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Lets Talk About Some S.H.I.E.L.D TV Show Tidbits, Because You Know You’re Hungry for Them

by Susana Polo | 4:13 pm, September 12th, 2012


Want to hear something to make your tiny nerd heart squee?

Joss Whedon says he’s “very far” into the process of his S.H.I.E.L.D. show, “with a full framework and cast.”

But he didn’t name any names. Yes, we’re squirming in frustration as well. “Cast” here, is unlikely to mean actual actors, but rather which canonical Marvel characters will be regular characters or make an appearance on the show. Whedon says:

It’s new characters. It needs to be its own thing. It needs to be adjacent [to the Marvel Cinematic Universe] 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.

For the sake of my mental health I’m going to assume that he means “new” as in “characters who weren’t in the movies” and not “original characters who were never in Marvel Comics,” although I would expect there to be some of those as well. And for those who’d like to speculate on who would be brought into the series, you can start with his next statement:

What does S.H.I.E.L.D. have that the other superheroes don’t? …that, to me, is that they’re not superheroes. 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.

Lest we forget, the S.H.I.E.L.D. show isn’t the only thing Marvel’s got in the works, and Whedon admits he’s feeling pretty good about Avengers 2, particularly the longer time frame in which he gets to put the movie together compared to The Avengers. As for Marvel’s first non-sequel after The Avengers, 2014′s Guardians of the Galaxy, he thinks the choice of James Gunn as director is inspired. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is starting to look like the die-hard Whedon fan’s universe, which is a pretty good state of affairs for even casual fans like myself.

(via MTV Splash Page, Movies.com, and Empire Online.)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/Travis.K.Fischer Travis Kyle Fischer

    “For the sake of my mental health I’m going to assume that he means “new” as in “characters who weren’t in the movies” and not “original characters who were never in Marvel Comics,””

    Odd. I never assumed it would ever be anything but the latter.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tlafrance1972 Tom Lafrance

    It sound like it is going to be kind of like DC’s Gotham Central. A show about the people who do the thankless ground work to actually bring a bad guy to justice not just beat them senseless.

  • Anonymous

    I’m actually hoping that the S.H.I.E.L.D. show is set a few years before the movie arc leading to The Avengers. That fixes the problem of why Iron Man doesn’t show up, it lets the show look at stuff that might not require as huge a budget as superhero effects, and (best of all to me) it means that there is no problem with Agent Coulson being a big part of it.

  • John Wao

    All I know is there better be a crossover between his SHIELD project and Del Toro’s Hulk project.

  • Carmen Sandiego

    James Gunn directing Guardians of the Galaxy!!! Sweet.

  • TKS

    Agreed. Plus, throw in the fact that Joss isn’t a fan of crossovers. When he wrote X-Men and The Runaways, his caveat was that he didn’t want be stuck in what everyone else was doing. This explains how the X-Men are on the Battleworld during House of M and why the Runaways only give a passing comment on Civil War before going back in time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003037095323 Jerilyn Nighy

    Please have the Contessa as a character. And figure out a way to have Dum Dum Dugan, as well (either life extended via the Infinity Formula, or a descendant who is his spitting image).

  • http://www.facebook.com/laura.truxillo Laura Truxillo

    Oh man, it really is going to be like the Gotham Central that never was. I am so stoked!

    Kinda hoping for more of Agent Sitwell, because Maximiliano Hernández was just adorable in “The Consultant.”

  • http://twitter.com/Tonks07 Mandy

    My thoughts exactly. I bet DC is crying that they didn’t think to try Gotham Central first. I think it would be a fabulous choice for them with both cops shows & superheros being popular. Fingers crossed SHIELD sets the bar high!

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