well, this could happen”?"
Stephen McFeely: "Absolutely. Hydra is a blessing and a curse, because as soon as we say, “There they are,” and we show them to the audience, we either have to have Peggy deal with it and then get knocked on the head - because clearly she didn’t know about it - or we have to hide it from Peggy. It’s a storytelling question that we are playing with and considering."
"Is this a show that is open to super powers or do you want to keep it closed in the espionage corner of the Marvel universe?"
Stephen McFeely: "Good question. I guess the question’s open. We live in the Marvel universe. We’re also on television, so what can we do well? Is the Whizzer stopping by any time? I’m not positive. For now, what you’re seeing in the show is certainly the flavor of the show for this season, but who knows."
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"Is there another character in the Marvel Universe you'd like to write a TV show for or a movie for outside of this Captain America realm?"
Stephen McFeely: "Not necessarily, no. It sounds sappy, but I'm just really thankful to find - as a screenwriter you're used to knocking your head against the wall, morons giving you notes, and then you get fired. That's the life of your career, then you go to a different studio different people give you notes, you get fired there, you keep going, and then you retire. The idea that we have found people who are not morons, who are people who will let us play in a very rich sandbox is very gratifying. So it's not like I have my eye on other characters. It's kind of all consuming. For god's sakes we have the movie and TV show we're trying to keep up in the air, it's really all-consuming. My eye doesn't wander."
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"From our point of view with Civil War there was a lot of back and forth between "oh, they're definitely going to make it", "there's no way they're making it", "they might make it". How early did you know this was the direction you were headed in?"
Stephen McFeely: "It’s been on and off the table for a while, let’s put it that way, and it’s a challenge to do it and make sure that all the characters that we’ve established, and everyone’s established in the MCU are serviced and sound correct, right? Because there’s a difference between the characters in Civil War, which was written in 2006, 2007. The MCU didn't exist. There isn’t a Robert Downey Jr. or Chris Evans who has helped create the character, so we need to make sure that that template gets adjusted and what have you in order to make sure it services these characters and not just sort of rip off their parts and make them look like them."
https://collider.com/captain-america-3-civil-war-black-panther-agent-carter/
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-IGN exclusive interview to Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas [January 28, 2015]:
"It is safe to say that Dottie is a Black Widow?"
Michele Fazekas: "That’s correct! She is a product of the Black Widow Program."
Tara Butters: "But we, in the series, are not actually calling her a Black Widow."
Michele Fazekas: "Yeah, we actually never say Black Widow, but people who know about it… You’ll learn even more about it and her history in the next episode."
"Let me get the second big question out of the way that comic book fans familiar with Black Widow’s history have wondered. Might Dottie also go by the name Yelena Belova?"
Michele Fazekas: "No."
"Okay. So just Dottie for now?"
Tara Butters: "She’s Dottie for now. And the fact is, the great and exciting thing for us is we’re showing the precursor to the Black Widow Program, as you will see in the upcoming episode, 105."
"How was the decision made that this would be a part of the show and how it would be a part of the show?"
Michele Fazekas: "It’s interesting, [Christopher] Markus and [Stephen] McFeely, who wrote the pilot, had always had this general idea of Peggy will go to Russia on a mission, and so that was an early idea…"
Tara Butters: "Basically we had a mini-boot camp and it was Markus, McFeely, Michele and I and Chris [Dingess], and as we were breaking out the season, we realized we needed a foil for Peggy that was a female foil and that’s kind of how we came up with Dottie. As we started to create her we realized there was this interesting connection we could be making."
Michele Fazekas: "We weren’t sure how much Marvel would want to do that, how much they would allow us because you’re essentially creating new canon about a character."
Tara Butters: "You’re filling in a background for this world."
Michele Fazekas: "Scarlett Johansson's character is of that sort of world. We didn’t know how much they’d be willing to let us play with that but they were very on board from the beginning. They thought it was cool."
Tara Butters: "Basically Dottie is the product of a Russian spy program which could end up being the Black Widow program."
"Like the SSR becoming SHIELD?"
Tara Butters: "Yeah, that’s actually a great way to look at it."
"Obviously the MCU is not an exact replica of the comic books, nor could it be - Natasha, for instance, was a baby in the 1940s in the comics. But this does fit, in its own way, because the Black Widow program is supposed to have been around for that long too, so did this just feel like a way to adapt that idea for the MCU?"
Tara Butters: "I think the fun thing about our period of time in the MCU is we have the ability to help draw connections without actually interfering or stepping on anything that’s going on currently. But it really is actually kind of fun to make the world smaller. You know, the idea that Peggy could be having this interaction with Dottie and that same Russian, spy program could end up turning into the Black Widow program, which, obviously, the current characters are dealing with today. That’s been a really fun challenge, to connect the world without stepping on the world."
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"Your other big reveal last night was Howard Stark hiding Captain America’s blood. Going forward, how integral will that be to the final four episodes and the fact that this is a coveted item?"
Michele Fazekas: "I would say it comes back in a big way."
"Similar to my Black Widow question, how did you come up with the idea to use Cap’s blood in the storyline?"
Michele Fazekas: "It was very late in the process. It was one of those things where we knew that Howard was hiding something. We started with, “Howard’s got an alternate agenda.” We didn’t really know much beyond that. We didn’t originally think that SSR would have custody of all of Howard Stark’s stuff so early in the process - but they get it all in episode three. So then it was like, maybe it’s one of those things that Howard wants Peggy to get… But it was very late in the process. We were like, “He wants something and we’ll figure out what that something is,” and we tabled that for a long time. I think it was the writing staff, when they came up with Steve Roger’s blood… It was sort of a perfect thing because it wasn’t just he wants this cool piece of technology. It was something that had such an emotional connection for Peggy and everything fell into place after that."
Tara Butters: "This goes to a question we get asked at every interview, which is how involved is Marvel Studios and Marvel TV and have they pushed us in any directions. And I would say they’ve never pushed us in any directions but what they’ve done, which has been really, really remarkable for us, is when we come to them with these big ideas… Because it is a big idea to go and say, “What if it’s the last remaining sample of [Captain America’s] blood and can we put that in the show?” They’ve been so excited about these ideas and so supportive. Us showing Dottie as a precursor to the Black Widow Program, Captain America’s blood, these are big things in this universe that they’re willing to let us play with."
"In the comics, the Winter Soldier would pop up through the decades and have this romantic relationship with Black Widow - with Natasha. So now I’m thinking, “What if he had a romantic relationship with Dottie?” in this version. I know you can’t give me a specific yes or no on something like that happening, but does your mind go to those places too just because you do have such a canvas to work with?"
Michele Fazekas: "All things are possible. [Laughs] I would say, yes, your mind goes everywhere. We certainly can’t reveal anything about that."
"Let’s talk about next week’s episode and Peggy being sent on this mission with the Howling Commandos. What’s especially notable of course is her being sent on a mission at all by the SSR."
Michele Fazekas: "That is actually a very big moment in her relationship with Dooley; the fact that she’s even being sent out as a field agent. You get the sense that this is the first time she’s actually been trusted. It’s a big reflection of Dooley, I think. You see Dooley has developed… Even in last night’s episode, where he’s not simply blindly saying “Howard Stark’s a bad guy.” He’s smart enough to know that there’s something else going on here we’re not being told. He sees this cover up. So that I think is more of how Dooley’s character is developing and it’s a very nice sort of development in his relationship with Peggy."
https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/28/marvels-agent-carter-dottie-black-widow
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-Agent Carter 1x5 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account (video and description) including references to MCU movies [January 30, 2015]:
"See the Howling Commandos ambush the Agents in a clip from this week's "Marvel's Agent Carter," airing this Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
https://youtu.be/tH_vVdpR6_8?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Marvel official site article about Agent Carter [February 3, 2015]:
"“Marvel’s Agent Carter” continues to explore the roots of the Marvel Cinematic Universe this week as Peggy and the Howling Commandos journey into the heart of Soviet Russia to uncover the origins of the Black Widow program!
The all-new episode premiering tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET on ABC sees Peggy reunite with Dum Dum Dugan, her war buddy from Marvel’s “Captain America: The First Avenger” and leader odf the Howling Commandos as the ongoing mystery of Leviathan continues to deepen.
We had the chance to chat with “Marvel’s Agent Carter” Executive Producers Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas about the upcoming revelations, riding with the Howling Commandos, and more, so read on to hear what they say before you tune in to a new episode tonight on ABC!
Marvel.com: To start with, we can finally talk about the fact that we are going into the Red Room. When this idea of going to there and exploring the origins of the Black Widow program came up, how much collaboration was there between you guys and Kevin Feige and Louis D’Esposito over at the studios about making sure everything lined up?
Michele Fazekas: There was quite a bit. I think when we came up with the idea of this female antagonist for Peggy, [we] started to go, “Well, you know what it could really be?” [laughs]
Then we floated it by Kevin and Lou, and we felt like there was no way they were going to do this. We weren’t sure that we were going to be allowed to play with the origins of [the Black Widow program], but they were really kind of excited about it.
We sat down with [Christopher] Markus, [Stephen] McFeely, and Chris Dingess and said, “Okay. Here are these eight episodes.” We [took that] over to Marvel and pitched it all to Kevin and when we got to that part, we sort of waited for the “Mm, I don’t think so.” But Kevin was like, “Oh, that’s cool.” [laughs] So we’re like, “Really?! Alright!” They’ve been nothing but supportive and excited about it.
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Marvel.com: Just to be clear, for anyone reading this, what we’re exploring here are really the origins of the Black Widow program and Dottie being a product of that, not her being a Black Widow, correct?
Michele Fazekas: Correct. And we’re going to really get into that in the next episode, which is really fun.
Marvel.com: The idea of the Red Room and the Black Widow program have roots in the comics, so in addition to looking at what’s been explored of it in the films so far, how much did you guys look towards what had come before in the comics?
Tara Butters: I think we were inspired by them, and then we could also take our own spin on it. Marvel was really open to that. You get a really cool glimpse into it in the next episode.
Marvel.com: And of course, we also get to bring back the Howling Commandos in this episode and see them ride again. How early on did you guys know that you’d be bringing those characters back and for this specific mission?
Tara Butters: Like Michele said earlier, we had broken out the tentpoles for the eight episodes, so we knew where they would land in episode five. As the story broke out further, it seemed to be the perfect episode to have them participate in Peggy’s mission. But it’s interesting when you’re doing any production, especially a TV show where things happen very quickly, you never know, as far as actors go, who’s going to be available, [or] who’s going to be interested in doing a TV show. So it was gee, I hope we can get some of them, and luckily we got a familiar face and we were actually able to go back to the comics and [introduce] Howling Commandos who were established in there that we’ve never seen before in any of the features. We could actually get into some of those new characters, so they’re names and characters that come from the comics that you’ll be able to see as well.
Marvel.com: This episode also gets to see Peggy in the field, which we’ve seen before, but this time we get to see her on an actual, official mission that she isn’t keeping a secret from everyone. Did you guys also see this as a chance to, in the course of Peggy’s arc, finally give her an opportunity to potentially shine in front of her colleagues and show them what she’s really capable of?
Tara Butters: It’s a big turning point for her relationship with all of her colleagues, both good and bad, so I think it’s a nice moment. You’re right, she’s officially on this mission, which means Dooley let her go on this mission. That shows [where Dooley’s head is at after] episode four, where he went to Nuremberg and started to feel like there’s more going on here than just Howard Stark selling weapons to our enemies. He’s smart enough to realize there’s a cover-up, and all may not be as it seems. Because of that, his character has some interesting developments."
(https://www.marvel.com/articles?linkId=12135325#ixzz3Qj1Gizck)
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-Marvel interview to Chad Michael Murray and Enver Gjokaj video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [February 3, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/PcyJbPxA8o0?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Agent Carter TV show on its Twitter account including a reference to MCU movies (image and description) [February 3, 2015]:
[Translation:] "Howard, we're looking forward to Peggy too, but 'Agent Carter' is out next week. At 10PM in @Canal_Sony."
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/562807509145387012
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-ScreenSlam exclusive interview to Enver Gjokaj video on ScreenSlam YouTube channel [February 5, 2015]:
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-Agent Carter post on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies [February 9, 2015]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/y5SwC2kqZI/
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Agent Carter TV show on its Twitter account including a reference to MCU movies [February 11, 2015]:
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/565355799594418178
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-Agent Carter 1x7 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [February 17, 2015]:
"The Agents of the SSR interrogate Peggy about Howard Stark's whereabouts in a clip from the next all-new episode of "Marvel's Agent Carter" premiering Tuesday, February 17 at 9:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
https://youtu.be/JROFuS7XElk?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agent Carter 'Dress For Success, Part 1' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies, also shared on its Twitter account [February 19, 2015]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/575053463656116224
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-Agent Carter 'Dress For Success, Part 2' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies, also shared on its Twitter account (video and descriptions) [February 19, 2015]:
"“Marvel’s Agent Carter" costume designer Giovanna Ottobre-Melton breaks down men’s fashion for the ‘40s spy with a look at the SSR Agents’ wardrobes! Catch the season finale of "Marvel's Agent Carter” Tuesday, February 24 at 9:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
"We continue our behind-the-scenes look at the costume design of #AgentCarter w/ a spotlight on the SSR Agents!"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/568530522881662976
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-Daredevil post on its Twitter and Facebook (latam) accounts including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [February 20, 2015]:
"Be careful of the Murdock boys. They got the devil in them. #Daredevil"
https://twitter.com/Daredevil/status/568832472219127808
https://www.facebook.com/DaredevilLat/photos/a.697245490383562/712378408870270/
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-Agent Carter 1x8 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [February 23, 2015]:
"Howard Stark gets a less-than-warm welcome from the SSR as he makes his return in a new clip from the season finale of “Marvel’s Agent Carter” premiering Tuesday, February 24 at 9:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
https://youtu.be/dj_wOgUsOxs?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agent Carter 1x8 sneak peek 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (description) including a reference to MCU movies [February 23, 2015]:
"Peggy and the SSR experience a bad night at the movies as Doctor Fenhoff ramps up his attack in the season finale of “Marvel’s Agent Carter” Tuesday, February 24 at 9:00 p.m. ET on ABC!"
https://youtu.be/nCPmwEvZ9as?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive interview to Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters [February 24, 2015]:
"When you were piecing together Stark’s finale storyline, what came first: Getting him redemption or wanting a really awesome way to tie into Captain America?"
Michele Fazekas: "The Captain America thing was a very late idea. [Writer] Lindsey Allen came up with it. We knew that we had wanted an airplane very early on. We knew we wanted him to be in an airplane."
Tara Butters: "And Peggy was trying to talk him down."
Michele Fazekas: "We knew that we wanted Fennhoff to put the whammy on him, but we didn’t how how Fennhoff got in. We didn’t just want zombie-Howard flying a plane."
Tara Butters: "He needs to have a mission. This was something we were stuck on. I remember Michele and I had been in post and Lindsay had been really excited because she had been working with the room and pitched, “What if he’s looking for Captain America?”"
Michele Fazekas: "She even pitched us the shield part, too, and then Peggy shows up and she’s holding Captain America’s shield. That almost ended up getting cut from the episode, but I’m so glad it didn’t. Obviously anyone who watches Marvel stuff knows that Captain America’s shield is with Captain America. That went down with the Valkyrie, but it doesn’t matter. It was such an iconic thing for this fantasy that Howard had created in his head because of Fennhoff. It’s a really good example of how a good writers’ room can altogether come up with these amazing ideas. It fit so perfectly into everything else we were trying to do."
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"Talk about Peggy’s decision to destroy Steve Rogers’ blood. Was that her way of moving on?"
Tara Butters: "It’s protecting him and moving on at the same time."
Michele Fazekas: "She could’ve kept it, but there’s too much risk. It was more important for her to protect him than to keep him."
Tara Butters: "And taking him back to Brooklyn. Also, the last scene between Jarvis and Peggy we’re really proud of. It’s really lovely where you see a scene realized even better than what you had in your head."
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"Can you talk about ending the season with the surprise cameo from Toby Jones as Arnim Zola?"
Tara Butters: "When we pitched the eight-episode arc to Marvel, it was off of a very off-handed comment that Kevin [Feige] made where he was saying, “You know what? If this all works out, you could tie into the Winter Soldier program.”"
Michele Fazekas: "Markus and McFeely came with an idea that the bad guy could be Fennhoff, but they weren’t sure that would work until we all worked on a version of the story. Kevin Feige was like, “Oh, we can say that’s the basis for the Winter Soldier program.” So it was them being quite generous with connecting this to their universe."
Tara Butters: "Once they opened that up, it made sense to talk about Toby Jones’ character and whether or not we could find a way to bring him in."
Michele Fazekas: "We always talked about it as, “Wouldn’t it be interesting if Toby Jones could show up?” I don’t think it was always about it being a tag for the end of the episode, but when we broke the episode, that’s where it fit in. I actually never thought it would happen, that we would probably have to come up with something else. Then it was like, “Oh no, he’s available and interested.” And then he was on a plane to Burbank."
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"What is your point of pride for the season?"
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Michele Fazekas: "(...) He puts her on the same level as Captain America."
https://ew.com/article/2015/02/24/agent-carter-bosses-peggy-closure-captain-america-ties/
https://www.hypable.com/showrunner-tara-butters-talks-foes-friends-and-the-future-of-agent-carter/
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-Comic Book Resources exclusive interview to Will Corona Pilgrim [February 25, 2015]:
"So essentially writing comic stories of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is just like writing stories for any shared universe. You find a spot where there's room to tell an organic story in between what every one else is doing."
Will Corona Pilgrim: "(...) In the same way we showed Tony Stark meeting General Ross there's some significance in the "Ant-Man Prelude" that kind of leads into a greater shared cinematic universe that we work so hard to keep coherent with all these spin-offs, tie-ins, TV shows, one-shots, and comics. We definitely want our stories to feel part of that universe, but we want to have some fun and tell a great comic story."
"Let's talk a little more about the "Ant-Man Prelude." For this story I understand you're giving us a tale of the Hank Pym Ant-Man, played by Michael Douglas in the upcoming film, in his prime. When does this story take place? And how similar and how different is the MCU Hank to his Marvel Universe counterpart?"
Will Corona Pilgrim: "The time period it takes place in is generally about the mid '80s. We don't have a specific time stamp because we tend not to do that in the MCU, but it' definitely around the time when Gorbachev was the leader in Russia. There's definitely a Berlin Wall, which plays a large role in the story because Hank's mission in the comic is to get through the Berlin Wall and get into East Berlin; just off the Death Strip is where he needs to get to. They need to do it covertly too, which is not an easy task at that time."
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"We've talked about Hank, let's touch upon some of the other cast members in the "Ant-Man Prelude." What can you tell us about them?"
Will Corona Pilgrim: "S.H.I.E.L.D. is involved, and if you're watching a certain TV show right now you might be familiar with certain players in S.H.I.E.L.D. [Laughs] That's about as far as I can go."
https://www.cbr.com/exploring-untold-tales-of-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-in-comics-form/
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive interview to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely [February 25, 2015]:
"How did the idea to have Toby Jones appear in the finale first come together?"
Stephen McFeely: "We’ve wanted Toby Jones to appear since we pitched this show. We did not know exactly where it would happen or where he was on his timeline, but we always wanted to show you how Hydra started it’s [reach within S.H.I.E.L.D.]"
Christopher Markus: "People having seen [Captain America:] Winter Soldier know what happens to S.H.I.E.L.D., so we didn’t want to deal with that as a plot point because it’s a given, but just to give them a delicious little taste of the story that they know happen. Also, it has become clear weirdly that there are four characters who span the entire marvel Cinematic Universe: Steve, Bucky (Sebastian Stan), Peggy and Zola. We wanted to see Toby’s body again."
Stephen McFeely: "We just saw his head last time."
"Was this also your way of saying this is leading to the Winter Soldier program since Dr. Faustus works in mind control?"
Stephen McFeely: "Yes, I think it is safe to say there is a connection."
Christopher Markus: "It’s a bit of a convoluted timeline in that in the first Captain America, Zola was captured in the same mission where Bucky fell off the train. Theoretically, a division of Hydra—possibly a Russian division of Hydra—went and got the body while Zola was in custody. Zola had already done something to Bucky, and experimented on him that made him beyond human, which allowed him to survive the fall and make him worth doing the research on. They kept him in stasis until Zola was able to have a little bit of freedom from the American government, at which point he maybe brought his new friend Johann Fennhoff to handle the mind control part of the Winter Soldier project."
Stephen McFeely: "That’s how we see it. I’m not positive that is gospel at the moment, but that’s how we sleep at night."
"Why was this an important moment to get to since it really links so many other big moments together?"
Stephen McFeely: "The idea that we can link all these movies because we’re the ones writing them allows us to plant stuff that other people might not plant because maybe they don’t care or might not see the connections. Because we have no lives and this is what we do now, it allows us to make important things that people might not find important. Zola wasn’t always going to be in Winter Soldier, but we needed a good way to have this exposition dump in the middle of the movie. We love Toby Jones and thought that would be a great idea. When we got the chance to do the television show, we wanted Toby Jones in that too."
Christopher Markus: "It’s a weird balance of this primal pleasure in the way everything interconnects, but you have to balance that with making the world too small, like only five people are responsible for everything that ever happened. Because this is the Captain America section of the Marvel Universe, it felt valid and more fun."
Stephen McFeely: "It was [showrunners] Tara Butters and Michelle Fazekas who decided to put him in jail. We said, “Let’s have him!” and they figured out where to put him."
"Were there other alternate endings you considered when it came to Zola and Faustus?"
Christopher Markus: "The debate is when he went from prisoner to collaborator. In 1946, he was probably still a prisoner, but there was some debate of what side of the bars he’s on."
Stephen McFeely: "Was there a version where he’s wearing a little I.D. badge that says he’s working for the Americans now?"
Christopher Markus: "But that made the U.S. government too stupid. [Laughs]"
Stephen McFeely: "One could argue that they ought to at least be in adjoining cells, but there are certain practicalities to shooting."
"If there is a second season, would you delve into the Winter Soldier program or is that something you want to keep for the movie side of things?"
Stephen McFeely: "It’s a little TBD on that. Because of what we know about Winter Soldier and that Hydra was working all along with S.H.I.E.L.D., it necessitates Peggy having a lot less information than the audience has, so I’m not sure how long we could keep that up—where every time Toby Jones smiles at her, we know something and she doesn’t. We don’t know exactly what Season 2 is yet, or if there is one, so I don’t have a great answer on how we would use him, if at all."
"Does this open up the possibility of seeing Dr. Faustus in the future?"
Stephen McFeely: "He’s easier, yeah."
Christopher Markus: "Anybody who doesn’t die can come back, and even some people who do die can come back, as the movies have shown. It just depends on where we want to go with the possibility of another season. There’s something very appealing about not picking up two days after the first one ended, but taking a jump. We know Peggy lived well into Winter Soldier, so we have that much time to deal with. I don’t think we’d jump to 1980 when she’s 70 years old, but we can move in time, so it’s hard to say who comes back and who doesn’t."
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"So her pre-Captain America days?"
Christopher Markus: "Yeah, but that doesn’t mean we need to tell [it in] flashbacks."
Stephen McFeely: "It just means that problems from before she even joined the SSR might come back and revisit themselves, allowing you to explore her past."
Christopher Markus: "What—other than tremendous ability and self-confidence—motivates a woman in 1940 to put up with this much resistance and danger? Why that path? Because it’s not an easy one. There are stories to be told."
Stephen McFeely: "Other than that, it’s been a nice combination of most of the things we pitched fell into place. We knew we were going to get Faustus, things were going to go wrong with his plan, he’d have to readjust and get brought into the SSR in a tricky way. He was going to be in Russia and get brought in behind the walls. We always knew Peggy was going to pour Steve’s blood out. That was a big moment for us. We didn’t know where it was going to happen. Tara and Michele pretty cinematically put it on the Brooklyn Bridge. We always thought the idea that Peggy could be the custodian of Steve and have one final chance to say goodbye to him, thus—in many ways—creating the biggest problem of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is that everybody wants to replicate Steve’s [abilities]. That’s how you got the Hulk and things like that. We liked the idea that it was on Peggy Carter doing the right thing."
"What came with the decision not to delve into the husband storyline since it was such a big hint dropped during Winter Soldier? And do you have a sense of who it is?"
Christopher Markus: "We have potential senses. You lob it off too early and suddenly you’ve got a couple show."
Stephen McFeely: "This was the season where she says goodbye to Steve. I’m proud of the fact that Captain America hovers over this show, but hopefully in an organic way, and we’re not shoving him in there all the time. But we knew by the end that she should say goodbye to him. In a second season, she could be freer to have those conversations about a life after him."
Christopher Markus: "Also, you’re doing a show about this incredibly independent woman and you’re always talking about the man she left behind. It becomes a little contradictory. We know her husband was in the war and he was saved by Captain America. He could be a baker. [Laughs]"
Stephen McFeely: "Being saved by Cap could be very tangential."
"Should the series not be renewed, would you consider doing another One-Shot?"
Stephen McFeely: "If it doesn’t get picked up, I mean you never know. It would have to be a really perfect 12 minutes."
"What do you want audiences to take away from this season?"
Stephen McFeely: "I think a lot of people were surprised by how good it was. It’s clear that Marvel really was invested in her. I hope it’s clear that we and the writing staff were invested in her. I think it’s really clear that Hayley is a very good actress who knows this character backwards and forwards. Whether it comes back or not, I think people will look back on this fondly and say this was well worth it and they got to learn a lot more about a character who holds a resonance throughout the MCU."
https://ew.com/article/2015/02/25/captain-america-writers-surprise-agent-carter-cameo/
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-Cinema Blend article of an interview to Daredevil cast and creators [February 26, 2015]:
"In an interview appearing in the latest issue of Empire Magazine, the cast and creative minds behind Daredevil discuss the place that Marvel Comics’ blind beater of baddies will have in the scope of the larger continuity. When asked about a possible appearance in Captain America: Civil War, Charlie Cox - who plays the radar-sensitive "Man Without Fear" on the show- implied that he was open to the possibility, but that it might not necessarily make sense given what’s going on in the Netflix series. Cox told the magazine,
"In this show, Daredevil feels special, like a big thing, not an everyday occurrence. It's not like he's one of that lot."
Cox also notes that there will be plenty of acknowledgment that the show will indeed exist in the MCU by way of various "casual Easer egg references," but it will be interesting to see how Daredevil’s connection to the rest of the fictional world could expand in the coming years.
(...)
"We are still part of the Marvel Universe, but we are not explicitly in that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. world. We're in our own corner. So the aliens came down and ruined the ciy, and this is the story of Hell's Kitchen's rebuild.""
https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Captain-America-3-Include-Daredevil-70024.html
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account [February 26, 2015]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/851676788230504
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-Digital Spy exclusive entreview to Jeph Loeb [March 4, 2015]:
"What does it add to the show to bring the Inhumans into Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD?"
Jeph Loeb: "For the Marvel fan, there's an enormous connectivity into the Marvel Universe. Also, it is a shift in the show, which began with the idea that not all heroes are super. Now, apparently, there's someone on the team that doesn't fit into that box and how are they going to react to that?"
(...)
"How excited are you for fans to see the second half of season two?"
Jeph Loeb: "All I can say is, 'You ain't seen nothing yet!' I have to give credit to the incredible writing staff at SHIELD because there's some spectacular stuff coming up. Having Edward James Olmos and Blair Underwood join our cast and knowing that Lady Sif - Jaimie Alexander - is coming back sets you up for excitement. What can I tell you about it? Well, the best is yet to come."
(...)
"What about the Netflix shows? Will they be able to cross over with any of the other Marvel television shows, such as Marvel's Agents of Shield or Agent Carter?"
Jeph Loeb: "Look, it all exists in the same universe. As it is now, in the same way that our films started out as self-contained and then by the time we got to The Avengers, it became more practical for Captain America to do a little crossover into Thor 2 and for Bruce Banner to appear at the end of Iron Man 3."
"We have to earn that. The audience needs to understand who all of these characters are and what the world is before you then start co-mingling in terms of where it's going."
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Agent Carter TV show on its Twitter account including a reference to MCU movies [March 4, 2015]:
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/572961919755149312
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [March 5, 2015]:
"Lady Sif is back this Tuesday on Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/855519201179596
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [March 9, 2015]:
"Tomorrow, Lady Sif returns to Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/858200470911469
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-Daredevil trailer 2 on Marvel Entertainment and Netflix accounts on YouTube including references to MCU movies [March 10, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/DGxO-_Sq8SI?list=PL-C3mi_0OhmKmN3_TYcWDTG2WXgQNiVtW
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x12 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [March 10, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/Hzp5oVmRa6E?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x12 sneak peek 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [March 10, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/Eco1QTsmQMc?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. official account tweet (image and description) including references to MCU movies [March 10, 2015]:
""There are tides in the universe that you cannot swim against." ~Lady Sif #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/575474201110310913
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [March 11, 2015]:
"West Coast, don't miss Lady Sif in all her glory on Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD, STARTING NOW!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/858821600849356
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-Daredevil trailer on Marvel Entertainment UK account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [March 12, 2015]:
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-Daredevil official account response to David Weiser on Twitter [March 15, 2015]:
David Weiser response: "@Daredevil @vincentdonofrio What is the best part of joining the MCU so far? #AskFisk"
Daredevil response: ""@weiser_david What is the best part of joining the MCU so far? #AskFisk" Opportunity to work with the creative minds of @marvel."
https://twitter.com/Daredevil/status/578287082390474752 > https://twitter.com/weiser_david/status/577242158605840384
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-'Marvel Word Association With Ming-Na Wen' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [March 17, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/JzJ_dlIKlMs?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Daredevil motion poster on Marvel Entertainment and Netflix accounts on YouTube including references to MCU movies [March 19, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/ltzGfeqWp_M?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-fHUm3rh3daDlF1kp-F1cV
https://youtu.be/n_Yh8bU4eRA?list=PL-C3mi_0OhmKmN3_TYcWDTG2WXgQNiVtW
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x14 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [March 20, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/X4kreYvg6Ss?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. DVD/Blu-Ray trailer on Marvel Entertainment Deutschland (video and description) including references to MCU movies [March 27, 2015]:
[Translation:] "The epic adventure that began in Marvel's The Avengers continues in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. You can now get the entire first season on Blu-Ray and DVD.
(...)
About Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
The epic story that began in the cinema in Marvel's The Avengers finds its brilliant sequel in the action-packed series Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete First Season. The Battle of New York changed the world forever, proving the existence of superheroes and aliens. Because of this, Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) - who survived his alleged death - returns to the secret organization S.H.I.E.L.D. back to put together a new team. The elite unit of highly qualified agents is on their missions on the lookout for people with superpowers and investigate supernatural threats in order to protect humanity. But each answer raises new questions that reverberate throughout the Marvel Universe: Who is "the clairvoyant"? What is Hydra's darkest plan and who can you still trust?"
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x15 sneak peek 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies, also shared on its Twitter account [March 30, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/1BjLeUKud9U?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/579062367742365696
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-Yahoo article about Edward James Olmos shared on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Twitter [March 31, 2015]:
Yahoo article: "Even if he wanted to tell us how his storyline turns out, Olmos says he couldn’t. “Actually, I don’t know how it ends! I have to see it.” Marvel — like Coulson and Nick Fury before him — is notoriously secretive, to the point that the actors themselves sometimes aren’t sure what’s going on. But he refuses to say that they’re wrapped on his character, even though they’ve finished shooting his current run. “You can’t wrap in the Marvel world!” After all, even if Gonzales dies, what comic book character hasn’t come back from the dead?"
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tweet: "Before tonight's showdown, see what @edwardjolmos said about stepping into the Marvel universe! #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/582988485511917568 > https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/edward-james-olmos-agents-of-shield-115128146930.html
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-Daredevil TV spot 1 on Marvel Entertainment account including references to MCU movies [April 6, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/kkY13J2rcsc?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-fHUm3rh3daDlF1kp-F1cV
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x16 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [April 6, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/4n4Ao3PG2bQ?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-IGN article of an exclusive interview to Jeph Loeb [April 8, 2015]:
"A couple months back, the official account for Marvel's Daredevil revealed an image suggesting Carl "Crusher" Creel, aka Absorbing Man, would pop up in a flashback to fight Matt Murdock's father Battlin' Jack.
Of course, we've already seen Absorbing Man on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, which led some fans to speculate that the time gap between Jack's death and the events of SHIELD might not add up. Others postulated that Absorbing Man may have just been related to the Creel in Daredevil.
However, while speaking with IGN's Roth Cornet, Daredevil/SHIELD producer Jeph Loeb confirmed that Daredevil's Creel and SHIELD's Absorbing Man are one and the same.
"That is that story," Loeb told us. "I get to smile a little bit because I was the first one who put Crusher Creel in the fight with Jack Murdock in Daredevil: Yellow. It exists there, so it's in the comics."
In regards to the age difference, Loeb explained, "If you look at it, there's actually a very critical line, which is, 'Battlin' Jack is doing very well against a much younger fighter.' So the idea is, we looked at it from the point of view of, Mike Tyson was the heavyweight champion when he was 18 years old. [Brian Patrick Wade], who plays him in the show, looks like he's in his mid-30s, so there was enough time for us to be able to say, 'There's no reason why that isn't the same person.'
"The fun part is you caught it; the good news is you don't have to. But if you're a Marvel fan or a SHIELD fan or a Daredevil fan, you go, 'Oh! It is all related in some way' -- or like I say, '#ItsAllConnected.'""
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-IGN article of an exclusive interview to Daredevil's cast and Jeph Loeb [April 8, 2015]:
"The Avengers vs. The Defenders
"We were thinking about The Avengers vs. The Defenders," Dawson said, when asked how she felt their dark and gritty series would fit in with the larger MCU. "And I think it's a different thing. When you've got that level of superpowers, the fighting is different, the stakes are different, and it has a grander feel. In that world, they exist in it, so they know it and it's normal to them. But in reality when people are fighting and doing really bad, elicit crimes on the ground and there are guns and drugs - bones are going to break. People aren't hitting each other and nothing's going to happen because they're indestructible. These are people. They're vulnerable and you get to experience that."
For the team behind the series, as well as audiences, Daredevil on Netflix afforded the opportunity to explore a more mature side of Marvel storytelling.
"My boyfriend is a huge comic book reader, grew up reading them," Woll noted. "And I like the idea that now there are these great Marvel franchises that are good for everyone, but it's nice to make something that's really just for grownups and something that can be a little more niche. We can be really specific about our storytelling. I like that we can open that up a little bit with these street-level stories."
This is the Bone-Crushing Side of the MCU
As many have already seen in the trailers and preview footage for the series, Daredevil is gloriously violent. It's brutal. There's a level of savagery that's not only unusual for Marvel, but for most television series, even those on cable. It sets a very specific tone, and one that lends itself to the story they were seeking to tell.
"We didn't want to set out to tell a superhero story," Loeb explained of their creative intentions. "We wanted to set out to tell a crime drama first, and a superhero story second. It was also very important to us that New York City be a character in the story. And that the world of New York was much more the world of Hell's Kitchen -- that is, a place of battered brick, and wet streets, and steam coming up, and that amber hue that comes off the taxi cabs at night. That's the New York that Daredevil lives in."
The show thrusts the viewer into this vicious reality immediately, and that's particularly true for Karen Page's introduction. In that respect, Woll was able to draw on some of her experience on HBO's vampire series True Blood.
"I came on to True Blood with a real bang -- right out of the trunk of a car and thrust into this very dramatic moment," the actress reflected. "In a way, I got to use the same energy, that same tool, for Daredevil."
Would Captain America Approve?
Cox confessed to our colleague Lucy O'Brien that he'd love to see his Daredevil make an appearance in Captain America: Civil War.
"I don't know," Cox laughed when we jokingly asked if Cap would approve of his more femur-crushing methods.
In thinking about how these two tonally divergent creations may merge, the actor said that he believes there must be a way. And there must.
"I think it's possible," Cox enthused. "I think there's a way that the world's can merge. I think our show feels tonally and thematically a bit different from The Avengers movies, but it's all one universe and I feel like there's a way for Daredevil - and other characters, Luke Cage and street level crime characters - to fit into that universe. I think there has to be a way, and I think it's about finding an autonomous tone for that film - for Civil War."
Hot Dogs and Chitauri
It's a fun and entertaining element of this series that the characters will casually mention Thor, even as they're dealing with slumlords, gangsters, skull-breaking, and the struggle to pay the rent.
"Here's the thing," Woll said of the blend of the fantastical and gritty. "I think it's not weird in the same way that, when our politicians or people like that talk about international crises, they seem like these huge, unimaginable horrors that are happening, but there's distance. So this world that is real but doesn't quite hit you in your everyday life. I think to me that's the kind of parallel I draw. There are just these incredible dangers happening, but at the street level, that's where we deal with Matt, and Karen, and Foggy and the battles that they're fighting."
Henson, who after working on The Hunger Games series has an intimate understanding of a passionate fanbase, wants nothing more than to give them what they want.
"I realized fairly early on that that's what a lot of fans get excited about," the actor explained. "I have a friend who's a big comic book guy and his whole thing is he just loved that it's all in that one universe. I think Marvel was really smart to tap into something there, because people want that. They want to believe this world exists."
The more layers there are to the MCU, the easier it is to see it as a full and thriving reality.
"If you live in New York, there are things that are going on all the time," Loeb said. "I would never make light of the tragedy of 9/11, but 9/11 affected different neighborhoods in very different ways. They were all aware that this had happened, but the further down you got towards that area, the more affected you were by it. So we started with that sort of idea, that if the sky opened up and Chitauri were raining down with giant whales, and the Hulk and the Avengers were there to save the day, that's really exciting, but how did that affect the people who were six blocks over and thee avenues down? That's the richness of the Marvel Universe. You can have that sort of thing happen and refer to it, but not have it be -- we're not the world of the comics where you look up in the sky and Thor flies by all the time."
"This is a world where people do refer to Tony Stark as a billionaire in a tin suit, or the idea that they think there's a Thor out there with a magic hammer," Loeb added. "But the truth of the matter is, 'I've never seen him. Have you ever seen him?' It's that kind of world that we exist in. For us, it makes Marvel what Marvel has always been, which is grounded.
Woll jokingly remarked that we'll get to see the impact of these larger scale events from the little man's perspective. "If you saw someone batting alien worms out of the sky, you might have some issues," the actress laughed.
(...)
What About Spider-Man?
Marvel didn't have the rights to use Spider-Man prior to production on Daredevil. If they had, though, we likely would have seen - if not, perhaps, Peter Parker - then certainly things like Ben Urich working at The Daily Bugle, rather than a newly-created newspaper.
Loeb wasn't able to say for sure that we'd start to see some of Spider-Man's world come into Daredevil now that it's a possibility, but the door is open to some tantalizing connections.
Vincent D'Onofrio revealed to our colleague Scott Collura that he'd love to see Kingpin whip Spider-Man's butt.
When asked if this Kingpin was the right man for the job, Woll showed her support for the idea, saying, "Knowing Vincent and knowing the performance that he is capable of giving, I have no doubt that Kingpin could play in any arena of the Marvel Universe."
Henson went a step further by saying that not just the character, but the actor was the right man to take on Spidey.
"I think Vincent D'Onofrio is villain enough to do that," Henson laughed. "He's awesome! He's so awesome. When I would see him in the wardrobe and everything -- because we didn't really get a chance to work together at all -- man, you see him, and you believe it. Plus, I've been obsessed with him ever since I was a little kid. I was obsessed with Stanley Kubrick. I wrote papers on Full Metal Jacket and stuff. I was such a movie nerd. I wish he was in every movie that I watched. He's just awesome."
Having seen some of Kingpin in this series, we'd be very, very afraid for Spider-Man if he had to face Kingpin before he was ready.
Beyond Daredevil: Where Else Might These Characters Show Up?
Dawson's character is a fascinating amalgamation of a Luke Cage supporting character, Claire Temple, and Marvel's Night Nurse, so it seems likely that she'll appear in - at the very least - additional Netflix series.
"I think that's what makes the MCU so interesting is that the characters can move around," Dawson enthused. "I hope we get to see more of these characters interacting because that just feels normal. That's the world that we're creating. So it would happen. And it's happened already. But I think it'll be really interesting to see if that specifically does develop, because as a fan I'd expect it. I'd want to see that explored a little bit. That's the benefit of the Marvel Universe, is that you have seen that happen already, so there's an expectation for that."
For her part, Woll is open to wherever they want to take Karen - as long as they stay true to her nature. "If she ends up interacting at all with that larger world, I think it'll come with its brand of Karen pluck," the actress said. "So I wouldn't want to do it if we had to change who she was. But if we can keep her who she is, then that would be amazing."
"Honestly, I'm just excited," Henson laughed, saying he was game for as much Marvel as he could be a part of. "I was really excited as the series went on, and I'm really hoping we get to do another season and do a bunch. The first two episodes I read before I got the job, I was like, 'Wow, this is something unlike anything I've ever read before.'"
Will Daredevil Set the Tone for the Rest of the Netflix Series?
Loeb assures that each show will have a distinct feel, but as with all things Marvel, do belong together.
"The good news is, for us, when Marvel Television first brought these characters to Netflix, they all knew each other." Loeb said. "It wasn't like we were just going, 'Let's take this one and this one and this one.' In the world of Marvel Comics, Jessica Jones, and Matt Murdock, and Danny Rand, and Luke Cage all had a previous existing relationship and all grew up on the same kind of stoop in New York. So it lent itself to a world. Does that mean these shows are going to be the same? No. They can't be. The characters have different issues, different problems, different feelings about them. While I don't think they'll be as varied, the example that I continually give is that I cannot think of two films that are more different in tone than Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. And yet, if you watch them back to back, they feel very Marvel. They feel very much like, 'Oh, it is still the same universe that I'm in.'"
"We're telling a series of 13-hour stories that feel like they're connected in the Marvel of it without it necessarily having to be that this character crosses over into that character," Loeb continued. "Or that they're all going to feel like the same show. Because at the end of the day, Matt is a lawyer, and Jessica is a private detective, and Danny and Luke live in their own kind of world and have a different kind of tone to what it is they're going to do.""
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-Agent Carter trailer on Marvel Entertainment accounts on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [April 8, 2015]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x17 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [April 10, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/MYd5115AJfg?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Daredevil official account tweet inlcuding references to MCU movies [April 10, 2015]:
""Maybe if he had an iron suit or magic hammer, that'd explain why you keep getting your asses handed to you." #Daredevil"
https://twitter.com/Daredevil/status/586588066380320768
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-Badass Digest exclusive interview to Kevin Feige, article of ComicBook [April 14, 2015 (?)]:
"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been introducing the Inhumans to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the Inhumans are also set to hit the big screen with their own movie in 2019. So what’s the balance between television and film when it comes to these characters?
"It was always the intention that introducing them to the public would be happening quickly, and it would happen in the show," Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige tells Badass Digest.
Feige says that, where sometimes the television arm of Marvel is forced to work itself into the studio’s movie plans, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the one tasked with leading the way on the Inhumans, at least until we get closer to the movie’s release.
"There have been discussions between myself and Eric Buckley and Dan Carroll, who is the conduit between Jeph Loeb and the runners, in terms of them saying, ‘We’re thinking of doing this, this and this - does that gibe with what you’re doing in the movies?’ And in some cases, like with the Avengers movies, it’s very close. We have to say, ‘This is happening, so you have to do this.’
"In the case of The Inhumans, they’re blazing new ground. As we get down the road towards that one, we’ll see what the pieces are."
And in terms of what’s off limit from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Feige assumes most comic fans can probably figure it out.
"Certainly, in terms of those backstories on some of those things. Knowing the comics, you can guess the kind of things you wouldn’t see on a TV show.""
https://comicbook.com/news/kevin-feige-talks-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-s-relationship-to-inhuma/
https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/feige-agents-shield-blazing-ground-marvels-inhumans/
(http://badassdigest.com/2015/04/14/dont-expect-to-see-the-blue-area-of-the-moon-on-agents-of-shield/)
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-ScreenRant exclusive interview to Kevin Feige [April 16, 2015]:
"Early reviews and reactions to Daredevil are insanely positive. Does that add incentive to bring the Defenders into the Marvel movies?"
Kevin Feige: "Into the movies? Well right now what Jeff Loeb and the TV guys are focusing on is those shows and certainly with 'Daredevil' coming out last night and being so well received, the next one is already in production, the one after that has been announced, so I think they're doing quite well for themselves in that medium. We certainly have had discussions and thoughts of where down the line who could show up where but I think they're being very smart in saying, "Let us establish this here, first" and they're off to a very very good start."
"I didn't want to say the word but you've assembled a pretty great group of people running these things."
Kevin Feige: "Ha!"
https://screenrant.com/avengers-age-ultron-kevin-feige-interview-hulk-daredevil-ant-man/
https://youtu.be/t7DFZBn-pjA?t=142
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x18 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube, including references to MCU movies [April 17, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/-Ez-CLB5Dc8?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promo on its Facebook and Twitter account featuring Avengers: Age of Ultron (videos and descriptions) including references to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 19, 2015]:
"Before you see the biggest movie event of the year - Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron - experience the continuing adventures of Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD! #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/878742345523948
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=878742345523948
"Before you see Marvel's @Avengers: Age of Ultron - experience the adventures of #AgentsofSHIELD! #ItsAllConnected"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/589795335909834752
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x18 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook including references to MCU movies [April 20, 2015]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10153177710287488
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-Usa Today article of an interview to Jeffrey Bell [April 20, 2015]:
"The ABC show sent its characters on a roller coaster of betrayal and intrigue last year when Captain America: The Winter Soldier dismantled the title secret organization of S.H.I.E.L.D., though the latest scenario won't be a "nuclear" option, says executive producer Jeff Bell.
The next two episodes, beginning Tuesday (9 ET/PT), will have Easter eggs, plot threads and other connective tissue leading into the opening scene of Avengers: Age of Ultron, in theaters May 1.
Ultron co-star Cobie Smulders reprises her role as former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill on the series, and the May 5 episode will bring the Avengers aftermath back to the small screen "for the five people who don't see the movie that week," says Bell.
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Having Inhumans on the show — before the Inhumans movie planned for 2019 — is part of the expansion of powered folks in the Marvel cinematic universe, Bell says. The closing-credits scene of Winter Soldier showed the superhuman experiments of Hydra's Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (Thomas Kretschmann) and Dr. List (Henry Goodman), which also ties into the Avengers sequel. And List has appeared on S.H.I.E.L.D. this season.
"As Ward goes into Hydra and makes connections, there are ways for Coulson to find information that we feel will be very rewarding for people who go and see the movie," says Bell.
As for Coulson's mysterious "Theta Protocol" project, Bell teases that "we wouldn't be doing our jobs as storytellers if we didn't pay that off before we're done with the season."
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"There's some amazing action, but there are a couple parts that I think people will just be surprisingly moved by," Bell says. "What we can do in TV really well is make you care about people and invest in them deeply, and then rip your guts out.""
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x19 sneak peek 1 on its Twitter account (video and description) including references to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 23, 2015]:
"Coulson reveals what Strucker & List are up to in this sneak, & #ItsAllConnected to Marvel's #Avengers #AgeOfUltron!"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/591422775836876801
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-The Hollywood Reporter exclusive interviwe to Steven DeKnight [April 24, 2015]:
"Stone’s speech also mentions doors opening, which tends to lead more toward Iron Fist territory and the mystical realm of K’un-Lun. Is this a reference or a tie-in to Iron Fist?"
Steven DeKnight: "I can’t say anything! Is it literal or metaphorical? It’s very much like a code the same way the MCU does after the credits, which isn’t something we can do with the way that Netflix starts the next episode after the credits. But yes, it’s obviously tying into a bigger picture."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/daredevil-season-2-spoilers-steven-791283
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x19 sneak peek 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [April 24, 2015]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. posts on its Facebook and Twitter accounts (images and descriptions) including references to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 24, 2015]:
"Director Coulson’s team has a new mission that connects to big events in Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, including a special visit from Maria Hill! See how #ItsAllConnected this Tuesday on Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/882645558466960
"Tuesday's mission connects to Marvel's @Avengers, including a visit from Maria Hill! See how #ItsAllConnected."
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/591767220373626882
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-Close-Up Film exclusive interview to Charlie Cox [April 25, 2015]:
"What would the likelihood be of Matt Murdoch turning up in other Marvel shows and films?"
Charlie Cox: "[grins] It’d be great. I’ve read Civil War now, I’ve read The New Avengers, I know he’s in there but I think I missed the boat on Civil War because they’re filming that. I don’t know, Marvel have not mentioned that to me at all. It’s in my contract that if they want me to do it, I’m there, and I would love that. That would be an extension of the dream, but I’m a pretty happy customer at this point, to get to do the series again. And I get to do The Defenders at some point."
(http://close-upfilm.co.uk/2015/04/daredevils-charlie-cox-about-his-new-found-love-of-comic-books/)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promos on its Facebook and Twitter accounts featuring Avengers: Age of Ultron (videos and descriptions), using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 25, 2015]:
"Tuesday's Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD is connected with Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron, and we're also giving you an exclusive sneak peek of the movie! #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/882981805100002
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=882981805100002
"Tuesday's #AgentsofSHIELD connects w/ @Avengers: Age of Ultron, & has an exclusive from the film! #ItsAllConnected"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/591978473473867776
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. posts on its Facebook account featuring Avengers: Age of Ultron (images and descriptions), using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 26, 2015]:
"Best. Week. Ever. #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/883429338388582
"Six reasons you won't want to miss tomorrow's Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD. Need a seventh? #ItsAllConnected to Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/884221964975986
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. official account tweet, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 27, 2015]:
"6 reasons you can't miss tomorrow's #AgentsofSHIELD. Need 7? #ItsAllConnected to Marvel's @Avengers: Age of Ultron."
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/592806431696498690
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-The Avengers official account tweet (image and description), using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 27, 2015]:
"Learn how #ItsAllConnected on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” tomorrow, Tuesday at 9/8c on ABC!"
https://twitter.com/Avengers/status/592780269146472448
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. posts on its Facebook and Twitter accounts (image, video and descriptions) including references to MCU movies, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 28, 2015]:
"This is an episode you won't want to miss. Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD starts now, and #ItsAllConnected to Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/885062868225229
"How many of these steps will you complete? #AgentsofSHIELD #ItsAllConnected"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/885073184890864
"Tonight is the night! Our gang is back on #AgentsofSHIELD, & #ItsAllConnected to Marvel's @Avengers: Age of Ultron."
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/593109406616662016
"Don't miss this. Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD starts now, and #ItsAllConnected to Marvel's @Avengers: Age of Ultron!"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/593218160989499392
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. official account tweets, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [April 29, 2015]:
"The ripples of what happens in 1 hour on #AgentsofSHIELD will be felt! See how #ItsAllConnected to Avengers: Age of Ultron in 1 hour!"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/593248342144065536
"And don't forget, we still get an exclusive sneak peek of @Marvel's #Avengers #AgeOfUltron tonight! #ItsAllConnected"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/593230098335039488
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-Desert Chica and The Rebel Chick exclusive interviews to Kevin Feige on a Q&A [April 30, 2015]:
"With all the movies and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., how many people are on the (Marvel) team to keep everything straight?"
Kevin Feige: "Well there’s a television division; there’s a studio division and there’s a solid brain trust of seven or eight of us at the studio that oversee each of the films."
"The Avengers are very cohesive in this new movie. How much time has passed since the last film ends and when we see them again in the new film."
Kevin Feige: "I’m not sure we ever directly say it, but we always sorta thought it. It’s between six months to a year after, probably a good year after the events of The Winter Soldier. SHIELD has been brought down at the end of The Winter Soldier, after revealing that Hydra had, had been growing within it, and that there’s a lot of fallout. Some of that is on the television series, and some of that we see at the very beginning of this movie."
https://desertchica.com/marvel-studios-presiden-kevin-feige/
"Why is there no end credit scene?"
(...)
Kevin Feige: "Now, for those who aren’t too familiar with the comics, and don’t want Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, it can be kind of tricky to keep track of what is happening when and where in the Marvel Cinematic Universe."
"How many years it is between the end of the other Marvel Avenger movies and the start of Age of Ultron?"
Kevin Feige: "I’m not sure we ever directly say it, but we always sorta thought it. It’s between six months to a year after- probably a good year after the events of The Winter Soldier. The Shield has been brought down at the end of The Winter Soldier after revealing that Hydra had been growing within it, and that there’s a lot of fallout. Some of that is on the television series, and some of that, we see at the very beginning of this movie, that that scepter- Loki’s which if you look at the end of the first Avengers movie, the last time you see it, Black Widow is holding it in the shadow of all the Avengers as they’re finally taking down Loki.
Our back stories clearly that went into, that went to a Shield- secure Shield vault somewhere, but of course, Shield was not secure, and it ended up in the hands of Strucker at the beginning of this film."
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-Crave Online exclusive interview to Kevin Feige [May 1, 2015]:
"The Kingpin was considered to be a Spider-Man villain as well as a Daredevil villain. Do you think there’s any room to follow that through, or is he too dark and R-rated now with Daredevil?"
Kevin Feige: "I don’t know. I think once something is back in the universe, as certainly Daredevil is, it’s all fair game. It’s just adding more toys outside the sandbox that we can grab to pull in the sandbox. I hear D’Onofrio’s awesome in that. I haven’t seen the whole show."
He’s amazing.
Kevin Feige: "That’s great. That’s what I hear."
"It seems like you’re situating the Inhumans to be functionally like mutants, in that it gives people powers without giving them a huge epic backstory. Is that true? Because that’s the talk, and everyone’s asking."
Kevin Feige: "I think they’re beginning to seed a lot of that in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. show, but the notion from the comics that I think is interesting, is the notion of needing to have this DNA that could be activated by the [Terrigen] Mists, which is what’s so cool about Inhumans to me."
"Do you think the movie is going to be in direct relation to what’s going on in the TV show, or do you have an entirely separate plan for that? I don’t imagine Black Bolt is going to show up in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. any time soon…"
Kevin Feige: "Exactly. I think there will be threads of it, for sure, that carry over."
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. posts on its Facebook and Twitter accounts featuring Avengers: Age of Ultron (video and description) [May 1, 2015]:
""Men made of metal will tear our cities apart, and our world will be changed forever.” Raina’s vision comes to fruition today – catch Marvel’s #Avengers #AgeOfUltron in theaters now."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/886981581366691
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=886981581366691
"Raina’s vision comes to fruition today – catch Marvel’s #Avengers #AgeOfUltron in theaters now. http://abc.tv/1GOMKFZ"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/594316378322182144
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-Slash Film exclusive interview to Kevin Feige [May 4, 2015]:
"Now, when Nick Fury goes away and comes back with a Helicarrier, that seems like a big chunk of off screen story. Is that something we might see referenced on SHIELD?"
Kevin Feige: "I think it’s fair to say you could fill in some of those blanks in the coming weeks on Tuesday at 9."
https://www.slashfilm.com/agents-of-shield-age-of-ultron-plot-hole/
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive interview to Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jeph Loeb and Jeffrey Bell [May 5, 2015]:
"Let’s talk about how this tie-in to Age of Ultron compares to the crossover with Captain America: The Winter Soldier."
Jed Whedon: "The other one was not nuanced."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "It was in your face."
Jeph Loeb: "It landed on us like an atomic bomb."
Jeffrey Bell: "“We are making a movie where you stop existing!”"
Jeph Loeb: "“But don’t tell anybody you’re about to become the agents of nothing.”"
Jed Whedon: "It was like we were invited to the big game and then we realized we were the ball, and then we realized we were the ball sitting on the tee and they hit us."
Jeph Loeb: "But we did know. We knew from the very beginning, so we built the show to do something that was unprecedented. We used a major motion picture to forever change the mythology of the show we were working on."
Jeffrey Bell: "We knew Hydra was coming so we built the season so that Hydra would blow up not just that movie, but our show. This year, it is more nuanced. List was in the tag at the end of Cap 2: Winter Soldier. We’ve had him on the show."
Jed Whedon: "It was also different because whereas last year our mythology, our whole season was built around it, so the tie-in blew up our show, but also this year, we have our own mythology. We are our own story and our own show. It has to exist within our story and tie into their story, which is separate. It’s not like our villain is the same villain."
Jeffrey Bell: "Last year, our plot was designed to erupt based on the movie. The fallout of the movie is the fallout of the show."
Jed Whedon: "Our fallout this year is different. It’s related because it ties into some of our people finding their powers and we’ve done some investigating to tee up some of their stuff, and there’s ripple, but it’s not like we’re discovering Ultron in our show and then going and fighting him in the movie."
"Though we do see Raina (Ruth Negga) has a connection to Ultron in that she foresaw his arrival."
Jeffrey Bell: "The power helped us. Who Raina had been as a manipulative person, who always got her way, who worked for the Clairvoyant, who then was crushed and didn’t get what she wanted, it’s been fun for us to watch Ruth find Raina through the—"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "—new look and how it limits her ability to tweak her face in a way that Raina would do for the situation."
Jeffrey Bell: "To be crushed that Skye got all the good stuff, but then to give her the most powerful thing you’d ever want to have, part of it was to make her think she’d been given something ugly, but inside it’s the most amazing and wonderful thing. For that character who had never had a set back, had a loss or finished second to anything, to give her that, it was like “OHHH!”"
Jed Whedon: "We needed a point where she was proven to be [right]. It was a nice way of teeing up when Jaiying goes into that scene saying, “Is this real?” and by the end of the movie, we come back and everybody knows it’s real."
Jeffrey Bell: "It was a nice way for us to say she’s not making things up. There’s a world where she says she has this secret power, but she’s making it up. Our joke was you just didn’t want her to have her say things and the future she saw is a movie trailer."
"What came with the decision to include Loki’s scepter?"
Jed Whedon: "One of the things that’s true in the world we operate in is we are rushing, hammering out scripts and laying track, they had a script for that movie years ago."
Jeffrey Bell: "Joss was writing the outline to Avengers: [Age of Ultron] as we were breaking the pilot of S.H.I.E.L.D."
Jed Whedon: "That’s how far ahead their story is in terms of ours. We knew about the scepter being in that story and how it related to it, partially because we were talking about season 1 and we said, “What about the scepter?” “Yeah no.”"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "“Not so much the scepter please.”"
Jeffrey Bell: "The other reason the scepter is great for us is because it’s what killed Coulson. For us, there’s an emotional component."
"Theta Protocol also resonated after the film as well."
Jed Whedon: "The main thing it serves for us is it puts aside the doubts about Coulson for what we call S.H.I.E.L.D. 2.0. He’s had this big secret and this big lie. The movie serves to put an end to that and say, ‘This is what I was doing, it wasn’t what you thought I was doing and it was kind of awesome.’ Initially, as we come back, it’s changed the tone of how they work together. It doesn’t mean it’s changed their attitudes. They come in being able to bury the hatchet on some of this stuff, but then it gets a little more complicated almost right away."
Jeph Loeb: "Clark was talking about how his fanbase has really started to question whether he was stealing money, if he was doing things he should not have been doing. Both he and Adrianne [Palicki] have been going through this brutal [assault having] the fans turning against them because they don’t think that what they’re doing is the right thing. What’s so satisfying is by the time you get to the end of the season, all the fans are right. [Laughs]"
"At any point, did you lobby for the Avengers to find out that Coulson is alive?"
Jeph Loeb: "There’s a plan. It’s just one of those things that when it pops, folks will see it."
https://ew.com/article/2015/05/05/agents-shield-age-ultron-crossover/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. official account tweets [May 5, 2015]:
"The aftermath of @Avengers: Age of Ultron, Theta Protocol is revealed, & #AgentsofSHIELD encounters Inhumans TONIGHT"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/595631050664972288
"See the afttermath of the events of @Avengers: Age of Ultron in 30 minutes on Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD."
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/595747323835195393
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. official account tweet, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [May 6, 2015]:
"Theta Protocol has been revealed on #AgentsofSHIELD. Did you see Marvel's @Avengers #AgeOfUltron? #ItsAllConnected"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/595801163448098817
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. official account tweet using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected [May 9, 2015]:
".@MingNa & EP Jeph Loeb talk about how Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD connects to the Marvel Universe. #ItsAllConnected"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/597177228129079296
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-Variety exclusive interview to Jeffrey Bell [May 12, 2015]:
"Last season’s tie-in with “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” was obviously pivotal for the show, but this year’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” crossover was more incidental and allowed the show to stand on its own while still tying into the wider universe. Do you have any upcoming plans for synergy with other Marvel properties?"
Jeffrey Bell: "I think this year worked really well — we got to be our own show and tell our own stories in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and do a nice hand off or a tie-in, but neither are incumbent upon the other to be a follow, and I think that’s a great model for us. “Ant-Man” comes out this summer and will have come and gone before we air again in September, so whether there’s anything vestigial from that or for “Civil War” next season is to be determined. But we’re in contact with the movie people and them with us, and any time we can put little easter eggs in, it’s a lot of fun for die-hard fans."
"The “Agent Carter” tie-ins this season were some of my favorite moments — with that series renewed too, do you hope to do another crossover involving Hayley Atwell next season?"
Jeffrey Bell: "It was really fun to have the Howling Commandos and Agent Carter — Hayley is spectacular and we’re thrilled that that show gets to come back. Yeah, if there’s a chance for us to set something in her path, that would be cool. I know she works very hard doing those episodes; bringing her over to our show was a work of clock-like precision… because she was shooting on the other show at the exact same time, but it’s a lot of fun and we try to do as much as we can."
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-'Marvel Minute' news on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a shot of an MCU movie in Agent Carter part [May 19, 2015]:
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-Marvel Entertainment UK & Ireland tweets (images and descriptions) [May 29, 2015]:
"May's always asking questions, find out the answers in tonight's epic Marvel's Agents of SHIELD! 8pm on @channel4"
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/604308737206153217
"Agents Of SHIELD begins 8pm @Channel4, livetweet the epic #AgeOfUltron crossover conclusion with @ABCStudiosUK"
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/604359053440065536
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-ABC Studios UK official account tweet [May 29, 2015]:
"The aftermath of Avengers #AgeofUltron Theta Protocol is revealed & #AgentsofSHIELD encounters Inhumans @Channel4 8PM"
https://twitter.com/ABCStudiosUK/status/604255933447946241
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-Daredevil post on its Facebook (latam) account including a reference to MCU movies [May 31, 2015]:
[Translation:] "It is because of these "heroes" that we have these opportunities. #Daredevil"
https://www.facebook.com/DaredevilLat/photos/a.697245490383562/759679877473456/
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-Agent Carter post on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies [June 11, 2015]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/3zbiFTEqRE/
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-Marvel official site article about Secret Warriors on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [June 26, 2015]:
"Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." returns for a powerful third season introducing new friends and foes inspired by the critically acclaimed SECRET WARRIORS comic series. In the aftermath of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s battle with Jiaying and the Inhumans, Director Coulson will search the world for more powered people and assemble an extraordinary new team to deal with threats unlike the world has ever seen. However, the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will soon find out they're not the only ones tracking down these new Inhumans.
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Stay tuned to www.marvel.com for all the breaking news on Marvel Television at Comic Con International in San Diego. Follow @Marvel on Twitter and “like” Marvel on Facebook for minute-by-minute updates on all things in the MCU."
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-HeyUGuys exclusive interview to Hayley Atwell, video on HeyUGuys YouTube channel [July 9, 2015]:
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-Entertainment Tonight exclusive interview to Jeph Loeb [July 15, 2015]:
"Let’s start with Agent Carter, which at times almost feels like a niche show within a niche show, considering it's set in a post-World War II period, and of all the shows you have on ABC, it feels the most adult. What was the first inkling that this would work as a series?
Jeph Loeb: "Look, we make shows that are best for the character. We don’t ever start from, "Who’s the show for?" I think that makes us a little bit different. So yes, if you look at the shows that we’re doing, S.H.I.E.L.D. is not the same as Carter is not the same as Daredevil is not the same as Jessica Jones. They shouldn’t be. And wait till you get a hold of Luke Cage.
Each show has its own feel to it. But by the same token, we want them to feel like they’re still part of the Marvel Universe. That’s the most important thing about it. The example that I always go to — and I can do it now with our shows, because you couldn’t have two more different shows than S.H.I.E.L.D. and Daredevil — is last summer, when we had Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which was a real-life, grounded, political thriller, and then Guardians of the Galaxy, which was basically a cosmic comedy. But they both felt like Marvel films. The television division is very much built the same way. We have 9,000 characters, but if you’ve been a comic book fan, you know that our comics don’t feel the same. That Spider-Man is not the same as The Avengers is not the same as our horror line."
"You want to explore every flavor that Marvel has to offer."
Jeph Loeb: "We do! The funny part about it is people see Marvel as this gigantic octopus that’s out to swallow the entire galaxy. [Laughs] Which, by the way, we are. But we are in fact a very small company. So the television division and the film division and the games division and the animation division, we’re always talking to each other. We’re just continually trying to find the next story that we want to tell. And what’s the best way to tell it? And who’s the best showrunner? And what do we want it to look like? And where are we going to shoot it? And all those fun things that come along with it.
So, back to your original question. Yes, Agent Carter has a different feel to it. We were faced with a number of challenges: Female lead, period piece, spy show, not a lot of superheroes and super villains running around during that time period in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There’s certainly a lot of that in the Marvel Publishing Universe, but Carter has to come from the [MCU] world. She’s in First Avenger, she’s in Winter Soldier, so in order to remain true to that continuity, there was no way that you could now suddenly go, "Oh, well Peggy Carter has a completely different story."
We’re continuing to tell that story. When we first sat down to talk with [Christopher] Markus and [Stephen] McFeely, who are the writers on the [Captain America] movies, we said that by showing that Peggy was still alive in Winter Soldier, there were basically all the stories that we could tell from 1946 to yesterday. Then, we had Hayley Atwell — and I don’t really need to go much further. She’s capable of doing anything, from drama to comedy to sincere emotion to kicking ass and all those things on top of she’s a movie star. She’s exactly what Marvel television is all about: bringing you something you can’t get anywhere else on your television set."
(...)
"Is any of that decision a result of some of the criticism that’s been lobbied against the movie side of Marvel?"
Jeph Loeb: "Not in any way. First of all, we tell what’s best for our stories. So we would never react to criticism in that regard. Keep in mind, we’re telling anywhere from 10 to 22 episodes. The movie division gets to make two movies a year, of which a number are sequels to very successful other movies.
So it isn’t a question of whether or not they will. They are! We know they’re making the Captain Marvel movie. They are already very strong characters in Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and where we see Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) is going to go. They exist in the world, but just like anything else, it takes the time in order to get there. I think the popularity of those movies speak to the broadness of that audience, the same kind of way that in the television division, we try to reach out to as many people as we can."
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"Speaking of Inhumans, I think a lot of people were really excited when the movie studio announced they were going there, and then probably a little surprised that you guys were jumped into that world years before the movie will come out in 2018. What kind of say does the studio have in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s storylines? Or what kind of coordination needs to go on between the two?"
Jeph Loeb: "(...) Well, we just take those and then we go, OK, you were planning on going to work, and you woke up and now you’re invisible. So, what do you do? And what’s happened to you? In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which I think a lot of people sometimes confuse with the publishing universe, there are not a lot of people with abilities. I think that’s one of the things that people had to get used to when we had our first season of S.H.I.E.L.D. They were like, "Yeah, but the Hulk is going to be on the show right?" We were like, "No, actually." (...) When you get to take that and put it in Marvel terms, it’s, "OK, everything I touch turns to ice. How do I live in this world? And what’s going to happen to me? And do I want to live in this world?""
"People criticized S.H.I.E.L.D. during the first season for not being more superhero centric. Instead, it focused on everyday people living in a world that has superheroes. The second season really leaned into the powers. I know you said you don’t react to stuff, but was that always the intention?"
Jeph Loeb: "(...) Now we’re going to live in a world where powers are slowly starting to get out and what’s great is, in the Marvel Universe, that’s not always a good thing. One of our most popular characters had to learn with great power comes great responsibility."
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"In terms of actors’ contracts, is it possible that some of your characters could bleed over from ABC to Netflix?"
Jeph Loeb: "We’ve made no bones about it. It is the same world. We don’t want it to be an Easter egg farm. But we’ve acknowledged in Daredevil that there was an incident, as we like to refer to it, which is what happened in the first Avengers movie. We’ve made mentions of Iron Man. We’ve made mentions of Captain America. So once that’s happens, you’ve opened the door.
I can tell you Clark Gregg would pay for his own airfare, his own hotel, just to walk through the set. And the set, fortunately, for the Netflix shows is the city of New York. Our feeling is right now, the shows that we’re doing on Netflix are so young and so new, we need people to get to know Matt, and Foggy, and Karen, and we need people to get to know Jessica [Jones] and Trish [Walker, aka Hellcat] and Luke [Cage]. Once they’re invested in that, it really is the same thing that we did with S.H.I.E.L.D. Trust us. Get to know the characters, invest in them, and then...There may be some."
"Theoretically they could cross over though?"
Jeph Loeb: "Absolutely! There is nothing that could make it not happen. It’s just a question of when it would happen and when it’s appropriate."
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"With a season of Daredevil in the can, is there one thing you’ve learned or a tip you would pass on to the showrunners of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage?"
Jeph Loeb: "Making the shows was incredibly rewarding. It was an opportunity for us to be able to push the boundaries of the Marvel Universe in a way that it had never gone before. Were people going to accept the level of darkness, the level of reality, certainly the level of violence? And not only did they accept it, they embraced it. But again, that speaks to whether or not you care about Matt and Foggy and Karen. Then, when you have someone like Vincent D'Onofrio portraying Wilson Fisk, it’s such a towering performance, that it could only live in that world. It wasn’t a show that we could do on broadcast the way that we wanted to."
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"Now you have that cast in place. But if you're trying to establish each of the character's individual worlds first, will we see any Daredevil crossover, cast wise, in Jessica Jones?"
Jeph Loeb: "Without giving anything away, they’re in the same area. In some cases they are in the same neighborhood. One of the things that is important to us is, when you enter the police station, it’s the same police station. When you go to the hospital, you start to see the same people. [But] we don’t want people suddenly going, "Wait, is that Matt Murdoch that’s walking down the street?" Because that’s going to feel odd, and in a weird way feel false.
It’s one of the things that we talked about at the beginning of S.H.I.E.L.D. You don’t want the audience to go, "I missed Iron Man by three seconds! He just went flying by overhead and you weren’t here for it!" If it feels grounded and real, then those kind of things should happen. Just little things, like the newspaper is The New York Bulletin. And you see it in different shows that we do, and I hear that it’s now getting picked up into the movie side too. It’s one of those things where we’re trying to create something that Marvel fans have become very comfortable with, and something that I’m teased about all the time, which is hashtag it’s all connected.
On some shows, you go, "They’re using that same hospital entrance that I saw on Law & Order?" In our world, it’s like, "No, no, no. This is the hospital that’s in the neighborhood, and if you lived in New York on the west side you go to Roosevelt." That’s the kind of the thing that we really take a lot of care and try to make it feel that way. But, by the same token, we don’t want you to feel like you’re watching the same show again. So, there will be lots of stuff for people to keep an eye out for."
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"In terms of possible new series, the Internet really wants to see a Kamala Khan (aka the new Ms. Marvel) show. Is that on your radar?"
Jeph Loeb: "Uhhhhhh... [Long thoughtful pause] It is... [Another long pause] Uh...not something that I can talk about. [Laughs] Ah! I thought, "You know..." And then I thought, "No, this just gets me into trouble.""
https://www.etonline.com/news/168025_exclusive_interview_with_the_head_of_marvel_tv_jeph_loeb
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-Comic Book Resources article of Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas and Chris Dingess at SDCC [July 21, 2015]:
"To what degree would you say that Peggy's able to have more respect and show more leadership qualities in Season Two?"
Tara Butters: "So at the end of last season, she sort of got applause from her coworkers, so the nice thing about her position this year is she's not having to hide her agenda. She's not like conducting a secret investigation that she's trying to hide from SSR -- which is not to say that everything's awesome in the office, and it's not to say that everybody respects her."
"What kind of pressure do you feel introducing new men into her life? Captain America's a tough act to follow."
Michele Fazekas: "Well, that's actually -- that character needs to feel different."
Chris Dingess: "The thing we need to remember is she fell in love with the skinny Steve. She fell in love with him before he became the Cap that the world knew. So when you're coming up with a character, it's really about finding those qualities. It's not necessarily this hunk of a guy with a shield. It's what's inside."
Tara Butters: "But we also were sort of conscious of: let's makes him different. Let's make somebody she dates different that Steve. It's not that she's going to fall for the same guy all the time. So it's fun to sort of think about who would that be."
"Are there new elements you're adding from the MCU or comic book canon?"
Tara Butters: "We did one of them. There's a thing called Darkforce that -- Blackout was shown on "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." He was sort of created by Darkforce. It's part of the Dr. Strange universe. So that's going to pop up and cause problems."
https://www.cbr.com/sdcc-agent-carter-showrunners-promise-romance-glamour-and-the-darkforce/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'A Look Back at Season 2' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [July 23, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/2q0qioyOP4I?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9od9jZUC9hdq1um_-ZijvF
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-Agent Carter 'A Look Back at Season 1' on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [July 23, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/FHMZYTB1Wz0?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Zap2it exclusive interview to Kevin Feige, article of ComicBookMovie [July 24, 2015]:
"If you've seen Marvel's Ant-Man, which was released last week, you'll know that Darren Cross attempted to sell his Yellowjacket technology to members of Hydra. Ant-Man managed to put a stop to all that, but not before Mitchell Carson could make off with Cross' version of the Pym Particles.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fans will know that ex-agent Grant Ward has since taken over as leader of Hydra, leading many of us to wonder if it was in fact him that was ultimately after the Yellowjacket suit. When this question was presented to Kevin Feige, he responded, “People can read into it. We’ll see what it is. We shot that way before [the ‘SHIELD’ finale]." While that may sound like everything is still up in the air, Feige says that's just how it normally goes. "Honestly, somehow that is how connections happen. Something that they don’t seem connected and someone goes, ‘Hey, you know what? We could connect these things.'”
At SDCC a couple weeks ago, Brett Dalton himself was asked the very same question about his nefarious character. “I think that Hydra doesn’t have a sense of leadership at this point," he says. "We’ve had the Hydra with Strucker, we’ve had the Hydra with Whitehall — all of these other versions of Hydra — and, you know, it’s a ship in need of captaining. Ward has elected himself, and he’s a hero in that story. So, yeah, I don’t know if he’s doing that sort of technology or whatever or if he’s the one who specifically said, ‘Hey, you need to go and get this.’ He’s up there on the list.”
Whether it was Grant Ward himself who made the call remains to be seen, but it definitely sounds like he was involved! We'll know for sure when Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns for season three this fall!"
(http://zap2it.com/2015/07/ant-man-hydra-villains-agents-of-shield-ward-crossover/)
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-IGN article of Ted Sarandos on TCA press tour [July 28, 2015]:
"Initially, we knew we would get single seasons of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist before all the characters teamed up in The Defenders, but Daredevil has now been renewed for a second season – so how do they plan to stagger these series?
Said Sarandos, “I think ideally there will be a rhythm of about every six months you’ll get a new season or a new series from the Defenders group. And then they’ll crossover into a combined [Defenders] season once we’ve launched the first season of each of the four characters.”
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With the reveal that The Punisher (played by Jon Bernthal) will be in Season 2 of Daredevil, could that character get his own Netflix spinoff series down the line? Said Sarandos, “It is possible for sure. That’s the beauty of the Marvel universe.” He also added, regarding all the Marvel characters in play on Netflix, “Any of them could spin out into films too.”"
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Entertainment Weekly article on Melissa Rosenberg on TCA press tour [July 28, 2015]:
"Still, Rosenberg said they’ve strived to stay true to the mythology of the character. “We’re using some pretty obscure characters, so we’re taking them all over the place,” she said while discussing Marvel being supportive of their creative process. “We have to be cognizant of the mythology and the world.”
Despite following Daredevil — and eventually teaming up with him (Charlie Cox), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and Iron Fist (uncast) for the Defenders project — Jessica Jones is “wildly different” than its Netflix predecessor.
“Jessica Jones is a very, very different show than Daredevil,” Rosenberg said. “We exist in a cinematic universe, [and] the mythology of the universe is connected, but they look very different, tonally they’re very different… That was my one concern coming in: Am I going to have to fit into Daredevil or what’s come before? And the answer is no.”"
https://ew.com/article/2015/07/28/marvels-jessica-jones-netflix-spoilers/
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-SlashFilm interview to Steven S. DeKnight [July 28, 2015]:
Steven S. DeKnight: "The thing about The Punisher, and I think there are great things about each of those versions, but none of them was completely the Marvel version,"
"And none of those movies were under the Marvel Studios banner until they recently got The Punisher back. So this is really the first time that we’re seeing the Marvel Studios from the Iron Man days, when they can control their own product, actually do this character."
https://www.slashfilm.com/daredevil-season-2-punisher/
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica tweet (image and description) [August 13, 2015]:
[Translation:] "Lady Sif visited the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. In the second season, what was your favorite episode this year?"
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/631944341573898240
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-Paste exculsive interview to Jeffrey Bell [September 9, 2015]:
"For those who have been fans of the occasional popping-in of characters from Marvel films on the TV show over the last couple of seasons, is there a chance we can expect more of that this year?"
Jeffrey Bell: "That’s something we always look to try and do. It’s always complicated because of schedules, and because of stories. All I can say is, we’re always interested in trying to make that happen, and I can’t really promise anything beyond that. We love it as much as fans do, and if we can, and there are opportunities, we will try and make that happen."
"This entire season coming up is leading right up to the big-screen release of Captain America: Civil War the themes of which—government control over super-powered entities—seem poised to be echoed throughout this season of SHIELD. Is it safe to say that the events of the TV show will build towards some of those in the movie?"
Jeffrey Bell: "I can’t say anything, but what you said makes sense to me. I know that fans always like it when we find new ways to connect, so I think if there was a way for that to happen, that would be cool."
"It feels like, over the course of SHIELD’s first two seasons, there have been a lot of opportunity for the show to carry some of the weight of what’s going on in the overall MCU. Do you take that as a feather in the cap, to be able to have that sort of responsibility, carrying part of larger, movie-related storylines on the TV show?"
Jeffrey Bell: "Sure. I think we really like doing it in a way so that if people don’t see the movie, they can still follow the show. Rarely will we be able to build an entire episode around something like that, simply because ABC and Marvel both want the series to be able to make sense on its own. If we can do something like, oh, after the Avengers movie, we show Coulson and team were the ones who actually got the Helicarrier ready for Nick Fury in the movie—that’s a piece of our action, but it’s not the whole plot of our story. And I know that the movies like when we can help fill those gaps in as well. The movie has to move big and quickly through a lot of huge pieces, and doesn’t have a lot of opportunity for nuance. But on television, we can spend a lot of time doing things. When we can do it, it’s fun, and I think everybody enjoys that."
https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/marvels-agents-of-shields-executive-producer-jeff/
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-Jessica Jones premiere announcement promo on Marvel Entertainment and Netflix accounts on YouTube, and Jessica Jones (latam) account on Facebook including a reference to MCU movies [September 10, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/bUaGgQZ635E?list=PL-C3mi_0OhmKmN3_TYcWDTG2WXgQNiVtW
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=795014283943128
https://www.facebook.com/JessicaJonesLat/videos/795014283943128
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-Jessica Jones premiere announcement promo on Marvel Entertainment accounts on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [September 11, 2015]:
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-Marvel Entertainment post (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) on Twitter account (image and description) including references to MCU movies and WHiH Newsfront, using the hashtag #ItsAllConnected, article of The Marvel Report [September 30, 2015]:
"President Ellis addresses the country on WHiH News in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. #ItsAllConnected"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/649091849584541696
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/649091849584541696/photo/1
http://themarvelreport.com/2015/09/kevin-feige-confirms-marvel-tv-film-connection/
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-Entertainment Weekly article of an interview to Jed Whedon [September 30, 2015]:
"“We’re just trying to paint the picture that there is a change in the world,” executive producer Jed Whedon says of these teases in the premiere. “When we came into the Marvel Universe in the first films, there were very, very few people with powers. Now they are in a new world and the rules are going to have to change.”
As for a more direct tie-in to the next film from the MCU, Whedon plays expectantly coy. “Obviously it’s all one universe and we can’t say much, but we can say that we do have people across the globe who have powers on our show and there would be varying reactions to that,” he says. “A lot of fear, some excitement, some people wanting to use it for good, some people wanting to use it for evil. So, a lot of those same themes will be addressed on our show. How they tie in is a question mark for all involved, but we would definitely be dealing with some of those same themes.”"
https://ew.com/article/2015/09/30/agents-shield-easter-eggs-civil-war/
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-Q&A session of Kevin Feige and Jeremy Latcham, articles of CBR, IGN and The Marvel Report [September 30, 2015]:
"The question I have is about the intersection of the Marvel TV universe and the film universe. We've seen a lot of references in "Daredevil" and "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," and I'm assuming the other other shows that are coming, to what's happened in the films. Are we going to see references to the events of the TV shows in any of the movies?"
Kevin Feige: "I think that's inevitable at some point, as we're plotting the movies going forward and the shows. The schedules do not always quite match up to make that possible. It's easier for them. They're more nimble and faster and produce things quicker than we do, which is one of the main reasons you see the repercussions of "Winter Soldier" or "Age of Ultron" in the show. But going forward and as they get to do more shows, and cast them with such great actors they have, particularly in the "Daredevil" show, that may occur. A lot of it is, by the time we start doing a movie, they'd be mid-way through a season. By the time our movie comes out, they'd be done with the second and starting the third season. So finding the timing on that is not always easy."
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"As for whether the films will feature any of the TV shows' characters if they're used on the big screen -- a reporter asked if, for example, a Spider-Man movie featuring Kingpin would use Vincent D'Onforio -- Feige said, "I don't know, probably. That would probably be the cool thing to do. That particular scenario has not come up yet.""
https://www.cbr.com/feige-latcham-say-infinity-war-leads-to-the-end-of-the-avengers-as-we-know-them/
https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/09/30/marvel-movies-will-eventually-reference-the-tv-shows
http://themarvelreport.com/2015/09/kevin-feige-confirms-marvel-tv-film-connection/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Come to Marvel Future Fight' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [September 30, 2015]:
"The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Come to Marvel Future Fight"
"Play as the stars from “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” on ABC in the “Marvel Future Fight” mobile game!"
https://youtu.be/Bgkr7T5Rg2o?list=PLK5HARgNfgj_4vbVuhPtLDjNZZZQNSrV4
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-Jessica Jones promo on Jessica Jones (latam) account on Facebook and Netflix accounts on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [October 6, 2015]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=807460786031811
https://www.facebook.com/JessicaJonesLat/videos/807460786031811
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Meet Werner Von Strucker' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [October 7, 2015]:
"Spencer Clark reveals more about his role as Werner Von Strucker, son of Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker, in "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."!"
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Join Marvel Future Fight' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [October 15, 2015]:
"Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Join Marvel Future Fight"
"Play as the characters from the hit ABC show!"
https://youtu.be/r4Xp0pCPqoY?list=PLK5HARgNfgj_4vbVuhPtLDjNZZZQNSrV4
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on Marvel Future Fight official site video including references to MCU movies, also shared on Netmarble account on YouTube [October 22, 2015]:
"MARVEL Future Fight : MARVEL'S Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Are Here!"
http://www.marvelfuturefight.com/en#gallery
https://youtu.be/-jvSZusiRE0?list=TLGGJlJx7HRAZtoxNzAyMjAyMQ
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-Collider group interview with Melissa Rosenberg and Krysten Ritter at NYCC [October 28, 2015]:
"I’ll just jump right in and ask both of you since you’re both the engine of the show in different ways. You’re inheriting –Even though it’s a newer property it’s got a cult following certainly. So I’m wondering how constraining it can be because you’re part of a larger Marvel universe, the fan expectation is so high, just sort of how hard it was to maneuver within that?"
Krysten Ritter: "I think it’s so positive. I never like to focus on like what was bad about it or what was hard about it. The great thing is having this amazing character, one of the coolest characters in the Marvel universe if you asked me, and having this strong badass, tough female character that we haven’t really seen before. And then having the support of Marvel and being a part of a bigger picture. I mean, that’s thrilling, it’s like the most amazing thing."
Melissa Rosenberg: "And you start off with material like Brian Michael Bendis’ Alias, I mean, that book just blew my mind. So we start off with incredible source material and Jessica Jones isn’t as well known in the universe obviously as Daredevil and everyone else, so it really allows for a lot of freedom in there. So there are restrictions in terms of the Marvel universe of certain rules of mythology, but within that it’s free pass, it’s great."
(...)
"What I really enjoyed about the first two episodes is that they’re much darker than I expected, shit goes down, and also you’re not afraid to show sex and violence. How much creative freedom did you have to be able to do because you’re in the Marvel universe? Where’s that balancing act, did they ever say, “You can’t go that far”?"
Melissa Rosenberg: "The only thing we couldn’t do was drop F-bombs, which we wanted to really."
Krysten Ritter: "And show my boobs, because I didn’t want to."
Melissa Rosenberg: "But other than that, honestly…"
Krysten Ritter: "It’s pretty edgy."
Melissa Rosenberg: "And one of the things I think is particularly unique about this character that’s played by Krysten is that she’s not afraid as an actress and Marvel wasn’t afraid as a studio to let Jessica Jones make some really stupidass decisions, to be wrong, to look ugly as a character, to go into this dark. And I think that defines the show in so much ways, you could have a character who actually really fucked up but there’s something really at her core that keeps us with her."
(...)
"I’m also curious specifically about the bigger Marvel universe, is there a newspaper is there…"
Melissa Rosenberg: "They’re in there. I think every episode has some little something in it."
https://collider.com/jessica-jones-krysten-ritter-melissa-rosenberg-interview-nycc/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Celebrating 50 Episodes' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [November 3, 2015]:
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-Marvel Minute video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Twitter including a reference to MCU movies [November 9, 2015]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/663785655936282624
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip on its Facebook account including a reference to The Avengers [November 19, 2015]
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/987851684613013
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=987851684613013
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-Agent Carter 'The Original Marvel Team' preview 1 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [November 24, 2015]:
https://youtu.be/DlQ0IdkZA5o?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x10 sneak peek 2 on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to The Avengers [December 4, 2015]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post about Agent Carter on its Twitter account (video and description) including references to MCU movies [December 4, 2015]:
"Before S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers, there was Carter. The original agent returns to ABC January 19."
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/672919733721677824
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2016[]
-Charlie Cox interview, video on 'DriiftyFilm 💯🎥 Film YouTuber' account on Twitter [2015-2016(?)]:
Charlie Cox: "When you sign a contract to do... to be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (...)"
https://twitter.com/driiftyfilm/status/1372291981477560322
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-Q&A session of Joss Whedon [January 3, 2016]:
Joss Whedon: "You know who loved hearing that was Clark Gregg. He was super thrilled. I do think that there is an element for somebody who consumes all the Marvel product that it might take the punch out, but generally I feel like the SHIELD audience and The Avengers audiences are not actually the same group, necessarily. No, I don't regret bringing back Phil Coulson because he's Clark Gregg, and he's so bad ass.
That was an aspect of it that became a headline in the internet, because that's what they do. It was sort of, "Oh, that's the meanest thing he's said, let's use that." You have to go, "Well, okay, if you take it back in TV, does it take it back in film?" That was the the thing, because it came from, "Why wasn't he in the second film?" I'm like, "Because I have time to explain that [sarcasm]." It's like, "In addition to introducing nineteen new characters, this [snaps finger] guy's alive again ." I couldn't do that, so... It's an aspect of it, but it's a small one. It's not how I feel about it."
(...)
With a TV show, you just have to... you just have to be careful. Which, unfortunately just means the TV show gets, you know, leftovers. One of the first things they said was ‘We got a great idea! We’ll use Loki’s scepter!’ And I’m like ‘Yeah... um, hold that thought.’"
https://screencrush.com/joss-whedon-agents-of-shield-coulson-marvel-tv/
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-Hayley Atwell commentary of Agent Carter season 2 [January 5, 2016]:
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-Jeph Loeb interview about Agent Carter season 2, video on MCUExchange YouTube channel [January 6, 2016]:
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-Digital Spy article of an interview to Clark Gregg [January 8, 2016]
"Agents of SHIELD might be all about Inhumans right now - but star Clark Gregg says he doesn't expect any big crossover between the show and Marvel's upcoming movie.
Inhumans - slated for release on July 12, 2019 - is the final film on Marvel's current slate and the only one yet to acquire either a writer or director.
"The Inhumans movie I suspect will be its own cinematic version," Gregg - who plays Phil Coulson on Agents of SHIELD - told Digital Spy.
"That writer and director will have free reign to do what they want to do with the Inhumans. But hopefully there'll be some way that our Inhumans connect to that. It'd be too bad if that was wasted."
The Inhumans were introduced to Agents of SHIELD in its second season and continue to be a major presence throughout the third run.
"What's kind of necessary for the show to work is that it is its own thing and it's not dependant upon those crossovers," Gregg suggested. "They're just fun stuff that happens once in a while.
"They destroy the organisation our show is named after and we have to deal with that! I'll be interested to see how it evolves, that crossover stuff.""
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-Comic Book Resources exclusive interview to Tara Butters and Michelle Fazekas [January 12, 2016]:
"At the end of Season 1, Arnim Zola appeared briefly, and we know Dottie's still out in the world. Are those plot points wrapped up, or will we revisit them?"
Tara Butters: "You'll definitely see Dottie. Zola was a fun tie-in, basically saying, "Oh, this technology that Fennhoff developed was used in the Winter Soldier program." We mention the whole Leviathan thing, but we wrapped up that story."
Michele Fazekas: "Yes. Basically, Isodyne is a company that we invented based in part on real life companies like Radiodyne or General Atomic or the beginnings of the Jet Propulsion Lab -- all of which were in L.A. in the '40s, and were developing the space program and were developing nukes. That's what Isodyne is, and what you'll learn is they were involved in the nuclear testing out in the desert when they were testing the, at the time they were calling it the atom bomb -- and one of these tests didn't go as expected. You'll learn more about that in Season 2, but they stumble upon what people in the Marvel Universe will know as Darkforce, but because they've never seen it before they just name it Zero Matter. That's our tie-in to the Doctor Strange universe, and also to "S.H.I.E.L.D." because you've seen it in "S.H.I.E.L.D." as well.
The cool thing about what we learned as we researched Darkforce over the course of Marvel comic book history is, it affects people in different ways. It's created a bunch of superheroes, it's created a bunch of villains, and it has all these different properties. It could be a liquid, it could be a gas, it could be a solid, it could give you powers, it could kill you. It has a lot of different applications, which was cool for us. We were able to select what we liked and sort of make our own rules as to what it does, how it operates, and who it affects in our world."
(...)
"The initial previews indicate that Jarvis seems bored and not terribly in love with Los Angeles."
Michele Fazekas: "Jarvis has a nice arc over the course of the season. He really got a taste for adventure with Peggy in the first season, so, when she comes back into his life, he's so happy because he's so bored with being Howard Stark's butler and setting up Howard's Beverly Hills estate. He's begging her, "Please let me come out and help you."
It's interesting -- to sort of back away from it for a second -- we really believe that the Peggy/Jarvis relationship is the center relationship of the show, and it's a challenge as a writer because, he's not in the SSR, he's a butler. How do you tell stories with those two in a way that doesn't feel like you're jamming them together because you want them in scenes together? The great thing about moving the story to L.A. is, it's a really organic way to include Stark and include Jarvis. We said, "Howard has moved to L.A. because there's a scientific community. Howard's going to move his operations, do some contract work for the government, and also open up a movie studio in his spare time. Jarvis is out here for that setting up stage." And then, if he's the one who's saying, "I want to come out and help you," then OK, great, now we're on.
But what that starts is a really interesting story for him, which is, how much did he really understand about what Peggy does? For him, it's like a fun diversion, even though he's in danger and even though his life is threatened. For Peggy, it's her job, and it's exacted a real cost. She lost her roommate in the pilot, she lost Steve in the movie. She sees it as a really different thing, and we will see in Jarvis' story how he grows to understand that and where he comes out in the end. It will have a cost for him, and it will have an impact on his relationship with Peggy because at a certain point, she has the right to say, "This is not a frivolous thing. This is my job, and there's a real consequence to it." It provided a lot of great drama and conflict. There's a place for Jarvis to go. He actually, I would argue, has probably more of an arc in this season than he did last season."
"We saw Peggy struggling with the challenge of proving herself in the first season. Now that she's done that, what are the biggest hurdles she'll face in Season 2?"
Tara Butters: "Peggy is really interesting. She put a lot of things emotionally to bed in the first season; she let go of Captain America, she found her place in the world at the SSR. In the second season, we meet a different Peggy, in a lot of ways. She's more open to looking at her life and figuring out, does she want a relationship? She feels comfortable in her work environment, except for what she's starting to realize is her own idealism, in some ways, hindering her from being able to see that there is corruption within the SSR. That's one of the things on the professional side that she has to learn to deal with -- she can't look at everything through the same lens that she used to."
https://www.cbr.com/agent-carter-season-2-to-include-tie-in-to-doctor-strange-universe/
https://screenrant.com/doctor-strange-connects-to-agent-carter-season-2/
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-Marvel official site article of an exclusive interviwe to Tara Butters, Michelle Fazekas and Chris Dingess [January 12, 2016]:
"I’m curious how the arc of this season was decided upon. Was it always going to be in L.A.? Was it always going to be what it was going to be? Or was it just the one you all decided upon?
Tara Butters: (...) And the way we did it was through Howard, because we didn’t know if Dominic Cooper was going to come back. So we said, well, he works for Howard, and Howard has decided to move his base of operations to L.A. because you have this sort of burgeoning tech field out here [with] General Atomics and JPL. So Howard’s out here doing government contract work and in his spare time, he’s decided to open up a movie studio, sort of as a hobby. So Jarvis has come out here with him to help him set up his Beverly Hills Estate.
Can you talk about some of the iconic, real life locations and the fun and creative ways you’ve been able to use them this season?
(...)
Tara: We shoot the back lot of Universal as the back lot of Stark Pictures, so you can see the fake Western street and the mountains behind it—
(...)
You guys talked at Comic-Con about introducing Darkforce into the series. In Season 1, there weren’t overt sort of super power stuff going on as much so is this season opening the door maybe a little bit more?
Chris: Yeah, a crack!
Michele: It’s still very much our show. I mean, you’re definitely seeing more Marvel in it this season with what we call “Zero Matter.”
Tara: The nice thing about is that it’s 1947; they don’t know what it is. They don’t call it Darkforce, they don’t know where it comes from. And we really do try and ground it in science because you’ve got Howard Stark, you’ve got the Strategic Scientific Reserve. They’re trying to explain it from a scientific point of view. We actually got a real-life physicist to come in and try and give us a lesson. If Darkforce was a real thing, how would that happen? [laughs]"
(http://marvel.com/news/tv/25620/interrogating_marvels_agent_carter_the_executive_producers)
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-Agent Carter 2x1 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [January 15, 2016]:
"Jarvis welcomes Agent Carter to sunny Los Angeles and introduces her to Howard Stark’s newest house guest—Bernard. Don’t miss the two-hour “Marvel’s Agent Carter” season premiere event Tuesday, January 19 at 9:00 PM ET on ABC!"
https://youtu.be/PJdu2Ho8xp0?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-Agent Carter official account tweet including a reference to MCU movies [January 17, 2016]:
"Meet the newest member of the Stark family."
https://twitter.com/AgentCarterTV/status/688738049308651520
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-The Hollywood Reporter exclusive interview to Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters [January 19, 2016]:
"Why did you choose to incorporate the Doctor Strange zero matter/darkforce mythology into this season?"
Michele Fazekas: "We knew that we had wanted to get into a little bit more of the Marvel universe as far as having superpowers. The cool thing about darkforce when you look into it is, in the comic book universe, it's this very versatile thing. It can be a gas, a solid, a liquid. It gives people superpowers, it makes people villains. It can kill you. We liked all of that and how we could mold it into the story we wanted to tell. We knew that we wanted Jason Wilkes to be afflicted by it and by the end of the second episode, both he and Whitney Frost are exposed to it. It's going to have very different results for both of them. It accomplished a lot of things with one cool, simple element. It's also fun because, because we're in 1947, people don't know what they've come upon. That's why they named it zero matter. They don't know what it is or where it comes from. You're seeing the very beginnings of people trying to figure out what this is."
(...)
"The Hydra lapel pin has been spotted twice so far, first when Dottie (Bridget Regan) was trying to steal it from the SSR and then second when Peggy finds one in the car of the men who were chasing her –"
Tara Butters: "That's actually not Hydra."
Michele Fazekas: "It's a pin, but it's not Hydra."
"Interesting. It looked like the same symbol from Agents of SHIELD this season coinciding with the Hydra/NASA program."
Tara Butters: "It's actually an "A.""
Michele Fazekas: "We will unpack what that means but it's not Hydra."
Tara Butters: "It's actually from the Marvel Universe. You'll find out that there's this thing called the Secret Empire. In the Marvel comic book universe, it's the Council of Nine, or sometimes the Council of 12. It's basically a group of rich white guys who control everything. (Laughs.) But it's not Hydra."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/agent-carter-how-doctor-strange-857229
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-Agent Carter 'Meet Whitney Frost' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [January 19, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/KtdclV0Eusk?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-Agent Carter 2x1 clip on ABC account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [January 20, 2016]:
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-Jessica Jones post on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [January 20, 2016]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAxpQuQSREq/
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-Agent Carter official account tweet including references to MCU movies [January 20, 2016]:
"This Stark car though. #AgentCarter"
https://twitter.com/AgentCarterTV/status/689647544389996544
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-Agent Carter 2x3 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [January 25, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/vDmeGIlPDUc?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-Collider interview to Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez [January 26, 2016]:
"We know all of the Marvel characters are part of a bigger universe. How do you decide where and how you want to work in the references to that?"
Doug Petrie: "One of the things we learned from Season 1 is that the fans are so hyper-attuned to any Easter egg, at all, that any little bit goes a long way. We definitely don’t want to be overt. You won’t see anyone waving to the sky and going, “Bye, Iron Man!” We can’t afford his vapor trail. That’s another reason you won’t be seeing those guys on our show. We also want to keep it in Hell’s Kitchen. The example that we used a lot is that the air conditioner doesn’t work at Nelson and Murdock. That’s really what we’re interested in. New York is a city that has a larger than life presence. There are celebrities that live there. There are baseball stars that live there. They walk the streets. They’re everywhere. If you see Derek Jeter walking down the street, that’s great, but then you turn the corner and you get into an argument with the guy who overcharged you for a pretzel. We want our guys to be real New Yorkers."
Marco Ramirez: "What made Season 1 work, and we did it this season as well, is that we built the story organically the way the story wanted to be. If along the way, there was an opportunity for an Easter egg, great. And everyone is tuned to it. Sometimes it comes from the staff writers, sometimes it comes from an assistant, sometimes it comes from a Netflix executive, and then we feel the connective tissue happen. We never come in with Easter eggs, and Marvel and Netflix are great about that. Fans like that it always feels organic. It never feels like, “Oh, they’re leading to this super obvious connective tissue,” or “Now they’re in the garage of Stark Enterprises for no reason.” Our characters are so interesting, we don’t have to exist in that shadow, in order for them to be interesting. Those little Easter eggs that come along the way are fun, but there have been times when we had the opportunity and we thought, “No, we shouldn’t do it. This is too distraction. It’s not the right time for that.”"
https://collider.com/daredevil-season-2-punisher-elektra-story/
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-Agent Carter 2x3 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [January 26, 2016]:
"Peggy reunites with Howard Stark to hatch a plan to get into the Arena Club in a clip from the next "Marvel's Agent Carter," premiering Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 9:00 PM ET on ABC!"
https://youtu.be/4ONYOOOiCKI?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-Agent Carter post on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies [January 26, 2016]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBBmyFREqRi/
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-IGN article of an exclusive interview to Tara Butters, Michelle Fazekas and Chris Dingess [January 29, 2016]:
"Jarvis (and Ana and Howard...)
In Los Angeles, Peggy is reunited with her old ally, Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy) and eventually Jarvis’ boss, Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) – while Peggy, and Agent Carter viewers, finally meet Jarvis’ wife, Ana (Lotte Verbeek).
Fazekas: Having Jarvis [back] in the show was super important. That was sort of the central relationship of the show. And the way we did it was through Howard, because we didn't know if Dominic Cooper was going to come back. So we said, well, he works for Howard. Howard decided to move his base of operations to L.A. because you have this sort of burgeoning tech field out here and general atomic and JPL. So Howard's out here doing government contract work. And in his spare time, he's decided to open up a movie studio, just as a hobby. So Jarvis has come out with him to set up his sort of Beverly Hills estate, which was a really organic, fun way to is explain why is Jarvis in L.A.
Butters: [Introducing Ana] was something we went back and forth on, in the first season of whether or not to show her. Peggy's going to be staying with [Jarvis in LA] – you can't not show her. And it gave us a great opportunity to kind of [explore]... Who does Jarvis marry? Who is that person? And it was really fun to kind of develop that relationship more.
(...)
Darkforce and Relecting Doctor Strange and the MCU
Season 2 goes further into fantastical elements via a big plot point that brings in the Darkforce, the energy force used by Marvel comics characters like Cloak, Shroud and Blackout – the latter of whom has made an appearance on Agents of SHIELD, bringing the concept into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Butters: You’re definitely seeing more Marvel in this season with - we call it "zero matter."
Fazekas: They don't know what it is. It's 1947. They don't call it Darkforce. They don't know where it comes from. And we really do try and ground it in science because you've got Howard Stark. You've got this strategic, scientific initiative. So they're trying to explain it from a scientific point of view. We actually got a physicist, a real life physicist to come in and try give us a, so, if Darkforce was a real thing. How would that happen?
(...)
The producers discussed Agent Carter’s place in the larger MCU and how and when it ties into elements from other projects.
Butters: We always want to be true to [the MCU]. We always want to feel like you see us as a piece of it. But because of our time period, we kind of are on our own a little bit.
Dingess: There's definitely some Easter eggs and some tie-ins throughout.
Fazekas: Certainly with Darkforce. It touches on Doctor Strange. And all we know is, we'll write something and just hear “It doesn't conflict with the Doctor Strange script,” and we're like, “Score!” We had a really funny conversation with Eric Carroll who's over at Marvel Films who is great because we were asking for something for the season finale. We asked, "Can we have this thing and destroy it?" And he said, "Well, you know, you guys are sort of the custodians of this particular character." And we're like, "thanks!"
Dingess: Let's break it! Like any good custodian.
Fazekas: They're very supportive. And as long as we don't contradict what they're doing, we're good."
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-Agent Carter 'Jason Wilkes’ New Normal' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [January 29, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/n9YtaBsKRl4?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-Agent Carter 2x4 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account including a reference to MCU movies [January 29, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/3B3H9V84B9c?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-Agent Carter VFX video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [February 1, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/_W3bMFMzozM?list=PLK5HARgNfgj99SJMsk3ETZgY5w2exs1N0
https://youtu.be/_W3bMFMzozM?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-Marvel Minute video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Twitter including a reference to MCU movies [February 1, 2016]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/694932751544266752
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-Marvel report of Most Wanted spin-off, video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [February 1, 2016]:
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-Agent Carter 'The Science of Intangibility' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [February 2, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/XNsKtYqz6oo?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-Agent Carter posts on its Instagram and Twitter accounts including references to MCU movies [February 2, 2016]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBToZOMEqfe/
"Don’t worry! Bernard Stark is safe from Jarvis' tranquilizer! #AgentCarter"
https://twitter.com/AgentCarterTV/status/694704587236716544
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-Fox TV UK tweet shared on ABC Studios UK account including a reference to MCU movies [February 4, 2016]:
Fox tweet: "One of Howard's finest inventions! RT @marveluk: This button here is just in case you find yourself…dehydrated"
ABC Studios UK tweet: "A great invention! Well done Howard Stark #AgentCarterUK"
https://twitter.com/ABCStudiosUK/status/695358031152844801 > https://twitter.com/FOXtvUK/status/695356335236341762
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-Agent Carter 2x6 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [February 11, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/zKyCgo_lvVQ?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns' video on Marvel account on Facebook including references to MCU movies [February 24, 2016]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10153859506547488
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-Agent Carter 2x10 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [February 26, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/727iPR66Dx0?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-Agent Carter 2x10 sneak peek on its official account on Twitter (video and description) including references to MCU movies [February 27, 2016]:
"This is definitely a task for Howard Stark! #AgentCarter"
https://twitter.com/AgentCarterTV/status/703565349912903681
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-Agent Carter post on its Instagram account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [February 28, 2016]:
"Carter. Stark. Jarvis. The trio returns for the season finale of #AgentCarter Tuesday!"
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCWfx6mEqbH/
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-Agent Carter 'Touring the SSR' video on Marvel Entertainment account (video, title and description) including a reference to MCU movies [February 29, 2016]:
"Touring the SSR - Marvel's Agent Carter"
"Actors Lesley Boone and Matt Braunger take us on a tour of the SSR before the second season finale of "Marvel's Agent Carter" Tuesday, March 1 at 9:00 PM ET on ABC!"
https://youtu.be/DG8pIYaDjgc?list=PLK5HARgNfgj9SOCMFmruAyMUkocBZmjYD
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-Marvel Minute video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Twitter including a reference to MCU movies [February 29, 2016]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/704388342624886784
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-Marvel Studios Canada post about Agent Carter TV show on its Twitter account (image and description) [March 1, 2016]:
"Don’t miss Carter, Jarvis, Stark on the season finale of #AgentCarter right now on @CTV_Television"
https://twitter.com/MarvelStudiosCA/status/704849042979758081
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-Agent Carter official account tweet (gif and description) including a reference to MCU movies [March 1, 2016]:
"Hop in! Howard Stark and Jarvis are back for the season finale of #AgentCarter tonight!"
https://twitter.com/AgentCarterTV/status/704760626376220672
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-IGN exclusive interview to Michele Fazekas [March 2, 2016]:
"Vernon is an interesting question mark, because we don’t see a body. What should we presume or not presume about him?"
Michele Fazekas: "(...) Maybe we never see him again or maybe we see him again and by the way he’s full of Zero Matter now. The last thing you saw was Whitney Zero Mattering him and then getting interrupted. But it’s still in him. (...)"
(...)
"Beyond ABC, there’s Marvel overall and Peggy’s a big part of their universe, which makes me feel like it would be crazy if we never found out what happened with these cliffhangers. Do you feel like one way or another we’ll get answers on this?"
Michele Fazekas: "We’ll take any opportunity. Certainly Peggy exists and will likely continue to exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe because they all love her as well. We would do anything."
(...)
"You gave, at least for now, a happy ending to Peggy and Sousa. Is that something you knew going into the season that you were doing or was Wilkes a consideration for her?"
Michele Fazekas: "(...) And if you’re being true to the character, who is such a well-crafted character from Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who wrote the [Captain America] movie and wrote the pilot, it makes it easy to tell these stories and makes it easy to be able to know what would this character do in any given situation. (...)"
(...)
"When we talked to you on set, you mentioned how you and Tara had asked Marvel if there was something you could have and then "destroy" in the finale. So now that it's aired, I was wondering what that was?"
Michele Fazekas: "It was the Stark Hovercar. We needed a way to sort of shut the rift and we couldn’t think of what to do and we were at it for weeks going, “How do we do it? And how do we do it on a TV budget?” and then somebody thought of the Stark Hove car. We hoped that maybe Marvel had the 3D computer asset, which is always what is the most expensive thing to research and develop and we contacted Marvel and they were like, “Yeah, we do have that, but unfortunately, we do not have the car anymore.” Apparently the car from Captain America wasn’t a working car, but was just a shell of a car and they ended up junking it afterward so our picture car guy, Tyler, went out and found the identical car, the Cadillac, but it was the wrong color and the person who owned the car didn’t want to change the color of the car, so that’s why we said it was “Stark Hovercar 2.0.” then our Visual Effects company DNeg, who just won an academy Award for Ex Machina, they do this thing where they laser scan the entire car. So when you see at the end, you see it parked there, real car. Then you see it lift up and fly into the rift, it’s so seamless and you almost can’t believe it’s not real, except for the fact that it’s floating, because it’s so amazing. Even if you look at the reflection of the light around it, everything is so perfect. So we were very happy to use it. But yes we did say, “Do you mind if we send Stark’s hovercar into a portal to another dimension forever?” And they said sure."
"Unless Doctor Strange finds it some day..."
Michele Fazekas: "I hope that happens! Nothing would make me happier."
"Lastly, the council is your version of Marvel's Secret Empire, but with the pin and everything else going on, is there a tie to Hydra we might look for there or is it its own deal?"
Michele Fazekas: "It’s its own deal. We had not intended to have a Hydra connection, in part because that story is being told very well by other Marvel properties. So we were really saying that this is the Secret Empire and the original incarnation of it was somewhat based on, in real life, there was a scientist named Jack Parsons who was part of the very beginnings of Jet Propulsion labs, which started the space program."
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive interview to Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters [March 2, 2016]:
"Let’s talk about the person who may or may not have killed Jack. Is it someone we know? Are they connected to the Council of Nine?"
Michele Fazekas: "It’s unrelated to the Council of Nine. It is not for the reasons that you’d expect. It’s unrelated to Council of Nine, Zero Matter, any of that."
(...)
"Peggy’s come so far from when we first met her in Captain America: The First Avenger. Where does her journey take her next considering how much growth we’ve already seen?"
Tara Butters: "There’s so much you can still explore with her. What is it for her to be in a relationship? How do things change with her and Jarvis (James D’Arcy)? The fact is, that was one of the things that we loved even in this season is further delving into her relationships and how she grows as a person. How does she become the founder of S.H.I.E.L.D.? It’s great to explore all of that."
"Are you definitively saying that Sousa could the husband that Peggy talked about?"
Tara Butters: "No, we’re not."
Michele Fazekas: "We’re not saying he’s not, but we’re not saying he is."
Tara Butters: "I would love to see her in a relationship to see how that changes her, but at the same time, it doesn’t necessarily mean that’s who she ends up with."
(...)
"There was a hint Howard (Dominic Cooper) dropped about his trip to Peru and now using that land in Malibu. What are you referencing?"
Michele Fazekas: "We’re referencing Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), and building that place in Malibu where Tony lives."
"Turning to Whitney Frost, why did you ultimately decide to have her go crazy? And is that the last we’ve seen of her?"
(...)
Michele Fazekas: "We probably don’t exactly tell that story again, but I loved working with Wynn. We didn’t want to kill her off. The Zero Matter, all along, had this increasing affect on her, where it was driving her mad. That felt like the organic way to end that story, because we didn’t start out that way, but boy did she end up that way. That was a direct result of Zero Matter."
https://ew.com/article/2016/03/02/agent-carter-death-peggy-sousa-season-3-spoilers/
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-Agent Carter official account tweet including references to MCU movies [March 2, 2016]:
""Show of hands, who here invented a hover car. Nobody? I win." -Howard Stark #AgentCarter"
https://twitter.com/AgentCarterTV/status/704901553216483328
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x11 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [March 3, 2016]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip on ABC account on YouTube (video, title and description) including a reference to The Avengers [March 5, 2016]:
"Coulson Plots to Take Down Malick - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Gideon Malick is still one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s greatest threats."
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-Double Negative (DNEG) VFX video of Agent Carter season 2 for Wired [March 8, 2016]:
"Hi, I'm Mike Seymour from fxguide.com for Wired. Well, the Marvel Universe is expanding yet again into a magical, almost horror, genre, with the TV show, Agent Carter. This season, Peggy has moved to L.A., which required the normal range of period location work and green screen. But she's also been battling against the effects of the sinister and transformative substance, zero matter. Zero matter takes on various forms depending on who it comes in contact with. It sometimes freezes people and needs some Houdini-rigid body-shatter effects, or, in the case of Jason Wilkes, the character was dimensionally shifted and this required the effects team to invent a type of visual developer, or fixer, courtesy of Howard Stark.
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The transformative and almost magical zero matter is what Marvel fans will recognize as darkforce from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. It'd be really interesting to see if this plays in any other Marvel properties coming up."
https://www.wired.com/video/watch/design-fx-agent-carter
https://web.archive.org/web/20160512062430/http://video.wired.com/watch/design-fx-agent-carter
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-The Hollywood Reporter exclusive interview to Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen [March 8, 2016]:
"Then let's move on to a subject you can talk more about. Now that Ward is officially dead and Hive has taken over his body, what kind of havoc is he going to cause with Hydra?"
Jed Whedon: "Malick is actually going to be asking those same questions. We got a sense in this episode that he really doesn't know anything."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "We now know that Hydra has dedicated their entire history and life to bringing this being back. Now, that being is finally here. Malick is someone who has basically grown up in the Hydra organization with that belief system, and that being is now here on Earth with him in his compound. But you can tell that now that it's here, it's a little bit of careful what you wish for."
Jed Whedon: "He doesn't even know what to think yet."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "He has no idea what to expect at all."
Jed Whedon: "We don't, either. We'll slowly start unpacking Hive's agenda, and whether or not Malick is excited or afraid of that is yet to be seen."
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"When will SHIELD become aware that Ward's body is still up and walking around? How will the team members react to seeing this Inhuman wearing Ward's face?"
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Jed Whedon: "One of the things that is great for our world is that Hydra is such a clean and clear bad guy. But now they have something in their midst that might muck up their works. But we're always going to be going at them as you saw in this episode. Coulson is still very focused on getting Malick and thwarting whatever his plans are. So it feels like SHIELD is definitely going to be going after their side of things pretty actively. So when they cross paths and where and how, we can't say, but it's safe to say that it will happen."
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"Looking ahead to next season, if Agent Carter doesn’t return for a third season, is there room for Agent Carter in the SHIELD universe, or would the time period discrepancy prove to be too much of an obstacle to make it work?"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "There's always that possibility."
Jed Whedon: "We are in an old SSR base, and Agent Carter founded SHIELD. There's definitely a direct line between the two. We're still very hopeful that it will return because we love it. We are linked to them through history so whether or not we'll tell their stories remains to be seen."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/agents-shield-flash-forward-mystery-873410
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-Marvel Entertainment UK & Ireland post about Agent Carter on its Twitter account (images and description) [March 8, 2016]:
"And of course a happy #InternationalWomensDay to the MCU's original heroine, Peggy Carter!"
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/707210281546428416
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-Entertainment Weekly article of an exclusive interview to Jeffrey Bell at WonderCon [March 11, 2016]:
"“She really was a big part of the first half of the season and I think her death is the thing we take away from the first half of the season, and certainly what drives Coulson,” says Bell. “She seemed like she should be there with Coulson because her spirit kind of stays with him.”
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Two prominent figures featured in the art are the group’s newest antagonists: Hive, the monster who has taken over the human formerly known as Grant Ward, and Hydra boss Gideon Malick (Powers Boothe). “We have told you who Ward’s become, and Hive is the person that Malick is really in a relationship with. So the fact that reflection is on him or in him or around him s pretty potent,” says Bell. And that may be only the beginning of what Malick will be dealing with going forward. “For Malick it’s, ‘Hey, look, I’ve been worshipping the devil all my life, and now he’s here. So now what?’ That’s an interesting dilemma,” teases the executive producer.
https://ew.com/article/2016/03/11/agents-shield-wondercon-poster-art/
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-Forbes article shared by Jon Bernthal on Twitter [March 13, 2016]:
Forbes article: "While the improvements are great, though, the big question everyone has going into the new season is, “how good is Jon Bernthal as the famed Punisher?” Luckily, that question is a very simple one to answer: he’s great. This is the Punisher fans know. This is the Punisher fans want. This is the Punisher the MCU needs."
Jon Bernthal tweet: "'Marvel's Daredevil' Season 2 Review: A Little New, A Little Same, All Great, Never Dull - Forbes."
https://twitter.com/jonnybernthal/status/709025201191829504 > https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2016/03/01/daredevil-season-2-review/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x12 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [March 14, 2016]:
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-The Hollywood Reporter article of an exclusive interview to Adrianne Palicki, Nick Blood and Jed Whedon [March 18, 2016]:
""Nothing is set in stone yet but we are excited about the possibilities," Palicki told The Hollywood Reporter. "For now, Bobbi and Lance are still on SHIELD, so we'll see them involved with the team. But I'm excited to see what the writers come up with. It's very flattering to know there might be a show about us."
(...)
Executive producer Jeffrey Bell noted that until Marvel's Most Wanted lands its official series pickup, the SHIELD writers are dedicated to crafting stories for Bobbi and Lance with the rest of the team.
"While they're on SHIELD we want to take advantage of who they are and give the audiences as much of their relationship with one another and with other people as possible to make that really satisfying," said Bell.
"We are aware that there is a potential imminent end and so they won't be neglected."
For his part, Blood thinks the potential spinoff is a step in the right direction for his character, since he's never been 100 percent dedicated to working for SHIELD but only stuck around to be with Bobbi.
"Coulson's very much seen him as an asset and someone he should try and persuade to be part of the team because he brings things to it," said Blood. "And also, I think he appreciates that an outside perspective is always good. It's not a dictatorship. I think at the end of the day, Hunter is very independent-minded, so he's not going to be forced out of anything or forced into anything either. He's going to make his own choice. For a while he's played the game and then various things have come up which make him question it. It's not necessarily like he's saying that people are doing something wrong, it's just not his way.""
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/how-will-agents-shield-set-875695
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to The Avengers [March 18, 2016]:
"Hunter and Bobbi have to head into the field alone to catch Malick in a clip from the next "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Tuesday at 9:00 PM ET on ABC!"
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to The Avengers [March 20, 2016]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/1054571874607660/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x13 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to The Avengers [March 21, 2016]:
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-IGN exclusive interviwe to Jeffrey Bell and Paul Zbyszewski [March 23, 2016]:
Jeffrey Bell: "I hope we touch all the feeling buttons in tonight's episode for them," "There's a lot more stories at SHIELD to be told. Even as they go off to do separate things, their absence will affect the team."
"Why was now the right time to send Hunter and Bobbi off on SHIELD?"
Jeffrey Bell: "Because they physically had to go leave to shoot the pilot. Pretty simple. We've shot the pilot and we're in post on it, but they had to stop being on SHIELD and get ready for the pilot and then shoot the pilot and all of that, so it didn't make sense for us to have all these episodes with them and then not have them in two or three episodes, and then go, "Oh, we were just over here," and then come back and go away again. On many levels, it was a practical issue. It's also anything can happen at any time on this show, and I love that about the show as well."
"This felt like a very final goodbye, and though I'm sure you could find a way to get them back on Agents of SHIELD if needed, why did you decide to make their exit have such finality?"
Jeffrey Bell: "The big reason is this is not Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: Muncy. It's not the same type of stories in a different city with them starting up their own branch of SHIELD or something. We want to be clear we're telling a different type of story, and in doing so, you don't want to be telling a story where you go, "Why don't they call Coulson? He can fix this easily," because that line's been cut. Not that you can't bring them back someday or have someone from SHIELD show up on this show, but it's really setting up a different universe, and part of that is Dominic Fortune -- who Delroy Lindo is playing -- and that's really more about Hunter's past. You have ex-spies, you have mercenaries and contract players, and folks who are no longer in the game and taking care of things that are more in the gray. That's more his world than hers, which I think is fun. It allows us to tell a different kind of story."
"Since you have now brought your script with Paul Zbyszewski to life, did anything surprise you about the show in the process of making the pilot? Was there anything unexpected you found about what the show could become?"
Jeffrey Bell: "We're still finishing it, but what was really heartening was Nick and Adrianne as Bobbi and Hunter are really good together and they have a great chemistry. We knew that from SHIELD, but that was reaffirmed. It helps that they really like each other and so they enjoy working together. I think that chemistry shows up on screen. The rest of our cast is terrific with Delroy and the others, and Billy Gierhart who directed it brought a strong visual style to it."
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"Do you find yourself drawing on any specific comic arcs as you're looking forward, or are you hinged upon the mythology that Agents of SHIELD has created for itself?"
Jeffrey Bell: "Honestly, right now we're just trying to get the pilot done. We have thoughts about how to go forward, but really it's about just sticking the landing of Agents of SHIELD this season."
"Is there any chance we'll see Bobbi and Hunter on SHIELD again this season, or was this departure pretty final for now?"
Jeffrey Bell: "I can't answer that, but I can say it would be kind of cheating to make Mack cry like that only to buy it back -- not that we haven't brought characters back from the dead. We want to earn stuff."
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x14 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Twitter and Facebook including references to Daredevil and Agent Carter, article of Screen Crush [March 29, 2016]:
"GANG WAR RAGES IN HELL’S KITCHEN. AUTHORITIES SEARCHING FOR SOLUTION."
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/714938943914053633
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/1063314923733355
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1063314923733355
https://screencrush.com/agents-of-shield-daredevil-damage-control-easter-eggs/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tweet (video and description) including a reference to MCU movies and Agent Carter [March 29, 2016]:
"Trust us, Daisy. In Howard Stark's words, Nitramine is one "bad baby". #AgentsOfShield"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/714982329752621056 (https://vine.co/v/iDPh1jJr3MV)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x15 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [March 31, 2016]:
"Hive has a proposal for Gideon Malick that he can't refuse in a clip from the next "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," premiering Tuesday, April 5 at 9:00 PM ET on ABC!"
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-ABC press release announcements, article of Futon Critic [April 4, 2016]:
"MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - "Emancipation" - In the aftermath of the events of Captain America: Civil War, S.H.I.E.L.D. feels pressure to reveal their involvement with Inhumans. But with the stakes higher than ever and Hive growing stronger, the team is tested in ways they could never anticipate."
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-Freeform press release, article of The Futon Critic [April 7, 2016]:
"The network will also make its first venture into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with new series "Marvel's Cloak and Dagger," a superhero love story.
(...)
Marvel's Cloak and Dagger
"Marvel's Cloak and Dagger" is an adaptation of the beloved Marvel characters whose story is aimed squarely at young adults. This live-action interracial romance follows Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, two teenagers from very different backgrounds, who find themselves burdened and awakened to newly acquired superpowers while falling in love. Tandy can emit light daggers and Tyrone has the ability to engulf others in darkness. They quickly learn they are better together than apart -- but their feelings for each other make their already complicated world even more challenging. "Marvel's Cloak and Dagger" is a co-production of Marvel Television and ABC Signature Studios."
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promo on its Facebook account including references to The Avengers [April 7, 2016]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/1070117509719763
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1070117509719763
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to The Avengers [April 9, 2016]:
"What shameful secret is Malick hiding?"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/1071440756254105
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-Digital Spy article of an interview to Charlie Cox at a Netflix event in Paris [April 11, 2016]:
Charlie Cox: "When I signed the contract for the show, I signed multiple years for Daredevil and, of course, [team-up series] The Defenders - and in that package there was the opportunity to be involved in the movies,"
"It would be great if that was to happen - it'd be wonderful - who wouldn't want to be in the biggest grossing movie of all time?" he said. "But none of those discussions have happened - certainly not with me."
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-io9 article of an exclusive interview to Kevin Feige [April 12, 2016]:
"“It’s about finding the right way to do that,” Feige told io9. “And the honest answer is, movies are developed so far in advance that a lot of those things [Inhumans, Hydra monsters, etc.] weren’t done when we started to film [Captain America: Civil War].”
“Or, if we were to do something in a film that absolutely handcuffs what the team can do in season 2 of whatever show, they don’t want to be handcuffed. They shouldn’t be handcuffed. It’s just finding the right time and right place to do it.”
Which is a very diplomatic way of saying, the cross over may never happen—or maybe, it could. What we know is, it would take a huge amount of planning, something that both the TV and movie universes are doing independent of each other right now. Nevertheless, Feige swears it’s something he wants.
“Look, I love heroes,” Feige continued. “I love seeing as many heroes as possible interacting and surprising fans with their presence but, like Spider-Man, Ant-Man and Black Panther in this movie, like Falcon in Ant-Man, it just has to be absolutely blended with the story at hand, and not just, ‘Hey who is that who just drove past?’ That would be easy. We could do that in post—but that, I think, does a disservice to the characters.”"
https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-the-marvel-movies-may-never-cross-over-with-their-t-1770380140
https://ew.com/article/2016/08/27/giancarlo-esposito-marvel-tv-movies/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to The Avengers [April 12, 2016]:
"The Malick family welcomes you to their home. Join us for a new Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD tonight!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/1073337769397737
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-'Ask Marvel' video to J. August Richards on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube, also shared on its Twitter account [April 14, 2016]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/720707139392507904
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x16 clip on ABC account on YouTube and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook including a reference to MCU movies [April 15, 2016]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/1074929642571883
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1074929642571883
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x17 clip on ABC account on YouTube (title and video) including references to MCU movies [April 21, 2016]:
"Coulson Interrogates Malick Sneak Peek - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
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-WHiH Newsfront 2x4 on its Twitter and YouTube accounts including reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [April 28, 2016]:
WHiH Newsfront account (news ticker): "TRANSIA CORPORATION ANNOUNCES INTERIM-CEO"
https://twitter.com/WHIHOfficial/status/725761910495301632
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJkDqZzoOFYbqwOIFn2Lng)
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive report about Punisher spin-off [April 29, 2016]:
"'Punisher' spin-off ordered by Marvel, Jon Bernthal to star
Exclusive: Jon Bernthal to reprise role, 'Hannibal' veteran to serve as showrunner
It’s official: The Punisher is getting his own TV series.
EW has learned that Marvel has ordered a spin-off starring vigilante character introduced in Daredevil season 2.
Jon Bernthal will reprise his role as vengeful military veteran Frank Castle, who brings his own lethal form of justice to Hell’s Kitchen.
Writer and executive producer Steve Lightfoot (Hanniba, Casualty) will serve as showrunner.
Marvel’s The Punisher marks the sixth series ordered (so far) as part of the collaboration between Netflix and Marvel Television, including the upcoming Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and the ensemble miniseries The Defenders — along with Jessica Jones and the aforementioned Daredevil. (And in case you’re wondering, as we are, whether Bernthal’s character will also be added to The Defenders lineup, that’s not yet clear — though it seems likely he’ll at least pop in for an appearance.)
Word that Netflix was working on a potential Punisher spin-off was first reported by TV Line last summer. Netflix and Marvel are expected to publicly announce the project later Friday."
https://ew.com/article/2016/04/29/punisher-marvel-netflix/
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-Response tweet liked by WHiH Newsfront account on Twitter [May 2, 2016]:
Jeff Forehand response tweet: "@WHIHOfficial It's just kids trying to be edgy. If Hydra's even still around, theyre not much of a threat, the Avengers and ATCU handled it."
https://twitter.com/WHIHOfficial/likes
https://twitter.com/JeffForehand/status/727202016943022080/likes
(https://twitter.com/JeffForehand/status/727202016943022080 > https://twitter.com/WHIHOfficial/status/727195884174233600)
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-WHiH Newsfront 2x4 on its Twitter and YouTube accounts including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [May 3, 2016]:
WHiH Newsfront account (news ticker): "ATCU CONTINUES INVESTIGATION INTO MILITANT ORGANZIATION THAT DESTROYED THEIR FACILITY"
https://twitter.com/WHIHOfficial/status/727513410422759425
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJkDqZzoOFYbqwOIFn2Lng)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies [May 3, 2016]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/1086254041439443
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1086254041439443
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x19 clip on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and title) including a reference to MCU movies [May 3, 2016]:
"The Kree Arrive – Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 3, Ep. 19"
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x19 clip on ABC account (video, title and description) on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [May 5, 2016]:
"Hive Fights the Kree - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Kick@$$ Move of the Week"
"Hive (Brett Dalton) takes on his Kree-ators while S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) and Director Coulson (Clark Gregg) try to attack and kill him in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x19 "Failed Experiments" (Season 3, Episode 19)."
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-Entertainment Weekly article of an exclusive interview to Clark Gregg [May 9, 2016]
"“The Sokovia Accords have their own specific purpose within Civil War having to do with the powered people that we’ve met in The Avengers,” Clark Gregg tells EW. “It’s representative of how our show functions within the Marvel Universe, in some ways, in that it’s all connected.” (Side note: Everybody drink!) “That ripples through our show because suddenly all these people who are Inhumans in our corner of the universe, they’re all subjected to the Sokovia Accords. That dilemma rises up in our show about the people who feel Inhumans should be registered and those who feel that’s a first step to them being sequestered, imprisoned, exterminated.”
Unlike the last tie-in — which saw Coulson (Gregg) provide a helicarrier to the unknowing but desperate Avengers as they faced off with the titular nemesis in Avengers: Age of Ultron — the ties to Civil War run a little more philosophical, touching upon a theme Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been toying with all season after the arrival of the Inhumans. “I feel like we’ve been dealing with the bigger issues of Civil War on a smaller, more personal scale for a while now,” Chloe Bennet says. “It’s been building. We’ve been having our own mini version of Civil War.”
And as in Civil War, Team S.H.I.E.L.D. is divided over the Sokovia Accords and what they mean for the future of powered people. “Marvel is so good at taking really huge political and philosophical issues and putting them through a prism and making them something that you can have an opinion on, but there’s distance and you can argue both sides,” says Elizabeth Henstridge. “The characters fall on different sides. It’s not so black and white. There’s no one character in the show that’s full-force for one side or the other. It’s a really cool link philosophically that we’re both questioning the same morals or politics. Can two different beings, in a way, that share so much but then are so different, can you live side-by-side together peacefully?”
The answer: It won’t be easy. “Marvel always works best when it’s commenting on the real world,” executive producer Jeph Loeb says. “It’s safe to say it wouldn’t be hard to find a recent time where man’s tolerance toward man or woman is being stretched pretty thin, whether it’s because of race, gender, or religion. We can’t quite figure out how to get along. The Civil War is happening around us. In our world, that translates as whether or not you have powers. For a lot of people, that’s very scary when someone is different.”
That being said, you may be surprised where certain S.H.I.E.L.D. team members land when it comes to the Team Cap vs. Team Iron Man argument, particularly with Simmons (Henstridge). “She started off being scared of people with powers, and almost had a snobbish attitude toward them, and an arrogance of her superiority in terms of intelligence and how maybe people with powers were shortcutting to a solution when she felt she’d earned the right to be able to solve a problem,” Henstridge says. “But she has definitely warmed to the idea. But I do still think she’s on the side of Iron Man and relying on scientific qualities, which include documenting, writing everything down, and making sure everything is nice and neat in its little box.”
Simmons is not alone in feeling that way. “May is very torn, because on the one hand, she understands the need to have them as allies as opposed to having them as the enemy, especially with Hive [Brett Dalton] in the mix right now and him being able to control the Inhumans,” Ming-Na Wen says. “But there lies the dilemma, because as much as we want to believe and trust the Inhumans, they are the unstable, unknown element. For her, she wishes things were back to the old ways, where it was very clear cut that S.H.I.E.L.D. was there to help and to protect the citizens.”
This isn’t the first time S.H.I.E.L.D. has faced a situation like this. During the first season, there was an argument to be made over The Index, a list of super-powered people and objects kept by S.H.I.E.L.D. in order to track potential threats. “We’ve been to that place where we have documented, and it didn’t work,” Henstridge says. “It’s strange that we’re having the argument again, but that’s what humans do: You don’t notice that history is repeating itself.”
The team might not have much of a choice but to follow orders in this case considering S.H.I.E.L.D.’s current status. “We’re dipping our toe into the idea of S.H.I.E.L.D. being a legitimate organization again,” executive producer Jed Whedon says. “But with that would come any rules and regulations that come with government oversight. It’s not a coincidence that while we’re starting to approach that as an idea on the show, it’s becoming more complicated for that to be a reality that we would live in.”
With that in mind, Coulson is still very reticent to register his powered assets, especially when one of those assets, Daisy (Bennet), is like a daughter to him. “He does end up being Team Cap,” Gregg says. “In some ways, I think Coulson would’ve imagined he would be enforcing whatever the latest iteration of the World Council would want in terms of this stuff, but his relationship with Daisy and other Inhumans pulls him very much against that particular side of it. He’s very much Team Cap.”
Much like last time, though, no one from the Avengers even knows how the effects of their actions ripple out. “The connection is there, but it’s also very tenuous at this point, because S.H.I.E.L.D. has become so isolated with what’s going on with the Avengers and them not knowing still that Coulson is alive,” Wen says.
Of course, the Sokovia Accords aren’t the only connection the show has to the film. Another spoiler warning here. Coulson will also learn about Peggy Carter’s (Hayley Atwell) death during Tuesday’s episode, which is a tough pill to swallow considering their connection. “S.H.I.E.L.D. was birthed out of Peggy Carter and Howard Stark,” Bell says. “Any time we can make a connection to her, whether in a flashback or dealing with what’s happening now, it makes the universe smaller.”"
https://ew.com/article/2016/05/09/agents-shield-captain-america-civil-war-connection/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x20 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook (video and descriptions) including references to MCU movies [May 9, 2016]:
"Now that the Sokovia Accords are the law of the land, Brigadier General Talbot has some questions about the Inhumans Director Coulson is harboring in a clip from the next “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” premiering Tuesday, May 10 at 9:00 PM ET on ABC!"
"Coulson reacts to the events in Captain America Civil War. How will this affect the Inhumans?"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/1089728184425362
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1089728184425362
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x20 clip on ABC account on YouTube (title, video and description) including references to MCU movies, Agent Carter and WHiH Newsfront [May 11, 2016]:
"Coulson and May React to Civil War - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) and Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) react to news of the Civil War between Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), along with the death of S.H.I.E.L.D. founder Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3x20 "Emancipation". (Season 3, Episode 20)."
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trivia game video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube with Brett Dalton and Henry Simmons, including references to MCU movies [May 12, 2016]:
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-Bleeding Cool article of a Q&A with Chloe Bennet [May 15, 2016]:
"Are there any other Inhumans that you would like to see portrayed in the show?"
Chloe Bennet: "I really loved Yo-Yo. I actually thought that before I was Daisy Johnson, I might be Yo-Yo. I was so stoked to have her come on. And I think that her powers are so cool. Because she can go as fast and as far within a heartbeat. I think there is something very poetic about that, and I like it. But I am kind of, like, ready for Steve Rogers to make an appearance on our show. I'd be ok with that. And like, where's Romanoff? Where's the Avengers? Or maybe Robert Downy Jr. as Robert Downy Jr. That would be kinda nice."
"If Hive was such a threat, wouldn't the Avengers get involved?"
Chloe Bennet: "I don't know. People who make movies for Marvel, why don't you acknowledge what happens on our show? Why don't you guys go ask them that? Cause they don't seem to care!"
"If you could have one member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe on your show, who would it be?"
Chloe Bennet: "There is a lot that I would like to have. I wouldn't mind a little visit from Thor. Like, what if Daisy had to date Thor? And they'd be like "You have to date Thor. On the show. And kiss." Just kidding. My boyfriend is standing right behind me. Hi, honey. I love you! He is on the Walking Dead. That would be a cool crossover, right babe?"
Moderator: "I was going to mention him earlier, but I didn't know if I should acknowledge him?"
Chloe Bennet: "Come on out here and say hi. We met on the show, he played Miles. Come hang out up here."
"I know that your show does not interact with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Do you ever see yourself crossing over into that world?"
Chloe Bennet: "I would love that. The Marvel Cinematic Universe loves to pretend that everything is connected, but then they don't acknowledge our show at all. So, I would love to do that, but they don't seem to keen on that idea."
https://ew.com/article/2016/08/27/giancarlo-esposito-marvel-tv-movies/
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-Variety exclusive interview to Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen [May 17, 2016]:
"Brett Dalton has certainly gone through the wringer over the past three seasons – with Hive being obliterated, are we finally losing him for good?"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "In the Marvel universe, you can never say that you lose anyone for good; our entire series is centered around a man who was brought back from the dead. But we sustained Brett Dalton’s character as an antagonist for the past three seasons and that’s just a testament to how much we love and respect the actor as well as what he’s given to the character. But as with everything, we don’t want any story to ever lose steam; we don’t want any character’s arc to ever lose steam. We felt like we could give Grant Ward/Hive his glorious ending that he deserved, because Grant Ward essentially died halfway through Season 3, but we didn’t want to let go. [Laughs.]"
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"The last scene also introduced the concept of Life Model Decoys – there’s obviously been a lot of speculation about that aspect of the Marvel universe since before the show even began, so why did it feel like now was right time to introduce them?"
Jed Whedon: "Partially, we’ve been waiting on it because we knew what was coming in the second “Avengers” movie so we didn’t want to hit that note before them. But it’s also a progression of… this year our theme was “Are you Inhuman?” and dealing with humans without powers and how they react to people given powers, whether or not it ruins them or how that affects their humanity. So now our next progression is “what’s beyond humanity,” and what if you can take those choices into your own hands – what will happen then?"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "I think over the course of the three seasons, we’ve been exploring what is possibly the next step in human evolution constantly, and with the introduction of Radcliffe as someone who’s already exploring that next step. And it’s also very much a part of our real world right now, body modification is a huge part of popular culture, so it’s our way of opening up that world within the world of “SHIELD.”"
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"Since “SHIELD” spinoff “Marvel’s Most Wanted” isn’t going ahead, will we see Bobbi and Lance back next season?"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "We adore those characters and we’re always open to that possibility, but we can’t say much on that subject right now."
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- Entertainment Weekly exclusive interview to Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jeph Loeb and Jeffrey Bell [May 18, 2016]
"Why the six-month time jump?"
Jed Whedon: "We’ve done it each season, so we just wanted to do it a little early. It happens in the room where sometimes you’re discussing a problem with story or character and you can’t come up with a solution, sometimes that solution is to put all of that that you just talked about on screen. We’ve done it with Malick. We decided to have Hive ask him that and make that the story. (...)"
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"Does that tie at all to Coulson’s reluctance with the Sokovia Accords or why they’re going after Daisy and Coulson’s reticence to be a part of that?"
Jeph Loeb: "Let’s just say that as a result of what’s happened, there will be some changes that happened to the organization."
https://ew.com/article/2016/05/18/agents-shield-finale-deaths-season-4-spoilers/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip on ABC account on YouTube including references to Marvel-Netflix series and Agent Carter [May 18, 2016]:
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-Marvel Support response to Janelle Johnson, Talon Schweibenz and 'MCU canon' on Twitter, also sharing a Wikipedia article which includes the comics of Marvel TV series [June 1, 2016]:
Talon Schweibenz tweet: "@MarvelSupport is Jessica Jones #1 MCU Cannon?"
Janelle Johnson responses: "clearly also curious about this"
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"any response to this original tweet from 4 days ago? waiting on confirmation or...? just a quick yes or no"
Marvel Support response: "For a list of MCU Cannon comics, please visit: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_tie-in_comics)"
'MCU Canon' response: "so when you said that the list I posted was all of the canon, and only the canon, did you not mean that?"
Marvel Support response: "Sorry for the inconvenience! Jessica Jones (2015) #1 is meant to be an official extension of the Jessica Jones Netflix series."
'MCU Canon' response: "awesome, so to be absolutely crystal clear, despite lack of official red stamp, Jessica Jones #1 is official MCU canon?"
Marvel Support response: "Yes, Jessica Jones (2015) #1 is considered MCU Cannon."
https://twitter.com/MarvelSupport/status/738092184596033536 > https://twitter.com/mcucanon/status/738091125513162752 > https://twitter.com/MarvelSupport/status/738081039185240064 > https://twitter.com/mcucanon/status/738052309372919810 > https://twitter.com/MarvelSupport/status/738051362928402438 > https://twitter.com/theredgarden/status/738046191682781184 > https://twitter.com/theredgarden/status/737684346648203264 > https://twitter.com/TSchweibzVidz/status/736557024645910528
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Agent Carter TV show on its Twitter account (image and description) [July 13, 2016]:
[Translation:] "Does anyone else think that Peggy Carter and Howard Stark make a nice couple?"
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/753214541522169856
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-Entertainment Weeky article of an interview to Jed Whedon on Comic-Con panel [July 22, 2016]:
Jed Whedon: "With Doctor Strange coming out this year, the Marvel Universe is moving into new waters,” “We felt that this was obviously a great character that we’d love to have on our show that we feel fits with that shift."
(https://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/22/agents-shield-ghost-rider-car)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Gag Reel Season 3' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [July 22, 2016]:
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-GamesRadar exclusive interview to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast [July 23, 2016]:
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-IGN exclusive interview to Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon [July 24, 2016]:
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-io9 article of an interview to Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen on Comic-Con panel [July 26, 2016]:
"Agents of SHIELD introduced the history of the Marvel cinematic universe’s version of the Inhumans in its second season. But, since there was going to be an Inhumans movie in 2018, the writers were a bit restricted in what they could do. With Inhumans completely lacking a release date right now—first pushed back and then dropped from the schedule—Agents of SHIELD is benefiting.
“We do have a little more freedom,” said Jed Whedon. “We’ve told a couple of seasons of stories but now we do have some more freedom. So when we return to focusing on Inhumans, we’ll be able to do a little bit more.” That freedom, Whedon and Tancharoen said, included being able to use some of the classic Inhumans. We’re pushing for Lockjaw.
As for how Doctor Strange will affect the the show, Whedon said that the introduction of that character and his powers into the universe paves the way for their biggest new character, Ghost Rider. “It’s one of the reasons we think Ghost Rider will fit this year is that the cinematic universe is being opened up into that world.”
“But, as we learned in Thor,” Whedon continued, “the Marvel approach is that magic is just science we don’t yet understand. We’re going to have both the introduction of magical elements in our show as well as very hardcore science.”
While planning for the movies can be a challenge, there are some advantages. “We can start to pose the questions that perhaps the movie will answer for us,” said Tancharoen. “And coming out of we see how that will affect our characters moving forward.”"
https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-doctor-strange-gave-agents-of-shield-ghostrider-1784319160
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-Deadline article of Ted Sarandos on TCA [July, 27, 2016]:
"Sarandos indicated that, with the Marvel universe expanding via renewals and spinoffs, Netflix may air more than the two series a year that had been slated originally but noted that, while there is a push in closing the gap between seasons, maintaining the quality of the shows won’t allow to shrink hiatuses too much. He said that miniseries The Defenders will follow Luke Cage and Iron Fist‘s first seasons before the Marvel series begin airing new seasons. He noted that the mini will feature the casts of all Marvel series. Will that include Jon Bernthal, star of spinoff The Punisher? “Stay tuned,” Sarandos said.
He indicated that Netflix is open to further expanding the superhero universe and to potential crossovers with ABC’s Marvel series."
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-Jeph Loeb on Netflix panel for Luke Cage before the Television Critics Association, article of Slash Film [July 29, 2016]:
"When asked if we could see any of the television characters, be it Luke Cage or Daredevil, in any of the Marvel movies, Loeb explained why it would be prohibitive to the television schedules.
“I can tell you that part of the challenge of doing this sort of thing is that the movies are planned out years in advance of what it is that we are doing,” Loeb said. “Television moves at an incredible speed. The other part of the problem is that when you stop and think about it, if I’m shooting a television series and that’s going to go on over a six-month or eight-month period, how am I going to get Mike [Colter] to be able to go be in a movie? I need Mike to be in a television show.”
Loeb did not completely rule out a crossover, and some of the film characters like Nick Fury, Siff and Maria Hill have appeared on television. “Anything is possible,” Loeb continued. “As I often get reported by you folks for saying #ItsAllConnected, our feeling is that the connection isn’t just whether or not somebody is walking into a movie or walking out of a television show. It’s connected in the way that the shows come from the same place, that they are real, that they are grounded.”
A crossover also has to mean something. If they only show up for a joke, it defeats the purpose of connecting the worlds. “We have seen some characters that have appeared and crossed over,” Loeb said. “Most notably, one of our cast members that isn’t here because she’s working is Rosario Dawson, who continues the character of Claire Temple. So the short answer is we are already doing it. The long answer is as things go by, as the story dictates it, we’ve always been big fans of providing Easter eggs for our fans, but we never want to be known as an Easter egg farm. It has to work within the story. We never want to do Luke Cage gets into a cab as Foggy Nelson and Matt Murdock are getting out of the cab. For those of you that are old enough to know this reference, it’s not when The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was on Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. You actually get to see our characters interact with each other.”"
https://www.slashfilm.com/marvel-movie-tv-crossover/
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-Slash Film article of an interview to Jeph Loeb on TCA [August 8, 2016]:
"Marvel’s Most Wanted was designed to be a spin-off of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC. Since ABC passed, would Loeb shop it around to other networks? “I never say never, but we designed that show to do a very specific thing,” Loeb said. “The network decided that that thing was not something that they wanted to do. I love everybody that’s involved with it. It’s an extraordinary piece of writing and execution and performances, but for whatever reason it didn’t work for the network. I can’t comment on what they do.”"
https://www.slashfilm.com/marvel-tv-hellfire-club-cloak-and-dagger/
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-Luke Cage post on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies [August 23, 2016]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJdzkVtgPvV/
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-Yahoo! article shared on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook [September 12, 2016]:
"Ol’ Flame Head makes the leap from movies to the small screen this fall when Gabriel Luna brings the most recent version of Ghost Rider to Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Instead of a motorcycle (or a horse like the original original incarnation), Robbie Reyes drives a flaming 1969 Dodge Charger — and we’ve got an exclusive look at the demon and his car in all their fiery glory.
Ghost Rider “opens up a whole different kind of storytelling for us,” says S.H.I.E.L.D. executive producer Jeff Bell. Not only is it the most well-known Marvel character they’ve ever had on the show, but it’s someone whose “origins present themselves as supernatural.” That’s not just a leap for the show, which exists mostly in a world of “spies and agents”; it’s a leap for the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. Before we see Doctor Strange on the big screen in November, Ghost Rider will be laying out the rules for mysticism in the MCU.
Ghost Rider’s appearance also coincides with the show’s move to 10 p.m., which Chloe Bennet — who plays Daisy — says means a season that’s “darker and sexier” than anything that’s come before. “If anyone’s familiar with the Robbie Reyes version of Ghost Rider,” she says, they know that the show will have to deal with issues of vengeance, penance, the line between good and evil, and who deserves to die. “These massive themes [are] being threaded throughout our season.”"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/posts/1177242229007290 > https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/agents-of-shield-ghost-rider-charger-robbie-140139254.html
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-Entertainment Weekly article of an exclusive interview to Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen [September 16, 2016]:
"Since its debut, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has featured some sort of tie-in to the films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe — whether it was Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Captain America: The Winter Soldier or S.H.I.E.L.D.’s helicarrier assist in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
That tradition will continue as ABC’s super series heads into its fourth season just ahead of the debut of Doctor Strange — though the tie-in won’t be as explicit. “Our ties are at times very direct and at times are more thematic,” EP Jed Whedon tells EW. “The tie this year will feel more of a reflection of the movie, less an interweaving plot. As that movie hits the world, it comes at the right time in our show, and you will see some of those same ideas being explored.”
“The same questions that our team is exploring leading up to the premiere of Doctor Strange, perhaps some of those concepts will be reflected in the movie and then carried through,” EP Maurissa Tancharoen says. Adds Whedon: “Hopefully some of the questions that we’re asking will be answered by it and then pose some new themes and ideas for us to explore.”
As Marvel moves into the realm of the unexplained with Doctor Strange, so too does the show with the introduction of Ghost Rider (Gabriel Luna) — more scoop on that here — and the concept of artificial intelligence. “Doctor Strange will introduce some new ideas, but we’re starting to lay the first brick in the yellow brick road to that,” Whedon says. “We want to slowly play with the morality of building these things, whether or not we even should and the scientific questions that come along with it. [That’s] the first step that we explore before we inevitably get into other things.”
“It’s made very clear in Age of Ultron when diving into the world of A.I. that things may not go as planned, so whether or not we continue that theme you will see,” Tancharoen adds."
https://ew.com/article/2016/09/16/agents-shield-doctor-strange/
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-Agent Carter DVD commentary of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, article of Screen Crush [September 16, 2016]:
"On the DVD commentary, McFeely says that this scene, and the long history of Cap and the Starks, was carefully planted not only in past films, but also in the spinoff series Agent Carter, about the post-WWII adventures of secret agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). As McFeely puts it:
"We were doing Agent Carter — this is a very small aside — but we wanted to make sure in the final episode of Season 1 of Agent Carter that Howard says something to the effect of ‘Steve Rogers is the greatest thing I ever did.’ Just so, for anybody who’s listening, it would pay off this idea that maybe he would pursue Super-Soldier Serum all the way into the ’90s."
The scene he’s referring to comes near the end of the last episode of Agent Carter Season 1. Peggy has to talk a hypnotized Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) out of dumping a chemical weapon on New York City. As she pleads with him over a radio (an echo of the end of the first Captain America movie), Stark says:
"All I’ve done my whole life is create destruction. Project Rebirth was ... [Steve] was the one thing I’ve done that brought good into this world."
And it all connects; when Howard Stark is killed in flashback at the start of Civil War, he’s carrying a trunk full of Super-Soldier Serum. And though it’s not explicitly stated in this scene from Agent Carter, McFeely and Markus note the potential for jealousy when a man thinks the greatest thing he ever created was a soldier and not his own son.
“See?” they quip. “There is connection between the television-verse and the movies.”"
https://screencrush.com/marvel-movies-tv-connection-civil-war/
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-Zavvi exclusive limited edition steelbook of Agent Carter season 2 shared on Marvel Entertainment UK & Irleand account on Twitter [September 20, 2016]:
Zavvi synopsis: "Bigger, bolder and brighter than the white-hot lights of 1940s Hollywood, Marvel’s Agent Carter blazes back for a second season packed with action, humour and intrigue! In the wake of World War II, top SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve) agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) is dedicated to stopping new, Atomic Age threats. Blessed with brains, beauty and formidable fighting skills, Peggy trades the lampposts of New York City for the palm trees of Los Angeles to crack a baffling case with her partner in crime-fighting, Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy): A body has just been discovered in a frozen lake…during a heatwave. When this bizarre phenomenon is traced to Isodyne Energy, the mystery deepens, exposing a shocking conspiracy and the revelation of a substance that could end life as we know it—once it falls into the hands of actress-turned-mad-scientist Whitney Frost. With the fate of humanity at stake, Peggy must defeat Whitney, face off again with archnemesis Dottie Underwood and navigate a love triangle involving potential new romance Dr. Jason Wilkes and smouldering old flame Chief Daniel Sousa. Experience all the adventure and pulse-pounding suspense with Marvel’s Agent Carter: The Complete Second Season."
Marvel UK & Irleand tweet: "Marvel's Agent Carter Season 2 limited edition UK Steelbook comes exclusively to @Zavvi on 5th December (https://www.zavvi.com/blu-ray/marvel-s-agent-carter-season-2-limited-edition-steelbook/11340443.html)"
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/778264709652971520
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-'Marvel 101' video about Phil Coulson on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [September 21, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/iAEGZtaO8Fo?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
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-Complex article of Mike Colter and Cheo Hodari Coker [September 26, 2016]:
Cheo Hodari Coker: "Through Mike’s portrayal of this character, we get the first taste of the Wu-Tang-ification of the Marvel Universe. Luke Cage is a trojan horse; through him, wrapped in the package of this show, we introduce real deep hardcore NY hip-hop culture to the world. And Mike Colter is such a perfect choice: he's so attractive and cool, you can keep the camera on him while introducing all this other stuff."
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/09/mike-colter-luke-cage-interview
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-Brett Dalton tweet, sharing an article of ComicBook [September 29, 2016]:
"Thanks to @ComicBook for putting me in the Top 5 Best Villains of the MCU!!! It's good to be bad
https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/who-are-the-best-villains-of-the-marvel-cinematic-universe/"
https://twitter.com/IMBrettDalton/status/781597002198945792
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-Luke Cage post on its Facebook (latam) account (cover photo) including a reference to MCU movies [September 30, 2016]:
https://www.facebook.com/lukecagelat/posts/1459010854125910
https://www.facebook.com/lukecagelat/photos/a.1393035184056811/1459005720793090/
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-Marvel interview to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 cast on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [October 5, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/A8E_nplBqy0?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x3 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies and WHiH Newsfront [October 7, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/2glWlNpR2SI?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
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-The Playlist article of a Kevin Feige interview/Q&A [October 11, 2016]:
Kevin Feige: “They did ask a long time ago and I think our answer was, ‘No, we’ll do something with ‘Blade’ at some point.’ That’s still the answer,” “We still think he’s a great character. He’s a really fun character. We think this movie going into a different side of the universe would have the potential to have him pop up, but between the movies, the Netflix shows, the ABC shows there are so many opportunities for the character to pop up as you’re now seeing with Ghost Rider on ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ that rather than team up with another studio on that character let’s do something on our own. What that is? Where that will be? We’ll see. There is nothing imminent to my knowledge.”
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x3 clip on its Facebook account and ABC account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies and WHiH Newsfront [October 12, 2016]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/1203813216350191
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1203813216350191
"New S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Jeffrey Mace makes the big announcement to the public that S.H.I.E.L.D. is officially back."
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-Gabriel Luna post on Instagram (image and description) [October 17, 2016]:
"The gang's all here. @Marvel #Epic @mylobrizuela"
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLrME0MDULE/
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-Marvel exclusive interview to Gabriel Luna at Doctor Strange premiere, video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [October 20, 2016]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. panel at NYCC video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [October 22, 2016]:
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-Luke Cage post on its Facebook (latam) account (video and description) [October 24, 2016]:
"Paola Del Castillo and MrX put Theo Rossi (Shades) to the test to welcome him to the Marvel Universe. #LukeCage"
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1484832641543731
https://www.facebook.com/lukecagelat/videos/1484832641543731
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x5 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to WHiH Newsfront [October 25, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/3cLQdirHuUM?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x6 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to The Avengers [October 28, 2016]:
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-The New York Times article of Ben Sherwood and Richard L. Gelfond [November 14, 2016]:
Ben Sherwood: “We’ve worked very carefully with our friends at Marvel Studios — and this is a critical point — to make sure that calendar-wise and content-wise we are only enhancing the Marvel universe,”
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-Entertainment Weekly article of an exclusive interview to Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen [November 30, 2016]:
"“Doctor Strange firmly established that there is a lot of ‘science’ in the universe that presents itself as magic,” executive producers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen tell EW via email. “This would fall into that category and was intentionally visually reminiscent of that film.”
While AIDA provided a happy reunion, it seems the access to the Darkhold has caused AIDA to consider potentially building a new life of her own — the tag revealed the android building a brain. “Nothing to worry about,” the S.H.I.E.L.D. bosses deadpan. “Everything is going to be just fine.”"
https://ew.com/article/2016/11/30/agents-shield-aida-brain/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x7 clip on ABC account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [December 1, 2016]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x8 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [December 4, 2016]:
https://youtu.be/nrkntqZizNs?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
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-Marvel official site article about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 including videos with references to MCU movies and WHiH Newsfront [December 6, 2016]:
"[Video: https://youtu.be/nrkntqZizNs]
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S.H.I.E.L.D. goes public again.
[Video: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1203813216350191]"
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/debriefing-marvel-s-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-season-4-so-far
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot official description on Marvel and ABC official sites [December 6, 2016]:
"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot is set in the world of the hit television series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Taking place shortly before the beginning of Season Four, this digital series features the character of Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez (Natalia Cordova-Buckley), an Inhuman with the ability to move with super-speed. As a person with powers, she must sign the recently instituted Sokovia Accords, the worldwide agreement that regulates and tracks those with super powers. However, the restrictions of the Accords are in direct conflict with a personal mission she's desperate to fulfill, a mission that will test her abilities, her allegiances, and will include some tense encounters with our most popular S.H.I.E.L.D. team members."
https://www.marvel.com/slingshot
https://abc.com/shows/marvels-agents-of-shield-slingshot/about-the-show
https://screencrush.com/agents-of-shield-slingshot-digital-series/
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-'Gadgets 360' interview to Scott Buck and Allie Goss [December 7, 2016]:
"How did Netflix and Marvel decide on what characters to pick for The Defenders?"
Allie Goss: "Three years ago, Marvel came in and pitched a very ambitious project, The Defenders. It was four individual shows followed by a limited series that would bring them all together. When they came in, it was actually these four characters – there was Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. We weren’t entirely sure which order they would go in, that became part of the development and creative process. It was always going to be a discussion whether these were the right four, but as we got going on Daredevil and Jessica Jones, it started to feel like these were the exact right heroes.
They are far more grounded, and they set up The Defenders quite well. We were able to explore the character stories without getting too consumed by superpowers or heroes flying through the air, or massive visual effects. And in that way, they became the greatest street level heroes we could explore. And then from there, Jon Bernthal as The Punisher in Daredevil season two was just a standout, that it was undeniable and we had to move forward and wanted to very much."
(...)
"How much of continuity factors in, building up to The Defenders? How much freedom do you have?"
Scott Buck: "There is a fair amount of freedom. Sometimes things are done because they are fun, and then we go, eh the next series will figure this out. (Laughter) There is a bit of that, but also I do talk to the other showrunners. Because we are leading into The Defenders, we have to leave our show in a very specific place with our character, because we do sort of plant seeds and stories that will then come to fruition in The Defenders. There does have to be a lot of cooperation between all the different groups. But other than that, we work distinctly by ourselves."
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-Collider interview to Jed Whedon and Jeffrey Bell [December 7, 2016]:
"How are these LMDs going to differ from Ultron or Vision? What’s the key element with these LMDs and what significance do they bring to Marvel, as a whole?"
Jed Whedon: "We said, at the beginning of the season, that they were mimicking human behavior, and we’ve seen that Aida took some a leap and built a brain of her own. So, the real difference is that they represent people that we know. It’s’ not a big robot baddie, although there is some of that, obviously. But right now, we know that there is one among us, who is someone we know. How much they know and how much their agenda is mixed with their own emotions are the sorts of questions are what we’re going to dive into. But, the main difference is these are our people. That’s what makes it scarier."
Jeffrey Bell: "They’re not omniscient. They don’t have access to all knowledge, all information, and all other machines, in the way that Ultron and, to a lesser extent, Vision did. We’re much more interested in the knowledge that that person has, and how this being deals with that."
Jed Whedon: "They also won’t build 10,000 versions of themselves, mostly because we don’t have $200 million, but also because we’re telling emotional stories."
"Is this the definitive end to Robbie Reyes’ story on the show?"
Jed Whedon: "I will say that he is trapped in another place, which usually means that he’s not dead."
Jeffrey Bell: "Coulson says, “I’ve got a feeling that this isn’t the last we’ll see of him. That was true of the last Ghost Rider.” And Daisy is like, “What?!” "
Jed Whedon: "There are multiple reasons that we are putting that down, for now. One is to tell the stories that come next, but there are also financial considerations."
Jeffrey Bell: "Honestly, if we were doing 10, 12 or 13 episodes, you could do a whole Ghost Rider arc, but that’s a lot for 22, especially with everything else that we like and care about on the show. I think it would feel like one flavor over a long period of time. But, we’ve certainly left it open. What helped us this season was Doctor Strange coming out, where it opened doors to other kinds of storytelling within the Marvel Universe. Yes, there’s science, but less of it. There’s a lot of stuff in quantum physics that ties to Eastern religion and ties to a lot of the stuff that’s in Doctor Strange. We’ve tried to lean into that as well, which has allowed us to tell Robbie and Dark Dimension stories. As opposed to going to a hell world, you’re in a different dimension, and there’s science to back that up. We didn’t make it up."
(...)
"As you guys move into the latter half of the season, traditionally you’ve had some dovetailing with the Marvel movie that comes out at the end of spring/early summer. Are you already planning for that kind of thing, or will this season be different, in that you won’t do more direct tie-ins that you’ve done in the past?"
Jeffrey Bell: "Some are easier than others because they happen on the same planet. Guardians is hard for us to tie into because it just doesn’t really happen here, or it’s in the past, or things like that. I do feel the Darkhold feels like it belongs in the library in Kathmandu. A lot of times, it’s based on much bigger things, like actor availability. We always try to do that. Everybody loves it. We love it."
Jed Whedon: "Yeah, but it very much depends on where our stories are going."
Jeffrey Bell: "And nothing will ever do as much as that first season, when the name of your TV show changes from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to Marvel’s Agents of HYDRA."
"On a similar note, you guys have been making winks to Agent Carter for awhile now. Are there any plans to go further that way, this season?"
Jed Whedon: "There’s always plans, and there’s always possibilities. Now, this is our fourth season, so we’ve probably said that 10,000 times."
Jeffrey Bell: "But, it’s true."
Jed Whedon: "She is a part of the universe, and she’s a character we care about. I will say that we’re looking at a 38% chance there."
Jeffrey Bell: "That’s pretty good!"
Jed Whedon: "I can’t tell if that’s a lot or a little."
Jeffrey Bell: "If you told me that there was a 38% chance of rain today, I’m saying, “Oh, I better take my umbrella.”"
Jed Whedon: "I should probably tell the writers that there’s a 38% chance."
"The way the MCU handles magic is very based in science, and even the Darkhold has ties to science, in how it’s making these fantastic things happen. Does that mean that there is no such thing as magic in the MCU? Is there a scientific explanation for Ghost Rider and the flaming head, and everything?"
Jed Whedon: "I think that the Marvel rule is that magic is science that we don’t understand. But in Episode 407, when we’re trapped where the ghosts were in the quantum energy fields between dimensions, the Ghost Rider very clearly says, “That’s where I came from. I know where you’re being dragged down to and I want to go back.” One of the things that Doctor Strange allowed us to do is to have something that you would call a Hell Demon on our show because we now are opening holes between worlds and between universes. So, any time that there’s something that, on another show, would be a wave-of-the-wand magic thing, we can chalk it up to, “Oh, it’s from another dimension,” or “There’s another set of physics rules in that world.” It’s allowed us to put it all under the science umbrella. The word dimensions as covering a lot of ground."
Jeffrey Bell: "It’s the same thing with the Thor movies. There are all these different worlds and there are different aliens. If some of these aliens showed up they might look like a Hell Demon, but it might be named Larry, in his world, and there might be a lot of other guys with flaming heads, walking around saying, “Good morning, Larry,” and it would be normal. We had that last year with Hive trapped on a world, and historically, he had been viewed as the Devil. We went through all the incarnations he had through history and said it was an Inhuman who had these abilities."
https://collider.com/agents-of-shield-season-4-midseason-finale-interview-jed-whedon-jeffrey-bell/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot on Marvel official site and Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (videos and descriptions), web series that includes references to MCU movies [December 13, 2016]:
"EPISODE 1
VENDETTA
Now that Daisy has returned to S.H.I.E.L.D., Yo-Yo wants to talk to her about a secret the two of them share. In a flashback, we start to learn about the day Yo-Yo signed the Sokovia Accords. But we also discover Yo-Yo is tracking a dangerous threat from her past.
EPISODE 2
Director Mace talks Yo-Yo through the signing of the Sokovia Accords. There are regulations to follow and severe consequences if the agreement is broken. When Yo-Yo feels that burueacracy is getting in the way of her mission, she's faced with a difficult choice"
https://www.marvel.com/slingshot
[Playlist:] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK5HARgNfgj8kpKTs4Dt3JvOS1SPw3UJy
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot BTS video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube, also included on the playlist of Slingshot and season 4 [December 21, 2016]:
"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot"
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"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4"
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"Go Behind the Scenes of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot!"
https://youtu.be/FbIdpiWRvPQ?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
https://youtu.be/FbIdpiWRvPQ?list=PLK5HARgNfgj8kpKTs4Dt3JvOS1SPw3UJy
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot playlist on Marvel Entertainment account [Updated until December 21, 2016]:
"Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK5HARgNfgj8kpKTs4Dt3JvOS1SPw3UJy
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2017[]
-Entertainment Weekly article of an exclusive interview to Jeph Loeb [January 13, 2017]:
"Speaking of New York, does that mean that The Defenders will visit New York-based Doctor Strange, cross over with other Marvel series like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., or enter the realm of the films? “You’re trying to trap me into saying, ‘Hashtag, it’s all connected,'” Loeb says, chuckling. “If the story warrants it, we will obviously do our best to have folks cross into each other’s story lines.”
For now, the company’s film and television arms continue to make sure each of the superhero stories can stand alone, no matter the size of the screen. “We certainly communicate with each other in terms of what we’re doing and what we have planned and the characters that we’re using and where it’s all going,” Loeb says of working with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, who oversees the films. That helps limit the fatigue, but also poses a personal problem for Loeb: “Unfortunately for me as a fan,” he says, “I tend to know more about what’s happening in the movies than I want to know.” Only fans receive spoiler alerts, after all."
https://ew.com/tv/2017/01/13/defenders-marvel-cinematic-universe-crossover-jeph-loeb/
https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-head-of-tv-on-how-defenders-will-connect-to-marvel-movies/
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-Digital Spy interview to Vincent D'Onofrio [January 16, 2017]:
Vincent D'Onofrio: "I would love to switch over to the movies, but I think it's pretty much been said it's not going to happen. Or at least not for a very, very long time. I think Kevin Feige explained that, and that's what makes the most sense, he said the film universe is too jam-packed. "It's hard enough already, and if they keep bringing big characters in that they have to service in the writing, it's not gonna work. They're trying to figure out already how to individualise more and at the same time keep The Avengers going. "It makes sense not to mix the TV stuff, there's just too many characters."
https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a819160/vincent-donofrio-interview-marvel-movies-daredevil/
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-Daredevil account retweet of a ComicBook article [January 16, 2017]:
ComicBook article: (...) "If you read any superhero movie sites (like Comicbook.com, Comicook.com, or Comicbook.com...) then you probably recognize the image Cox is referring to. It's an image that has been used and circulated, so clearly it has impact with fans. Would be a great Easter egg to adapt into the Marvel Cinematic (Neftlix) Universe."
ComicBook tweet: "ICYMI: Charlie Cox loves an iconic @Marvel Comics moment between #TheDefenders teammates @Daredevil & @LukeCage:" (https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-defenders-charlie-cox-daredevil-luke-cage-cheeseburgers/)
https://twitter.com/ComicBook/status/821092162897149952
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x11 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [January 24, 2017]:
https://youtu.be/YHyFgPqKSRM?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
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-Daredevil video on its Twitter and Instagram accounts including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [February 8, 2017]:
"DOGS OF HELL
NEY YORK"
https://twitter.com/Daredevil/status/829504405913210881
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQRdTbijGw6/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x15 clip on ABC account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [February 24, 2017]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x15 clip on its Facebook account including references to MCU movies [March 10, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/1358940464170798
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1358940464170798
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-The Daily Beast article shared by Cheo Hodari Coker on Twitter [March 22, 2017]:
The Daily Beast article: "‘Luke Cage’ Creator on Black Lives Matter and Bringing the N-Word to the MCU
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And, not long into the first episode, there is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first-ever mention of the N-word—the first of many times it’s used throughout the show."
Cheo Hodari Coker tweet: "‘Luke Cage’ Creator on Black Lives Matter and Bringing the N-Word to the MCU http://thebea.st/2dweU1w via @thedailybeast"
https://twitter.com/cheo_coker/status/844606051378851840 > https://www.thedailybeast.com/luke-cage-creator-on-black-lives-matter-and-bringing-the-n-word-to-the-mcu
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-Screen Rant interview to Eric Carroll on Spider-Man: Homecoming set [April 3, 2017]:
"Is there a sense that Spidey knows about Daredevil or Luke Cage?"
Eric Carroll: "Not specifically referenced in this movie, no. I think that’s something we all think would be really fun and it’s definitely a card I would love to see played, if not sooner rather than later. But as of now, it’s not referenced in this movie."
"And he’s in Queens, so it’s like so far away."
Eric Carroll: "It’s so far. [Laughs] It’s like two trains."
https://screenrant.com/spider-man-homecoming-defenders/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x16 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [April 3, 2017]:
https://youtu.be/PQw_n280Juc?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Answer Your Questions at Wondercon' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Facebook [April 4, 2017]:
https://youtu.be/41KkokHhBQM?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10155075772547488
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-Freeform official synopsis for New Warriors [April 5, 2017]:
"“Marvel’s New Warriors” is about six young people with powers living and working together. With powers and abilities on the opposite end of the spectrum of The Avengers, the New Warriors want to make a difference in the world ... even if the world isn't ready. Not quite super, not yet heroes, “Marvel’s New Warriors” is about that time in your life when you first enter adulthood and feel like you can do everything and nothing at once – except in this world, bad guys can be as terrifying as bad dates."
https://collider.com/marvel-new-warriors-series-freeform/
https://www.slashfilm.com/new-warriors-tv-series/
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-The Hollywood Reporter exclusive interview to Karey Burke and Jeph Loeb [April 5, 2017]:
"What makes this the right show for Freeform?"
Karey Burke: (...) It was important to both of us to find the right characters that felt like they would speak directly to Freeform's audience. The Avengers wouldn't work here but the about-to-be-Avengers works here.
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"Marvel likes to say that "everything is connected." Will Cloak and Warriors be connected the way, say, Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter were?"
Karey Burke: "It's a great question. If you know these two properties, they're not particularly connected. There are many degrees of separation with where they fall in the Marvel universe. But anything is possible with Marvel. Their tones are so wildly different. Cloak is this angst-filled achingly beautiful heartfelt romantic drama. And Squirrel Girl is a balls-out comedy."
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"Netflix created its own Marvel universe with Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, and then the super mashup with The Defenders. In success, is there a way New Warriors would lead to spinoffs in sort of the reverse of what Netflix has done?"
Karey Burke: "Absolutely. The characters they've chosen are all really singular and could each carry the show that they're on. They're bound together as a band of underdogs for as long as we choose with this show but it's conceptually tailor-made for spinoffs."
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-Digital Spy article of and interview to Jed Whedon [April 7, 2017]:
""Without being able to say anything really about that show, it will have its own world, just as we tried to start our own world," he told press including Digital Spy. "Whether or not there's a crossover, we will see."
Both shows are part of Marvel's shared Cinematic Universe - also incorporating the various movies and known as the MCU. But with Inhumans following the Inhuman Royal Family, it'll chart a very different path to stories on Agents of SHIELD.
"Everything is connected, and that's fun to play with," Whedon said. "But the point of our show is to be our show, and we want our fans to be rewarded for watching it without having to watch everything else.
"But we also want there to be a bigger reward for people who watch all of them, so that they'll start to see that there's lines connecting it. It's more fun for people who are playing the whole game, but if you don't, you'll still have a great rollercoaster ride.""
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a825440/agents-of-shield-inhumans-crossover/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x17 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [April 10, 2017]:
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-Marvel interview to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [April 10, 2017]:
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-Freeform description for New Warriors characters [April 19, 2017]:
"Robbie Baldwin (Speedball)
Superpower: Can launch kinetic balls of energy
Robbie grew up watching Quinjets take off from Avengers Tower and loves the idea of being a hero. He’s an impulsive and immature people-pleaser with a misplaced sense of confidence. Although you would think throwing kinetic balls of energy would be awesome and effective – his are completely out of control."
https://deadline.com/2017/04/marvels-new-warriors-characters-unveiled-freeform-series-1202072358/
https://screenrant.com/marvel-new-warriors-characters-details/
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-Marvel official site article about New Warriors [April 19, 2017]:
"Freeform Announces Characters for 'Marvel's New Warriors'
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“Marvel’s New Warriors” is a new comedic live-action adaptation of the popular Marvel comic featuring young adult heroes. This marks Marvel’s first foray into comedy for a television series. “Marvel’s New Warriors” is about six young people with powers living and working together. With powers and abilities on the opposite end of the spectrum of the Avengers, the New Warriors want to make a difference in the world … even if the world isn’t ready. Not quite super, not yet heroes, “Marvel’s New Warriors” is about that time in your life when you first enter adulthood and feel like you can do everything and nothing at once – except in this world, bad guys can be as terrifying as bad dates. The network has ordered ten 30-minute episodes slated to debut in 2018.
(...)
Robbie Baldwin (Speedball)
Superpower: Can launch kinetic balls of energy
Robbie grew up watching Quinjets take off from Avengers Tower and loves the idea of being a hero. He’s an impulsive and immature people-pleaser with a misplaced sense of confidence. Although you would think throwing kinetic balls of energy would be awesome and effective – his are completely out of control."
(https://www.marvel.com/articles/freeform-announces-characters-for-marvel-s-new-warriors)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x19 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [April 24, 2017]:
https://youtu.be/41gNxvQHRZM?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x19 clip on ABC account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [April 24, 2017]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x19 clip on its Facebook account including references to MCU movies [April 27, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/1414150165316494
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1414150165316494
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-Gabriel Luna post on Instagram including a reference to MCU movies and Agent Carter [May 2, 2017]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTmSDZYAM0W/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x20 clip on ABC account on YouTube including a reference to The Avengers [May 3, 2017]:
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive Q&A to Scott Buck [May 4, 2017]:
"Does Inhumans live in the same universe as Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., considering on Earth there was this explosion of Inhumans?"
Scott Buck: "We all inhabit the same universe, so things that have happened on S.H.I.E.L.D. will potentially affect our show as well."
"Have you thought about crossover at all?"
Scott Buck: "Not at this point. We’re just trying to get this launched."
"A show like S.H.I.E.L.D. has a procedural element. Is that the case here or is Inhumans doing more serialized storytelling?"
Scott Buck: "I don’t think we’re likened to a procedural show in any way. We’re more of a family drama with one big story leading us through the season."
"How do you think Inhumans will differ from the other ABC or Netflix Marvel projects?"
Scott Buck: "I’m not necessarily comfortable comparing it to other shows. I think we’re creating our own thing here. But having worked on a Netflix Marvel show, obviously I’m very aware of how that show goes. Again, just because the approach is strictly through character, we’re interested in creating an interesting world with interesting people that pull us in, so if there’s similarities to the other shows in that way, I guess that would be the case."
https://ew.com/tv/2017/05/04/marvel-inhumans-photo-abc/
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-io9 interview to Kevin Feige [May 5, 2017]:
"In a recent interview, I asked Feige if a character showing up on TV 100 percent means they can’t end up in a movie in the future.
“Not necessarily,” Feige told io9. “The future’s a long time. So, the truth is, I don’t really know, but there are a lot of TV shows being made, and hopefully we’ll continue to make a lot of movies. At some point, there’s going to be a crossover. Crossover, repetition, or something.”"
https://io9.gizmodo.com/kevin-feige-thinks-that-eventually-marvel-tv-and-movie-1794974004
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Creating a Hydra World' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [May 8, 2017]:
https://youtu.be/jh-IrngKR3k?list=PLK5HARgNfgj-_sMoUzIe4gIbLk732NydD
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-Luke Cage post on its Facebook (latam) account including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [May 10, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/lukecagelat/videos/1535468716472472
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1535468716472472
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-Gabriel Luna post on Instagram [May 12, 2017]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUACFCuAhPG/
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-Marvel Entertainment UK & Ireland tweet (video) including a reference to MCU movies [May 14, 2017]:
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/863801093389664258
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-IGN exclusive interview to Jed Whedon and Jeffrey Bell [May 17, 2017]:
"As for Robbie, was he in Niflheim, aka Hel? It seems like that's what you were alluding to with him talking about different worlds."
Jed Whedon: "Umm... you can read into it what you will. That's all I can say on the matter."
"Are you interested in exploring the idea of the Nine Realms in the show more? Obviously we've had Sif visit in the past."
Jed Whedon: "One of the things that's fun about playing in this universe is it keeps changing. The rule when we started was we couldn't say anything about spies, we couldn't say anything about Hydra, we couldn't have any A.I. or robots or anything like that, because all of that was coming in movies that year or the year after. Since then, they've blown those doors wide open. They've introduced magic with Doctor Strange, which we played with this year, and they've introduced deep, deep space with Guardians of the Galaxy.
The sandbox we're playing in keeps getting bigger, and we want to explore all sides of it, and tell as many different stories as we can. Fortunately deep space is very different. We've gone there a little bit with Simmons. We felt like we enjoyed that, so maybe there's more to come."
"What is the sandbox you're playing in now? It's easy to draw some connections: Thor: Ragnarok is exploring the cosmic realm later this year, for instance, which will be around when you come back, so you can play in a similar play set like you did with Doctor Strange and magic. What freedom do you have at this point in Season 5, and how tied do you have to be to what's going on in other parts of the MCU?"
Jed Whedon: "We have relatively free reign; we just can't go anywhere that they're going. They know their stories so much further out than we do, which is good for us to tee up things that we know are coming to them or avoid things that they want to be special on the big screen. As long as we are not covering bases that they're going to cover, we haven't been told "no" that much -- at least lately.
The Framework's a great example of something that's pretty significant in our world, but is also a little eddy in the river that doesn't affect anything else because it's an alternate universe. So those kinds of stories help us go big without sending ripples through the whole MCU."
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on Instagram (image en description) including a reference to MCU movies [June 14, 2017]:
[Translation:] "With an Asgardian as a bodyguard, no one will mess with you. #AgentsOfSHIELD"
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVVqzTSgkHI/
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-Inhumans trailer 1 on IMAX account on YouTube including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [June 28, 2017]:
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-Inhumans trailer 1 on Marvel Entertainment accounts on YouTube and Instagram including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [June 29, 2017]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BV7clWtANeo/
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-Inhumans promo on its Facebook and Instagram account including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [July 5, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/911814015624157
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWLFcT7nzP1/
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Inhumans on Instagram including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [July 14, 2017]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWiEbtGgJMb/
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-Marvel-Netflix series featurette with Stan Lee video on Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist (latam) accounts on Facebook and Netflix accounts on YouTube including references to MCU movies [July 20, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1332888053485966
https://www.facebook.com/DaredevilLat/videos/1332888053485966
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1332895013485270
https://www.facebook.com/JessicaJonesLat/videos/1332895013485270
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1332894410151997
https://www.facebook.com/lukecagelat/videos/1332894410151997
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1332890460152392
https://www.facebook.com/MarvelIronFistLAT/videos/1332890460152392
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-Inhumans SDCC trailer on Marvel official site and its YouTube account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [July 20, 2017]:
https://www.marvel.com/watch/trailers-and-extras/marvel-s-inhumans-official-sdcc-2017-trailer
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-IGN exclusive interview to Scott Buck at SDCC [July 21, 2017]:
Scott Buck: "This exists all in the same universe," "Even if we don't cross paths with, say, Agents of Shield or characters from other shows, they are still out there. We all live in the same world. The same things that applied in other shows and occurred also apply to Inhumans as well."
https://me.ign.com/en/tv-shows-1/135473/news/how-inhumans-fits-into-the-mcu
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-Inhumans post on its Facebook and Twitter accounts [July 22, 2017]:
""It's a story that hasn't really been told before within the Marvel Cinematic Universe...""
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/posts/921773887961503
""It's a story that hasn't really been told before within the Marvel Cinematic Universe..." #Inhumans denofgeek.com/us/tv/the-inhumans/266250/the-inhumans-tv-show-interview-with-iwan-rheon"
https://twitter.com/theinhumans/status/888775654212239361
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Stan Lee on Runaways (image and description) [July 26, 2017]:
[Translation:] "#StanLee in one of his many facets of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what is your favorite cameo?"
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXBye6lg0EN/
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-Jeph Loeb, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage on panel for Runaways before the TCA [July 27, 2017]:
Jeph Loeb: “It all lives in the same world, how it's connected and where it's connected and what it's connected to remains to be seen. Right now what we're trying to do is tell the great story that Josh and Stephanie have grafted that's based an award-winning series by Brian K. Vaughan, who's also on board. It has an amazing cast and that's where it fits in."
"I think the show much more lives in a world where if you're a teenager -- and everything's connected by social media and everything's connected in a certain way -- would you be following Iron Man or would you be following someone who was more your age? So the fact that they found each other and are going through this mystery together, it becomes the moment that they're concerned about and not what Captain America is doing on a Friday."
"You'll see things that comment on each other; we try to touch base wherever we can," he said. "It's very much like real life — things that are happening in L.A. are not exactly going to be affecting what's happening in New Orleans, or what's happening in New York isn't on the minds of everyone living in Chicago. It's being aware of it and trying to find a way for it to be able to discuss in a way that makes sense."
“Stay tuned”
https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/07/27/marvels-jeph-loeb-on-how-hulus-runaways-connects-to-the-mcu
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hulus-runaways-lives-same-world-as-marvel-fare-1024910
https://www.thewrap.com/runaways-connect-marvel-cinematic-universe/
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-MovieWeb article of an interview to Hayley Atwell [July 28, 2017]:
"In last year's Captain America: Civil War, one of the many details revealed in that sprawling story was that Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), the first love of Captain America (Chris Evans) passed away after a long and fulfilling life. Just a week after that movie came out, ABC canceled Agent Carter, leaving little hope for the character to return in the MCU, but Hayley Atwell revealed in a new interview that she wants to see a Peggy Carter movie. Here's what she had to say in a new interview below.
"I'd love to see [Peggy] more in films. I'd love to see her in her own film. And if we can keep evolving it so that she does new things so that I can surprise myself and she can keep surprising me then I'd love to do it. And I feel very privileged to be part of something that people really love and that entertains them. But also, you're going to these conventions and meeting people who've named their son Carter and people who have a tattoo of 'I Know My Value,' the tagline. She's a force of good and there are a lot of social media sites where girls and guys have come together and become good friends on an international scale because of their belief in some of the values that Peggy talks about. And that provides them with a different connection that a family situation or school situation that they don't really feel they have a place in. That's really cool to me. So I'm very happy to be a part of that world and keep that going."
The actress made these comments in a new interview with IGN, while promoting her new Howard's End miniseries on Starz. While it remains to be seen if Marvel has any plans to bring Peggy Carter back in a future Marvel movie, the actress also spoke about her hit Agent Carter series being unceremoniously cancelled after just two seasons. Here's what she had to say below.
"You know Marvel and all the creatives behind the making of the show loved it. And we loved it. We all loved making it. It was a network political thing. They wanted to put me in something mainstream (Conviction) to get their ratings up rather than something that was more genre specific. There were a lot of economic decisions behind it and I wasn't a part of the conversation. So we were all really surprised about that because we kind of got the sense that people were liking it. It had this cult following. So I know there've been online campaigns for it and the fact that we know that she lives until the age of 96 means that technically I could be employed for the rest of my life, you know."
https://movieweb.com/agent-peggy-carter-movie-hayley-atwell-marvel/
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-IGN interview to Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage on TCA press tour [August 1, 2017]:
"I know no one's saying right now just how much this show connects to the larger MCU, but would you say you were able to make this show without having to be overly concerned about how it joins up with the other shows on other networks and the big blockbuster movies?"
Josh Schwartz: "Yeah. How it connects or whether it does or not, we'll leave that to the powers that be. I can just tell you that we were very capable of telling the story that we wanted to tell independent of any of the other Marvel stories that are out there."
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"You've got gritty Marvel Netflix shows that sort of push at a hard PG-13 and then there are new Marvel teen shows coming to Freeform. One of them's Cloak and Dagger and it looks pretty serious too. What would you say the tone of your series is?"
Josh Schwartz: "I'd say it really mirrors the tone of the comic. It's so distinct. I remember the first time I read the comic and I was like "I don't know who this Brian K. Vaughan is, but this is my people. This is speaking to me." So we really tried to honor that tone. Truthfully, there's a lot of his tone that didn't feel all that different from the tone that we like to work in. There's humor and banter and angst and romance and love triangles, so there's a lot of overlap that felt very organic for us. When he joined us in the room if felt very seamless and natural."
"I also have to ask about Tina Minoru. She's a weird little Doctor Strange Easter egg. Because the Tina character was in the movie, but in a background role where she was never named. That has to be sort of an odd thing to have out there."
Josh Schwartz: "She was only named in the credits so it's nothing that really affects us."
https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/08/01/marvels-runaways-is-the-oc-of-the-mcu
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-Deadline article of an exclusive interview to Emiliy VanCamp [August 2, 2017]:
"(...) But in regards to whether VanCamp will reprise again in Infinity War or a future TV series, VanCamp said, “No idea.” How about the Brie Larson feature Captain Marvel? “You guys put it out there,” she said, beaming.
“With Marvel, they can give you a call the day before you shoot. You don’t know what’s going on with their movies because they’re very secretive,” said VanCamp. Asked whether Sharon was ever going to join ABC’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., VanCamp says, “I think it was discussed, but I was working on Revenge at the time.”"
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-Inhumans post on its Facebook and Instagram account including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [August 2, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/photos/a.780546738750886/927816170690608
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXT6mILHs8q/
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-The Defenders featurette on Netflix account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies and series [August 14, 2017]:
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-Inhumans promo on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [August 17, 2017]:
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-Variety article of Marvel TV composers quotes [August 23, 2017]:
"It all started four years ago, when “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” became the first Marvel movie/TV crossover, shifting agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) from the big-screen “The Avengers” into TV. Composer Bear McCreary has averaged 55 to 60 musicians for every episode and reached “into the upper 90s” for the most important ones.
“It was the first show from the new Marvel Studios brand,” notes composer Bear McCreary. “The cinematic outings all had a consistent orchestral sound. There was a sense that it had to connect; you were plugging into the broader cinematic universe through a television lens.”"
https://variety.com/2017/music/spotlight/marvel-tv-music-luke-cage-daredevil-1202536958/
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-Inhumans promo on its Facebook account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [August 25, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/718790281663524
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-Inhumans promo on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [August 28, 2017]:
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-ComicBook exclusive interview to Gabriel Luna [September 5, 2017]:
"Regarding how Ghost Rider transitions from Agents of SHIELD to his own solo venture, Luna told us, "I don't have a preference. People talk about 'Ah man he'd be great as a feature,' which is [an] idea too... It could be in the cinema, it could live on Netflix, whatever it is."
Getting a little bit more concrete, Luna revealed to us that Marvel Studios has (of course) plotted out the potential for a new Ghost Rider franchise, and has those pathways already structured:
"It's been talked about, there's definitely deals in place for that potential. But I just take it one day at a time. I have so much fun now I just want to make sure I get these episodes right. If they throw more episodes on my plate, I will do my best to do well with those stories as well.""
https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/ghost-rider-netflix-series-gabriel-luna/
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-ComicBook exclusive interview to Kevin Feige, article of Slash Film [September 6, 2017]:
"There’s a couple of characters names over here that are pretty exciting for comic book fans with Drum and Minoru. How much of that is just nodding to the comics versus just setting things up for the future? Because obviously Runaways has been a topic of conversation for quite a few years now, and seeing that name is pretty exciting."
Kevin Feige: "Of Drum and Minoru that you mention, one of those names you hear in the movie, and one of those – I don’t think… We never say Minoru in the movie, do we? No. So that picture, if it is in the art of book, is the only place you’d ever see that name.
Drum, you do hear the name in the movie. That’s how we always build the universe. There’s so many characters in the books that if we have need for a person to be in this place at this time and have a line or have no lines, we still want it to be someone, and oftentimes that’s how the names come about. And the names we pull are the ones that are relatively top of mind or have been amongst characters we’ve thought about, like the Runaways for a long time. I would call that an Easter Egg that most people won’t even see."
https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/first-look-at-major-runaways-easter-eggs-in-doctor-strange/
https://www.slashfilm.com/kevin-feige-doctor-strange-interview/2/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 official synopsis, article of Comicbook [September 6, 2017]:
"“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” returns with a vengeance for the fourth exciting season in an all new time period, Tuesday at 10:00 p.m. ET. In the aftermath of their journey to another planet, Director Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) and the rest of the team were driven more than ever to put an end to the Hydra organization. Little did they know that they were up against the deadliest threat they’ve ever faced – an extremely powerful Inhuman, Hive, who was transported back from Maveth in the body of their worst enemy, Grant Ward. The team was able to thwart and kill Hive and take down Hydra, but they are all still mourning the death of fellow agent and Inhuman, Lincoln Campbell.
In light of the Sokovia Accords, and with Hydra obliterated, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been legitimatized again and no longer needs to operate in the shadows. Since the world presumes that Coulson is dead, the organization needed a new Director (Jason O’Mara) to be the face of the organization. Coulson finds himself back in the role as an agent and teamed with Mack (Henry Simmons), and together they are tasked with tracking down and confirming the presence of Enhanced people, aka Inhumans. They have been trying to track down and capture Daisy (Chloe Bennet), aka Quake, who has gone rogue in an attempt to atone for sins from the past. But with the world believing that Daisy is a dangerous outlaw who has taken down banks and bridges, the new Director has no qualms about taking her down for good. Agent May (Ming-Na Wen) is tasked with training specialist strike teams, and Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) have taken a big step forward in their relationship. But with Simmons’ new promotion as Special Advisor to the Director in Science and Technology, Fitz, as well as her former team members, finds it hard to confide in or trust her since she’s now the Director’s confidant.
Robbie Reyes (Gabriel Luna) will roar into the lives of Agent Coulson and the team as a junkyard mechanic who can turn on a dime into the terrifying Ghost Rider. Will Robbie be a friend or foe to S.H.I.E.L.D. – as well as the world, itself? Meanwhile, Fitz discovers that socially awkward genius and friend Dr. Radcliffe (John Hannah) has started putting the finishing touches on a new, secret invention.
“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons and Henry Simmons as Agent Alphonso “Mack” MacKenzie."
https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-season-4-synopsis-released/
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-Joe Quesada chat with Kevin Smith on the Fat Man On Batman podcast, article of ComicBook [September 6, 2017]:
Joe Quesada: “It thrills me to no end to have these things happening in New York. That alone is going to give it an incredible vibe,” “It’s just once again…it’s like Marvel taking ownership of New York, saying this is where we’re from, this is our universe, this is where it started.”
“There will be some interconnectivity, much like the movies" "They will exist within the cinematic universe again, so this is all the same world as S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers.”
“Although these are superhero stories, this is different now. This is the street level…this is the street level noir side of the Marvel Universe. Something that you haven’t really, really seen in any of our Marvel movies,” “And probably more ground level, than I think you’ve seen. This is not like us doing Batman, Dark Knight or any of that stuff. This is very Marvel doing street level superheroes.”
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-ComicBook article of Chloe Bennet quotes to the press at the 2014 PaleyFest [September 6, 2017]:
"Speaking to the press at the 2014 PaleyFest, actress Chloe Bennett, who plays Skye on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” confirmed that the blue alien seen in the “T.A.H.I.T.I.” episode was Kree.
Bennett was asked if she knew anything about what the future held in store for Skye. She responded, “I know that the alien was a Kree…and I know that I was injected with serum made from that and that I am cured and, to normal humans like Coulson, he almost died, but for me, for some reason, nothing happened.”"
https://comicbook.com/news/agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-blue-alien-confirmed-as-kree/
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-Inhumans posts on its Instagram account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 7, 2017]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYwgw9snf_V/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYwg37dHbt7/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYwg8LTHgDk/
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-Inverse exclusive interview to Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory [September 10, 2017]:
"They all share the same world, but will the Hulu shows address anything in the Netflix series, even in a minor way?"
Jeph Loeb: "You’re obviously trying to get me into trouble by saying “#ItsAllConnected,” and that’s fair. But it is all connected. And they do live in a world where Tony Stark is Iron Man, and by the same token they are aware that there are heroes that live in New York that aren’t part of the Avengers and are street level guys. What it really comes down to is story.
We can always put in a line that says “this person’s going to Hulk out,” but whether or not those stories are going to intersect with each other or those characters are going to interact with each other is complicated on a numbers of things. One is schedule, the other is they are on different networks and oftentimes networks have feelings about that that we have to take into consideration. And, lastly, and most importantly, is storytelling. We never do Easter eggs for the purpose of having an Easter egg. But Cloak and Dagger deals a lot with the people at Roxxon and people will know Roxxon for it being in other series in the same kind of way that there’s Hammer tech running around in Luke Cage, and we all know where Justin Hammer came from.
It’s all part of the Marvel universe, and if you read Marvel comics, you recognize that it’s probably fairly rare that Thor’s going to run into Ghost Rider, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t live in the same world."
"How important is New York City to Marvel TV?"
Jeph Loeb: "Well it’s certainly where it stems from. You know the publishing division, all the way back to Stan Lee, decided that this was the greatest city in the world. They wanted the stories to take place here. It really wasn’t until much later that people decided that they could set stories in Los Angeles, or Chicago, or Louisiana. I think that speaks to the elastic nature of the Marvel Universe that it can be in various places. But the characters that we chose for The Defenders — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist — those characters predominately, live and work in New York and in many ways, around Hell’s Kitchen. That gave us a really good place to ground the show and then it just became the reality of shooting here, both from a production point of view and a financial point of view."
Jim Chory: "I think that New York has got a lot of filming going on, but I think that it’s a big character in the show. When Jeoph said “let’s do it here,” that was what we wanted. We wanted it as a character."
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"Why don’t we see Avengers Tower more in the Netflix series? Is it a budgetary thing?"
Jeph Loeb: "I think it’s much more that we look at it from the point of view of “where are we?” and having to establish that along the way. In many ways, being less specific helps the audience understand that this could be on any street corner. Where we’re sitting right now, I can see the Empire State Building, but if we were sitting 30 blocks that way, I wouldn’t be able to see the Empire State Building. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It just means that we can’t see it from where we are."
https://www.inverse.com/article/37568-marvel-tv-netflix-defenders-jeph-loeb-jim-chory
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-Inhumans article post on its Facebook account including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 12, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/posts/946822415456650
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-Inhumans posts on its Instagram account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 20, 2017]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZRguKCnnAk/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZRg-UfnTgg/
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Inhumans on Instagram including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 22, 2017]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZWYf0WgLPH/
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-Inhumans promo on its Facebook account including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 26, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/953323558139869
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-Inhumans promos on its Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 27, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/953787744760117
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=953787744760117
https://twitter.com/theinhumans/status/913136891578511360
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZj-5IqhGOB/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZh12IlBZSC/
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-Inhumans promo shared on Marvel Studios Canada on Twitter including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 28, 2017]:
https://twitter.com/MarvelStudiosCA/status/913396247670804480 > https://twitter.com/theinhumans/status/913136891578511360
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-Marvel Entertainment video about Inhumans on its Twitter account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 28, 2017]:
"Explore the set of "Marvel's #Inhumans" with @LorraineCink on a brand new episode of #MarvelTHWIP!"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/913533820569186309
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-Inhumans promo on its Facebook account including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 29, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=950720841733474
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/950720841733474
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-Toronto Sun article shared on Marvel Studios Canada Twitter account [September 29, 2017]:
Toronto Sun article: "The Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to get a royal makeover.
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[Video: https://youtu.be/1sYF1SXcWqQ]
“Marvel is so multi-faceted and they have a lot of different shows and the characters have a lot of traits,” Swan says. “But this is a story about a family that happens to be Inhuman and it’s about the trials and tribulations of their lives. Everything that people love about Marvel, you’ll see within this show.”
The Inhumans was originally pencilled in to be part of Marvel’s Phase Three slate of films, with the race first introduced on TV’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The movie idea was scrapped last year and reconceived as a series. The pilot was shot using Imax cameras, and was released into theatres this month.
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With many of Marvel’s heroes currently assembling for Avengers: Infinity War, Swan thinks it’s time for more characters from the small screen to make the leap to movies.
“The more the merrier,” she smiles. “It’s such an incredible world to be able to play within. That would be true to form for the Inhumans. They’ve been in X-Men, they’ve been in the Fantastic Four, they’ve been everywhere. So it would be no surprise to see them showing up in other realms and other stories.”"
Marvel Studios Canada tweet: ".@AnsonMount & @SerindaSwan chat with @TheTorontoSun about what to expect from Marvel’s #Inhumans torontosun.com/2017/09/27/anson-mount-and-serinda-swan-reveal-what-to-expect-from-marvels-inhumans"
https://twitter.com/MarvelStudiosCA/status/913878559139160064
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-IGN interview to Scott Buck and Jeph Loeb [September 30, 2017]:
Scott Buck: "In a way it made it more fun. It was almost like there was a bit of a tease of the bigger Inhumans is going to come out eventually. Inhumans is a comic that’s been around from the mid sixties. It’s a world that’s already been created. We approached it more form that way, building up from the comic book. We don’t see ourselves as an offshoot of SHIELD in any way. We’re just all part of the same family."
Jeph Loeb: "Do I look forward to the day where Daisy Johnson stands in front of Black Bolt and says, 'You aren’t the king of me?' Sure. We should be so lucky that both shows get to that day where we’re going to see those characters interact. But there’s no plan for that to happen right now other than the fact that we know they’re in the same world and characters bump into each other. That’s what happens. That’s the Marvel Universe."
https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/09/30/how-marvels-inhumans-connects-to-agents-of-shield
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Daredevil on Instagram including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 30, 2017]:
[Translation:] "If you mess with a Murdock, you mess with the devil. Do you remember this fight? #Daredevil"
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZrFZqjAweW/
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-Inhumans promo on its Facebook account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 30, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10210077542069195
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/10210077542069195
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-Marvel Entertainment Spain tweet about Inhumans including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [September 30, 2017]:
https://twitter.com/MarvelSpain/status/914196911871098881
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-Inhumans clip on its Facebook account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 3, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=956615491144009
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/956615491144009
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 sizzle reel video on ABC account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [October 7, 2017]:
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-Inhumans clip on its Facebook account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 7, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=958436434295248
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/958436434295248
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promo on its Facebook account including references to MCU movies [October 7, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/421182894613231/videos/1579647368766772
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1579647368766772
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-Inhumans clip on its Facebook account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 8, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/958869000918658
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=958869000918658
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-Inhumans clip on its Facebook account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 14, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/961804737291751
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=961804737291751
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-Inhumans clip on its Facebook account including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 17, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/962999797172245
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=962999797172245
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-Marvel Entertainment post about Inhumans on Twitter (image and description) including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 20, 2017]:
"All hail your new king. Collect the @OriginalFunko Pop! Vinyl #Inhumans characters + don't miss "Marvel's Inhumans" at 9/8c tonight on ABC!"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/921413208698707970
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-Inhumans promo on Marvel Entertainment Marvel UK & Ireland on Twitter including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 25, 2017]:
https://twitter.com/MarvelUK/status/923184003758415872
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-Inhumans promo featuring Thor: Ragnarok on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook and Twitter including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., also shared by Inhumans account on Facebook [October 27, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10155719004892488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155719004892488
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/924010556889157632
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/posts/968334753305416
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10155719004892488
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-Marvel Entertainment post about Inhumans on Twitter (image and description) including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 27, 2017]:
"A family meets betrayal. Watch "Marvel's #Inhumans" tonight at 9/8c on ABC + collect the @OriginalFunko Pop! Vinyl Inhumans characters!"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/923961244759085057
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-Inhumans gif on Marvel Entertainment account on Twitter including a reference to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 27, 2017]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/924079490283778048
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-Inhumans gifs on Marvel Entertainment account on Twitter including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 28, 2017]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/924129312491552768
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/924139548174454784
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-Inhumans 1x6 clip on ABC account on YouTube including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [October 28, 2017]:
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-Comic Book Resources article of an interview to Jed Whedon [November 30, 2017]:
""We try to a little bit follow in the wake of the films as they plot new territory in the MCU," Whedon told press. "Last year that was magic, with Doctor Strange. We felt like Ghost Rider all of a sudden fit into our show in a way that we didn’t necessarily feel like he would have before, tonally. And this is us expanding out even further into the world of space which they very much are living in now in the features. It's the great unknown, and we hadn't explored it yet."
Of course, going into space doesn't mean that fans should expect Rocket and Groot to show up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. As Whedon and Tancharoen explained, it's more about a thematic tie-in at this point than one story leading to another.
"It's a thematic tie," Whedon told CBR. "We try to make it feel like that the whole thing is moving in this swelling direction. We're not in space for no reason. We wouldn't have gone there if they hadn't. The overt ties were a necessity of starting out, but those have faded over time, basically because we have our own mythology. That started to be much more interesting to us, and hopefully to the audience, just digging that stuff up. No one wants to come to see our show to see another show. Now they want to see our show, which, yay."
"We're glad that we're here with that," Tancharoen added."
https://www.cbr.com/agents-of-shield-season-5-marvel-studios-movies-connection/
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on Instagram including references to MCU movies [December 1, 2017]:
[Translation:] "Many times, you don't know which side you work for. #AgentsOfSHIELD"
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcLi_cNAwCp/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5 premiere reviews video on Inhumans account on Facebook including a reference to MCU movies [December 1, 2017]:
"The Royal family may not be there anymore, but Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD explore space in a 2-Hour special premiere TONIGHT at 8|7c on ABC!"
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1634576346607207
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/1634576346607207
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5 trailer on ABC account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [December 2, 2017]:
https://youtu.be/0hf2JS9wa5Q?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 5x2 clips on ABC account on YouTube (videos and title) including references to MCU movies and WHiH Newsfront [December 2, 2017]:
https://youtu.be/eY5AgvWayKs?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
"Simmons Meets a Kree - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/Ma0EI0ECFaI?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/Vd-hcnBxEE4?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (image and description) including a reference to MCU movies [December 14, 2017]:
"World class Kree-p."
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/1648425761888932
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 5x4 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Facebook including a reference to MCU movies [December 15, 2017]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155864609122488
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10155864609122488
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 5x4 clips on ABC account on YouTube (videos and title) including references to MCU movies [December 18, 2017]:
"Fight Against the Kree - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/mYE5m08taDk?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/_kUzSUazsCg?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/HhL7mytDGOQ?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/8ex33WBpz6U?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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2018[]
-IGN article of an exclusive interview to Clark Gregg shared on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook [January 2, 2018]:
IGN article: "With 2018 marking the 10 year anniversary of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's fitting that the new year kicks off with one major Marvel milestone: Clark Gregg's first directorial effort in the MCU will air as this Friday's Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, four movies and five TV seasons after the actor first made his debut as SHIELD agent Phil Coulson in 2008's Iron Man.
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On the crisp Friday in September when IGN was invited to observe Gregg's directorial debut, you wouldn't have guessed that he ever had any reservations about shifting behind-the-scenes. That day they were filming a big fight scene between Chloe Bennet's Daisy and one of Season 5's new Kree villains, with Bennet filming take after take of a reaction shot.
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'A Perfect Little Mini Marvel Movie Boot Camp'
Though it might seem strange that Gregg was so hesitant to get behind the camera given his history as a film writer/director, it's his work in indie film that had him dragging his feet to helm Agents of SHIELD despite the repeated offers of EPs Jeff Bell, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen. He wrote and directed both of his two features (the 2008 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Choke, and 2013's Hollywood dramedy Trust Me), neither of which required him to fit his style into a franchise 10 years in the making.
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Despite working on multiple Marvel features films and five seasons of the show, Gregg was still unprepared for the process that makes the tight turnaround for a comic book TV show episode a reality. He spoke to SHIELD directors Kevin Tancheron, Billy Gierhart and Jesse Bochco prior to filming to get tips on what he should do and shouldn't get hung up on, and brought a good amount of his own humor and understanding of these characters to the mix.
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"I really wanted to find a way to take the things that I love in some of those episodes -- the ways of telling a story, a lot of fast-moving cameras, the comic book feel -- and also keep some very heavy moments that happen leavened at times with the Joss/Favreau model of tremendous drama followed by a joke," Gregg added, noting, "My job was not to turn this into something that felt like my films; it was really to just get the most out of that particular episode because I was doing something so different from anything I've ever done.""
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post: "From Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. to director of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Clark Gregg will be taking the reigns on this week's new episode!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/posts/1667913269940181 > https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/02/clark-gregg-directs-his-own-mini-marvel-movie-in-new-agents-of-shield-episode
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 5x6 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [January 3, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10155917482202488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155917482202488
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Fitz and Simmons: A Love Story' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Facebook including references to MCU movies [January 8, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10155903036017488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155903036017488
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 5x7 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Facebook (video and description) including references to MCU movies [January 11, 2018]:
"With the Kree on their trail, the team is going to have to think fast. "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is all-new TOMORROW at 9|8c on ABC!"
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10155940610362488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155940610362488
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [January 17, 2018]:
[Translation:] "Agent Phil Coulson knows that #AgentsOfSHILD has it all, even a bit of fun."
https://www.instagram.com/p/BeDnqQXAg-u/
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-Marvel official site article about Inhumans on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., also shared on its Twitter account [February 2, 2018]:
"“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” has always incorporated deep references to the Marvel Universe, and the Inhumans have been prevalent throughout the series. During the Kree-Skrull War, the Kree began experimenting on humans by splicing human DNA with their own, which resulted in a powerful race of mutants who came to be known as the Inhumans. After being exposed to Terrigen Mist, the Inhumans go through Terrigenesis which gives them strange and unimaginable powers.
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[Video: https://youtu.be/Rqq35f7vUvw]
Inhumans are a key part in Season 5, with the Kree playing a major role in the storyline. It revealed the return of Robin Hinton, an Inhuman we first meet as a young girl back in Season 3 finale “Accession.” It was then that Daisy handed Robin a wooden bird, carved by her father Charles Hinton—also an Inhuman—as she promised Charles she would protect his family."
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvel-s-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-throwback-thursday-inhumans
"The Inhumans have been here all along! Step back in time with a special "Marvel's @AgentsofSHIELD" #ThrowbackThursday on http://Marvel.com: (https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvel-s-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-throwback-thursday-inhumans)"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/959241207707774977
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-Cloak & Dagger video on its YouTube account [January 23, 2018]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies [February 14, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/1719174491480725
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-Gabriel Luna post on Instagram including a reference to MCU movies [February 21, 2018]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bfe6F8lDTMg/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including references to MCU movies [February 23, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/1721215674609940
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-Cloak & Dagger 'Parallels' trailer/promo on Marvel Entertainment and Cloak & Dagger accounts on YouTube and Facebook including a reference to MCU movies and series [February 28, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/935680416603855
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=935680416603855
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Top Ten Fight Scenes' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Facebook including a reference to MCU movies [March 1, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10156087491272488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156087491272488
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. '10 Favorite Gadgets' video on Marvel Entertainment accounts on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter including references to MCU movies [March 5, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10156101495942488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156101495942488
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/970713052709564417
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'A Look Back at Season 1-Season 5' video on ABC account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [March 6, 2018]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Memorable Moments' video on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook including references to MCU movies [March 6, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10156105473802488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156105473802488
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Top Ten Visual Effects & Costumes' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Facebook including references to MCU movies [March 7, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10156108311127488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156108311127488
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. '100 Episodes in 100 Seconds' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook including references to MCU movies [March 7, 2018]:
https://youtu.be/S6n0dGiaXmY?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/videos/1734562533275254
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1734562533275254
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. '10 Favorite Dialogue Moments' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Facebook including a reference to MCU movies [March 8, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10156111319502488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156111319502488
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-Entertainment Weekly article of Jeph Loeb and Clark Gregg quotes [March 9, 2018]:
"It’s been six years since Coulson’s miraculous return, yet the Avengers are still none the wiser — which is fine by Gregg. “When they feel like it’s time to start connecting any of these worlds, they will,” he says. “I feel like I’ll hear from them then, but in the meantime, I have my hands full trying to do a good job on [S.H.I.E.L.D.]”
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While Avengers: Infinity War is already jam-packed with more than 20 heroes amassed across the MCU, there’s still hope for this long-awaited reunion. “It’s certainly something that will get resolved, and it may get resolved in a very surprising way,” says head of Marvel Television and S.H.I.E.L.D. executive producer Jeph Loeb. Could that bombshell mean an end-credits scene reveal? We’ll be sticking around after Infinity War to find out."
https://ew.com/tv/2018/03/09/avengers-coulson-alive-infinity-war-shield/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. '10 Favorite Stunts' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Facebook including references to MCU movies [March 9, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10156114213797488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156114213797488
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Cast Roundtable' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Facebook [March 10, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10156116103087488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156116103087488
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-Rotten Romatoes article about Cloak & Dagger [March 11, 2018]:
"First of all, the characters are young; unlike many of the Marvel characters who had careers and set lives before they collided with what Loeb called “the Marvel of their lives” (their abilities), Cloak and Dagger were still working themselves out. And then they were outsiders.
“What really made [Cloak and Dagger] unique was their love story and that they really — much more than other characters in the Marvel Universe — they very much lived on the outskirts,” Loeb said. “They didn’t want to be the Avengers. There was no desire to join. They were still trying to figure out who they were.”
(...)
As for the big question on everyone’s mind — will there be crossovers? — the producers and stars gave the crowd a few clues. It is definitely set firmly in the Marvel Cinematic and TV Universe (Roxxon Energy Corporation is prominent), and crossovers, most likely with characters from Hulu original Marvel’s Runaways, are possible, especially given the ABC/Disney/Marvel ties.
But don’t hold your breath for anything first season. Loeb says season 1 is about getting to know “this cast, this world, these people.”
[Video: https://youtu.be/yltdDq0xgmg]"
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/marvels-cloak-dagger-in-austin-for-sxsw/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. '10 Favorite Guest Star Moments' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Facebook including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [March 12, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10156124444362488
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156124444362488
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-Rotten Romatoes article about Cloak & Dagger shared on Cloak & Dagger Twitter account [March 13, 2018]:
Rotten Romatoes article: "First of all, the characters are young; unlike many of the Marvel characters who had careers and set lives before they collided with what Loeb called “the Marvel of their lives” (their abilities), Cloak and Dagger were still working themselves out. And then they were outsiders.
“What really made [Cloak and Dagger] unique was their love story and that they really — much more than other characters in the Marvel Universe — they very much lived on the outskirts,” Loeb said. “They didn’t want to be the Avengers. There was no desire to join. They were still trying to figure out who they were.”
(...)
As for the big question on everyone’s mind — will there be crossovers? — the producers and stars gave the crowd a few clues. It is definitely set firmly in the Marvel Cinematic and TV Universe (Roxxon Energy Corporation is prominent), and crossovers, most likely with characters from Hulu original Marvel’s Runaways, are possible, especially given the ABC/Disney/Marvel ties.
But don’t hold your breath for anything first season. Loeb says season 1 is about getting to know “this cast, this world, these people.”
[Video: https://youtu.be/yltdDq0xgmg]"
Cloak & Dagger tweet: ""... it all kicks off with a bang, and there’s a cinematic quality to the pilot ... Rotten Tomatoes fans who voted it their number 2 most anticipated new show of spring and summer won’t be disappointed." Via @RottenTomatoes. #CloakAndDagger"
https://twitter.com/CloakAndDagger/status/973624132343607296 > https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/marvels-cloak-dagger-in-austin-for-sxsw/
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-Deadline article of an interview to Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jeffrey Bell and cast [March 24, 2018]:
"All was fun and then it turned serious when a fan stepped up to the mic and asked about how the ultimate Marvel movie Avengers Infinity War would affect the show.
“If you watched the trailer, a lot of sh*t goes down!” exclaimed Whedon. “These are the kinds of questions we can do everything but answer.”
However, he did provide us with something to chew on. “The movies blaze a path,” he continued. “When Doctor Strange came out it introduced us to magic which gave us Ghost Rider; when [Guardians of the Galaxy] came out, we were introduced to space. We are waiting for that movie to come out so it can open a new playground for us.”
The loyal fans of the show continued to gush and continued to gush throughout the Q&A. At one point an audience member flat out asked Loeb, “Do you have anything new to show us?” And in another unprecedented move, Loeb shared the ending of the episode airing on March 30 which featured a big reveal between two of the major characters (which I will keep secret)."
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip on ABC account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [March 31, 2018]:
https://youtu.be/6q8eKQFgVrA?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip on ABC account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [April 1, 2018]:
https://youtu.be/v03Hy61gZnc?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Gabriel Luna post on Instagram (image an description) including a reference to MCU movies [April 23, 2018]:
"Never signed ‘em. #NeverWill"
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh7zSk-jW-j/
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-Marvel interview to Clark Gregg at Avengers: Infinity War premiere on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (video and description) [April 24, 2018]:
"Clark Gregg talks about being a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from the beginning with Iron Man to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the impact of his character, Agent Phil Coulson."
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-Entertainment Weekly article about Marvel One-Shots, with Louis D’Esposito and Brad Winderbaum quotes [April 26, 2018]:
"Marvel One-Shots: A 5-minute oral history on the shorts that led to Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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From 2011 to 2014, MCU fans who bought Blu-rays or digital copies got a special treat: an additional short film known as a Marvel One-Shot. The five installments, spearheaded by Marvel exec Louis D’Esposito and co-producer Brad Winderbaum, told tangential — but, as always, connected — stories that highlighted various corners of the comic-book universe. Here, D’Esposito reveals how the shorts came to be.
The Consultant (2011, with Thor) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer (2011, with Captain America: The First Avenger)
The first pair, clocking in under five minutes each, centered on S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson simply to give Clark Gregg’s popular character a chance to shine. “We knew Coulson was going to play a big part in the universe,” D’Esposito explains. “It was nice to bolster him.”
Item 47 (2012, with Marvel’s The Avengers)
After the Coulson shorts helped video sales, D’Esposito wanted to make longer films — and he got his wish when Winderbaum and writer Eric Pearson (who scripted the first four shorts) pitched a Bonnie and Clyde-esque tale of a couple who use a discarded Chitauri weapon to rob banks and go on the run from S.H.I.E.L.D. “I was reading through a lot of pitches,” D’Esposito says, adding that scrapped ideas include shorts about a young Nick Fury and Maria Hill. “I gravitated toward this one immediately.” Disney CEO Bob Iger did too; after watching Item 47, he greenlit a series about the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Agent Carter (2013, with Iron Man 3)
D’Esposito went into the fourth short knowing it would feature Hayley Atwell’s breakout character. (Peggy Carter, after all, could only be seen in old age or in flashbacks after the first Captain America, and D’Esposito wanted to give her more screen time.) “Cap was frozen, and Bucky Barnes had experiments done on him, so we had to get Peggy,” he says. Iger again greenlit a small-screen incarnation, but this one lasted only (a far too short) two seasons on ABC."
https://ew.com/movies/2018/04/26/marvel-one-shots-oral-history-agent-carter-agents-of-shield/
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2019[]
-TheWrap article of an exclusive interview to Jeph Loeb and Jed Whedon [May 3, 2019]:
"“It’s just the safest way for us to do things,” Marvel TV chief Jeph Loeb told reporters on Friday. “Just looking at it from a very practical place, which is, what the world looked like post-snap, [it] was not something we had seen yet. We were already shooting.”
Additionally, Loeb didn’t want to burden “S.H.I.E.L.D.” with depicting what a post-“Endgame” MCU looks like, with “Spider-Man: Far From Home” coming up in a few months.
“We don’t want to ever do something in our show which contradicts what’s happening in the movies. The movies are the lead dog. They’re setting the timeline for the MCU and what’s going on. Our job is to navigate within that world,” he said. “The only way for us to tell our story is to do them pre-snap. Whether or not you can figure out [how the timeline works], we’ll let ‘timelords’ figure out.”
Co-showrunner Jed Whedon added that although they knew “a fair amount” of “Endgame’s” plot, “S.H.I.E.L.D.’s” air-date wasn’t set in stone when they were shooting. “If they moved us up by two months and we based our show on [‘Endgame’s’] storyline, then all of a sudden we’d burn down a huge story point for them,” he said. “So we had to dodge all of that.”
Whedon added that they pretty much assumed “S.H.I.E.L.D.” wasn’t coming back until after audiences had seen “Endgame,” but Loeb said that ABC did approach them at least briefly about moving their season up a few months. That was quickly rebuffed, for fear of having “Endgame” happen right in the middle of their season.
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They’d rather you just go with it. “We have a logic in our head that makes sense, but we certainly don’t want to burden the audience of telling them all that,” Whedon said. “We just want them to enjoy the ride and let the couch discussions be about that.”
So while there are practical reasons for “S.H.I.E.L.D.” avoiding “Endgame” when it returns next week, Loeb said its mostly so the writers can do the show they want without having to be too shackled too much to the universe-changing events from the films. “Someone will figure it out. For us, it really just comes from a place of just enjoy the show.”"
https://www.thewrap.com/agents-of-shield-season-6-avengers-endgame-marvel/
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-Cloak & Dagger 'Justice' trailer Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook and Cloak & Dagger account on YouTube including references to MCU movies and series [May 9, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/978084495696780
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=978084495696780
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 5x21 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube (title and video) and Facebook including references to MCU movies [May 10, 2018]:
"Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5, Ep. 21 ‘Like Those Avengers’ Teaser"
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/10156278811982488/
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156278811982488
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. playlist on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook inlcuding references to MCU movies [Updated until May 10, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/6883542487/330033447748832/
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-TV Line article of an exclusive interview to Jed Whedon [May 11, 2018]:
"Should S.H.I.E.L.D. fans worry that small and big screen worlds will calamitously collide in the TV show’s season finale next Friday?
“We think of our last few episodes taking place during the film,” co-showrunner Jed Whedon said when presented with our math. “You’re free to worry about anything you want to worry about,” he chuckled, “but for us, really, [Episodes] 19 through 22 are pretty much one day.”
“It’s sort of an unspoken Marvel rule not to address time,” Whedon noted, admitting some surprise that the latest Avengers film dodged the guideline with some of its dialogue. “In Infinity War, they say, ‘In the last five years…’ or whatever they say, and I couldn’t believe it. We’re told never to do that!”"
https://tvline.com/2018/05/11/agents-of-shield-recap-season-5-episode-21-save-coulson-or-save-world/
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-Marvel official site article of the renewal of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for season 6, also shared on its Facebook and Twitter account [May 14, 2018]:
"Good news, Agents—our heroes will return for a sixth season!
ABC officially announced today that “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” will return for Season 6, continuing the adventures of your favorite agents.
Don’t miss the Season 5 finale this Friday at 9:00 PM ET on ABC. Coulson’s life or death is the challenge the team finds themselves in, as the wrong decision will cause the destruction of Earth!"
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvel-s-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-renewed-for-season-6
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/posts/10156289281352488
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/996099204748627968
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-Cloak & Dagger 'Poison' trailer on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook and Cloak & Dagger account on YouTube including references to MCU movies and series [May 17, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/980875958750967
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=980875958750967
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive interview to Clark Gregg (video), and Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen and Jeffrey Bell [May 18, 2018]:
"Did you think the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. finale would include the Infinity War shocker?"
Clark Gregg: "No, because we'd already shot our finale by then. So I knew that our show wasn't decided by a finger snap. So I believe our show ends before that snap happens. There's talk that New York is happening. I think the end of our season happens in the moments leading up to the battle of Wakanda. Represents interesting possibilities going forward."
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"You guys had been hinting at possibly incorporating the Infinity War ending. Why didn’t we see that in the finale?"
Jed Whedon: "There’s some of that we can’t answer."
Jeffrey Bell: "Part of what happened was, they changed the release date."
Jed Whedon: "Yeah."
Jeffrey Bell: "And we move at a different schedule than they do and so suddenly everything was a week earlier, and so we had to make some adjustments and that’s how we end up with our story."
Jed Whedon: "Right. And the other thing is that there’s certain story points that are so — there would really be no way for us to address it and keep our show intact. Given that there’s another movie coming out, and there’s gonna be constant repercussions of their universe, so what we felt was that the safe play for our story, and for the integrity of our universe, was to operate outside of it."
Jeffrey Bell: "To acknowledge it was happening, but that we had our own problems and we’re dealing with that."
Jed Whedon: "Right, and also the timeline is a little bit fudged in that we assume that the last couple of episodes of our show take place during Infinity War. We’re running in a lot of real-time at the end of the season."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "The last four [episodes] all in real-time."
Jed Whedon: "Yeah, so we sort of thought of it as these events are still ongoing as our season ends."
"What would that mean if the show is renewed? Is the team somehow magically exempt from Thanos’ snap?"
Jed Whedon: "Yeah, well what we like is painting ourselves into a corner, so that the problem we face is not that our show went off the air, it’s that it’s back on the air. “Oh no, now what?” Yeah, so we’ll have to figure out how that plays, and it’ll depend on what the season looks like and our air dates and all that. So, yeah, that’s a bridge we’ll have to cross."
Jeffrey Bell: "We call it a classy problem."
https://ew.com/tv/2018/05/18/agents-of-shield-coulson-fitz-death-infinity-war-finale/
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-Collider exclusive interview to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely [May 22, 2018]:
"I've heard, and you probably can't anwer this, that there's a little bit of animosity between the TV side and film side at Marvel, it's just point-blank I mean not, this is just knowledge, um... is that one of the reasons why we're not gonna see the characters from the TV side or was it something like how well close..."
Stephen McFeely: "Oh, we talked about that all time, I don't know any animosity, I mean that, in a movie this big, you know, we certainly had the conversation should we put Luke Cagein this, you know, we are in Ney York, that kind of stuff, but as you could probably tell, it would be a glorified cameo at this point, you know, we're trying to honor the, the MCU movies and if we then further tell the audience "oh you should also have a good knowledge from this streaming services over here, that you may be or not be subscribing to" it's really asking a lot. We're already asking a lot."
"Sure, it's very funny though because I think there's so many people who would be so happy just to see even a cameo in the back of looking Daredevil fighting..."
Stephen McFeely: "I know, all but you have just as many people "That's all you gave Luke Cage!"."
"That's the problem, is that if you put them in, half of us will be so happy and then the other half will be so pissed."
Stephen McFeely: "I know. Yes, I mean, there is no way there is no winning."
Christopher Markus: "There is no winning, and it's also, you know... they'll have season next year."
"Sure."
Christopher Markus: "You know, we couldn't bring in that many people and not blip a bunch of them, but you could just on it, on an odds wise thing."
Stephen McFeely: "I have no idea what they'll do."
Christopher Markus: "Yeah, so it's like "Okay you next year Daredevil starring... yeah, Rosario Dawson. Which would be fantastic if you put them on a costume but, you know, it's all confusing."
https://youtu.be/31hGnh7elAU?t=2416
https://collider.com/infinity-war-spoiler-interview-christopher-markus-stephen-mcfeely/
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/avengers-infinity-war-considered-using-luke-cage-and-netflix-heroes
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-Cloak & Dagger 'Meet Cloak' promo on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook including a reference to MCU movies and series [May 22, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=984880201683876
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/984880201683876
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-TV Line article of a Q&A of Jeph Loeb on Reddit [June 7, 2018]:
"Fielding a flurry of questions in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) — where he was promoting Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger (premiering tonight on Freeform) — Loeb said that an encore for Defenders Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Danny Rand/Iron Fist is “not in the plans right now, but you never know!”
Unsurprisingly, given how closely Marvel holds its cards to the vest, Loeb offered up lots of “Wait and see” (regarding, for example, Inhumans‘ Black Bolt and Medusa possibly popping up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)… “Stay tuned!” (to find out of we’ll see Ghost Rider again, anywhere)… and “CLASSIFIED!”
(...)
On the rightly undying topic of Marvel’s Agent Carter being resurrected, Loeb offered the usual, “Find us a network!,” adding: “Hayley [Atwell] has been so kind of saying she’d love to come back.”
(...)
Loeb also echoed what the S.H.I.E.L.D. showrunners told TVLine, as to where the assorted TV/Netflix series fall in relation to the MCU-upending Avengers: Infinity War movie (veiled spoiler follows): “For the most part our stories will take place BEFORE Thanos clicked his fingers. A lot of that has to do with production and when we are telling our stories vs. when the movies come out.”
Loeb even re-stated his stance on the old chestnut of: Why don’t we ever see the Avengers Tower in any of the New York-based Netflix series?
“If you live in NYC, you can’t see the Empire State Building from every street,” he noted. “So why isn’t it possible that our shows take place in a world where it IS there, we just haven’t seen it!”"
https://tvline.com/2018/06/07/marvels-defenders-season-2-iron-fist-suit/
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-TV Line interview to Joe Pokaski [June 7, 2018]:
How exactly do Freeform’s Tandy and Tyrone fit into the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Though he’s “not allowed to talk about the timing in terms of Infinity War,” Pokaski assures TVLine that we’re seeing the official Cloak & Dagger of the MCU. And while the show’s first season is more about understanding these heroes as individual characters, Pokaski admits, “We’ve had some exciting conversations about how we could artfully cross Tandy and Tyrone over [to other Marvel properties]. The beauty of these two is that they can show up anywhere [and it makes sense].”
“There are at least a dozen Easter eggs in the first season that Marvel approved, and a few more that I snuck in there,” he teases, particularly pointing out Roxxon Corp., already seen in Iron Man 2, as well as on ABC’s Agent Carter, and Netflix’s Daredevil and Iron Fist. “We’re excited to have Roxxon Gulf, our Louisiana version of Roxxon, represented.”
(Speaking of Easter eggs, “there’s a fantastic painting of Stan Lee that’s hidden in one of our scenes” this season, Pokaski says. So keep your eyes peeled!)"
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-Collider exclusive interview to Gina Prince-Bythewood [June 7, 2018]:
"You’re not someone who’s previously been associated with the whole comic book and superhero genre, so how did you come to direct this pilot? Had you been seeking out work with Marvel, or did Marvel come to you?"
Gina Prince-Bythewood: "It’s a place that I was absolutely eager to go. I love the Marvel Universe. I love all the films and I love the world, so I had been hoping to get in, and they reached out. I got the call and it was an easy, “Yes, I’d love to read the script.” I wasn’t actually familiar with the two characters, so I talked to my younger son, who is into comic books, and he knew who they were and told me a little bit about them. I think it was actually good that I read the script first and was introduced to the characters, in that way, and then I went back and started reading some of the original comics. I really loved that the core of who the characters are stayed the same, but it was updated for 2018, which really had to happen."
"What was your first meeting with Marvel like? Was it more exciting or more nerve-wracking, going into it, and did it feel any different by the time you’d left it?"
Gina Prince-Bythewood: "That’s an interesting question. I’m not gonna lie, you walk into the Marvel offices and it’s like, “Oh, shit!” Everything that they’ve done is lining the walls and you feel the bigness of the moment. But I was excited because it was so clear what I wanted to do with this show, and then to sit with Joe [Pokaski], the creator, and Jeph Loeb, the head of Marvel TV, and hear that we were all on the same page, that we wanted this to feel different from any Marvel show that was on TV, that we wanted it to be this very cool, grounded feel within the established universe, and also that it was about these two damaged teens who find each other and need each other to survive, that was all in my wheelhouse. And for Marvel to start with character, and the powers were second, that was important to me to be able to tell a story like that, about these two characters. It’s also a unique love story, which I love, as well. To bring all of that within this fantastical Marvel Universe is incredibly exciting, and I’m happy to be here."
https://collider.com/gina-prince-bythewood-interview-cloak-and-dagger/
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-Interview to Gina Prince-Bythewood shared on Cloak & Dagger Twitter account [June 8, 2018]:
Cloak & Dagger tweet: ".@GPBmadeit talks about her love of the Marvel Universe and how she came to direct #Marvel’s #CloakAndDagger in this exclusive interview with @Collider."
https://twitter.com/CloakAndDagger/status/1005134960515219456 > https://collider.com/gina-prince-bythewood-interview-cloak-and-dagger/
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x3 promo on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [June 8, 2018]:
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-Newsweek and Screen Rant articles of exclusive interviews to Joe Pokaski [June 11, 2018]:
""Roxxon, for me, has always felt like the quintessential Marvel corporation," showrunner Joe Pokaski told Newsweek. "Since Iron Man 2, I would say. There was something interesting adding our little spin on Roxxon Gulf being the New Orleans version. It felt right to us. Our philosophy on our show is corporations aren't necessarily evil, they are just amoral. If they can make the same amount of money saving your lives, they would, they just generally don't."
(...)
Pokaski says he wanted to keep Tandy and Tyrone separate from the rest of the Marvel Universe, "where we weren't necessarily doing crossovers," but Roxxon won't be the only treat for comic book fans. "There are probably about two dozen Easter eggs laid out through the season that I'm curious to see what people pick up," he teased."
https://www.newsweek.com/loak-dagger-easter-eggs-roxxon-marvel-season-1-new-orleans-957824
"Through this storyline we could well see Cloak and Dagger produce more links to other Marvel TV shows, or perhaps even the movies. Speaking to Screen Rant, Marvel TV boss Jeph Loeb explained that this is one of the strongest links Cloak and Dagger has to the rest of the MCU: "Roxxon only exists in the MCU, so you have to thereby go, it is all connected simply because that's one of the very significant points that happen between them.""
https://screenrant.com/cloak-dagger-mcu-connections-roxxon/2/
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-Cloak & Dagger 'Cursed' promo on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook including a reference to MCU movies and series [June 14, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/997904670381429
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=997904670381429
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-Cloak & Dagger clip on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook including references to MCU movies and series [June 19, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/1002723346566228
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1002723346566228
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x3 clips on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [June 20, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x5 promo on its YouTube account including references to MCU movies and series [June 22, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger clip on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook and Cloak & Dagger account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies and series [June 27, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/1011687099003186
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1011687099003186
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-Cloak & Dagger clip on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [June 27, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x5 clips on its YouTube account including references to MCU movies and series [July 1, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger clip on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook (video, title and description) including references to MCU movies and series [July 2, 2018]:
"Marvel's Cloak & Dagger | Roxxon Party"
"Tandy and Tyrone at a Roxxon party. What could go wrong? Watch the first five episodes of "Marvel's Cloak & Dagger" now on Hulu, On Demand, or Freeform.com before Thursday’s new episode."
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/1016608361844393
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1016608361844393
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x5 clip on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 3, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x6 sneak peek on its YouTube account (video and description) including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 4, 2018]:
"Marvel's Cloak & Dagger | Season 1, Episode 6 Sneak Peek: Roxxon Isn’t Drilling For Oil | Freeform"
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x7 promo on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 6, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x6 clip on its YouTube account including references to MCU movies and series [July 6, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x6 clips on its YouTube account including references to MCU movies and series [July 7, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x7 senak peek 1 on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 11, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger promo on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook including references to MCU movies and series [July 12, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1026450604193502
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/1026450604193502
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x7 senak peek 2 on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 12, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x7 clip on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 16, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger clip on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 16, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1030855257086370
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/videos/1030855257086370
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x8 sneak peek on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 19, 2018]:
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-Cloak & Dagger 1x8 clip on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 25, 2018]:
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-Comic Book Resources article of Jeph Loeb and Emma Lahana at SDCC [July 26, 2018]:
"Cloak & Dagger and Luke Cage's references to one another are definitely by design. At Comic-Con International in San Diego, Head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb revealed these mini "crossovers" were intentionally orchestrated behind the scenes.
Asked if fans could ever see Detective Misty Knight on Cloak & Dagger, Loeb teased that the show's reference to the character has potential for more: "We'll just say it was not by mistake."
"You know, what's been fun about it is I think Simone [Missick] is now giving [Rosario Dawson] a run for the money in terms of the shows! She's been on and been running around," he said.
Cloak & Dagger star Emma Lahana, who plays Detective Brigid O'Reilly, was thrilled to be a part of these references to the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe. "It's so cool because, when you're on set and you're saying the line, you're like, 'I hope people will pick up on it' and then you get this huge reaction!" she shared. "It's so cool to see that! It's so cool, because the fans seem so happy when they see how they link, and Simone [Missick] is a legend. She's so rad, so I think that she's the coolest. I'm so stoked that I got to be linked with her and set up that Brigid and Misty are friends."
As to whether or not she would like to show up on Luke Cage, she added, "You know, I would really like to do that. That would be a dream. I would love to go on Luke Cage. I love Luke Cage. That'd be rad."
In Cloak & Dagger's "Ghost Stories," O'Reilly namedropped "my friend Misty," clearly referencing Luke Cage character Detective Misty Knight. Cloak & Dagger‘s reference to Luke Cage followed on the heels of Luke Cage‘s reference to Cloak & Dagger. Midway through Season 2, Misty had a discussion with her coworker Detective Nandi Tyler in which Nandi mentioned O’Reilly. “Inspector West called. Callahan is in Maui, and O’Reilly moved to New Orleans,” she told Misty. “None of them know you quit. West said until One Police Plaza sends somebody else, you’re the highest ranking detective here.”"
https://www.cbr.com/luke-cage-cloak-dagger-reference/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180729230505/https://www.cbr.com/luke-cage-cloak-dagger-reference/
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive interview to Joe Pokaski [August 2, 2018]:
"What are you looking forward to exploring in season 2?"
Joe Pokaski: "In season 2, you can take those training wheels off. The most exciting thing is now we have these two characters, played by these two ridiculously talented actors, and we get to explore how you become a vigilante hopefully in a way that other superhero fiction hasn’t done yet. If you do have this power to make a knife of light or teleport, how do you make the world a better place? How do you go about doing it? Where do you find trouble? How does it affect your life? I think we got to kick into high gear with the last couple episodes [of season 1], and we’ll be able to shift into a higher speed a little quicker in season 2."
https://ew.com/tv/2018/08/02/cloak-and-dagger-season-one-finale-tony-stark-danny-rand/
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-Cloak & Dagger season 1 finale clip on its YouTube account (video and description) including a reference to MCU movies and series [August 11, 2018]:
"Marvel's Cloak & Dagger | Season 1 Finale: Cloak And Dagger Defeat Roxxon | Freeform"
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-The Hollywood Reporter exclusive interview to Joe Pokaski, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage [August 5, 2018]:
Joe Pokaski: "Ideally I'd love Tandy and Tyrone on the big screen and small screen as utility players the way they are in comics," "There are a lot of legal hurdles and corporate barriers to doing that, but in an ideal world it would be fun to see Aubrey and Olivia cross over with the Runaways or cross over to the Netflix universe or even into the films. Cloak and Dagger show up very early on in the Runaways comic and there's hopefully there's some karma we can fulfill there."
Josh Schwartz: "We'll have a reference that's late in the season that will probably be our first real bread crumb that connects to the MCU,"
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-TV Line exclusive interview to Josh Schwartz [August 13 2018]:
"Also revealed during this month’s set visit, Season 2 specifically picks up only 24 to 36 hours after the events of the Season 1 finale. Schwartz also teased that there will be “a reference,” late in the season, “that will probably be our first real breadcrumb that connects us to the MCU, in some way.”"
https://tvline.com/2018/08/13/marvels-runaways-season-2-premiere-date/
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-Daredevil post on its Facebook latam account including a reference to MCU movies [September 20, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/DaredevilLat/photos/a.697245490383562/1787137884727645/
https://www.facebook.com/DaredevilLat/posts/1787139951394105
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including references to MCU movies [September 25, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/2015449838519854
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies [September 25, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/2015449981853173
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-Cloak & Dagger playlist on Marvel Entertainment account on Facebook including references to MCU movies and series [Updated until September 25, 2018]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/6883542487/496601747522927/
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-Daredevil season 3 page on Marvel official site with an image including a reference to MCU movies [October 19, 2018(?)]:
[Image: https://terrigen-cdn-dev.marvel.com/content/prod/1x/daredevils3_lob_crd_01_0.jpg]
(Image: https://terrigen-cdn-dev.marvel.com/content/prod/1x/daredevils3-com_mas_mob_01.jpg)
https://www.marvel.com/tv-shows/marvel-s-daredevil/3
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-Marvel official site article about Daredevil season 3 original soundtrack album with an image inlcuding a reference to MCU movies [October 19, 2018]:
[Image: https://terrigen-cdn-dev.marvel.com/content/prod/1x/unknown_0.jpeg]
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvel-daredevil-season-3-original-soundtrack-album-out-now
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica post about Nick Fury [November 18, 2018]:
[Translation:] "Nick Fury
Before joining SHIELD he was an officer in the United States Army and the CIA
As director of SHIELD he spearheaded the Avengers Initiative, the Project TAHITI and the Project Insight."
"Did you know this about #Nick Fury?
#YouKnowThatMarvel"
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqEBsm-Btoc/
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-Runaways season 1 recap video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies, series and WHiH Newsfront [December 15, 2018]:
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-The Hollywood Reporter interview to Kevin Mayer [December 18, 2018]:
"Would you consider reviving the Marvel shows that Netflix canceled?"
Kevin Mayer: "They are very high-quality shows. We haven't yet discussed that, but?I would say that's a possibility."
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-Cloak & Dagger season 1 blooper reel video on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [December 25, 2018]:
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-Deborah Ann Woll response to Garin on Twitter [February 6, 2019]:
Garin tweet: "@DeborahAnnWoll quick question! Do you think your character survived #Thanos's Snap? #InfinityWar #AvengersEndgame #Daredevil #KarenPage"
Deborah Ann Woll response: "Yes! I snap back! #KarensSnap"
https://twitter.com/DeborahAnnWoll/status/1093055228230787072 > https://twitter.com/GarinCruzE/status/1093054161950818305
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-Captain Marvel wallpaper on Disney Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore web sites including references to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Inhumans [2019(?)]:
https://www.disney.my/article-captain-marvel-mobile-wallpapers > https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/captainmarvel-10_d23fd2ab.jpeg
https://www.disney.co.th/article-captain-marvel-mobile-wallpapers > https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/captainmarvel-10_d23fd2ab.jpeg
https://www.disney.id/article-captain-marvel-mobile-wallpapers > https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/captainmarvel-10_d23fd2ab.jpeg
https://www.disney.sg/article-captain-marvel-mobile-wallpapers > https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/captainmarvel-10_d23fd2ab.jpeg
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post on its Facebook account (description) including a reference to Captain Marvel [March 8, 2019]:
"Coulson may be dead on Marvel’s #AgentsofSHIELD, but you can see him on #CaptainMarvel in theaters now!"
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/photos/a.421546951243492/2259917257406443
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-io9 exclusive interview to Clark Gregg [March 21, 2019]:
Clark Gregg: "I think in the early days it was very much an experiment and honestly, Marvel was really one big company, and now it’s really not. I think it’s really two separate divisions and there was a real desire to thread very carefully what we were doing with the movies. You know, at the end of season one with the Hydra reveal in Captain America: Winter Soldier, it turned our show upside down.
But I think when the show started to really find its best stride was when our writers decided “Eh, screw it. We’re going to take what we can get and there’s a lot of stuff [Marvel Studios] doesn’t seem to be using. They don’t seem to be using L.M.D.s, they don’t seem to be using Ghostrider or the Framework. At first we didn’t believe that we were doing Secret Warriors, but then it became clear—‘Oh, that’s Quake.’ They’ve ingeniously taken the parts of the Marvel universe—which is broad—that no one seemed to be interested in, and we’ve squeezed every drop out of them and really let our train go on its own track."
https://io9.gizmodo.com/agents-of-shields-clark-gregg-talks-season-6-and-how-th-1833462809
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-TV Line article of Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage quotes [March 24, 2019]
“We are so excited to tell more Runaways stories and are so grateful to Marvel, Hulu, our amazing cast and crew and of course our passionate audience,” “Season 3 will be a magical time on Runaways, as we deepen our connection to the Marvel universe. We are honored to continue to play in the sandbox created by Brian K Vaughn and Adrian Alphona.”
https://deadline.com/2019/08/runaways-cloak-and-dagger-crossover-episode-marvel-plans-1202658705/
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-Comic Book Resources article of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. panel on WonderCon, with Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Jeff Bell, Jeph Loeb and cast [March 30, 2019]:
"Clark talked about getting a call from Marvel about "getting to have fun with the Avengers until you don't" and then "seven years later... and to grow so close and grow together and having that birthed from the connection that the fans have with a character that represents them." Henry also recalled his first day on set, "there were so many people, so many names... then I graduated to my first scene with Iain, which I absolutely loved.. quite honestly, I can't say one scene or one episode because it keeps getting better and better."
(...)
About the connection to Endgame, Jeph Loeb said, "You saw today -- it's one year later!" and encouraged everyone to watch the film."
https://www.cbr.com/wondercon-agents-of-shield-season-6-panel/
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-Cloak & Dagger promo on Inhumans account on Facebook including a reference to MCU movies and series [April 18, 2019]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/posts/1322123257926562
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/561526151003846
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-Marvel interview to Henry Simmons at Avengers: Endgame premiere video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [April 23, 2019]:
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-Marvel official site article about Ghost Rider and Helstrom, also shared on its Twitter account [May 1, 2019]:
""Marvel’s Ghost Rider" centers on Robbie Reyes, played by Gabriel Luna ("Terminator: Dark Fate," "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."), the quintessential antihero, who lives on the Texas/Mexico border, consumed by hellfire and supernaturally bound to a demon. When he unleashes the Rider, Robbie brings vengeance for the innocents he encounters, but struggles controlling the power he wields. "Marvel’s Ghost Rider" is executive produced by Ingrid Escajeda, who will serve as showrunner, Paul Zbyszewski and Marvel Television’s Jeph Loeb.
“I couldn’t be more excited and honored to be handed the reins to a Marvel character as beloved as GHOST RIDER. This story hits every note for me—my love for grounded yet conflicted characters and my desire to scare the $&!# out of people! It’s important to me to find a take that thrills existing fans as well as wider audiences and I believe we’ve done just that,” said Executive Producer and Showrunner, Ingrid Escajeda.
Daimon and Ana Helstrom are the son and daughter of a mysterious and powerful serial killer in "Marvel’s Helstrom." The siblings have a complicated dynamic as they track down the worst of humanity—each with their attitude and skills. "Marvel’s Helstrom" is executive produced by Paul Zbyszewski, who will serve as showrunner and Marvel Television’s Jeph Loeb.
“As a lifelong Marvel fan, I feel incredibly fortunate to help bring this darker, thrilling corner of the comic book universe to life, and I’m just grateful to everyone at Marvel Television and Hulu for the opportunity,” said Paul Zbyszewski, Executive Producer and Showrunner. “Marvel’s known for all the heart, humor, and action they put into every series, but this time around we’re adding some scares to that mix. I think we’ve found a compelling way to dissect some of our deepest fears through the experiences of our two lead characters.”
"We're thrilled Hulu will be moving into a new—admittedly chilling—corner of the Marvel Universe with GHOST RIDER and HELSTROM. Paul and Ingrid are crafting gripping adventures into fear that live in our SPIRITS OF VENGEANCE cornerstone.""
"The Spirits of Vengeance are coming! Live-action "Marvel's @GhostRider" and "Marvel's @Helstrom" series arrive on @Hulu in 2020:"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1123573087960739840
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-TheWrap article of an interview to Jeph Loeb and Jed Whedon [May 3, 2019]:
“It’s just the safest way for us to do things,” Marvel TV chief Jeph Loeb told reporters on Friday. “Just looking at it from a very practical place, which is, what the world looked like post-snap, [it] was not something we had seen yet. We were already shooting.”
Additionally, Loeb didn’t want to burden “S.H.I.E.L.D.” with depicting what a post-“Endgame” MCU looks like, with “Spider-Man: Far From Home” coming up in a few months.
“We don’t want to ever do something in our show which contradicts what’s happening in the movies. The movies are the lead dog. They’re setting the timeline for the MCU and what’s going on. Our job is to navigate within that world,” he said. “The only way for us to tell our story is to do them pre-snap. Whether or not you can figure out [how the timeline works], we’ll let ‘timelords’ figure out.”
Co-showrunner Jed Whedon added that although they knew “a fair amount” of “Endgame’s” plot, “S.H.I.E.L.D.’s” air-date wasn’t set in stone when they were shooting. “If they moved us up by two months and we based our show on [‘Endgame’s’] storyline, then all of a sudden we’d burn down a huge story point for them,” he said. “So we had to dodge all of that.”
Whedon added that they pretty much assumed “S.H.I.E.L.D.” wasn’t coming back until after audiences had seen “Endgame,” but Loeb said that ABC did approach them at least briefly about moving their season up a few months. That was quickly rebuffed, for fear of having “Endgame” happen right in the middle of their season.
But they’re aware that, at least time-wise, the logic doesn’t quite hold up, considering the fifth season ended at the same time “Infinity War” was happening. And, to make matters even more complicated, it’s possible there could be some Multiverse stuff in place too. After all, the fifth season catapulted the show some 90 years into the future, then sent them back to the present in an effort to alter the course of history. So it’s possible the timeline changed into one that wasn’t among the 14 million possible futures that Dr. Strange saw.
They’d rather you just go with it. “We have a logic in our head that makes sense, but we certainly don’t want to burden the audience of telling them all that,” Whedon said. “We just want them to enjoy the ride and let the couch discussions be about that.”
So while there are practical reasons for “S.H.I.E.L.D.” avoiding “Endgame” when it returns next week, Loeb said its mostly so the writers can do the show they want without having to be too shackled too much to the universe-changing events from the films. “Someone will figure it out. For us, it really just comes from a place of just enjoy the show.”"
https://www.thewrap.com/agents-of-shield-season-6-avengers-endgame-marvel/
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-Marvel official site article sharing a video with references to MCU movies [May 7, 2019]:
(https://youtu.be/PQw_n280Juc)
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvels-agents-of-shield-season-4-refresher
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-Marvel official site article sharing a video with references to MCU movies shared on its Twitter account [May 8, 2019]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1126215113722290176
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Season 5 Recap' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [May 9, 2019]:
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-Collider exclusive interview to Jeffrey Bell, Jed Whedon and Jeph Loeb [May 10, 2019]:
"How did you come to the decision to not incorporate the current timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?"
Jed Whedon: "Part of it had to do with the question of when we’d air, truthfully. We had talked about summer, but there was always a chance that we’d get moved up to the beginning of the year. With the amount of characters and money and machine in place with Endgame, we had to dodge it completely."
Jeph Loeb: "It’s the most important film of the year. That’s what it was."
Jed Whedon: "So, imagine if we had incorporated it, and then, at the last minute, the network was like, “You know what? We’d love to have this on in January.” And then, all of a sudden, we’d spoil something. So, we made the decision to just be pre-snap, tell our story, and carry it forward. Hopefully, it will be satisfying and, in no way, a thing that bothers you about the show. We have our logic, but we don’t spend any time explaining it because we just wanted people to enjoy our story."
Jeffrey Bell: "It was a challenge, and we talked a lot about it. If we came in and said it was five or six years later, there were just too many questions. There were too many words that we were not allowed to say, if that makes sense. So, that’s the decision that was made because we didn’t know [when we’d air]. In Season 1, when we first started, we could not say the word Hydra. We were forbidden to say Hydra because Hydra was hiding in S.H.I.E.L.D. We had bad guys happening, and we had what looked like a bunch of different things going on, but we were not allowed to say was the word Hydra, until after Captain America came out. After that, we could go, “Oh, Grant Ward is evil. He’s part of Hydra.” But we could not do any of that, until after the movie. And so, there are times when we have this added challenge of, “Okay, this is happening and we know this is happening, but we can’t say that this is happening.” So, the easiest way to not have to incorporate or dodge questions about that was for us to just make the decision that this season happens pre-snap."
"Is it liberating, that you really get to just do whatever you want to do?"
Jed Whedon: "Yeah. I have to say that both ABC Studios and Marvel Studios have let us go where we want. In our first year, there were a lot of eyes on it, with everybody trying to focus on what the show was gonna be and what it could be. But early on, even in that year, as long as we were not stepping on some crazy toe that they had coming down the pipeline, we were able to build our story and our characters, and take them where we wanted. So, we’ve felt that liberated feeling for awhile now because they trust us, and we’re fortunate enough to have that trust. But with every season, there’s a sense, when you get to the end – especially in Season 5 when we really felt like we were gonna wrap it up and then were awarded another season – there’s new ground, and it feels refreshing and fresh and fun. We felt that same feeling this year, maybe a little more so, considering that we have a new version of Clark Gregg coming to the picture."
(...)
"Thematically speaking, there’s a certain parallel to Avengers: Endgame this season, with the dealing of loss and the fallout of that. Is that something that you approached deliberately?"
Jed Whedon: "Well, it’s the nature of these stories. The definition of being a hero is sacrifice. You’re willing to go into the burning building. We touched on how, at the end of Season 5, and now we’re seeing that play out in Season 6, that you’re defined by losing people. That’s what defines this job. You have to be willing to sacrifice yourself, and the person right next to you, It’s not a coincidence that all of these heroes, if you’re in the fight, are gonna take some losses."
https://collider.com/agents-of-shield-season-6-mcu-timeline-explained/
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-Entertainment Weekly exclusive interview to Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jeffrey Bell [May 10, 2019]:
"Last season we got a reference to the events in Avengers: Infinity War, but there wasn’t an MCU reference in the premiere. Can we expect any references or nods to Infinity War or Endgame in the new season?"
Jed Whedon: "We are pre-Endgame."
"That means the season is taking place during the years with the vanished. Does that have any bearing on the story at all?"
Jeffrey Bell: "We’re actually pre-Snap."
Jed Whedon: "For the multiple reasons, we had to do that. One of the main ones being that we were not positive when season 6 would air. We were pretty sure it was going to be in the summer, but if they moved us up to January and we had tied into in any way, it would’ve destroyed everything. So the safest course of action for all parties involved was for us to stay pre-Snap."
(...)
"How does Sarge differ from Phil Coulson?"
Jed Whedon: "Besides his cool jacket and his cool boots, it is a very different character. When we were tossing around ideas for a potential season 6, it was one of the main things we struck upon that made us feel like we could keep doing this in thrilling fashion. We felt like we needed Clark Gregg still at the center of the show. Everything was founded on him and he’s still at the heart of the thing, so we wanted something for him. When we stumbled upon this idea, we felt like it would be thrilling for the fans and difficult for fans to see him be someone so different, and also would be fun for Clark. He’s been playing the same guy for a decade."
https://ew.com/tv/2019/05/10/agents-of-shield-season-6-premiere-showrunners-interview/
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-TVLine article of an interview to Ming-Na Wen [May 10, 2019]:
Ming-Na Wen: "So, the Snap hasn’t happened yet," "I think at this point it’s safe to say that we have departed from following the cinematic universe in that sense, and are just telling our own stories and our own situations. All this is happening pre-Snap."
https://tvline.com/2019/05/10/agents-of-shield-recap-season-6-premiere-evil-coulson-lookalike-sarge/
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-Marvel official site article about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 6 including a video with references to MCU movies, also shared on its Twitter account [May 10, 2019]:
[Video: https://youtu.be/LkJr6B3bPio]
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1126869892660068352
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-Cloak & Dagger promo on Inhumans account on Facebook including a reference to MCU movies and series [May 30, 2019]:
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/posts/1354350774703810
https://www.facebook.com/Inhumans/videos/2216414595121398
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-Captain Marvel commentary of the directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, article of ComicBook [June 13, 2019]:
Anna Boden: “We did not have a real Quadjet. That doesn’t actually exist,”
Ryan Fleck: “That is a visual effect. Though we had the front of it, so that’s all real,”
Anna Boden: “We had to share the interior cockpit with Agents of SHIELD, little known fact,”
https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/captain-marvel-shared-a-set-with-marvels-agents-of-shield/
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-Cloak & Dagger season 2 blooper reel video on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 29, 2019]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2167805786682184
https://www.facebook.com/CloakandDaggerTV/videos/2167805786682184
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-Deadline interview to Jeph Loeb, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Jeff Bell and cast at SDCC [July 18, 2019]:
"Point taken, but let me ask you this – is it really over? I mean, this is Marvel, shift a timeline or two and the gang is back together, right?"
Jeph Loeb: "I personally believe that every great Marvel story ends to be continued, but the short answer is, yes, it will conclude in a way that is incredibly emotional and in the best ways. It’s funny, it’s heartbreaking, it’s…"
"Sounds like It’s a classic Marvel speedball."
Jeph Loeb: "(laughs) It’s a classic, exactly."
(...)
"They do love the cast, especially that Agent Coulson…"
Jeph Loeb: "Who wouldn’t?
One, everyone roots for the everyman guy. What Phil Coulson brought to the table was a kind of golly, gee-whiz of it all, like everyone remembers, like you got all goose bumpily when he met Captain America. We’d all be that way, but then he was also really good at his job. Just think of the number of times that he could he figure it out when nobody else could figure it out, and that most of the times was unflappable.
The second is you can’t divorce the character from Clark Gregg. He’s just this incredibly warm, delightful man, that’s who he is that’s how he’s built. So you spend five minutes with him and suddenly he’s your best pal, he’s the guy you’ve known since high school, like he’s that guy, and that somehow connects to the audience. I don’t think there’s ever been anybody who sat and watched an episode of S.H.I.E.L.D. and looked at any of the characters and went, I don’t know who any of those people are."
(...)
"Speaking of that same world, are we going to see … we have seen Nick Fury, on the show, we’ve been close to the hem more than once with Winter Solider, Ghost Rider was with the show for a while. Are we going to see any special guests for the last season or are we staying straight S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
Jeph Loeb: "You have to wait and see. Or as we used to say, that’s a level seven question."
https://deadline.com/2019/07/agents-of-shield-ending-season-7-marvel-abc-1202646416/
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-The Beat article of an interview to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast and creators at SDCC [July 21, 2019]:
"(...) They weren’t the only ones aware of the show’s impact. Henry Simmons, who plays the aforementioned Alphonso “Mack” Mackenzie, and Natalia Cordova-Buckley, who plays Yo-Yo, both agreed they were aware of how much their presence on TV makes an impact. And they were excited to see that legacy continue with Marvel’s Ghostrider, starring Gabriel Luna. Cordova-Buckley declared it overdue for Luna to star in his own series. When asked if either of them might crossover to the new Hulu series once it gets off the ground, neither could say for sure if it would happen. But Simmons said he would work with Luna on whatever project came down the line in the future because that was the kind of person he wanted to work with.
Speaking of Ghostrider, Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb insisted the upcoming series is not a direct spinoff of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fans should not view it as an extension of one to the other. Luna is still the same character who happened to have an adventure with the cast of S.H.I.E.L.D., “and that will be referenced,” but the show is “definitely its own thing.”
As for Marvel TV’s future at ABC, Loeb was cagey but promised that just because the latest shows were slated to go to Hulu doesn’t mean they’re abandoning the broadcast platform. “There are things in the works, things we can’t talk about,” he insisted. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. may be done, but some things will never change."
https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-19-agents-of-shield-cast-press-room/
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-Team JVS video of Jeph Loeb at SDCC [July 22, 2019]:
Jeph Loeb: "(...) and the shows on Hulu are not spin-offs, they're original programs that, in the case of Ghost Rider is a character that you've seen before, but this is a new adventure, that will acknowledge what's happened in the past but it very much its own show."
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-Cloak & Dagger season 2 blooper reel video on its Facebook account including a reference to MCU movies and series [July 29, 2019]:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2200008893461873
https://www.facebook.com/CloakandDaggerTV/videos/2200008893461873
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-Runaways and Cloak & Dagger crossover announcement on Marvel Entertainment account on Youtube, Runaways account on Instagram and Cloak & Dagger account on Facebook + Jeph Loeb quote [August 1, 2019]:
"Marvel's Runaways x Marvel's Cloak & Dagger: Crossover Episode Confirmed!"
"You asked, we answered. Tandy and Tyrone from "Marvel's Cloak & Dagger" will appear in Season 3 of "Marvel's Runaways" for a crossover episode!"
"The squad is getting bigger. Season 3 of #MarvelsRunaways will feature a crossover episode with the cast of @cloakanddaggertv! 🖤"
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0oFi8fnGxb/
"Marvel's Runaways and Cloak & Dagger: Special Announcement!
A message from from Olivia Holt, Aubrey Joseph and our friends from Marvel's Runaways ..."
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=451950282306702
https://www.facebook.com/CloakandDaggerTV/videos/451950282306702
"You asked. We answered.
Tandy and Tyrone will appear in Season 3 of for a crossover episode."
https://www.facebook.com/CloakandDaggerTV/photos/a.704604646378101/1293571474148079/
Jeph Loeb: “It’s so fun being able to do something that revels in the Mighty Marvel Manner! Having these young heroes crossover allows fans of both shows to see the adventure everyone has been waiting for and we’ve only hinted at,”
https://deadline.com/2019/08/runaways-cloak-and-dagger-crossover-episode-marvel-plans-1202658705/
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-TV Line exclusive interview to Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen and Jeffrey Bell [August 2, 2019]:
"Why bring us to the 1930s versus the ’40s? Because doesn’t that well predate the creation of S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
Jed Whedon: "That’s a good question."
Jeffrey Bell: "An excellent Season 7 question."
Jed Whedon: "Also, there’s the cool hats."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "We like the clothes, we like the cars…."
Jed Whedon: "The bootleggers…."
"Before I did the math, my first, excited thought was that they could cross paths with Agent Peggy Carter. But when realized it’s a decade too soon…. Maybe they could run into a teenage Peggy or something?"
Jed Whedon: "We wish you were in the writers room, so we could have done that!"
(...)
"You just wrapped filming the final season. Is there any chance for one final MCU nod on your way out the door?"
Jed Whedon: "There will be one tiny little MCU nod."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "“Tiny”…? OK…."
Jed Whedon: "Just a nod! Just a nod."
https://tvline.com/2019/08/02/agents-of-shield-recap-season-6-finale-time-travel-1930s/
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-Marvel official site article of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 6 [August 5, 2019]:
"ON THE RETURN OF COULSON
With the Chronicom hunters in possession of Fury's Black Box and the situation more dire than they anticipated, Simmons realized they needed an expert in S.H.I.E.L.D. history to even have a chance of stopping them. Hence, the return of the beloved Coulson as an ehanced LMD with Chronicom upgrades.
"Well part of the core of our show and our storytelling is wish fulfillment," stated Whedon. "We knew that we were going to take the audience’s expectations and break hearts in that Sarge turns out not to be a good guy and he turns on us and we end up fighting him in the end.
"There were multiple reasons we wanted to bring him back, but one of them was just for that feeling of 'Yay! He’s back!' And a sense that we wanted to have that feeling and the audience might want to have that feeling. if we were going to get one more season, we were going to bring our guy back or a 2.0 version of him for our last adventure," Whedon added.
"We missed Coulson," inserted Tanchareon. "We just missed him.""
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/agents-of-shield-return-of-phil-coulson-season-6-finale
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-Russo Brothers response to TSchweibz on Reddit [August 7, 2019]:
TSchweibz: "Hey guys, congrats on directing the #1 movie of all time! I was wondering if you could talk about your decision to include James D'Arcy from Agent Carter into Endgame, which came as a shock to all fans of the show, thanks!"
Russo Brothers response: "Because we love James.
Also, because Markus and Mcfeely were instrumental in engineering that show, and because I directed one of the episodes. It seemed appropriate."
https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/cn9lbx/were_joe_and_anthony_russo_directors_of_marvel/ew99caj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 > https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/cn9lbx/were_joe_and_anthony_russo_directors_of_marvel/ew881mz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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-Deadline exclusive interview to Jeph Loeb [August 12, 2019]:
"So, S.H.I.E.L.D. is coming to an end after Season 7, several new shows are coming on Hulu, crossovers, Legion ending on FX and more. So, where is Marvel TV now and going forward?"
Jeph Loeb: "Well, the most exciting thing right now is finding the new corners. When we start talking about Marvel Television, we like to look at the different families."
"What are those clans?"
Jeph Loeb: "So the Marvel heroes are the ones that are most closely associated with the movies, so that would be S.H.I.E.L.D., and that would be Agent Carter. They came from the movies, our two leads were actually in the movies.
Then the next group is the Marvel Street-Level Heroes, or the Marvel Knights, as we sometimes call them here. So, if the Marvel heroes are here to save the universe, the Marvel Street-Level Heroes, the Marvel Knights, often they are just to save themselves, to save the neighborhood.
Some of those appeared on Netflix, but there are others that live in that category, which are still to come.
Then we took a look at the Marvel Universe that was upcoming and we knew that Tom Holland was going to be playing the role of Peter Parker in Spider-man, so the idea of YA, the idea of young heroes was something that got us very excited because it works really well on television."
(...)
"The much-rumored Cloak & Dagger and Runaways crossover has become official, is this going to be just a one-off even though the two outlets have shared corporate parenthood?"
Jeph Loeb: "This is something we’ve wanted to do since Season 1on both shows. We hope it’s the first of many. It’s one of the many benefits of having all our shows on Disney-based platforms. It is a shared universe. #itsallconnected!"
(...)
"On the flip-side, under the same corporate umbrella, there’s going to be all these Disney+ shows, Scarlet Witch and Vision, Winter Soldier and Falcon, there’s a number of them, do you feel that there is a potential of too much Marvel?"
Jeph Loeb: "Well, first of all, I have to make something very clear, which is those are shows that are created and run and the responsibility of the motion picture studio. Secondly, Marvel Television will be doing shows with Disney+, we just haven’t announced what we’re going to do there."
"And when do you think we’re going to hear what Marvel TV’s Disney+ offerings are?"
Jeph Loeb: When we’re ready.
(...)
"What does that mean to you?"
Jeph Loeb: "(...) Something that really interested us and interested them, and we always knew that we were going to do something with Ghost Rider, we were just waiting for the right place to put it.
Then we started having the same conversation, which was there is in the comic book world the Spirit of Vengeance, and they are this sort of unusual group of characters, which involve Ghost Rider, which involve Helstrom, which involve Helstrom’s sister, Anna. We suddenly saw that there were three or four shows that we could put together that we now refer to as Adventure into Fear."
"Is that Marvel Horror under another name?"
Jeph Loeb: "No, it’s terror, because when you say horror, it means so many different things. There’s everything from Saw, which is the last thing that we want to do, gore-fest kind of thing to there’s a monster running around. What we love is the notion of how we can present a Marvel hero who was truly feared and truly believed that they were a monster, but that, as the stories go on, they realize, oh, I’m the hero of the story, I’m not the villain of the story. That’s not something we’ve ever done before. So we started with Ghost Rider, we went out and managed to get Gabriel Luna to come back and reproduce the role he played on S.H.I.E.L.D. Then we’re going to do Helstrom, and then there’s a couple more that we haven’t yet revealed to the world."
(...)
"We believe that anyone can be a hero and that that enables you to tell stories about every single person on this planet, that’s our real secret."
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-Runaways season 3 NYCC trailer on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to MCU movies [October 4, 2019]:
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-Alain Uy post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 8, 2019]:
"Soooo.... this happened. It’s been a CRAZY couple of months and so I’m beyond excited to finally share the news that I’m official part of the @marvel family playing a role in @officialhelstrom . Wow! Excited to be part of this journey with all the extraordinary people working on this project. Chris Yen is in the building... let’s get it!! @marvelstudios @marvel @officialhelstrom @hulu @tommyae @sydney_lemmon @beebobby @ariana.la.mexicana"
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Xhfu-A-m9/
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-Deadline article shared on Tom Austen account on Twitter [October 8, 2019]:
Deadline article: "The pulling back of the Helstrom cast curtain comes as the show kicks into production in Vancouver and after a long-planned Ghost Rider series with Gabriel Luna was shuttered last month.
(...)
“Marvel Television is thrilled to have such an amazing cast that enriches Paul’s fantastic writing,” Loeb added about the show produced by Marvel Television and ABC Signature Studios. “The ensemble is the perfect way to bring our audience into our Adventure into Fear franchise causing delicious nightmares of what’s to come!”"
Tom Austen tweet: "See you in Hell....
@Marvel
@hulu"
https://twitter.com/tomoausten/status/1181649543231877123 > https://deadline.com/2019/10/helstrom-cast-marvel-series-elizabeth-marvel-tom-austen-sydney-lemmon-hulu-1202755045/
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-Deadline article shared on June Carryl account on Twitter [October 9, 2019]:
Deadline article: "The pulling back of the Helstrom cast curtain comes as the show kicks into production in Vancouver and after a long-planned Ghost Rider series with Gabriel Luna was shuttered last month.
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“Marvel Television is thrilled to have such an amazing cast that enriches Paul’s fantastic writing,” Loeb added about the show produced by Marvel Television and ABC Signature Studios. “The ensemble is the perfect way to bring our audience into our Adventure into Fear franchise causing delicious nightmares of what’s to come!”"
June Carryl tweet: "Infinite gratitude. EXCLUSIVE: Marvel’s Helstrom Cast Revealed With Homeland & Fear TWD Vets – Deadline https://deadline.com/2019/10/helstrom-cast-marvel-series-elizabeth-marvel-tom-austen-sydney-lemmon-hulu-1202755045/"
https://twitter.com/junecarryl/status/1181951531052126208
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-Runaways post on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies [November 13, 2019]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B407GxknvSD/
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-'Marvel Minute' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Instagram including references to MCU movies and series [November 18, 2019]:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B5A36SHl638/
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-Runaways season 3 trailer on Marvel Entertainment accounts on YouTube and Instagram including references to MCU movies and series [November 18, 2019]:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B5BDtGZlSxw/
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-Runaways season 3 BTS on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [November 18, 2019]:
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-Marvel official site article about Agent Carter TV show, also shared on its Twitter account [November 20, 2019]:
Marvel article: "With a giant Disney catalog now at our fingertips with the release if Disney+, it’s time to dive into some shows you might have never seen — or even some shows you watched, loved, and now need a reason to-rewatch. A perfect candidate for your next binge should be Agent Carter, which ran for two seasons on ABC between 2015 and 2016, and dived into Agent Peggy Carter’s story after the events of Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The First Avenger.
We all know that Steve Rogers went into the ice, and seventy years later he came out of it to find a whole new world. But what about Peggy? We know — thanks to the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — that Peggy would go on to later be one of the founding members of S.H.I.E.L.D. But before even that, she had to work her way up through the ranks at the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR), while also trying to balance life in the 1940s as a single woman in New York City, and later Los Angeles.
With only 18 episodes in total, Agent Carter is a perfect weekend binge, and here are just a few reasons it should be added to your queue ASAP.
Peggy’s World Was Expanded
When the show premiered in 2015, Atwell had already popped up in a few other Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies, but none of them really dived into Peggy’s own story. With Agent Carter, we were now seeing her live and work day to day in the city, rounding out the character so much more.
Captain America isn’t there, but he’s still always there
Though Cap is gone (he’s currently in the ice), he is still very much felt throughout the whole series, especially the first season. Peggy tries to grapple with her feelings about him, and the fact that they never got their dance together. However, she finally lets him go — like, literally, lets him go — after a vial of his blood turns up and it could be used for more super serum in "The Blitzkrieg Button." Peggy decides not to keep it (and further, no one else should be able to use it), instead tosses the vial into the water. She's finally accepted this loss and she's moving on with her life.
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A happy ending — and a cliffhanger
Thanks to the Simihosian Exhibit about Captain American in Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The Winter Soldier, we know that after Steve, Peggy still lived a full life. She got married and had kids, and Agent Carter very much hints at this happy ending for her with Agent Daniel Sosa (Enver Gjokaj). The final episode of the series shows the two of them finally happy together, certainly leading viewers to believe that this is Peggy’s future husband. If Peggy’s happy, we’re happy!
But, the final episode also ended on a cliffhanger as Agent Jack Thompson (Chad Michael Murray) is shot by an unseen person in the closing moments of the series. Did he survive? Who shot him? Can Peggy get to the bottom of it?? Unfortunately, those are all unanswered questions.
Peggy’s story still isn’t over!
Even though Agent Carter went off the air in 2016, Peggy still left her footprint all over the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — including Marvel Studios’ Avengers Endgame! While we actually saw the end of her life (and funeral) in Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Civil War, she got another happy ending with Steve after he went back in time to replace all of the Infinity Stones.
Peggy knows her value
Peggy’s most iconic character line didn’t happen in the MCU, it happened on the show! The final episode of Season 1, "Valediction," has Peggy saving New York City, but in the end, it’s her boss Thompson who gets all the credit for it. Sousa is ready to fight for Peggy’s recognition, but she explains that she doesn’t need it saying, “I know my value, anyone else’s opinion doesn’t really matter.” It’s a mantra that’s perfect for the character because Peggy knows what she’s capable of — and she’s darn good at it!"
Marvel tweet: "Her name's Peggy Carter, and she knows her value. Here's why you should watch "Agent Carter" this weekend on @DisneyPlus: (...) #DisneyPlus"
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/agent-carter-must-watch-disney-plus
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1197605543625601024
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-Runaways video on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies [December 6, 2019]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5vYHARn17a/
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-Runaways season 2 recap video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including references to MCU movies [December 7, 2019]:
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-Runaways season 2 recap video on Marvel Entertainment account on Instagram including references to MCU movies [December 8, 2019]:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B50toHuFbtg/
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-'Elizabeth Hurley Manifests Magic in Marvel's Runaways!' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [December 11, 2019]:
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-Rotten Tomatoes article of an interview to Elizabeth Hurley, Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz [December 12, 2019]:
"“What I really loved about it is the fact that the grown-ups had great stuff to do and were integral to the plot and had moments of their own. They weren’t just feeding the kids [conflict].” That said, Morgan will certainly be feeding conflict to Nico (Lyrica Okano) as “one of the most powerful sorceresses in history and the universe” and the legendary magician of Arthurian legend. And as Hurley put it, “she’s definitely bringing a completely different element to the show from a magic point of view.”
Though she did not appear in Runaways’ second season, she is at the heart of Nico’s troubles toward its conclusion. “Nico is a fledgling baby witch, unsure of her powers, and can’t really control herself yet,” Hurley said of the character Morgan is most interested in positioning toward her ends.
“We’re going to learn more about what that darkness is about, where it comes from, [and] what it’s connected to,” added executive producer and showrunner Stephanie Savage.
“Nico seems at first [to be Morgan’s] chief adversary, but you’ll start to see some connection between her and Tina [Nico’s mother, played by Brittany Ishibashi],” said Savage’s showrunning partner Josh Schwartz. “So mother and daughter might actually find themselves aligned against the larger evil in ways that will surprise people.”
First introduced in 1955’s Black Knight #1 by Stan Lee and Joe Maneely, Morgan was presented as an immortal half-faerie with designs on world conquest well after the fall of Camelot. Projecting her consciousness into the modern day, she caused plenty of trouble for Spider-Man, the Avengers and others. Schwartz and Savage credited co-executive producer Quinton Peeples with pulling the character into the Runways’ orbit. “Based on where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do in terms of Marvel magic, she was a really strong fit for us,” Peeples said.
But for the purposes of the show, Morgan will not be reaching out to Nico from the 6th Century. Instead, viewers will find her in a place more familiar to Marvel film watchers: the Dark Dimension featured in Doctor Strange. The strange realm also appeared in Marvel’s Agent Carter and Marvel Clock & Dagger, but Peeples said, “Ours is very specific to our show, and I think it expands the vocabulary of what that world is like and how it operates.” These rules will be important as Morgan tries to escape its pull.
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“Olivia and Aubrey [are] super cool people, and so having them on set is awesome. Getting to know them a lot better is awesome,” Feliz said. “Apart from that, the story that we’re getting to tell with them, seeing their powers in action and seeing the groups mesh. We’re teenagers at the end of the day, so it’s like the little snippets and jokes and kind of witty humor going back and forth.”
Schwartz said they always wanted to do some sort of crossover as both shows shot their pilots around the same time. “The idea that there are these young heroes walking around in L.A and Louisiana who don’t know each other… It just felt too good to miss out on.”
“Cloak and Dagger are here to save the day,” he added. “But they’re also here to help save some relationships as well.”
Everyone we talked to teased Cloak and Dagger will arrive at one of the most high-stakes moments ever for the series. “The mission that they’re on is extremely serious,” said Savage. “And they kind of brought that gravitas.”
But it seems Tyrone (Joseph) and Tandy’s (Holt) arrival in Los Angeles will feature lighter moments as well. “[It’s] has been a lot of fun for me because I don’t have to come to work every day and scream and cry,” Joseph joked. “Our show is obviously very dark in comparison to their show. It’s a lot more lighthearted.” That means the Cloak and Dagger seen on the show will be in much better spirits than when we last saw them at the end of the program’s now-series finale. In fact, discovering other super-powered teens will alleviate some of their tensions. “I think the main thing is just the fact that they’re teenagers that are like us,” Joseph explained. “It’s kind of like, ‘let’s see what’s up with these guys.’” He also teased their decision to become proper heroes may have an effect on the Runaways, who may finally be able to see past their own family struggles to a larger world. “I think they’re definitely noticing we have these powers for a reason and we’re a team for a reason,” he said."
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-Runaways video on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies [December 17, 2019]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6MU3TtHtBO/
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-Runaways and Cloak & Dagger video on Hulu account on YouTube [December 18, 2019]:
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-Cloak & Dagger post on its YouTube account including a reference to MCU movies and series [2019]:
https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugw87TGBYBNVqGAm6TJ4AaABCQ
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-'The Runaways Answer YOUR Questions About Season 3!' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [December 19, 2019]:
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-Marvel interview to Elizabeth Hurley video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube [December 21, 2019]:
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-Runaways video on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies [January 17, 2020]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bo-ysnTy6/
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-Runaways video on its Instagram account including a reference to MCU movies [January 29, 2020]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B761BiIncnx/
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-Runaways video on its Instagram account including references to MCU movies [February 27, 2020]:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9FKZ3aHZuA/
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-Entertainment Weekly articloe of an exclusive interview to Enver Gjokaj, also shared by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Facebook [April 15, 2020]:
"Enver Gjokaj never expected to play Agent Carter's Daniel Sousa again after the Marvel series' two-season run ended in 2016. Thankfully, fate had other plans. EW can exclusively reveal that Gjokaj will guest-star as Sousa in the seventh and final season of ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and you can get an exclusive first look above.
"It wasn't anywhere near my brain," says Gjokaj, who was surprised when the opportunity to reprise the role was presented to him. "I would've been thrilled at any moment for it to come back, but I think as an actor you don't have time. You just have to move on to the next project."
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"One of the things we think is so fun — especially with Coulson, who's just a fanboy for S.H.I.E.L.D. history — is them just getting to walk right into [that history]," says co-showrunner Jed Whedon. "With Sousa, we had a good opportunity to hit that note with Agent Coulson."
Gjokaj adds, "What's unexpectedly, for me, really fun is that we realized once we got Coulson and [Sousa] in the same scene that they're very similar."
When we last saw Sousa in the Agent Carter series finale, he was running the SSR's Los Angeles bureau and making out with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). With his appearance on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "We get to see him in a different light," says co-showrunner Jeff Bell. "[Sousa] had a particular role on [Agent Carter], and so we were able to show another color of him that you hadn't necessarily seen on the show."
Co-showrunner Maurissa Tancharoen adds, "Since Jed and I worked with him on Dollhouse, we're very aware of what Enver is capable of. So we were just feeling like we could dive a little deeper with Sousa.""
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Entertainment Weekly post: "An Agent Carter alum reprises his role in this exclusive first look at the final season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.."
"'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' brings back 'Agent Carter' character in season 7 first look"
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. post: "Here's your first look at which Agent Carter alum is coming back to make an appearance on #AgentsofSHIELD."
https://ew.com/tv/agents-of-shield-final-season-agent-carter-enver-gjokaj-photo/
https://www.facebook.com/AgentsofShield/posts/3050056571725837 > https://www.facebook.com/entertainmentweekly/posts/10158593074839701
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-Marvel official site article of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 7 about Daniel Sousa, also shared on its Twitter account [April 16, 2020]:
"‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Season 7: Say Hello to Sousa
Enver Gjokaj reprises his ‘Agent Carter’ role for the final season.
A familiar face will be stopping by Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7 — and no, we’re not talking about LMD Coulson. The final season of S.H.I.E.L.D. welcomes back Agent Daniel Sousa, who we last saw on Marvel’s Agent Carter! Check out the first look picture above, which shows Enver Gjokaj’s agent back in action.
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/agents-of-shield-season-7-daniel-sousa-first-look
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1250865263291109378
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-Marvel official site article of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 7, besides shared on Marvel account on Facebook [April 24, 2020]:
"Last week, we revealed Enver Gjokaj reprises his Marvel's Agent Carter role for this time-hopping final season."
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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leopold Fitz, Henry Simmons as Director Alphonso “Mack” MacKenzie, Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez, and Jeff Ward as Deke Shaw."
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/agents-of-shield-season-7-time-travel-poster
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/posts/10158165607852488
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-Marvel official site article about Daniel Sousa, also shared on its Twitter account [May 6, 2020]:
"Daniel Sousa: 6 Favorite Moments from 'Marvel's Agent Carter'
Catch Agent Sousa in Season 7 of 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'
The S.H.I.E.L.D. worlds are colliding! Or, rather, the S.H.I.E.L.D. and SSR worlds are. When Season 7 of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. kicks off, we’re going to see a familiar agent that we haven’t seen in quite some time: Daniel Sousa. Enver Gjokaj is reprising his role as Agent Sousa from Marvel’s Agent Carter for the final season of S.H.I.E.L.D., and we’re excited to watch him help save the day once again!
Ahead of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7, now’s a great time to take a look back at some of Sousa’s best moments on Marvel’s Agent Carter. All 18 episodes of the series are currently streaming on Disney+, and here are just a handful of moments that made us root for Sousa all the way.
Sousa Stands up for Peggy
Almost right away, we learn that Sousa is looking out for Peggy Carter any way he can. After the other male agents dismiss her at the SSR, Sousa calls them out over being disrespectful. While Peggy certainly appreciates the gesture, she tells him to stop doing it. Sousa obliges but also reaffirms that no matter what — big or small in the SSR — he’s still got her back.
When Sousa Saves the Day (And New York City)
Season 1 of the series revolves around trying to track down many of Howard Stark’s stolen experiments, and Sousa has a huge hand in saving everyone and the city. In order to fight off mind control powers from Leviathan’s Johann Fennhoff, Sousa has the idea to wear earplugs. So simple! This is what fools Fennhoff into thinking that he really does have Sousa under his control, and leads Sousa to overpower him in the end.
When Sousa Gets Frustrated Trying to Defend Peggy
It’s clear that Peggy does not need a man to defend her whatsoever, but that doesn’t stop Sousa from trying every single time. It’s clear that he just wants Peggy to get the recognition she deserves, which is honestly very sweet of him. After Agent Thompson gets all the praise for stopping Fennhoff, Sousa storms away saying that he’s going to make sure everyone knows that the thanks belong to her (this is also what leads Peggy to say her perfect line of, “I know my value” but that’s a different story for another time).
Sousa’s Proposal to Violet
Sousa and Peggy shippers might want to look away for this one. After his fresh start in Los Angeles, Sousa meets and starts dating Violet, a nurse. Their relationship is going great until Peggy shows up, but that still doesn’t stop Sousa from proposing to Violet. The big plans he had to do it quickly goes out the window, and he’s left fumbling around trying to find the ring for Violet in the couch cushions. It’s sweet and intimate for the two of them, and of course, Violet says yes to Sousa. How could you not??
Sousa’s Dance Number
No, that’s not really Enver Gjokaj singing, but that is him dancing in the Season 2 episode, “A Little Song and Dance.” Peggy has a dream sequence where she sings and dances through her feelings for both Sousa and scientist Jason Wilkes. It’s hard not to root for (and also fall in love with) Sousa during the whole number.
Sousa and Peggy’s First Kiss
It’s all been leading to this, and at the end of Season 2 it finally happens — Sousa and Peggy share their first kiss! With the Zero Matter incident finally behind them, Peggy technically no longer reports to Sousa, and Sousa has called off his engagement to Violet. After Sousa starts (jokingly) criticizing Peggy’s handling of the Zero Matter case, she stops him in his tracks with a big kiss. Finally!
Marvel's Agent Carter is now streaming anytime on Disney+.
Season 7 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premieres Wednesday, May 27, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on ABC."
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/daniel-sousa-agent-carter-shield
"We're always rooting for Agent Daniel Sousa."
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1258143223366762496
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-Variety exclusive interview to Clark Gregg [May 20, 2020]:
"Since Coulson died in “The Avengers,” the assumption that almost everyone seemed to make when ABC announced “Agents of SHIELD” was that he was going to be a Life Model Decoy. So actually doing it in the final season feels like a fun wink."
Clark Gregg: "I thought so, too. You know, no one ever knew the show would go a 130-some episodes. It was never going to be like, this week Tony Stark is here! Then there was the division between Marvel TV and Marvel Cinematic on a corporate level. So the showrunners, Jed and Mo and Jeff Bell, had to really scour parts of the Marvel universe that weren’t tied up with the incredibly elaborate plans of the cinematic [universe]. They ended up using all kinds of things: inhumans, time travel, Ghost Rider, all these things that nobody is using, and many times to great effect. So it doesn’t surprise me that at some point, like, “Well, it’s what everyone thought all along, and now he finally is one.”"
"The first episode jumps back to 1931. You wear a fedora quite well, but should we expect to stay in that era the run of the season?"
Clark Gregg: "I think since we revealed there is the crossover with the wonderful “Agent Carter” show with the wonderful and classy Enver Gjokaj as Agent Sousa, I think we can say that, man, we get into some cool ’50s stuff. I wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t also end up in the ’80s, and that might not even be all of the time periods. We might explore the comic book tropes of those times, some of the cinematic tropes of those times, you know what I mean? You can’t go to the ’50s without feeling a little noir here and there. Everybody really pulled out all the stops and really made the most out of each of these time periods. There are some episodes that are tremendously fun, and others that are really scary and dark, and always with this mystery of these Chronicoms trying to undo parts of history."
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"You alluded to the divide between Marvel Television and Marvel Studios. By the last few seasons of “Agents of SHIELD,” the show stopped trying to figure out ways to tie into the movies. Like, no one on the show turned to ash after Thanos’s snap. Did you miss that connection at all? Or was that more of like a relief that you didn’t have to worry about it?"
Clark Gregg: "I guess I did and I didn’t. When you look back at Season 1, and you look at the way it crossed over with Hydra and took the handcuffs off our poor writers when everyone was like “What is this show?” — and Sam [Jackson] and Cobie Smulders came to play — I thought that was really thrilling. I missed that part of it, but I also felt like “Agents of SHIELD” really continued to evolve. And once they got to Season 4, and there were three separate pods [of episodes] — Ghost Rider, LMDs, and the Framework — I thought this is what happens when these gutsy writers aren’t tied too closely to all that. They get to really just tear it apart and start it over with a new corner of the Marvel Universe every season, sometimes two or three times in a season."
"The Marvel TV era is ending with “Agents of SHIELD” just as Marvel Studios is producing new shows for Disney Plus on a huge scale. Not to put too fine a point on this, but do you look at those shows and wonder what might have been?"
Clark Gregg: "Um. [Laughs] I don’t know specifically what kind of resources those [shows] are getting. I will say, as someone who loves storytelling and television, it’s been exciting to watch — from “Watchmen” to “Game of Thrones” — what’s being done cinematically on what used to be called TV. So in fairness, the world really changed around us. I was always proud of us for being the first ones through the door in terms of the Marvel stuff, trying to bring that to a weekly television format. I feel like ABC did a great job of trying to adapt to us as we tried to adapt to them. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say boy, that would really be interesting to start the experiment over, doing 10 episodes or 12 episodes the way Tom Hiddleston told me he was doing [on “Loki”] with that kind of budget and that Marvel Cinematic production team. Although, it’s hard for me to even think about that, just because I’m so proud of what our crew and visual effects people and cast did within the constraints of our budgets and resources."
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"You’ve been playing Phil Coulson for 12 years since the first “Iron Man,” in movies and on television. It’s such a rare experience for an actor at any level to do that. What is this meant for you to play this guy for so long?"
Clark Gregg: "I still sometimes have a hard time believing that this happened. You know, you stand around craft service when you have a small part for a week or two on “Iron Man,” and you think, “Boy, what if they started adding scenes for this guy? Wouldn’t that be amazing? They really should, if they were smart.” But that never happens. To have that happen, and then be in other movies, and then, “Oh you have a big arc in ‘The Avengers.'” What?! And then to think that I had this amazing run that kept me here [in Los Angeles] and gave me a bunch of people I love. I feel incredibly fortunate. Also, to have connected with fans around the world. It’s not a character that usually connects with people. I think Coulson really landed for people and became this thing because they needed a normal person like them, vulnerable like them, in the middle of that world. It’s really moving to me.
Based on what’s going on in the world right now, to have been a character actor, you know, to have had a chance to make a living, keep my family fed with consistent work, sometimes long enough seasons that I could put away a little bit of money — all that’s up for grabs right now. It’s gonna be a different time. I want to figure out how my friends who are actors, who have families to support, how they’re going to make a living, both just in pre-COVID world of 13 episodes here and there, and with COVID, how we’re going to make production work. It’s hard not to feel especially grateful given that this [show] happened before all that."
"Do you think you’ll ever play Coulson again?"
Clark Gregg: "This seems like a real good time to announce that … I really don’t know. [Laughs] Sorry. That was a little bit of quarantine sadism. I don’t know anything! It’s hard for me to imagine a scenario where I’d say, “No, I’m too busy to put on whatever the latest version of the suit is and go play Phil Coulson.” I’m always thrilled when I see them changing timelines and exposing a multiverse in the cinematic [universe]. Because I think, “Well, I’ve seen scenarios where I could be around!” So I really learned with this character to never say never, but I’m also really grateful for the ride that we had."
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-'Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe' description on Disney+ [May 24, 2020(?)]:
"This documentary special offers a front-row seat to the inception of Marvel Studios, the record-breaking films, the cultural phenomenon, and Marvel Television.
In this exclusive prime-time documentary special, audiences are taken further into the Marvel Cinematic Universe than ever before, offering viewers a front-row seat to the inception of Marvel Studios, the record-breaking films, the cultural phenomenon, and further expansion of the universe by Marvel Television. Marvel’s first television special features exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all of the Marvel films, the Marvel One-Shots, and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. You'll also get a sneak peek at the future of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and behind-the-scenes footage from Marvel Studios hits like Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy, including a look inside Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron."
https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/marvel-studios-assembling-a-universe/4kxDGh0k1BmW/
https://www.disneyplus.com/es-419/movies/marvel-studios-la-creacion-de-un-universo/4kxDGh0k1BmW
https://www.disneyplusinformer.com/marvel-studios-assembling-a-universe-short-2014/
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-TV Line exclusive interview to Chloe Bennet [May 25, 2020]:
"We know about Patton Oswalt returning, and Enver Gjokaj reprising his Agent Carter role. Might there be surprises beyond that?"
Chloe Bennet: "Definitely. It’s a really rewarding season for the fans. It’s a love letter to them, really."
https://tvline.com/2020/05/25/agents-of-shield-final-season-preview-chloe-bennet-daisy-coulson-1931/
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-TV Insider article of Jed Whedon and cast quotes [May 26, 2020]:
"Keep your eyes peeled for Marvel Easter eggs along the way, says Bell. "That's the fun of going back in time, [getting to] see someone in a different life," he says. For example, Agent Carter'sEnver Gjokaj is already confirmed to return as Daniel Souza.
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Our heroes quickly learn that to save S.H.I.E.L.D. from the Chronicoms, they must also save longstanding enemy organization, Hydra. It's a tough pill to swallow, but it opens the door to a wacky season packed with action and hilarity. Bell teases: "I think there will be favorite episodes for [fans], and at the same time they're going to go, 'Oh my god, I can't believe they're doing this.'"
https://www.tvinsider.com/934275/agents-of-shield-season-7-coulson-returns-clark-gregg/
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-TheWrap article of an exclusive interview to Chloe Bennet and Elizabeth Henstridge [May 27, 2020]:
"“I think that’s pretty clear we’re the black sheep of the Marvel Universe,” actress Chloe Bennet, who plays Daisy Johnson aka “Quake,” told TheWrap. “I think everyone was aware of the fact that we were supposed to be one thing when we started. Because we are so tied into the cinematic universe, there are so many different properties that [the writers] really had to side-step around.”
Bennet, who has been among the most outspoken regarding the lack of big-screen love, added: “Our show has definitely been stripped of a lot of resources.”
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“When you have to plan out 22 hours of content with all of these characters, and if you have these ideas, but you can’t really do them — they had to really get creative with how to keep the show true to what we started as,” Bennett continued. “They did a really great job doing that, especially for seven years. I don’t think it’s a small feat. I think it’s pretty underrated.”
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Elizabeth Henstridge, another “SHIELD” castmember, described a different feeling for this last go around. The biggest difference: The “sense of freedom” for the writers. “SHIELD” scripts had to go through an extra layer of surveillance from Marvel to make sure the show wasn’t stepping into anything the films might want to touch. “I think each season we’ve been allowed to experiment a little bit more and certainly in this last season, there was just such a sense of just abandon,” she told TheWrap. “Everything was allowed to happen.”
The series’ swan song begins Wednesday night in 1931 — 10 years prior to the events of “Captain America: The First Avenger” — and will spend its last season time-hoping its way through the MCU’s history. Bennett hopes it can be a small silver lining for its longtime fanbase that lamented the lack of a true partnership between the TV and film side of the MCU.
“Not all Marvel fans are ‘SHIELD’ fans, but all SHIELD fans are Marvel fans,” she says. “It was really fun in season seven for us to have that ability to go: ‘We’ve been here all along.'”"
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-Playboy exclusive interview to Chloe Bennet [May 27, 2020]:
"You’ve had some surprise visitors over the years, including characters Nick Fury, Peggy Carter from Captain America and Lady Sif from Thor. Since this is the last season, are you guys going big in the cameo department?"
Chloe Bennet: "What’s fun about the show is that our fans are so much more interested in what’s happening with the lead characters now. Obviously we have a lot of people come back who have been on the show in past seasons. During the first season we got asked that a lot. Like “What Avenger is going to come by?” Now it’s “Are Fitz and Simmons going to make it?” Or “What’s going to happen with Yo-Yo and Mack, or Coulson and Daisy?” So it’s been fun to see different versions of characters we’ve been with for seven years. I’m sure we have certain scenes everyone will come to know and love once the finale airs—scenes where everyone was together. It’s surreal. Fans are probably going to be more excited about that than anything else."
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"Do you think we’ve seen the last of Daisy Johnson/Quake? Back in October Brie Larson said that some of the female stars of the MCU were bugging Kevin Feige about an all-female superhero movie. Would you be game for that?"
Chloe Bennet: "If they would have me, I would love to be part of that. She’s an Avenger in certain comic books, so I would absolutely love that. With the Marvel universe you can never say never. Look at Clark Gregg: He has died probably 800 million times as Coulson and comes back to life. I’ll always have room in my heart for playing Daisy. I’d be very excited if that opportunity came to me."
https://www.playboy.com/read/marvel-star-chloe-bennet
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-Deadline exclusive interview to Jeffrey Bell, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon and Jeph Loeb [May 28, 2020]:
"Meaning Marvel and something you do have a big say in, are we going to bump into more of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in this final season, as you have in past years?"
Jed Whedon: "We’re going to bump into something."
Jeph Loeb: "(laughs) Yeah, we’ll bump into something."
Jeffrey Bell: "Something will definitely happen."
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x1 clips on ABC account on YouTube including references to The Avengers [May 28, 2020]:
https://youtu.be/f5Yv3mWU3rE?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/YCx7gCtwnaY?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Marvel official site podcast with Clark Gregg, besides shared on Marvel account on Facebook [May 29, 2020]:
https://www.marvel.com/articles/podcasts/clark-gregg-on-the-end-of-marvel-s-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d
https://www.facebook.com/Marvel/posts/10158279256072488
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-Collider exclusive interview to Clark Gregg [June 3, 2020]:
"What’s it been like to take this journey, from the beginning of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, to the early days of Marvel TV, and now you’re closing this whole chapter?"
Clark Gregg: "I can’t believe it. You turn around and, all of a sudden, it’s over. Iron Man was in 2008, so it’s been 12 years. There was a lot of stuff in between, especially during the movie years. I wouldn’t trade any of it. It’s been an amazing ride. I’ve made some really great friends. I’ve gotten to play so many different versions of this really fun, cool character that I love, and interact and meet so many fans around the world. I’ve got nothing but gratitude."
"What’s been the best thing for you, in getting to play Coulson?"
Clark Gregg: "Honestly, it’s the relationships and the people that I was in those early MCU movies with. When I see them, there’s a brotherhood or sisterhood. We did something together that really was special and became part of a different kind of storytelling, in my view, of movies that were each a chapter in a bigger story. And I feel the same way, and in some ways even deeper, with my S.H.I.E.L.D. team, from Chloe [Bennet] and Iain [De Caestecker] and Elizabeth [Henstridge] and Ming [Na Wen], and then later Henry [Simmons], and a lot of the other people who have come along, and the amazing guest stars, the ones that I miss so much, like Bill Paxton and Ruth Negga. The people that I got to meet and work, and were improved by working with, and the writers and directors, really just made my life richer, so I’m really grateful to all of them. And also, the other big relationship is that there are fans around the world, who have a connection to Coulson. When I meet them, it’s an honor."
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"This show started out as a seemingly straightforward show about human agents in a world where superheroes exist, but then you added time travel and robots and space. Was there anything storyline wise that most surprised you about the direction things took and that you weren’t sure if you’d actually be able to pull off?"
Clark Gregg: "The thing that was hardest was, after playing Phil Coulson, for all of those years, to show up looking like myself and, according to them, sounding like myself and even saying some lines that are Phil Coulson’s, but to be a very different personality, as this Sarge character from another multi-verse. To show up and be this cold-blooded, really driven, seemingly sociopath, every day, I showed up not quite sure how it was gonna work out."
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"You’ve played quite an evolution with Coulson. What was it like to explore his new super enhancements?"
Clark Gregg: "I think it’s fun for fanboy Phil Coulson, after all of these years, to finally get to have some abilities. He had his hand, which could do some stuff, and he had his cool holographic shield, but this is a whole different level, so it’s fun for him to get to do that. Even though he did not want to be brought back this way, I think he likes having the opportunity to show up in a very strong and powerful form, for his friends."
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"It’s fun that, in this least season, we’ll get to have some previous characters and actors back, this season. What was it like to have some of those familiar faces return?"
GREGG: "It wouldn’t have been a good final season unless Patton [Oswalt] was there. He was the secret weapon that showed up and made our show better, all the time, like he does, and is a pleasure to be around. And I loved Agent Carter, so I was really excited to have Enver [Gjokaj] around, playing Agent Souza. We loved him. It was great to have him around. And there are a few other surprises and interesting versions of past people. That’s all I’m gonna say."
https://collider.com/agents-of-shield-season-7-clark-gregg-coulson-interview/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x2 clip on ABC account on YouTube (video and description) including references to MCU movies [June 4, 2020]:
"As Mack (Henry Simmons) and Deke (Jeff Ward) ride a train with Freddy (guest star Darren Barnet), they three men get real about their goals. Elsewhere, Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) explains that the chemicals Freddy is delivering are key ingredients for the super-soldier serum that created the Red Skull. From 'Know Your Onions,' season 7, episode 2 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/69XkomjD0Uo?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x4 promo on ABC account including references to Agent Carter [June 10, 2020]:
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-Marvel official site article about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. noir episode [June 11, 2020]:
"Can the team stop Sousa from being the first fallen S.H.I.E.L.D. agent?
The agents are jumping ahead in time again on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and they’re taking a turn for the noir genre of the 1950s and all that comes with it: shifty characters, big shadows...and the death of Agent Daniel Sousa?
Check out the preview for next week’s episode below, which is completely in black and white!
[Video: https://youtu.be/gVZJnMB-kR0]
It was just another average morning on July 22, 1955, when Agent Phil Coulson realized the importance of that day in the S.H.I.E.L.D. history books. With a chip on his shoulder and a genre-bending glitch in his system, he'd set into motion a chain of events that would hopefully preserve the timeline as we know it, and ensure those pesky Chronicoms get the ending they deserve. What could go wrong?"
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/agents-of-shield-sneak-peek-704
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x3 clips on ABC account on YouTube (videos, title and descriptions) including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [June 11, 2020]:
"Daisy (Chloe Bennet) poses as a CIA agent in order to get Agent Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) to give her access to Simmons and Coulson. Later, Deke (Jeff Ward) makes a startling discovery about Project Helius. From 'Alien Commies from the Future!,' season 7, episode 3 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/qlAMUyVUkXk?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
"As Mack (Henry Simmons) and Yo-Yo (Natalia Cordova-Buckley) struggle to get intel out of an Area 51 employee, Coulson (Clark Gregg) and Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) interrogate the bases's scientists to root out any Chronicoms. Meanwhile, Agent Daniel Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) arrives on the scene. From 'Alien Commies from the Future!,' season 7, episode 3 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/2YqIwHJxgqU?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
"Coulson and Simmons Get Busted By Agent Sousa - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) and Coulson (Clark Gregg) interrogate scientists at Area 51 in the year 1955, looking for chronicoms who have infiltrated the base, with Simmons posing as Agent Peggy Carter. But they hit a snag when Agent Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) -- Peggy Carter's partner -- shows up. From 'Alien Commies from the Future!,' season 7, episode 3 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/-KBhlVmwp0M?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Enver Gjokaj on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. video on Marvel Entertianment account on YouTube [June 12, 2020]:
"Enver Gjokaj, Agent Sousa, Joins Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Enver Gjokaj, and show runners Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Jeffery Bell discuss "Agent Sousa" joining the cast of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for the seventh and final season!"
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x4 clips on ABC account on YouTube (videos and descriptions) including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [June 18, 2020]:
"Sousa Meets the Full Team on the Zephyr - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"The team has no choice but to bring Agent Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) aboard the Zephyr so they can avoid altering the course of history, and he's amazed by their tech -- and the fact that they know Hydra has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/eRcUO-Mlak8?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
"Daisy Defends the Mission, Deke Tries to Stay Alive - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"As Mack (Henry Simmons) and Coulson (Clark Gregg) fret over Agent Sousa's (guest star Enver Gjokaj) inevitable fate, Daisy (Chloe Bennet) tries to convince Agent Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) that their mission is clear. Elsewhere, Deke (Jeff Ward) makes a last-ditch effort to spare his own life at the hands of Wilfred Malick (guest star Neal Bledsoe), leader of the burgeoning Hydra threat."
https://youtu.be/xLneD7n9AZo?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
"S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Big Sousa Switcheroo - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Being careful to not change the course of history, the team knows that Agent Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) dies on this very mission. But what if there were a way to save him and not alter the timeline? Well, there is -- and here it is."
https://youtu.be/npv81m_HD9A?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Marvel official site article about Daniel Sousa on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 7, also shared on its Twitter account [June 22, 2020]:
"'Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.': Enver Gjokaj Talks Agent Sousa’s Brush with Death
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As Agent Phil Coulson tells Agent Daniel Sousa at the end of the latest episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., “welcome to life after death.”
In “Out of the Past” — which is told through Coulson’s point-of-view in the style of film noir, complete with a black and white backdrop — viewers learn that they’re about to witness Agent Sousa’s death. In 1955, he becomes the first fallen agent of S.H.I.E.L.D cementing his place in the agency’s history. But, not if the agents from the future can stop it.
Hoping to save Sousa and thwart the Chronicoms who are still jumping through time, the team devises a plan to fake Sousa’s death. Essentially, he does still technically “dies” in 1955, leaving the Chronicoms to believe that nothing about their timeline has been altered. But in reality, Sousa is still alive and well, and now on board the Zephyr One. And just like Coulson, Daisy, Mack, Deke and everyone else, Sousa is about to find himself in a brand new decade — one he’s never even imagined before.
Following the episode, Marvel.com hopped on the phone with Enver Gjokaj, who’s once again reprising the role he’s carried over from Marvel’s Agent Carter, to discuss Sousa’s brush with death and what it’s going to be like traveling into the future.
[Video: https://youtu.be/npv81m_HD9A]
Marvel.com: How did you react when you learned Sousa was going to die — and did you immediately know he would actually live?
Enver Gjokaj: I didn't know! I did not know at the time what the commitment was going to be. They were picking me up pretty much on an episode-by-episode basis, so I think at that time [of Episode 4] it was unclear what the commitment was going to be. Just like any actor, generally, people think actors know what's going to happen the whole season. We find out when we get the script for that episode what's going to happen to your character of that episode.
Marvel.com: The episode literally opens revealing Sousa's going to die! Did you furiously read through the script to learn how it happens?
Enver Gjokaj: I wasn't too concerned. I think I was more thinking — I was more impressed that they were going to do a black and white episode, to be honest. I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever heard, that I would be able to be in a black and white noir film episode. So I was thrilled. If that was the way that I had to go out, then I would have been absolutely ecstatic.
Marvel.com: Do you remember your reaction when you learned just how he supposedly dies? That's a huge piece of S.H.I.E.L.D. history, considering Sousa becomes the agency’s first fallen agent.
Enver Gjokaj: It's super cool, honestly. I grew up reading Marvel comics and it still blows me away that I'm somehow now-- I am portraying the character, to be clear, when I say I, that I've been a part of Marvel history now, and that I'm somehow in the Marvel universe as a character with some significance. It's so fun and it's such a trip. To this day, it's still a real treat.
Marvel.com: Considering we haven’t seen Sousa since the end of Marvel’s Agent Carter, did you create your own kind of ending for what happened to Sousa, and does it line up with what we’re seeing on S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Enver Gjokaj: Well, I talk to the showrunners on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. about this specifically. And they made clear that — and I totally agree, that they wanted Sousa to be much further along in his progression as an awesome super agent. They wanted to see that Sousa that had in the intervening years become a bit of a 007 of S.H.I.E.L.D., maybe not that smooth, but he's seen things, he's done things, he's been through the wringer. He's seen intrigue and espionage, and he's not too surprised by much. So that when he's taken into a time travel machine, that it really means something that he's kind of blown away, that it really is — that it's a lot of firsts for a guy who's seen a lot of stuff.
Marvel.com: Sousa meets the whole S.H.I.E.L.D. team in this episode when he arrives on Zephyr One. How is he going to react to them, and vice versa?
Enver Gjokaj: Sousa spends a lot of this next episode in shock, literally in shock, I think, of what is happening. His surroundings are so new, and trying to process his feelings about never being able to see his loved ones again, while he's on the run, while they're running through and doing all this stuff. And [the team has] no time for them to stop for him to process his emotions about it. So you're going to see Sousa kind of mourning on the run, if that makes sense.
Marvel.com: How do you think the new team dynamic will change since he is now part of the team?
Enver Gjokaj: I don't know if he's a part of the team quite yet. This next episode is him kind of struggling with that question exactly, whether or not he wants to be a part of this team, or even be traveling through time. So it's not quite a certain — at this point, it's not a done deal.
Marvel.com: With the next episode, the agents are moving into a brand new time. What can you tease about the next decade and destination?
Enver Gjokaj: I can tease that you're going to see Daniel having a really difficult time trying to go undercover and wear '70s clothes. That's what you're going to see. That I think is a fair tease. Absolutely, it's not his era, the '70s. You probably couldn't pick an era that was less Sousa. So he's a man out of time, but he's probably a man in the worst time for Sousa."
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvels-agents-of-shield-enver-gjokaj-sousa-death
"Welcome to life after death.
What's next for Agent Sousa in "Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD"? Enver Gjokaj has the answers and more:"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1275179217949544449
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-Collider exclusive interview to Enver Gjokaj [June 24, 2020]:
"It’s so nice to get to see Daniel Sousa again, on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Was it fun for you to get to revisit him?"
Enver Gjokaj: "Oh, yeah. It was a blast. When I finished with Agent Carter, I had pretty much said goodbye to the character, so this came out of nowhere and it really surprised me. I wasn’t involved in the internal Marvel discussions about this happening, so I was the last to find out and it was a real pleasant surprise. Jed [Whedon] and Maurissa [Tancharoen] had been talking about getting me on S.H.I.E.L.D. for a little while, but it hadn’t really materialized, so it did come as a surprise."
"Was it hard to say goodbye to the character for a second time, after finishing your run on S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
Enver Gjokaj: "It wasn’t. For me, this was just a really pleasant way to get to replay a character that I’d spent so much time with. Usually, you develop a character, and that’s it. It doesn’t matter how good or bad it was, you’re never really gonna get a chance to do it again. Very rarely do you get to revisit a character that you really love to play. Usually, it happens in theater, but in this case, it was television."
"It’s also unusual because you’re revisiting the character, but you’ve been thrown in with a set and cast that you hadn’t played him with before. What was it like to walk onto this set, with this cast, and did it help that you at least knew who the character was, even though some of the things around you were new?"
Enver Gjokaj: "Well, what helped was that, in the script, Daniel is in the dark, so that meant that I didn’t really have to know everything that has happened over seven seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I got to inhabit that perspective from the character and really just let him take the ride, unawares. Everything that’s happening around him is pretty much a mystery. That’s where he’s coming from me, so didn’t make it that hard for me."
"What have you always enjoyed about playing this character, and did you get to discover anything new about him, this time around?"
Enver Gjokaj: "This time around, it was very different. This time, we decided that we would find Daniel further along in his progression of being a leader in S.H.I.E.L.D. That freed us from feeling like we had to somehow represent the exact same character that we left off with, in Agent Carter. He’s now in a new place in his life. He’s much more capable, and he’s inhabiting his authority within S.H.I.E.L.D. That was different and a lot more fun. And also, just playing the stuff with Coulson and the team, and all of the crazy stuff that’s happening. That’s so fun to play, as an actor, where you’re in the middle of all of this crazy stuff that’s happening and you have no idea what’s going on."
"We do get to see a bit of the dynamic between Sousa and Coulson. What do you think they think of each other?"
Enver Gjokaj: "The fun stuff in the script that makes it so fun to watch and play is when one character knows information that another doesn’t. So, all of the stuff on the train, where I think this guy is some low-level S.H.I.E.L.D. operative and I have no idea who I’m talking to, and then he has all of this information that I clearly don’t know. That was a blast, and the scenes were super-well-written, in that way. The dynamic will change a little bit, in this next episode, as Sousa gets a bit more information."
"As he starts to work with the team and find his place with them a little bit more, were there other fun character dynamics that you particularly enjoyed getting to explore?"
Enver Gjokaj: "Well, the interesting thing is that he doesn’t quite fit into the team. You’ll see, in this coming episode, that he’s very conflicted about having been taken on board with the team and being taken out of time. You’re gonna see that play out, in this next episode, where he’s not fitting in and not sure he wants to fit in with what’s happening."
"As he starts to work with the team and find his place with them a little bit more, were there other fun character dynamics that you particularly enjoyed getting to explore?"
Enver Gjokaj: "Well, the interesting thing is that he doesn’t quite fit into the team. You’ll see, in this coming episode, that he’s very conflicted about having been taken on board with the team and being taken out of time. You’re gonna see that play out, in this next episode, where he’s not fitting in and not sure he wants to fit in with what’s happening."
"Sousa has been thrown all of this information and he’s even seen a guy melt, which is not something that you experience every day. How does he feel about what’s going on with the Chronicoms and their plan?"
Enver Gjokaj: "One of the things that I chose to play, as an actor, was a guy who’s used to being in charge and knowing the answers, not knowing any answers. That’s what you’ll see with Daniel. This is a guy who’s used to being the boss, and he’s used to understanding what’s going on, and he’s put in the position of being totally mystified and becoming a newbie."
"He’s also not used to all of this tech either. What does he think of all of that?"
Enver Gjokaj: "The way I played it is him trying to show that he has no idea what’s going on. A lot of what’s happening with Sousa in this next episode is that he’s trying to keep cool and he’s trying to get his bearings, but it’s pretty clear that he’s out of his element. The writers make good use of that. Believe me, they did not miss a whole lot of opportunities to play that. That’s what’s fun with it."
"Is that something that you also find yourself identifying with?"
Enver Gjokaj: "I could only imagine what it would be like for me to get picked up and thrown into the future, how so many things are the same, and then a lot of things would seem like magic. I very much identify wit that. Everything becomes fair game, when somebody’s out of time. A cell phone and a touch screen are totally fair game. Everything is just totally loaded. It was like being a kid in a candy shop, being able to use all of that, as an actor."
"We also got a little bit of a hint that Sousa and Peggy Carter haven’t really seen each other and that they didn’t have the happy ending that we wish they might have had. Were you surprised to learn about what might have happened between them?"
Enver Gjokaj: "First of all, I have to say that I don’t know. I didn’t talk to Jed and Maurissa about it, and I didn’t talk to Marvel about it. As an actor, I just have to figure out what I think it means, so that I can play it, in the moment. So, Marvel would be the people to ask about it. I think that [that moment] probably means what it seems to mean, which is that he didn’t expect to see her there, and that he’s vain and likes to check his hair. But I get it. I’m particular about my hair, so they were dead on with that character trait."
"The show is taking some big risks this season, with the different time periods, the black and white episode, and exploring noir. Is it fun to get to explore all of those different elements, on an episode-to-episode basis?"
Enver Gjokaj: "I’ve been so lucky in that respect. I did Dollhouse years ago, and got to play like a dozen different characters in two seasons. I got to do Agent Carter, which was so fun and so out of the norm, for your normal network television fair. And then, there was this, which was even more fun and interesting, and noir and in black and white. So, I really have been lucky. If I complain, then somebody should shoot me."
"Have you gotten to keep any mementos or props for your character, either from your time on Agent Carter or since reprising the role for S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
Enver Gjokaj: "Marvel, as you can imagine, is very strict. I kept a little SSR badge from Agent Carter. It was the little badge that we flashed with our SSR logo on it. I kept that, and that’s really fun and just a little token of my time on the show. Most of the other stuff I have is stuff from fans and stuff that fans made. There are little figures and Funko Pops. That’s most of the other stuff that I have. When you’re at a convention, people come from all over the place and they have something that they give you, and that means a lot. Sometimes, as an actor, you don’t feel like you’re making a big difference, but then the character that you play with a disability makes such a big difference to somebody’s life and you realize that representation on screen does make a difference. It’s cool. Those things mean a lot to me."
https://collider.com/agents-of-shield-enver-gjokaj-interview-agent-carter/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x5 clips on ABC account on YouTube (videos and description) including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [June 25, 2020]:
"As Agent Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) tries to adjust to the 1970s, Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) and Deke (Jeff Ward) discuss Fitz and their potentially vanishing future -- and it turns out Simmons has a big secret."
https://youtu.be/c-O_ps_ZQs4?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/wZEFrKEDdds?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/852CHAxx4oE?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Disney+ Spain tweet [June 27, 2020]:
[Translation:] "Besides superheroes, Earth also needs agents to protect it. And Phil Coulson count on the best ones. Marvel #AgentsofSHIELD is now available on #DisneyPlus"
https://twitter.com/DisneyPlusES/status/1276908146481643520
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x6 clips on ABC account on YouTube (videos, titles and descriptions) including references to Agent Carter [July 2, 2020]:
"Nathaniel Malick Has (Terrifying) Plans for Daisy and Sousa - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Daisy (Chloe Bennet) and Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) wake up after being kidnapped by Nathaniel Malick (guest star Thomas E. Sullivan). Nathaniel dreams of having Daisy's power, and suspects Sousa has them as well -- seeing as how he's still alive and looking young in 1976. Nathaniel intends to take them via surgery and experimentation with the help of the infamous Dr. Reinhardt -- AKA Dr. Whitehall -- which won't be a fun process. From 'Adapt or Die,' season 7, episode 6 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/roDGRlvcO5E?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
"Sousa Comforts Daisy, and Deke Makes a Big Mistake - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Agent Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) comforts Daisy (Chloe Bennet) as she recovers from brutal experimentation by Nathaniel Malick (guest star Thomas E. Sullivan) with his own story of survival from World War II. Back on the Zephyr, Deke (Jeff Ward) finds Enoch (guest star Joel Stoffer) doing something to Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), and acts quickly -- but may have made a terrible mistake. From 'Adapt or Die,' season 7, episode 6 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/4uDi60PKb4k?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Marvel official site aticle about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and LMDs [July 7, 2020]:
"[Video] https://youtu.be/JWxLXl9LEG8
LMDs are super-advanced androids used to replicate the human form, and even take on memories of the person they are replacing. They are not as advanced as the Vision since an Infinity Stone doesn’t power them, but unless you were in the know, you wouldn’t be able to tell an LMD apart from the real thing.
The first mention of LMDs, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, dates back to 2012’s Marvel’s The Avengers. When Coulson attempts to contact Tony Stark about finally getting the Avengers up and running, the genius billionaire playboy philanthropist responds with, “You have reached the Life Model Decoy of Tony Stark.” At the time, it was a throwaway line, mostly seen as a nod for the most die-hard of fans.
When we fast forward to 2016, in Season Four of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., LMDs are not only present, but they become the main antagonists for the second storyline of the season. Holden Radcliffe, the designer of the LMD program, was brought in to help unlock the secrets of the Darkhold book. Using his LMD assistant Aida, the book opened, and the team was able to defeat Eli Morrow.
However, the Darkhold corrupted Aida, who has become sentient, and she and Radcliffe have a new mission to retake the book and unlock its power. Throughout the story, we find Agent May, Coulson, Director Jeffrey Mace, Agent Mack, and Agent Fitz were all captured and replaced with LMDs. While Quake and Simmons can defeat the LMDs, they must enter a virtual reality world created by Radcliffe and Aida called “The Framework” to save their fallen teammates.
The final arc of Season Four had the team escape The Framework, but not without consequence. Mace dies, and Aida has taken a powerful human form called Ophelia. The agents, along with Ghost Rider, are finally able to defeat Ophelia and recover the Darkhhold, but not before an LMD of Agent Daisy Johnson shoots General Glenn Talbot, once again making the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents fugitives of justice.
In this current and final season, one member of their team is an LMD. Will they be able to trust this new version of Phil Coulson as the man they’ve known for almost a decade, or will their history with LMDs come back to haunt them, and force themselves to fight their former leader?"
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/ydk-agents-of-shield-and-lmds
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-'Time Travel Tips from the Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Cast' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Instagram including references to MCU movies and series [July 9, 2020]:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCb9k84BUua/
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-Marvel Entertainment post (Daredevil) on Instagram account (image and description) [July 21, 2020]:
"Only briefly mentioned in "Marvel's Daredevil," evidence of "The Incident" can be found on the walls of the New York Bulletin newspaper offices."
https://www.instagram.com/p/CC5EA8xoSFF/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gif on its Twitter account including a reference to Agent Carter [July 22, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1286129714566803457
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. retweet of 'I want Sanvers back' [July 22, 2020]:
'I want Sanvers back' tweet: "#AgentsofSHIELD Daniel and Daisy my heart"
https://twitter.com/SlytherinLuci/status/1286128909784879104 (https://twitter.com/SlytherinLuci/status/1286128909784879104/retweets)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Daisy + Sousa' video on Marvel Entertainment accounts on YouTube and Instagram (video, titles and descriptions) including references to Agent Carter [July 23, 2020]:
"Daisy + Sousa: The New Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Ship!
Chloe Bennet and Enver Gjokaj discuss their characters' romance in Season 7 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Daisy + Sousa = New Couple Alert!
Love is in the air. 💕 @ChloeBennet and Enver Gjokaj (@TheRealEnver) discuss their characters' romance in the final season! Catch Daisy and Sousa in "Marvel's #AgentofSHIELD on Wednesdays at 10|9c on ABC."
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CDAMvnaHbuK/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x9 clips on ABC account on YouTube (video and description) including references to Agent Carter and The Avengers [July 23, 2020]:
https://youtu.be/lShTjR8NybQ?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
"As Daisy (Chloe Bennet) struggles to solve the time loop problem, Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj), as he does every time Daisy awakens, asks how he can help. Daisy can't understand why he's so eager to help, and Sousa explains that he knows her type -- the type who will sacrifice anything for the greater good."
https://youtu.be/ShBlQZFvgeo?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/vGoDETX3PTw?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. retweets of '(((Drew Z. Greenberg)))' [July 23, 2020]:
'(((Drew Z. Greenberg)))' tweet: "There were a couple of scenes I knew from the earliest days of the story break that I wanted in this script. That Coulson/Daisy scene about watching your loved ones die was one of them. @chloebennet @clarkgregg @Lil_Henstridge #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/DrewZachary/status/1286172040974630912 (https://twitter.com/DrewZachary/status/1286172040974630912/retweets)
'(((Drew Z. Greenberg)))' response: "... the Daisy/Sousa scene where he expresses his affection for “people like” Daisy - and she realizes just how amazing he is because of it - was another. @chloebennet @EnverGjokaj #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/DrewZachary/status/1286175340612579328 (https://twitter.com/DrewZachary/status/1286175340612579328/retweets)
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-Marvel official site articleand video about Daisy and Sousa [July 23, 2020]:
"‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’: Behind-the-Scenes of Daisy and Sousa’s New Relationship
Daisy + Sousa = Dousie.
Daisy + Sousa: The New Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Ship!
If you haven’t watched the latest episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., there are unfiltered SPOILERS ahead!
In a clear case of opposites attract, say hello to Dousie. Daisy + Sousa = Dousie!
The latest episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. introduced us to a brand new couple, as Daisy and Agent Sousa realized that they have feelings for one another. While the team is caught in a never-ending time loop, Daisy slowly begins to understand that Sousa is willing — and ready — to do whatever she needs him to do without much explanation. He simply cares about her, as he explains that some of his favorite people are people like her: strong, determined, and never gives up.
The reason behind pairing Daisy and Sousa up was a simple one, as they clearly complement the other’s strengths and weaknesses.
“There has to be someone who balances her out and is powerful in their own way,” Chloe Bennet explains in the behind the scenes video, which you can watch above. “It was never going to make sen fit was another superhero, it had to be someone who is completely the opposite. He is so analogy and old school, and she’s literally like a computer nerd hacker.”
“There's a surprising connection between Daniel and Daisy,” Enver Gjokaj told Marvel.com. “I say ‘surprising’ because it comes as a shock, I think, to both of them, that she would be kind of able to form a connection with somebody who is so old school and so straight-laced, and that Daniel would have these protected feelings and possibly interests in Daisy because she does not seem like an obvious fit. It was a really fun dynamic to play, was the camaraderie at first between Daniel and Daisy, and then later what shocks them both by turning into more than just camaraderie.”"
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvels-agents-of-shield-daisy-sousa-ship
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip on its Twitter account (video and description) including a reference to Agent Carter [July 23, 2020]:
"Sousa and Daisy FINALLY have the moment we've been waiting for."
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1286330230269870081
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-Elizabeth Marvel in Comic-Con@Home, article of ComicBook [July 24, 2020]:
Elizabeth Marvel: "I think it's, I wouldn't say it's too scary or scarier than a lot of the territory explored in, you know, something like Daredevil or a lot of shows and movies that are out there can get dark, but it's just different," "It's a different kind of story, a different kind of fear, a different kind of playing out of similar elements. But, you know, I spend a lot of time climbing on walls and flying. So there's still a lot of the same, the same sort of elements are used in this story. It's just to a different kind of purpose. So I think people will find satisfaction with some of the familiar of what they really love in this world. And then they'll be encouraged to open new doors and to whole different wings of this giant building of Marvel that they've never been in before, which I think is going to be really fun because I think that the Marvel world it's so huge, but it's been sort of kept in one centralized zone. And now we're saying, 'Come over here with us to this whole new section,' and I think it'll be a great pleasure for people to do that."
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/hulu-is-helstrom-in-mcu-connections-revealed/
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/helstrom-no-marvel-logo-reason-revealed/
https://www.gamesradar.com/helstrom-mcu-connection-daredevil-elizabeth-marvel/
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-'Behind the Scenes of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. with Elizabeth Henstridge!' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Instagram including references to Agent Carter [July 24, 2020]:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CDCqqMxJ1AC/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. video on its Twitter account (video and description) including references to Agent Carter [July 24, 2020]:
"Love is in the air. @ChloeBennet and @EnverGjokaj discuss their characters' romance in the final season of Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD: (https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvels-agents-of-shield-daisy-sousa-ship)"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1286753018734505984
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gif on its Twitter account including a reference to Agent Carter [July 29, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1288663808207011842
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x10 clip on ABC accout on YouTube (video and description) including a reference to Agent Carter [July 30, 2020]:
"As Jiaying (guest star Dichen Lachman) frets over Kora's safety, Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) pushes Daisy (Chloe Bennet) to open up to Jiaying and show Jiaying her powers."
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. retweet of DJ [July 29, 2020]:
DJ tweet: "love that loki reference!! #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/thedeejjj/status/1288662706321600527 (https://twitter.com/thedeejjj/status/1288662706321600527/retweets)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x10 clip on ABC accout on YouTube (video and description) including a reference to Agent Carter [July 30, 2020]:
"As Jiaying (guest star Dichen Lachman) frets over Kora's safety, Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) pushes Daisy (Chloe Bennet) to open up to Jiaying and show Jiaying her powers. Daisy and Jiaying -- who doesn't yet know she's Daisy's mother -- have a candid talk about mothers, daughters, and good intentions. From 'Stolen,' season 7, episode 10 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/dmOjNbWv6V0?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip on its Twitter account including a reference to Agent Carter [July 31, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1289304830796849152
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-Disney Plus Spain post about Agent Carter TV show on its Twitter account [August 2, 2020]:
[Translation:] "When Howard Stark is accused of selling his deadliest weapons, he turns to the only person he can trust: Peggy Carter. Now available the two complete seasons of #AgenteCarter in #DisneyPlus"
https://twitter.com/DisneyPlusES/status/1289832808760905728
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tweet (image and description) including a reference to Agent Carter [August 2, 2020]:
".@EnverGjokaj is pretty marvelous as Sousa. #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1289999380867473408
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gifs on its Twitter account including references to Agent Carter [August 5, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1291207370614349825
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1291202198970359809
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-CoSA VFX article on its web site [August 6, 2020]:
"Eventually through this, Kolpack became an expert in the field of visual effects, becoming a VFX supervisor on series such as No Ordinary Family and Heroes. In late 2012, he saw that a series based in the Marvel Universe, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., was on a list of upcoming projects. It was a job that Kolpack found appealing, but figured he would not have a shot. He still took the chance, and laid out his vision for the series’ producers and Marvel.
“It was important for the VFX in Marvel’s first live action TV show to look like a Marvel Feature for TV. I said to the producers that the audience is so invested in the films and the quality of that work that S.H.I.E.L.D. had to establish itself as kin to the films. We could not create that level of work both in budget and time but we could get to an amazing level that made the audience feel that the two worlds were related,” Kolpack recalled.
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“It’s almost as if, ‘did 6.5 years on the show really happen?’ I say this because the time flew by. No joke. It just flew. We began our show producing 22 eps a season then reducing to 13 for seasons 6 & 7. All in all, we produced 136 episodes of S.H.I.E.L.D. and 6 episodes of the Slingshot webisodes,” Kolpack said."
https://www.cosavfx.com/marvels-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d/shield-kolpack/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x11 clips on ABC accout on YouTube (videos, title and descriptions) including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [August 6, 2020]:
https://youtu.be/D3k7sfKAm4U?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
"As Daisy (Chloe Bennet), Mack (Henry Simmons) and Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj) drift through space in an effort to stealthily approach Malick's hijacked spacecraft, Mack and Daisy discuss Enoch's prediction: This will be the last mission for the team."
https://youtu.be/9OSM6sR02Es?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
"Mack Asks Sousa About His Intentions with Daisy - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"As Mack (Henry Simmons), Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj), and Daisy (Chloe Bennet) have time to kill while waiting to intercept Malick in space, Mack puts on his Dad hat and asks Sousa about his intentions with Daisy."
https://youtu.be/nKwwsSRwfwQ?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x11 clip on its Twitter account including a reference to Agent Carter [August 6, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1291403667036409857
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promo on its Twitter account including a reference to Agent Carter [August 8, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1292203935277621249
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-Marvel interview to Clark Gregg video on Marvel Entertainment accounts on YouTube, Twitter and Instagram including references to MCU movies, also retweeted by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account [August 8, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1292158636362469376
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CDozpNvpF_i/
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-TV Line article of an interview to Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Ming-Na Wen and Clark Gregg [August 9, 2020]:
"At a press event in support of the two-hour series finale airing this Wednesday, Aug. 12 at 9/8c on ABC, Natalia Cordova-Buckley — who joined the cast midway through Season 3, as Agent Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez — was saying how she “would have loved for the movies and our world to connect” more than they did, when original cast member Ming-Na Wen jumped in with a counterpoint.
“Oh, no, I was there for that [first] season and no, uh-uh, no. Because It really, completely tied the writers’ hands,” Agent Melinda May’s portrayer recalled. “They had to write and try and coordinate with the release of the film [Captain America: The Winter Soldier]… and it just hampered us. It hampered the writers, it hampered everyone to have the freedom to be our own entity.”
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“There was a lot of treading water in Season 1, waiting to reveal what we were doing and how it was crossing over,” Gregg observed at the Aug. 6 press event. “I do think the way it crossed over with Winter Soldier, and the use of the amazing Bill Paxton [as HYDRA mole John Garrett], really paid off, and the end of Season 1 holds up really well.”
An “It’s All Connected” hand-off such as Winter Soldier/”Turn, Turn, Turn” “serves to publicize the features and certainly help to publicize the show,” Gregg acknowledges, “but I liked when the focus [became], ‘What’s the best way to tell stories with these characters, using whatever pieces of the Marvel Universe aren’t already spoken for?’ That really freed up our writers to take chances — and take chances they did, every season.”
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“I think it was a glorious idea to have this all be ‘connected,’ but in the end it was so great because it allowed our writers to just take off and use their imagination and create things that they were allowed to have with different characters and different storylines,” said Melinda May’s portrayer. “But that first season was a bit bumpy, definitely. It definitely had its issues…. There were all kinds of weird things we couldn’t do or say.” But once the notion of movie-to-TV continuity was prudently back-pocketed, “We found our own identity.”"
https://tvline.com/2020/08/09/agents-of-shield-improved-without-marvel-movie-connections/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. promo on its Twitter account including references to MCU movies, besides shared by Ming-Na Wen and Joel Stoffer and retweeted back by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account [August 9, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1292491946636738560
https://twitter.com/MingNa/status/1292870495419789313
https://twitter.com/obleyo/status/1292878181267955713
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip on its Twitter account including a reference to Agent Carter [August 9, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1292536122820698112
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-Marvel official site article about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra, also shared on its Twitter account and retweeted by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account [August 10, 2020]:
"If you’ve been paying attention over the last seven seasons, then you know the moral difficulty the team is currently facing. Since the series’ inception, Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. have been synonymous with each other. Yes, it’s closer to Hydra "versus" S.H.I.E.L.D., but still. Let’s take a look back at how these two organizations have come to blows over the years.
[Video: https://youtu.be/h1yJCg65rYw]
In Season One, everything seemed fine with the world’s most advanced intelligence organization. They were stopping “enhanced” threats at every turn, and if the world needed them again, the Avengers would be there. The status quo changed when Hydra revealed itself has having infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. almost since its inception. Sleeper agents were exposed left and right, with the most shocking betrayal being that of Agent Grant Ward, the first recruit onto Coulson’s team. The only thing as surprising as his treachery was his callous attempt to murder Agents Fitz and Simmons. Eventually, Hydra was defeated, and Ward was captured, but not before the events of Marvel Studios' Captain America: Winter Soldier destroyed the old S.H.I.E.L.D., leaving Coulson and his team to pick up the pieces.
Season Two sees Hydra now under the leadership of Daniel Whitehall, who is attempting to unlock the powers of “the obelisk” to create more enhanced Hydra agents. He was initially known as Werner Reinhardt, a Hydra leader during World War II who maintains his age by stealing powers from an Inhuman (Jiaying, the mother of Agent Daisy/Skye). Coulson eventually kills Whitehall. Ward, having escaped capture, is now attempting to rebuild Hydra from the ground up.
Season Three sees the culmination of the Hydra/S.H.I.E.L.D. war. Ward is recruiting new members into his version of Hydra, and fights tooth and nail with Coulson and his team. Blaming Coulson for the death of his lover, Ward kills Rosalind Price, a government agent who Coulson has formed a relationship. After passing through the Monolith portal with Coulson, the two eventually have their final confrontation with Coulson finally killing his former teammate and rival. Along with the events of Marvel Studios' Avengers: Age of Ultron, this finally puts to rest the threat of HYDRA.
At least it put them to rest in the real world. The virtual world is a different story. After being trapped in the Framework in Season Four, the team finds themselves in a (fake) reality where S.H.I.E.L.D. is not in charge, but Hydra is. Fitz is one of Hydra's heads and has become the worst version of himself. Aida, the LMD who helped create the Framework, is known as Madame Hydra. Ironically, the leader of the resistance in this virtual world is none other than Grant Ward, who finally gets his redemption, even if it’s a fabricated one.
[Video: https://youtu.be/PQw_n280Juc]
Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. have been through hell together. Now, for the greater good, the team must help ensure Hydra’s existence to save humanity’s future. Will they be able to embrace their inner Wrath of Khan with the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few? Or will the chance to take out their greatest enemy before they can become a threat be too great to fight?"
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/ydk-marvels-agents-of-shield-and-hydra
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1293276025296687107
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'Farewell' video on ABC accout on YouTube including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [August 10, 2020]:
https://youtu.be/_G4QLTPeoP4?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gif on its Twitter account including a reference to Agent Carter [August 10, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1292883416497545216
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sneak peek on its Twitter account including a reference to Agent Carter [August 11, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1293260900573556738
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account retweet of a TVLine article tweet [August 12, 2020]:
TVLine article: "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Series Finale Sneak Peek: As Daisy Heads Into Battle, There's Something Sousa Must Do
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But first… Sousa (Enver Gjokaj) has something to get off his chest.
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In the clip above, as Mack (Henry Simmons) and Sousa stay behind to plot an eventual getaway plan, Daisy heads off to infiltrate the Chronicom cruiser and find their friends. Press play above to see Sousa wish Daisy “good luck.”"
TVLine tweet: "Exclusive #AgentsofSHIELD Series Finale Sneak Peek: As Daisy Heads Into Battle, There Is Something Sousa Must Do"
https://twitter.com/TVLine/status/1293215912884162562 > https://tvline.com/2020/08/11/agents-of-shield-series-finale-video-daisy-sousa/
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-The New York Times article of an interview to Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon [August 12, 2020]:
"In a phone interview Monday, Tancharoen and Jed Whedon discussed bringing “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” to a conclusion. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
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Losing Iain De Caestecker to other productions meant he was absent for much of this season. How did you sort that out? Did you ever worry about keeping Fitz and Simmons apart too much?
WHEDON As we were ending Season 6, we knew we were going to have very little Fitz. So we sort of jumped in with time travel, knowing that we were creating a puzzle that would be very hard to solve. For Fitz, one of the things that justified it is that for him, only a moment in time has passed. And we knew it would a fun boost of adrenaline for the production and the actors to be able to play in different time periods and tell stories based on S.H.I.E.L.D. history.
The problem is that there are so many details! And with time travel stories, loose ends can turn you into a pretzel, your best friends into enemies and the writers’ room into a war zone. [Laughs.] We had a couple of time travel experts write diagrams so we could wrap our heads around it and make it consistent with the M.C.U. and everything we had done in the past. The short answer is that we solved some of it.
Did the altered timelines in “S.H.I.E.L.D.” actually shift time enough to enable events in “Infinity War” and “Endgame”? Did the show ultimately reconnect with the Marvel movies in the end? Some of the Time Stream is melting my brain.
TANCHAROEN Melting brains is what we do. I’m still confused a bit, too.
WHEDON Some of the stuff they did with time travel in “Endgame” indicated that there are other timelines where other adventures are occurring. We’re following the multi-verse rule. The only way that someone survives Thanos’s snap in the movies is go into the quantum realm, and we originally did plan to give that a mention — because we used the quantum realm to move between timelines — but it got cut for time.
TANCHAROEN It’s very clear that Fitz and Simmons now live a life that they want to live, retired and raising a daughter.
WHEDON With everyone else, they’re on a new journey, which allows the audience to fill in what they believe could happen next."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/arts/television/agents-shield-series-finale.html
https://tvline.com/2020/08/18/agents-of-shield-almost-introduced-modok/
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-TVLine article of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series finale, with Jed Whedon and Jeffrey Bell quotes [August 12, 2020]:
"S.H.I.E.L.D. co-showrunner Jed Whedon said (joked?) at a press event this week that “yes,” he would be open to an Agents of S.W.O.R.D. follow-up — though as fellow executive producer Jeffrey Bell noted, “We tried S.W.O.R.D. early [in the series] and we were shut down.”"
https://tvline.com/2020/08/12/agents-of-shield-series-finale-daisy-outer-space-sword/
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-The A.V. Club exclusive interview to Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon and Jeffrey Bell [August 12, 2020]:
"What was a weird story idea that you had in the back of your head that you wanted to try but never could, whether it was because of circumstances or because you were like, “That’s never going to happen”?"
Jed Whedon: "There was talk about Sousa having to do a detour undercover as a cop to fight in the streets in Avengers because Enver [Gjokaj, who plays Daniel Sousa-Ed.] was in that film [as a police officer], but there was enough timeline problems. [Laughs.]"
Jeffrey Bell: "We had a lot of ideas where we were—and I’ll say this, I don’t care—we were given the green light originally to use certain characters from Marvel, and started to break story based on those characters—[Coughs.] MODOK—and then they retracted it. So there were a bunch of things that were going to get a little batshit crazy that were above our pay grade, in terms of the toys we were allowed to play with."
Jed Whedon: "And some of our coolest characters, I’ll say, were adjusted off of those ideas."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "I think some of our best storylines and character development was born out of us having to pivot and scramble. And that’s the fun of our jobs—and the nature of working with an entity like Marvel, where there are a slew of characters to pull from, and there are a bunch of established moving parts. And then when you place your hopes and dreams in something and then it’s not possible..."
(...)
"One of the things that really changed right around the time of seasons three and four was how the show cast off the weight of being so beholden to the MCU in really direct ways. With a few years of hindsight now, what were the biggest frustrations creatively in those early years, and what were the most freeing aspects of these later ones?"
Jed Whedon: "When we started, there’s a million eyes on it, a million cooks in the kitchen, and we had a secret that we couldn’t tell in Hydra. [The first season eventually had S.H.I.E.L.D. infiltrated and taken over by Hydra, as shown in Captain America: The Winter Soldier —Ed.] And I feel like once that reveal happened, we sort of started living in our own mythology. And from that point on, the show took on a different feeling for us. I think that it became something that we were building as opposed to something we were trying to fit in.
And I remember Bell drawing the Venn diagram of where we were supposed to hit, like, ABC’s expectations and Marvel’s expectations. And we had this little wedge that was what we were supposed to be doing. But I feel like once we come to season two and it just built from there—"
Maurissa Tancharoen: "You’re forgetting the general audience expectations, all the Marvel fans."
Jeffrey Bell: "One of our challenges was, we were a Marvel TV show and we weren’t allowed to have any of the Marvel characters."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "The only established character from the MCU was Coulson, who’d been in a few of the movies."
Jeffrey Bell: "We were starting a Marvel series with five new characters who hadn’t existed in the comic books. So people were like, “Boo, we don’t like these people.” And what Marvel would give us is, “You can’t even have Loki’s staff. You can have, like, this left-handed thing.” You know? So there was an expectation from the audience that we’re gonna see a superhero show with a lot of Marvel brand names. And we weren’t allowed to do that. And we had the big secret, which was we cannot say the “H” word. We could not say “Hydra.” We could not spoil that for Winter Soldier or it would ruin it for everyone."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "Or even allude to the notion of spies or a mole or anything like that."
Jeffrey Bell: "So we were a tech series the first season. We were like, here’s this cool tech, here’s this cool thing. But if you go back and you’d look at what—Deathlok was coming along, and all these characters and all these bad guys at the end, all tied into Hydra, we just couldn’t say the Hydra name."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "Yeah. And despite it being more case-of-the-week when we first premiered all of those—"
Jed Whedon: "We were hiding them."
Maurissa Tancharoen: "Yeah, we were hiding that ball. But we also were planting all the pieces, so then, once it opened up, we were able to dive into the Hydra thing."
https://tv.avclub.com/the-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-showrunners-reveal-the-plan-1844694196
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-Good Morning America exclusive interview to Clark Gregg and Ming-Na Wen, also retweeted by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account [August 12, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1293531937093689351
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gifs on its Twitter account including a reference to MCU movies and Agent Carter [August 12, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1293735673678008320
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1293722237673979904
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1293720860398743552
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. tweet shared by Patton Oswalt, also retweeted by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account [August 12, 2020]:
Patton Oswalt tweet: "I can't believe I got to be a part of such an amazing show. One of the most complex, human, mind-bending depictions of the @Marvel universe, for free every week on TV. Long live @AgentsofSHIELD."
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1293623392881373184
-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account retweets of Steve Fulcinelli, chris maximoff, Black MagIIc and 'nic 〄 semi ia bc of school' [August 12, 2020]:
Steve Fulcinelli tweet: "Woah, it really is all connected #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/Kakashi316/status/1293735452562853888 (https://twitter.com/Kakashi316/status/1293735452562853888/retweets)
chris maximoff tweet: "IT'S ALL CONNECTED
#AgentsofSHIELDFinale #agentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/chrisxmaximoff/status/1293732026655227904 (https://twitter.com/chrisxmaximoff/status/1293732026655227904/retweets)
Black MagIIc tweet: "Quantum realm!!!!! #AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/jovie2fresh/status/1293731814889136129 (https://twitter.com/jovie2fresh/status/1293731814889136129/retweets)
'nic 〄 semi ia bc of school' tweet: "THE QUANTUM REALM #AgentsofSHIELD @AgentsofSHIELD"
https://twitter.com/skyezorel/status/1293729883353309185
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. top moments video on Marvel Entertainment accounts on YouTube, Instagram and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account on Twitter including references to MCU movies [August 12, 2020]:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CD0EmoKHn7a/
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1293745339862745093
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x12 sneak peek on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube including a reference to Agent Carter [August 12, 2020]:
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x12 and 7x13 clips on ABC account on YouTube (videos, title and description) including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [August 13, 2020]:
"Daisy and Sousa Kiss - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
"As Deke (Jeff Ward) tries to get Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) to remember Fitz (by doing a pretty decent Fitz impression), Daisy (Chloe Bennet), Sousa (guest star Enver Gjokaj), and Mack (Henry Simmons) plan to hit the chronicoms -- but not before Sousa grabs Daisy and kisses her. They both look pretty happy about it. From 'The End Is At Hand,' season 7, episode 12 of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
https://youtu.be/4U54yiQJmW4?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/ODt8NoLW148?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/e1wbpkXZT0E?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/K9_a8tLdFEo?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
https://youtu.be/LZj4thUjeaM?list=PLDe0CguuqcMAd0PxKpzFfXdOpzxl9C4Fu
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-'Saying Goodbye to FitzSimmons on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' video on Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube and Instagram inlcuding a reference to MCU movies [August 13, 2020]:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CD2Dql1pk5t/
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. response gifs on Marvel Entertainment account on Twitter including references to MCU movies and Agent Carter [August 13, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1293763317467500547
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1293766846265487361 (also retweeted by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account)
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1293775891294646276
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1293777005213696003 (also retweeted by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account)
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gif on its Twitter account including a reference to Agent Carter [August 13, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1293774280048746496
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x13 clip on its Twitter account including a reference to MCU movies [August 13, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1293970576697163776
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-Marvel official site article about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (videos), including references to MCU movies, also shared on its Twitter account and retweeted by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account [August 13, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1294023423287390208
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 'The Final Table Read!' video on Marvel Entertainment accounts on YouTube, Twitter and Instagram including references to MCU movies, retweeted by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. account, and also featured on Marvel official site [August 14, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1eaJbzRaWyeJX
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1294348031349927938
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CD4XVq2nDAk/
https://www.marvel.com/tv-shows/marvel-s-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d/5
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-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 7x13 clip on its Twitter account including a reference to MCU movies [August 15, 2020]:
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/1294680250345906182
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-Marvel official site article about Quake including videos with references to MCU movies and Agent Carter, also shared on its Twitter account [August 20, 2020]:
https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/ydk-agents-of-shield-the-many-identities-of-daisy-johnson
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1297730375058370561
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [September 18, 2020]:
"Friends/ family/ fans of #horror #comics and all things #marvel ,
I had the joy of spending last winter working on the Hulu series "Helstrom".
I play Father Joshua Crow, a catholic priest, who is more than he appears.
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFQ1FD3hmWT/
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-IndieWire tweet article shared by Helstrom account [September 23, 2020]:
IndieWire tweet: "#Helstrom Trailer: Hulu Unveils Marvel Cinematic Universe TV Series" (https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/helstrom-trailer-hulu-marvel-cinematic-universe-1234588452/)
Helstrom tweet: "All will be revealed...just wait. #Helstrom"
https://twitter.com/helstrom/status/1309210855532363777 > https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1308934177245470720
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-Helstrom account on Twitter response to Collider tweet article [September 24, 2020]:
Collider article: "Helstrom is here (finally). The Hulu Original Series, technically a co-production of Marvel Entertainment (and set, somewhat canonically, inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe), was announced back in 2019 and now has a release date and a new trailer.
(...)
The trailer has, for better or worse, creepy, New Mutants-y vibes and it’s important to know that the series was supposed to be the first in a series of Hulu-exclusive Marvel series under the “Adventures into Fear” banner. This franchise would have also included a Ghost Rider series that would have doubled as an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spin-off, and several other, as-yet-unidentified shows. Former Marvel Television head Jeph Loeb had described the new shows as being the “chilling” corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But by the end of 2019, Marvel Television had been folded into the Marvel Studios unit, Loeb was out, and Kevin Feige overseeing everything, with a renewed interest in big budget, franchise adjacent series for Disney’s streaming service Disney+. Ghost Rider was quietly removed from development and now Helstrom stands alone. It’s pretty telling that the trailer doesn’t even feature the word “Marvel,” which should have been a big selling point."
Collider tweet: "The trailer for #Helstrom promises to expose a spooky corner of the Marvel universe:" (https://collider.com/marvels-helstrom-trailer-marvel-hulu-series/)
Helstrom tweet: "Welcome to the dark side. 😈"
https://twitter.com/helstrom/status/1309187239537266689 > https://twitter.com/Collider/status/1308843092737433606
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-Variety tweet article shared by Helstrom account [September 24, 2020]:
Variety article: "Hulu unveiled a trailer for its upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe standalone series “Helstrom,” which premieres Oct. 16. Tom Austen and Sydney Lemmon star in the show, playing Daimon and Ana Helstrom, the children of a serial killer who used to hunt violent criminals. The duo take up their mother’s mantle and work to stop some of the worst criminals around. The drama incorporates elements of science fiction and horror and is part of Hulu and Marvel’s Adventure into Fear franchise. It is executive produced by Paul Zbyszewski, Karim Zreik and Jeph Loeb. Watch the trailer below."
Variety tweet: "Watch the trailer for #Helstrom, Hulu’s upcoming Marvel series about the children of a serial killer who hunt violent criminals" (https://variety.com/2020/film/news/tv-news-roundup-deaf-u-trailer-1234780745/)
Helstrom tweet: "Helstrom family secrets will soon come to the surface. 👀 #Helstrom"
https://twitter.com/helstrom/status/1309200831087075330?s > https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1308934174993272832
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [September 30, 2020]:
"This is me...waiting "patiently" for Oct. 16th, when #helstrom drops on #hulu
What then??
Well...that's when the fun starts!
U.S. friends, check out Helstrom, only on Hulu. Candian friends... live in hope.🤣😂🤣
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFxZm2ZBjNI/
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account (Entertainment Weekly article) [October 3, 2020]:
"There's a reason the ownership signifier "Marvel's" doesn't precede Helstrom in its title like every other show in that universe: This is the House of Ideas' first foray into horror on television. "Not having the red box over the title is a way of telling the audience that this is something different,” says showrunner Paul Zbyszewski, “We are siloed off [from the Marvel Cinematic Universe]. Part of it is [because] it’s a darker-themed show than the other Marvel shows on other platforms.""
https://www.instagram.com/p/CF5ngyAhCGZ/
(https://ew.com/tv/helstrom-hulu-preview/)
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-Marvel official site article about the auction of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. store [October 8, 2020]:
"[Video: https://youtu.be/zOxLhXxdMOU]
If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., now’s your chance! With Prop Store, starting today fans can bid on 550 different pieces from the long-running series which means you can add the likes of Mack’s Shotgun Axe, Daisy's Quake costume, or even the The Darkhold Book to your collection!
Fans can relive key moments from all seven seasons with items in the expansive collection, with the opportunity to own an authentic part of the Marvel universe. Lots offered will span across each season, including items from many of the characters who originated from the series others who make appearances from the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe or the pages of Marvel Comics! Highlights include:
- Alphonso “Mack” Mackenzie’s Signature Shotgun Axe from Season 7
- Daisy “Skye” Johnson’s “Quake” Costume from Season 5
- Robbie Reyes' “Ghost Rider” Costume from Season 4
- The Darkhold Book from Season 4 and Marvel’s Runaways,
- Mike Petersen’s “Deathlok” Costume from Season 5
- Bobbi Morse's "Mockingbird" Costume with Batons from Season 2
- Deke Shaw’s Space Costume with Light-Up Helmet and Light-Up Gravitonuim Belt from Season 5
- Nick Fury’s Costume Components with Toolbox Cube from Season 1
- AIDA’s “Madame Hydra” Full Cloak Costume with Wig from Season 4
- Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez’s Gloves from Seasons 5-7
- Phil Coulson's Light-Up S.H.I.E.L.D. Badge from Season 1
- Melinda May's Hydra Costume from Season 4
- And more!"
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-FanboyFactor exclusive interview to Paul Zbyszewski and June Carryl [October 9, 2020]:
"(...) but I really have to ask, is this tied into the Marvel Cinematic Universe? or is it a kinf of something separate, (...)"
Paul Zbyszewski: "Oh yeah, um, there are easter eggs in the show for sure, but they're more towards the that Helstrom universe, and that Ghost Rider universe, and the sort of the darker sort of part, um, we are not tied to the MCU, we're not... we are our own separate thing.
(...)
Yeah, it's freeing honestly, I mean."
https://youtu.be/foHSyy8np4U?t=45
https://twitter.com/FanboyFactor/status/1314615398965407744
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 9, 2020]:
"One week till #helstrom has its #premiere on #hulu ... fingers still crossed for a speedy Canadian viewing platform!
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGI8t7CBQM3/
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-MeaWW interview to Trevor Roberts [October 13, 2020]:
"How does it feel to be joining the Marvel universe?"
Trevor Roberts: "In a word, amazing. Even hearing, “joining the Marvel universe…” doesn’t quite feel real yet. You always hear about long days on set, in the cold, or in the rain and it’s easy to let those things distract you from the incredible opportunity you’ve been given. When I’d be on set, lying on some cold floor or getting drenched with water or something…I’d be giggling to myself. WISHING I had a time machine, to go back and visit 7 year old Trevor… “Dude…it happens!”"
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-Entertainment Weekly article about Helstrom, also shared by Sydney Lemmon on Twitter [October 13, 2020]:
"Over the past 12 years, Marvel has traversed many classic genres: a war epic, a '70s spy thriller, two space odysseys, a sensitive teen drama, and gritty street-level TV shows, just to name a few. Now, the House of Ideas bounds into horror with Hulu’s Helstrom — which purposefully lacks the ownership signifier "Marvel's" that every other show in the universe carries. "Not having the red box over the title is a way of telling the audience that this is something different,” says showrunner Paul Zbyszewski. “We are siloed off [from the Marvel Cinematic Universe]. Part of it is [because] it’s a darker-themed show than the other Marvel shows on other platforms.”"
https://ew.com/tv/helstrom-hulu-preview/
https://twitter.com/SydneyLemmon/status/1316179962936938496
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 15, 2020]:
"#marveltv #mcu #marvel #hulu #huluoriginal #helstrøm #helstrom #premiere #watchparty #halloween #huluween"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGWavjShfvF/
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-Prop Store article shared by Marvel Entertainment account on Twitter [October 16, 2020]:
Prop Store article: "Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the ultimate convergence point of a shared universe. One which features characters, plots and items completely of its own creation, but one which also includes many references to both the 80 years of Marvel Comics history as well as over a decade of films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Since the moment the intelligence agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D. first appeared in Marvel Comics in the pages of Strange Tales #135 (August 1965), it already felt as though it was steeped in a complex history. The main reason for this is also the most obvious: Nick Fury. Having already been depicted for several years in the pages of the World War II comic “Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos”, this book modernized and reinvented the gruff soldier as the newly-minted Director of the super-spy organization. Sporting a weathered new look and mysterious eyepatch, Fury led a team of agents who were equipped with weapons and gadgets partially supplied by another face familiar to Marvel readers: Tony Stark. Placed in charge of the “Special Weaponry” division, Stark made sure to provide the tools of the super spy trade with all the flair befitting the character.
Starting with the flying car.
The Low-Orbit Liftoff Automobile, or L.O.L.A., as seen in the series is similar to the hovercar designed by Stark Industries in Marvel Comics, featuring a dashboard full of light-up switches which allowed agents to control the vehicle. Decades later one of these cars became Phil Coulson’s preferred mode of transportation in Marvel’s Agents of .S.H.I.E.L.D., earning it a permanent parking space in the back of “The Bus”, his team’s mobile command station.
While the sleek design of L.O.L.A. made her the envy of all readers, in some situations a group like S.H.I.E.L.D. needs function as well as form. Because of this, agents in the comics were almost always seen wearing classic blue jumpsuits with ranking stripes and a S.H.I.E.L.D. insignia on one arm. These jumpsuits are featured on the show’s seventh season, when Coulson’s team travels back to the 1970s to meet their historical counterparts. Back in the modern era, these costumes have been updated with a modernized, tactical look worn by agents such as Melinda May and Mike Peterson.
As for the fashion of Fury himself, being Director has its privileges. Dressing in the all black wardrobe seen in his “Ultimate Universe” comic incarnation, he is at home both behind the wheel of a Helicarrier and as the stealth lone operative he becomes when turning S.H.I.E.L.D. over to Phil Coulson at the end of Season 1. One of Fury’s most iconic weapons from his early comic appearances, a NF-300 Needle Gun, capable of incapacitating targets from a great distance, is visible behind Coulson’s desk after he assumes directorship. This gun is the clear inspiration for Leo Fitz’s slew of non-lethal field weapons deployed throughout the show including the “Night-Night” rifle and pistols as well as the more advanced “I.C.E.R.” guns from later seasons. And even items used by other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, such as Bobbi “Mockingbird” Morse’s signature battle batons, are direct references to the characters’ Marvel Comics counterparts.
All of this gear and weaponry look cool, but in the face of threats such as the ones S.H.I.E.L.D. faces on a regular basis, they are essential.
One of the Marvel Comics villains whose history stretches back even farther than S.H.I.E.L.D. is Carl Creel, a criminal who goes by the name “Absorbing Man” and can mimic any element he touches. For his debut episode on the series, he swings a metal chain with a ball attached to it, a reference to the wrecking ball he uses as his primary weapon in the comics. Other classic villains from the comics appear on the show and are invariably linked to their Marvel Comics iterations through their costuming or weaponry. When Angar the Screamer, a man with superpowered vocal chords, first appears, he is a prisoner in a metal mask which prevents him from using his power. Similarly, when Coulson’s team joins Asgardian warrior Lady Sif in an attempt to capture fugitive Lorelei, an enchanted necklace must be used to keep her from employing her magical vocal powers. This encounter with otherworldly beings was the first of its kind for Phil Coulson’s team, but it certainly wouldn’t be the last.
In Season 5, the team are transported to a futuristic space station run by members of the Kree, an alien race which were first discovered by the Fantastic Four in the comics. These aliens wear unique jackets and boots and carry an array of weapons which feature prominently in Marvel Studios films or Marvel Cinematic Universe such as “Marvel Studios’ Guardians the Galaxy” and “Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel.”
Once they’ve returned to Earth, the team face their greatest threat yet. When their former government liaison, General Glenn Talbot, is exposed to an unstable element called gravitonium, he transforms into Graviton, a villain best known in the comics for single-handedly taking on The Avengers. Wearing a costume heavily influenced by the one he dons in the pages of Marvel Comics, his attempt to place the planet under his complete control is thwarted by S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Daisy Johnson, aka Quake, an Inhuman member of Coulson’s team who wears a supersuit with power gauntlets that help regulate the immense seismic power she possesses.
The references to Marvel Comics and their cinematic counterparts are plentiful throughout all seven seasons of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. When a character like Agent Peggy Carter, a hero from “Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The First Avenger” and the Agent Carter TV series, as well as founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D. passes away, her obituary carries as much pain for Phil Coulson as it does for Steve Rogers himself in “Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Civil War.” When the Darkhold, a cursed book of spells which once was featured in its own comic series, disappears from S.H.I.E.L.D., it reappears in Season 3 of “Marvel’s Runaways”. Throughout its history on the page, on the screen, and on your TV, S.H.I.E.L.D. has become known to fans across all platforms as a force which is both indispensable and uniquely enjoyable, with many Easter Eggs to hunt for.
As Captain America himself once said, “I understood that reference”"
Marvel Entertainment tweet: "Throughout the series, "Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD" has taken care to reference the larger world of the Marvel Universe. Take a look at some of the most memorable and significant references from the show in @PropStore_com's latest blog post:" (https://propstore.com/blog/shieldblog2/)
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1316944381748838401
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-'CandaVision〄 | wandavision spoilers' tweet shared by Alain Uy [October 16, 2020]:
CandaVision〄 | wandavision spoilers tweet: ".@theAlainUy I'm so proud that there's a Filipino in the MCU. I can also say that I love #Helstrom already. On my way to watch episode 2!! Stream @helstrom on Hulu now y'all!!"
Alain Uy tweet: "Maraming Salamat!!!! #Helstrom"
https://twitter.com/theAlainUy/status/1317139990518837253 > https://twitter.com/fanboyca/status/1317137151306264578
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-Rotten Tomatoes article of Elizabteh Marvel quotes, also retweeted by Helstrom account [October 16, 2020]:
"She called the work “actor’s candy,” adding “this landscape of the Marvel universe, and the powers and the things that they’re wrestling with, they’re so huge. But as theater artists, we do the Greek [plays], and we do Shakespeare, and we are used to taking these massive cosmic issues and domesticating them. And that’s something that I think we get to do very interestingly in this Marvel Universe.”"
https://twitter.com/RottenTomatoes/status/1317194320173125634 (https://twitter.com/RottenTomatoes/status/1317194320173125634/retweets)
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Since this date Helstrom can be considered as non-canon.[]
-Looper exclusive interview to Paul Zbyszeweski [October 16, 2020]:
"The Marvel Netflix shows made mention of events from the movies, but the movies never really reciprocated. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter had better luck with that. The Disney+ shows will be a whole different animal. Where does Helstrom fit into the MCU landscape, if at all?"
Paul Zbyszewski: "It's not part of the MCU. We are our own thing. We knew we were going to be our own thing. There was a freeing sort of feeling about it because canon can be heavy. It is a weight on your shoulders, and to have just this little pocket of the universe because of what it is and the style and tone and darkness of it and thematic sort of darkness of it, it needed to be its own thing. I'm glad it's its own thing because we also then got to focus on our people, our characters, our story, and hopefully fans aren't sitting there going like, "So, when's Iron Man going to show up?" Oh, spoiler. He's not, because he's dead."
https://www.looper.com/263165/why-helstroms-showrunner-is-happy-its-not-part-of-the-mcu-exclusive/
https://www.looper.com/267653/paul-zbyszewski-and-june-carryl-on-helstrom-exclusive-interview/
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-Nolan Hupp post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 17, 2020]:
"Helstrom is now streaming on Hulu! This is SO AWESOME and I’m so excited for those of you who have strong enough stomachs to watch it...
I have to say... being a part of the Marvel universe is BEYOND exciting, and getting to represent a piece of Daimon Helstrom is a massive honour!😈💀
#helstrom"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGdURuWhC7I/
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-Inverse exclusive interview to Alain Uy [October 18, 2020]:
"This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
(...)
WILL THERE BE A SEASON 2?
There's always the hope of Season 2. It all really depends on the audience. What we have going for us is that this show is unlike any other Marvel show. The MCU is a fabulous world. There are so many nuanced segments of the world that haven't been touched. This is one of them. It's scary, and it deals with a lot of mature themes. That's something a lot of Marvel fans have been starving for, that variety of the universe. There's so much more worlds for us to explore... This is certainly the beginning of something bigger."
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/helstrom-marvel-season-2-alain-uy-hulu
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGh3a1Lgw7Z/
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-Crypt TV video about Helstrom sponsored by Helstrom and Hulu on Facebook (video and description) [October 18, 2020]:
"Everything You Need To Know About Helstrom | Sponsored
What do you need to know about the #Helstrom siblings before watching the series? Come to the darker side of the Marvel Universe and meet the Helstrom family, all episodes now streaming, only on Hulu. #sponsored"
https://www.facebook.com/CryptTV/videos/833438237429296
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=833438237429296
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 18, 2020]:
"Day #2 working on #helstrøm for #hulu
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGfUXW4BrqV/
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-Collider exclusive interview to Paul Zbyszewski [October 19, 2020]:
"This show was originally part of that whole Adventure Into Fear initiative that Marvel was doing, and that seems to have fallen by the wayside when everything at Marvel TV changed. With Helstrom being the last show standing from all of that, do you feel any additional pressure as a result?"
Paul Zbyszewski: "I don’t know if it’s pressure. The personal side of it is more impactful to me than the professional side. The folks at Marvel Television, I have grown to know and love over the past decade. I first came aboard during the pilot process of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and have known these executives and worked with them over the years. One of my favorite people on the planet, Megan Thomas Bradner, an executive at Marvel and co-executive producer on the show, who was my partner on this entire journey, from development to casting, to putting the writers’ room together, to production, to post, was my friend. The folks at Marvel Television were my friends. The corporate restructuring nature of it all makes me sad because all it says is that I won’t be getting to work with my friends, and that makes me sad."
"This is a show featuring plenty of Easter eggs. How many Easter eggs can we expect throughout the season, and do you have a favorite one?"
Paul Zbyszewski: "I have a couple of real favorites. I will say, look for the chariots. There are a couple: One is super obvious. A little bit later in the season, it’s super obvious, glaringly so and in-your-face. The people who won’t understand will be like, “Why is that there?” And then, there are a couple that are a little more hidden and a little more subtle. There’s one really big one in the finale that is probably my favorite. The Marvel uninitiated will be like, “Why did they have to go there?” But Marvel fans will be like, “Ooh, they did it. That’s so cool!” I try to approach it from the perspective of a fan because I am a fan, and have been a fan my entire life."
https://collider.com/helstrom-marvel-creator-interview-hulu/
https://twitter.com/Collider/status/1318299819551657984
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-June Carryl response to James D. Weston II on Twitter [October 19, 2020]:
James D. Weston II response: "Welcome to the @MarvelStudios #Marvel family"
June Carryl response: "THANK YOU!!!!!"
https://twitter.com/junecarryl/status/1318354303644397568 > https://twitter.com/TheViper001/status/1318344558615404545
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 19, 2020]:
"Father Crow... er, Raum has something for you... another interview. This time from the great people at pophorror.com
https://www.pophorror.com/hulus-helstrom-interview-with-actor-trevor-roberts-who-plays-father-crow/
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGia2OXh3Y2/
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 20, 2020]:
"Trust me when I say... getting your ass handed to you by @sydney_lemmon ....not the worst day at work.
😉
If you haven't already, check out #helstrom on #hulu it's the perfect primer for #halloween !
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGlTmqoBfo1/
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 23, 2020]:
"I tell ya... these #helstrom brats will NOT stop choking out #fathercrow
Sigh...
Check out #helstrom on #hulu
Streaming now!
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGrBvhWBwPQ/
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 24, 2020]:
"Safe to say that 'Raum' and 'Magoth' are the #muscle / #minions of the #helstrom / #marveltv universe?
🏋️♂️🏋️♂️
Only you can decide... once you check out Helstrom on #hulu !
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGu1oKsh2Zy/
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-ScreenRant exclusive interview to Alain Uy [October 26, 2020]:
"It's got this cool, kinda heavy-metal aesthetic. It's a different take on this jolly universe we've seen from other angles. But being in a tangential corner of the Marvel universe clearly gave you the freedom to do some wild things. But my super important question is: did you get free comics and stuff?"
Alain Uy: "I did! I got gifted a giant Marvel Encyclopedia of every Marvel character that was there, who ever existed. And then they also gifted us a comic book for the Son of Satan series. It was in this beautiful framed setup, and I took it out and had everyone sign it! I was like, it's probably blasphemous for me to take it out of this sealed packaging and have someone basically graffiti all over it, but I was like, I have to do it. I'm too much of a fanboy to not do that. There were a few other things that they gifted, too, which was super cool."
(...)
"Well, thanks for taking the time to indulge me, I really appreciate it! The Paper Tigers looks fantastic, and Helstrom is really cool. I hope there's a future for your corner of the Marvel world, one way or another."
Alain Uy: "Yeah, we do too. It's something new that Marvel is trying, or at least Marvel TV was trying, and it feels like the fans are gravitating towards it and I hope that we start to build that momentum. You never know. We're all hoping for a second season, and we're all hoping to be coming back to this world. It's really up to the audience at this point, and we can only hope for the best."
https://screenrant.com/helstrom-show-alain-uy-interview/
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 26, 2020]:
"I got to sit down for a chat with @dakota_morgan97 at The Comic Chronicles podcast and chat #acting , #helstrøm and past career highlights.
Thanks for the shine!
Ep 169 of The Comic Chronicles, in most podcatcher apps.
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CG0p428hIax/
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-Looper exclusive interview to Tom Austen and Sydney Lemmon [October 27, 2020]:
"If given the opportunity, which Marvel Cinematic Universe characters would you love to see the Helstrom siblings interact with onscreen?"
Sydney Lemmon: "We are not actually part of the MCU. Helstrom is not actually a part of the MCU."
"So, it's officially been broken off? Because initially, it was going to be, right? Or kind of MCU adjacent?"
Sydney Lemmon: "So we certainly have our origins in the comics, and no matter what, Helstrom will always be a Marvel comic, but our show has taken on a life of its own."
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [October 28, 2020]:
"When you're opposite Elizabeth Marvel and she's speaking to you AS "Mother"....you don't have to ACT intimidated.
And why did she have to throw poor Raum through that table SO HARD??
😉
Check out #helstrom on #hulu ... streaming now!
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CG6TJw0BJcp/
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-Prop Store article shared on Marvel Entertainment Twitter account [October 29, 2020]:
Prop Store article: "He may not have an iron suit, an enchanted hammer, or a vibranium shield, but Phil Coulson’s brain and bravery make him as important a hero as any in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
(...)
Having excelled at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy of Communications under the tutelage of future S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury, Coulson soon developed an eye for spotting talented teammates who he could trust. This skill became especially handy when it came time for him to take the reins of his own team.
#1 – BACK FROM THE DEAD
After Agent Coulson was killed by mischievous Asgardian Loki during his attempt to conquer Earth, Nick Fury ordered a secret, experimental procedure that used alien DNA to revive him and wipe his mind. The newly invigorated Coulson was given a team of his own hand-picked agents, but soon began to realize that his head had been implanted with artificial memories. In a desperate attempt to uncover the truth, Coulson worked the problem, piecing together clues that led him to uncover Project T.A.H.I.T.I. and learn the truth of his resurrection. After using this protocol years later to erase the memory of supervillain Calvin Johnson, giving himself a chance at a normal life, Coulson shut the program down for good.
#2 – COULSON VS. HYDRA
Coulson’s team had barely started to function as a cohesive unit when an insurgency occurred in S.H.I.E.L.D. Having been infiltrated at all levels by Nazi-founded terror organization Hydra, the agency’s members had been scattered across the planet, cut off from their defensive resources. Thankfully, Nick Fury had already left coded coordinates hidden within Coulson’s S.H.I.E.L.D. badge. After skillfully cracking the code, Coulson led his team to a top-secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base where he joined forces with Maria Hill and mounted a counter-offensive to beat back Hydra. When the dust settled, Nick Fury rewarded Coulson’s heroism by making him the organization’s new Director.
#3 – TERRIGEN CRYSTAL CATCH
Coulson’s sense of self-sacrifice was on full display during the climactic battle with the Inhumans. Now functioning as S.H.I.E.L.D. Director, Coulson led his team on a fateful mission to prevent humans worldwide from being exposed to Terrigen mists, alien crystals which released a mutating steam when broken. As one of these dangerous crystals was about to hit the ground, Coulson leapt into action, diving to the ground and catching it before it could break. But Coulson’s day-saving win was immediately tinged with sacrifice when teammate “Mack” Mackenzie had to cut off Coulson’s hand with an axe to stop the crystal from turning him to stone. Luckily, Leo Fitz was more than happy to fit his team leader with a cybernetic replacement, complete with a Captain America-inspired energy shield.
#4 – COULSON’S ULTIMATE SACRIFICE… AGAIN
Though he had already met his end once at the hands of Loki, dying is, as Coulson himself once put it, kind of his superpower.
When the rogue android known as AIDA threatened the world, Coulson made a deal with the Spirit of Vengeance which had possessed Robbie Reyes. Although the spirit could jump into Coulson and use its hellfire to incinerate the nearly indestructible AIDA, it would come at a price, counteracting the alien DNA that had brought Coulson back to life. Knowing this, Coulson bravely made the proverbial deal with the devil and suffered a slow death over the following year. But Coulson managed to turn his soon-to-be-passing into a celebration, seeing his team off and spending his remaining days in Tahiti with Melinda May by his side. Transforming a funeral into a well-earned vacation might just be Phil Coulson’s defining moment.
#5 – COULSON’S RE-RETURN
Before his second death, Coulson was equipped with a veritable arsenal of cybernetic enhancements and technological wizardry. This bag of S.H.I.E.L.D. tricks allowed him to rejoin the team as a fully mechanical Life Model Decoy (LMD) of his former self, complete with the original Coulson’s memories and skills."
Marvel Entertainment tweet: "Over seven seasons of "Marvel's #AgentsofSHIELD," Agent Phil Coulson had his fair share of heroic, memorable moments. Relive the best of them with the latest @PropStore_com blog: (https://propstore.com/blog/coulsonblog/)"
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1321814062175604736
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [November 1, 2020]:
"No #spoilers here.... the outcome of this moment could go either way, but I gotta thank @tommyae for working Daimon's magic on me.
#betterlatethannever I guess?
🤣
Check out #helstrom and my dental work, both streaming on #hulu for #huluween
(...) #mcu"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHCY0XGhcnn/
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-Cheo Hodari Coker response to Chris Infante on Twitter [November 5, 2020]:
Chris Infante tweet: "Man just focus on getting Cage into the MCU and stop talking about this"
Cheo Hodari Coker response: "Cage in the MCU isn't my job anymore. The baton is yours."
https://twitter.com/cheo_coker/status/1324393584137678848 > https://twitter.com/Infante54/status/1324392816445952000
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-Variety tweet article shared by Alain Uy on Twitter [December 14, 2020]:
Vareity article: "“Helstrom” was originally ordered to series in May 2019 alongside a live-action “Ghost Rider” series starring Gabriel Luna, though that show was scrapped in September that same year."
Variety tweet: "‘Helstrom’ Canceled at Hulu After One Season, Ending Jeph Loeb Era of Live-Action Marvel Television"
Alain Uy tweet: "Well, at least that was one hell of a ride. Thank you @hulu and @Marvel for giving me the honor to work with so many extraordinary people. Sad to close this chapter of my life... but I'm super excited for what's to come. #KeepItMoving"
https://twitter.com/theAlainUy/status/1338543343958048769 > https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1338529406155968514 > https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/helstrom-canceled-hulu-1234852955/
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-Trevor Roberts post about Helstrom on his Instagram account [December 16, 2020]:
"A heartfelt thank you to everyone at #hulu #marvel #marveltv #helstrom for the amazing opportunity and privilege to join the #marveluniverse"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CI2AeJmBztW/
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2021[]
-Deadline exclusive interview to Kevin Feige [January 10, 2021]:
"Will you ever revive any of the Netflix Marvel series like Luke Cage, or Jessica Jones, etc. or is that era completely over?"
Kevin Feige: "Well, certainly you’ve seen what we announced at Comic-Con a year and half ago and on Disney Investor Day a few weeks ago, so that’s our focus. But I’ve been at Marvel long enough to never say never about anything."
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-Collider exclusive interview to Kevin Feige [January 13, 2021]:
"(...) is an any change that Charlie Cox could be back as Daredevil? or do you consider what happened with Netflix almost like an alternate universe."
Kevin Feige: "You know, I look at anything that has happened before, whether it's our movies, whether it's Marvel Entertainment TV series, in particular obviously the comics, videogames, cartoons, all of it is... avaliable, as inspiration, for... the future of Marvel, that's the way the comics have worked for 80 years, so... we'll see."
"Got it. I think a lot of people really love Charlie in that role and are hopeful that he can find a way back."
Kevin Feige: ... [just nods his head]
"[Laughs] Got it, I'm not gonna get anymore."
https://youtu.be/MV4ZQF9w4TM?t=202
https://twitter.com/blogsuperheroes/status/1349442982144040964
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-The Hollywood Reporter article of an interview to Kevin Feige [January 13, 2021]:
"While the focus has been to introduce new characters, such as She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel, as well as to bring in MCU film actors, characters from the Netflix shows are still in play.
"Everything is on the board," says Feige. "That's one of the fun things about the comics is that characters would appear and disappear and come and go. All of it is inspiration for the future. There are some great characters and actors from those shows.""
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-Diego Leon Roman tweet shared by Gabriel Luna [January 13, 2021]:
Diego Leon Roman tweet: "@IamGabrielLuna as Ghost Rider was the first time I saw a major Mexican hero in the MCU or anywhere! I’m still hoping to see more of Robbie Reyes in the future"
https://twitter.com/IamGabrielLuna/status/1349525563493371908 > https://twitter.com/actionremakepod/status/1349523052510457858
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-CoSA VFX article on its web site about Helstrom, also shared on its Facebook account [January 15, 2021]:
"Today is a big day for fans of the Marvel Universe with WandaVision’s debut on Disney+. Once you finish watching the sitcom-esque adventures of the Vision and the Scarlet Witch in the two episodes, there might be a craving for some more Marvel magic, check out Helstrom!
A darker vision of the Marvel Universe, Helstrom premiered late last year on Hulu and is available to stream. The series follows Tom Austen as Daimon Helstrom with Sydney Lemmon as his sister, Ana, and is based upon the “Son of Satan” and “Hellstrom” comic books that Marvel has published over the last 50 years. CoSA VFX was tasked with creating visual effects for the Hulu series which has 10 episodes available.
Daimon Hellstrom (in the comics, his name had two L’s) first appeared in a Ghost Rider story in 1971. He was created by writers Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich. The character quickly headlined the Marvel Spotlight comic book series which paved the way for his own title called “The Son of Satan” and would later appear in Marvel’s Defenders comic books where, among other characters, he would interact with the Vision and the Scarlet Witch – the same two characters that star in WandaVision.
In the comics, Daimon’s most powerful weapon was his trident and CoSA was entrusted in bringing this iconic weapon to life for television.
Additionally, CoSA VFX developed different fire looks based on Daimon’s various powers. “He has the power to burn the demon out of someone plus manipulate and move fire, much like the parting of the Red Sea,” CoSA Supervisor Tom Mahoney explained, noting that the show employed different types of fire based on what they did. Our Atlanta team did a great job in developing the distinct fire looks, which was something that the showrunners were very particular about on the show.
Shows like WandaVision and Helstrom only scratch the surface of Marvel’s mystical world, and with films like Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness coming in the future, there’s so much more to come. It’s an exciting time to be a Marvel fan."
https://www.cosavfx.com/flashback-friday/flashback-helstrom/
https://www.facebook.com/cosavfx/posts/10157872321406743
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-Disney+ Latinoamerica promotional trivia for WandaVision on Instagram and Facebook accounts, with Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen, including an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. scene [January 28, 2021]:
(https://www.instagram.com/stories/disneyplusla/2496821451789975863/?hl=es-la)
(https://www.facebook.com/stories/3837362889614338)
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-Mark Kolpack responses to 'Jamie Jirak' and 'TameTheDragon94' on Twitter [January 31, 2021]:
Jamie Jirak tweet: "If you, like me, can't stop watching ep 4 of #WandaVision BOY OH BOY DO I HAVE A SHOW FOR YOU. It's called Agents of SHIELD and it's on Netflix."
Mark Kolpack response: "Agree with that. Just one tidbit
Ep 713 @AgentsofSHIELD toward the end Sousa is reading a book on Z-3- cool but no biggy. He had a line that was dropped. Now I can't remember if it was in the script or shot. I think script -- He actually said -- SWORD! Loved it. Oh Well."
TameTheDragon94 response to Mark Kolpack: "Man, this combined with Fitz’s cut line about the Snap and the quantum realm, this would have readjusted the show to definitely be MCU proper. This would have fit perfectly with future plans. I can only hope for more references and some crossovers in the future."
Mark Kolpack response to TameTheDragon94: "To be fair, we became SWORD long before S7 but could never say that acronym. I was excited to see it in the script but not surprised when it got nixed. Clearly Marvel features had plans for it and here we are."
https://twitter.com/MarkKolpack/status/1355901375826243584 > https://twitter.com/JamieCinematics/status/1355699463390552065
https://twitter.com/MarkKolpack/status/1355945005945384960 > https://twitter.com/Thanos57612799/status/1355932006866165764
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-Fandom tweet shared by Clark Gregg [February 4, 2021]:
Fandom tweet: "#WandaVision is currently tied for 5th among the top 5 MCU titles on Rotten Tomatoes
1 Black Panther — 96%
2 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. —95%
3 Avengers: Endgame — 94%
4 Iron Man — 94%
T-5 WandaVision — 93%
T-5 Thor: Ragnarok — 93%
What’s your top 5 looking like?"
Clark Gregg tweet: "Huh."
https://twitter.com/clarkgregg/status/1357505194121039874 > https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1357392145032699907
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-Alain Uy response to 'Marco Augusto Ollarve #SavePunisher #SaveDaredevil' on Twitter [February 11, 2021]:
'Marco Augusto Ollarve #SavePunisher #SaveDaredevil' tweet: "Doctor Strange and Satana/Ana Helstrom And Daimon Helstrom, We need the helstrom brothers in Doctor Strange 2 with the same cast. #SaveHelstrom"
Alain Uy tweet: "Never say never."
https://twitter.com/theAlainUy/status/1359903891668619268 > https://twitter.com/MarcoOllarveAug/status/1359902870448005124
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-Gabriel Luna response to Nerdist on Twitter [February 22, 2021]:
Nerdist tweet: "Which MCU character has your energy?"
Gabriel Luna tweet: [Gif: https://twitter.com/i/status/1363739210285375492]
https://twitter.com/IamGabrielLuna/status/1363739210285375492 > https://twitter.com/nerdist/status/1363626007974998018
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-Jared Cruz-Aedo tweet shared by Chloe Bennet (gif and descriptions) [February 22, 2021]:
Jared Cruz-Aedo tweet: "Which MCU character has your energy? Mine is 👇🏼 never underestimate Daisy @chloebennet
[Gif: https://twitter.com/i/status/1363966799612551170]"
Chloe Bennet tweet: "Mine is👇🏼...never underestimate being drunk in a great cardigan. @chrishemsworth"
https://twitter.com/chloebennet/status/1364038847110152193 > https://twitter.com/jaredcruzaedo/status/1363966799612551170
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-Mark Kolpack response to George Kitson on Twitter [March 6, 2021]:
"A little borrowing from @AgentsofSHIELD. Falcon and Winter Soldier trailer looks like our Watch Dogs make a return or at least the idea of them wearing masks."
https://twitter.com/MarkKolpack/status/1368183022613331985
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-Gabriel Luna tweet, also shared on his Instagram account [March 6, 2021]:
"Okay y’all, I’ll admit it. Under my mattress may not have been the best hiding place.
#TheDarkhold #WandaVision"
https://twitter.com/IamGabrielLuna/status/1368066091532963840
"🤷🏻♂️😂🔥💀🔥 #WandaVisionFinale"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMEOGZInRQt/
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-Natalia Cordoba-Buckey retweet [March 8, 2021]:
Marvel Plus | #𝐋𝔒𝕂𝖏 tweet: "[Translation] Five years ago, Natalia Cordova-Buckley made her debut in #AgentsofSHIELD in the episode "Bouncing Back", from the 3rd season. She thus becomes MCU's first Latin superheroine."
https://twitter.com/MarvelPlusBR/status/1369098167845806084/retweets
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-Marvel Entertainment Latinoamerica and Disney+ Latinoamerica posts about Agent Carter on its Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts [March 10, 2021]:
[Translation:] "Peggy subtly suggests you watch Agent Carter.
And if you already did, tag that person who should watch it right now.
(---)
Available only on Disney+"
https://www.facebook.com/MarvelLatinoamerica/posts/4185618711501399
https://www.facebook.com/disneyplusla/posts/4459205304096757
[Translation:] "Peggy subtly suggests you watch Agent Carter.
And if you already did, tag that person who should watch it right now.
(---)
Available only on DisneyPlusLA"
https://twitter.com/MarvelLATAM/status/1369708819622793217
https://twitter.com/disneyplusla/status/1369702098259050496
[Translation:] "Peggy subtly suggests you watch #AgentCarter.
And if you already did, tag that person who should watch it right now.
(---)
Available only on @disneyplusla"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMP2LASh5Ez/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMPyW54HHMc/
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-ComicBook exclusive interview to Jac Schaeffer [March 10, 2021]:
"One of the popular theories is the fact that the Darkhold was a part of it, which was a part of Agents of Shield. Did the writers room ever have to be like, "Well, this was part of SHIELD," when you were writing it? Did anybody ever mention that or bring that up?"
Jac Schaeffer: "No, there wasn't really a big of the conversation. No, is the short answer."
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-Rotten Tomatoes article of an exclusive interview to Jac Schaeffer, Matt Shakman and Mary Livanos [March 12, 2021]:
"According to Livanos, who pitched the use of the book, it also answered a question about Agatha herself.
“The idea of introducing The Darkhold as this higher-level dark-magic power felt like it could really elevate the danger level,” she explained. “Agatha’s an incredibly powerful witch, yet she’s not the Scarlet Witch and she wants to be, so how is she able to infiltrate Wanda’s world to begin with? How was she able to manipulate Wanda without revealing herself? How is she able to combat Wanda in the finale?”
The book served first as an amplification totem. But beyond enhancing Agatha’s power, it is also a signal to Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) that she “has a lot to learn about magic.”
“It was a really great way to inject some exposition about how we define the Scarlet Witch,” Schaeffer added.
Besides its purpose within the story, it is also a rather amazing call back to earlier television shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Runaways, which used the book’s black magic for its own ends. Although, as Schaeffer explained, that connection is more accidental than a direct reference.
“It was much more looking at the comics and how it functioned [there],” she said.
Focusing on its place in Marvel Comics lore also led Shakman to initiate the creation of a new Darkhold prop.
“It was a long process of trying to figure out what that would look like and how it would be created and how it would appear and disappear,” he said of the design phase and its physical placement within scenes."
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-Natalia Cordoba-Buckey retweet [March 14, 2021]:
Lauréline tweet: "Here she is. I constumized a funko pop to make one of the strongest woman in the marvel universe, the one that helped me the most with my disability. And she's so amazing that I know that Elena Yo-yo Rodriguez is worthy of Thor's hammer. And I'm so happy with how it turned out"
https://twitter.com/starkmantis/status/1371053028741156866/retweets
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-Screen Rant exclusive interview to Jac Schaeffer [March 15, 2021]:
"In the second post-credit scene with Wanda, there's these small circles that appear above her head when she's reading the Darkhold. Are those other worlds or planets or universes that are above her head, or is there any insight you can provide?"
Jac Schaeffer: "I love that question. I have no insight for you, Joe. But I love the question."
"We've seen the Darkhold before in Agents of SHIELD. Is this the same book, and magic has made it look different over the years? Or is this a completely different book from the Agents of SHIELD one?"
Jac Schaeffer: "I've been getting that question, and l don't have a hard and fast answer. We were not looking at that book. This was the Darkhold for this story."
https://screenrant.com/wandavision-show-jac-schaeffer-interview/
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-Screen Rant exclusive interview to Matt Shakman [March 15, 2021]:
"In that calm place, a lot of fans notice that there's these things around her. Are those planets or universes? What are those things around Wanda's head?"
Matt Shakman: "I wouldn't want to say too much. I can't say too much, except that obviously she's studying up and learning a lot from the Darkhold. And we'll see where that goes."
"Speaking of the Darkhold, is this the same Darkhold from the Agents of SHIELD continuity, or is this a completely different book from the one that they used?"
Matt Shakman: "Yes, we designed it anew. We didn't look at the other Darkholds that had been designed. It is part of the Marvel Universe though, so I would imagine it's the same book. I don't know exactly how it was used in those other shows, because I wasn't a regular viewer, but the Darkhold has a comics origin. Its mythology will continue to be developed."
https://screenrant.com/wandavision-show-director-matt-shakman-interview/
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-Heroic Hollywood article of an exclusive interview to Malcolm Spellman [March 17, 2021]:
"Marvel has a large array of characters in ιτσ toy box and it seems that after The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Executive Producer Malcolm Spellman knows who he wants to play with next. “My favorite character, the character I would most love to do next, would be Deathlok.” Spellman told Heroic Hollywood. “But it would have to be right.”
Deathlok was previously in the Marvel Cinematic Universe on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and was portrayed by J. August Richards. The series was very strongly tied to the MCU and even had several main characters like Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and Jamie Alexander’s Lady Sif appear in cameo roles. But, it appears that if Spellman gets his hands on Deathlok, he wants to reboot the character. When he was told that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. already did a version of Deathlok the producer added, “Yeah. Yeah. Not that Deathlok. A different Deathlok.”"
https://heroichollywood.com/falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-ep-reboot-deathlok-mcu/
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-Loki tweet shared by Clark Gregg [April 5, 2021]:
Clark Gregg tweet: "He’s got his own show? I thought this guy was dead?! (This looks ah-mazing)"
https://twitter.com/clarkgregg/status/1379140836252774400 > https://twitter.com/LokiOfficial/status/1379056229805387779
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-Disney+ Latinoamerica posts about Peggy Carter on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram [April 20, 2021]:
https://www.facebook.com/disneyplusla/photos/a.3847292041954756/4591329180884368/
https://twitter.com/disneyplusla/status/1384507164828504065
https://twitter.com/disneyplusla/status/1384507164828504065/photo/1
https://www.instagram.com/p/CN4-1ZWF0ZJ/
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-TJ Garvey tweet responded by Vincent D'Onofrio and shared by Steven DeKnight [April 20, 2021]:
TJ Garvey tweet: "I really need to see @vincentdonofrio back as Wilson Fisk on my television screen. He deserves a lot more than 39 hours of television to showcase his incredible talent. @Kevfeige @MarvelStudios @hulu please make it happen ASAP, do not recast Kingpin. Thank you. #SaveDaredevil"
https://twitter.com/TGarv24/status/1384173921520422917
Vincent D'Onofrio response: "I agree."
https://twitter.com/vincentdonofrio/status/1384571352489857030
Steven DeKnight tweet: "Recasting @vincentdonofrio as Wilson Fisk would be like trying to recast @RobertDowneyJr as Tony Stark or @ChrisEvans as Steve Rogers. Impossible!"
https://twitter.com/stevendeknight/status/1384589779803668487
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-'hunter' tweet shared by Ming-Na Wen [April 25, 2021]:
'hunter' tweet: "So now that Sam has his suit I’m ready for @MingNa to come make this meeting a reality @AnthonyMackie #agentsofshield #FalconAndWinterSoldier"
Ming-Na Wen tweet: "I’d be down for this!
At least, they’ve joined forces in comics. #agentmelindamay #FalconAndTheWinterSoldier @Marvel"
https://twitter.com/MingNa/status/1386439917035679745 > https://twitter.com/houseFitzJemma/status/1386426051803246594
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-Natalia Cordoba-Buckey retweet [April 26, 2021]:
ME MUDE tweet: "[Translation] Tweet of appreciation to the first Latin heroine of the whole mcu Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodríguez, I love you and I miss you, thank you for so many iconic phrases such as: "You are not a spy? Learn Spanish" @YOSOYCORDOVA"
https://twitter.com/leighsswift/status/1386781204544987139/retweets
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-Clark Gregg retweet (image en description) [May 17, 2021]:
A.J. Roberts tweet: "To his credit, Agent Coulson has a good showing as well. #CoulsonLives"
https://twitter.com/A_J_Roberts/status/1394411394846662658/retweets
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-The Creative Coalition podcast with Clark Gregg, also retweeted by Clark Gregg, article of SyFy Wire [May 25, 2021]:
"“In 2012, I was in ‘Avengers’ and I got killed off. Then I got a call saying, ‘You know, you might not be dead. It’s a comic book world. You might…’ Joss Whedon and Jeph Loeb, the head of Marvel TV said, ‘We think that you think you’re dead. We think that you think you got out a close call. But it turns out you were super dead. And it turns out they used some very dark stuff to bring you back. And the whole first season is about you discovering what you are now and being really uncomfortable with it,’” Gregg said.
Gregg also looked back on what it was like when he was brought in to play Agent Coulson in the first Iron Man film, which was a risky project at the time. But despite the long shot feeling of launching the first MCU film, Gregg said he knew from the jump it was going to be a hit.
“From the minute I saw that Jon Favreau was directing this movie of ‘Iron Man’ with Robert Downey as that character with Gwyneth [Paltrow] and Jeff Bridges, I knew that if Robert was able to show up and, you know, become the talent that we’ve all hoped he would be able to be -- you know, with the addiction issues -- that it would be one of the greatest versions, the best possible version that could have ever been,” Gregg said. “And he really, really nailed it.”"
https://thecreativecoalition.org/clark-gregg/
https://twitter.com/TheCreativeC/status/1397635158166102024/retweets
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-Marvel Studios Canada posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram [July 28, 2021]:
"It has been 10 years since The Star Spangled Man hit our screen, and we still can't get enough!"
https://www.facebook.com/MarvelStudiosCanada/posts/2342266325907189
https://twitter.com/MarvelStudiosCA/status/1420129178607816709
https://www.instagram.com/p/CR2Fz4nNn7F/
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-'Marvel Movie Minute' interview to Clark Gregg [August 30, 2021]:
Clark Gregg: "I've seen in places where people felt like SHIELD or something had been de-canonized by stuff that happened in WandaVision in ways that I couldn't even quite follow, and I'm pretty adept at this stuff. (...) [Feige] is so classy to the fans, I just think that's why Marvel has done something so special, is [because] they're number-one priority is taking care of fans [...] I read this comment the other day where someone said that about, 'Did this diminish Agents of SHIELD?' And [Feige] said, 'Ya know, I think you're really underestimating how powerful and passionate the fans of that show and the Netflix shows are and were,' and I would never underestimate them or the possibility those characters, cause I really want to see (Daredevil actor) Charlie Cox, I really want to see people who love those shows, I want to see it all get crossed over as much as it could, cause I think that's what the Marvel fans want."
https://open.spotify.com/episode/03196snR5x4XdhTOsV6rf8
https://thedirect.com/article/agents-of-shield-mcu-canon-wandavision-clark-gregg
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-ComicBook interview to Charlie Cox [September 1, 2021]:
"As a fan of the Marvel movies, I've loved the little stuff where they pop up here and there but because we were on Netflix, we weren't able to do as much for legal reasons, I don't know why," he added. "But I love the idea of Jessica and Matt showing up in the background or Matt as a lawyer advising Peter Parker. That'd be really, really cool."
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-Forbes interview to Charlie Cox [September 21, 2021]:
"“My answer is no comment; I don't know what's going to happen. I genuinely don't know. If there was a chance of that happening in the future, I don't want to say something that could potentially jeopardize those chances. The people high up at Marvel, maybe they see this stuff or they hear what I say or blah, blah, blah... maybe that influences it.
“I don't know, I have no idea. I love how passionate the fans are and I feel very, very touched that so many of them have gone online and made their voices heard about their desire for me to come back and maybe in the future that might happen, and that would be great. Who knows? We'll see.”
(...)
“Yeah, I mean... again, I don't know what the politics are, I don’t know what goes on behind the scenes. I don't know any of that stuff.
“I don't know what the rules are, the deal that Netflix made... Whatever I say it can be taken out of context and it could be a headline that could mean something, so I'm just a little careful with what I say now.
“But, the only thing I'll say is I don't know who could do a better version of The Punisher than Jon Bernthal. And that character is beloved, people are crazy for Frank Castle. So if they're going to do it again, I hope they do it with him because I don't think it gets better than that.
“I feel the same way about Krysten Ritter (Netflix’s Jessica Jones and The Defenders). I know that Jessica Jones, the character isn't quite as well known as Frank Castle is, but what a performance. What a great show that was.”"
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-Screen Rant interview to Vincent D'Onofrio [September 22, 2021]:
Vincent D'Onofrio: "I do take it as a compliment. I so badly want to play that character again. I love that character. I just have to wait for Marvel to ask me. I think it's very clear that I would, and the fans know that I would jump at the chance to play again. I just need to be asked."
https://screenrant.com/vincent-donofrio-kingpin-mcu-marvel-response/