SECRET INVASION Director Says "The First Thing I Was Told Is Don’t Read the Comics"
Marvel’s Secret Invasion series, which recently launched on Disney+ really has nothing to do with the comics that inspired it. It’s got the title, but when it comes to the comics, according to director Ali Selim, “it had nothing to do with what we’re trying to do here.”
In fact, when the director landed the gig, he was told not to read any of the Secret Invasion comics! During an interview with ScreenRant, Selim was asked how he chose which parts of the Secret Invasion comic event to adapt while directing the series and he said:
“When I took on this job as director, I didn’t write the script. So a lot of those decisions were made by Kyle Bradstreet and the other team of writers that we had. The first thing I was told is don’t read the comics. It had nothing to do with what we’re trying to do here. This story was really born out of the electricity created between Sam Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn or Nick Fury and Talos in Captain Marvel.
“And they said, ‘Oh, we got to do something with that.’ So they found a story that would serve that relationship and would expand the MCU and other characters who are not in the comic books. I think it’s a story unto itself.”
It makes sense that they wouldn’t want Selim reading the comics so it wouldn’t influence this completely different and unique story that the rest of the creative team was trying to tell. Yeah, Marvel Studios isn’t really following the comic book stories on anything they do. They’re certainly inspired by them, though.
Disney+ has only dropped one episode so far, and it was good! We’ll just have to wait and see how the rest of the series plays out.
The story is set in the present-day MCU, “Nick Fury learns of a clandestine invasion of Earth by a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls. Fury joins his allies, including Everett Ross, Maria Hill and the Skrull Talos, who has made a life for himself on Earth. Together they race against time to thwart an imminent Skrull invasion and save humanity.”
The series stars Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Martin Freeman, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Charlayne Woodard, Killian Scott, Samuel Adewunmi, Dermot Mulroney, Christopher McDonald, Katie Finneran, with Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, and Don Cheadle.