So with Fury off-world and a Skrull stepping into the shoes of one of the most important superspies on the planet, fans immediately began wondering if Marvel was looking to bring Secret Invasion to the screen. It turns out, they were. The Disney+ Nick Fury series won’t be a Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD show, or anything that steps on the toes of the recently completed Agents of SHIELD TV series after all. In fact, the series is Secret Invasion, and Mendelsohn will join Jackson, reprising his role as Talos for the series. Secret Invasion was one of MANY new Marvel series announced for Disney+, including the War Machine centric Armor Wars, and a series that will introduce Riri Williams, Ironheart, as the new armored genius of the MCU. And it joins a roster that already includes WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, She-Hulk, and more. But in the comics, the Skrulls were a generally much more malevolent force than we’ve seen them portrayed as in the MCU thus far. So is it then possible that some heroes who have sacrificed themselves in battle over the years could turn out to have been Skrulls? Well, in fairness, there haven’t been all that many of them, and any hope of a Robert Downey, Jr. return as Tony Stark would appear to have been crushed by Disney’s announcement of an Ironheart series starring Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams and an Armor Wars one with Don Cheadle’s War Machine taking center stage. But you don’t do something on the scale of Secret Invasion if it isn’t to shake things up and make the audience doubt everything they’ve seen, so don’t rule anything out. There’s currently no premiere date for Secret Invasion, and the earliest we could probably expect to see it is in 2022.
