Nick Fury Disney + Show

[Autbot_Benz]

For a guy who initially was the glue holding the Marvel Cinematic Universe together in its early years, the MCU kind of did Nick Fury dirty as time went on. He wasn’t even a part of the climactic battle in Avengers: Endgame! He got a nice supporting turn in Captain Marvel and when we last saw him, he was hanging out on a Skrull ship in a credits sequence in Spider-Man: Far From Home. But that’s still not a lot for Samuel L. Jackson, who was the first actor to sign a massive, nine-picture deal back when that was taking a serious chance on Marvel.

Hopefully he’ll now get his due as Variety reports that Jackson is set to reprise his role as Nick Fury in a new Marvel series at Disney+. Variety doesn’t say if this series will have Fury as its focus or if he’s simply adding starpower to an untitled series, but I’m inclined to believe that they’ll give Fury center stage to let him do the spy thriller thing he rarely got to do in the Marvel movies. Kyle Bradstreet, whose credits include Mr. Robot and Copper, will write and executive producer the series.

Now that they have the reins of TV production in a way that they didn’t before, Marvel is getting series about their shows. The only new Marvel thing we’re going to see in 2020 is WandaVision, but we should be on the lookout for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki in 2021. Marvel is also developing the shows She-Hulk, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, and Ms. Marvel. If this Fury series gets picked up (and there’s no reason to think that Disney+ will pass), it would be the first regular TV role in Jackson’s long career.

Personally, I’m just excited that Nick Fury will likely get the spotlight he’s often been denied. While it’s fine to see him in a supporting capacity, Jackson can do so much more, and hopefully this show will get him a chance to have a ball as Fury.

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[Sumac]

I think it might had to do something with SLJ getting too old for action roles.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Man, Fury getting sidelined really irked me. No presence in Captain America 3, or Avengers 3 and 4 (worth mentioning anyway).

[Andrew NDB]

Yeah, like why even do that and exclude him? I doubt he was playing hardball with his agent or anything, and he even showed up a couple times in Agents of SHIELD.

[sdp]

Not being in Captain America is one thing but he's not in Avengers 3/4? But he formed the Avengers and this was a crossover of pretty much every hero even non-avengers. Samuel L Jackson is in pretty much any film, he would star in direct to video movies just because he could get a lot of money for basically doing nothing, I believe in an interview he said something like "more money for my grandkids for only a few hours of work".

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

Not being in Captain America is one thing but he's not in Avengers 3/4?

He was at the funeral, or was he?

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Man, Fury getting sidelined really irked me. No presence in Captain America 3, or Avengers 3 and 4 (worth mentioning anyway).

You forgot Captain Marvel. And he was in SpiderMan: Far From Home.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

You forgot Captain Marvel. And he was in SpiderMan: Far From Home.

Yeah, but that's because it's pretty fvcking easy to forget Captain Marvel.

And I still haven't seen Far From Home. It's sitting on my shelf, unopened.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Yeah, but that's because it's pretty fvcking easy to forget Captain Marvel.

And I still haven't seen Far From Home. It's sitting on my shelf, unopened.

I guess its too woke for some people but whatever. He was in that whether they like it or not.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

I guess its too woke for some people but whatever. He was in that whether they like it or not.

Woke schmoke. It was a damn boring movie, prequel by the numbers and of little consequence. It was a Phase 1 movie released in Phase 3.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Woke schmoke. It was a damn boring movie, prequel by the numbers and of little consequence. It was a Phase 1 movie released in Phase 3.

I wasn't bored by it. Some people just have different taste in movies then others. I enjoyed that movie quite a bit.

[Leo656]

Anecdotal as usual, but I've never in my "Real Life" life heard or overheard a single person talking about the Captain Marvel movie. Not "It's good", not "It's bad", just nothing at all. If I know a single person who's even seen it, they keep it to themselves. I don't even remember any of my friends on FB talking about it when it came out. News and review websites were all over it like it was the second coming, but if it wasn't for ScreenRant and 411 and the like I'd have no idea it had even come out.

I know it's conspiracy theory territory to suggest that Marvel bought a bunch of tickets themselves so they could talk about a billion-dollar gross. BUT... record companies do that exact same thing, sometimes, because it's good publicity. You can make more money off of an artist if you can trumpet that they "Sold over a million records"... even if you bought half of them yourself just to get the ball rolling. You just don't tell people that part, you just tell them "So-and-so sold a million records" and everyone immediately thinks they're a big deal. It's like when you run a raffle, you put some "dummy sheets" in the bucket so people who pass by will be more inclined to put their name in; if the bucket's empty they assume it's not worth their time because nobody else is interested. It's all psychology and marketing.

It's like Chris Rock said about the Spice Girls, once upon a time: "They sold 20 million records and I don't know anybody who owns ONE." Which implies either A. The people who spent the money on the product are ashamed of themselves and don't think it's worth bragging about out loud, or B. The numbers are inflated for marketing and business reasons.

The truth is usually a little bit of both A and B. And I can definitely believe that about Captain Marvel, as well. You don't make a billion dollars on a movie that nobody's ever seen and/or has any strong opinions about unless something funny is going on.

TigerClaw, you'd give an A+ grade to a bowel movement, even if there was blood in it.

[Sumac]

For me most Marvel movies mashed into some Marvel-looking clump in my mind, so, aside from few instances, I can't really say which was in which movie or who the characters were.

[Coola Yagami]

Yeah idk.... the movie was solely made to explain where she came from cause they randomly decided to shoehorn her in the Infinity Saga at the 7th inning. And it only did decent because people were expecting to see any clues or extra post credit scenes before End Game.

But even if you watch Black Panther (idc what ppl say, I ****in loved that movie), then Infinity War and then Captain Marvel in that order.... CM just feels like the bummer compared to the two awesome movies that came before.

[Sumac]

Can't say I found BP to be extremely good, it was a fairly generic Marvel movie (crap, this stuff is now its own genre, ain't it?), but it had charismatic leads saving situation.
Something which I can't say about CM.