Fresh from his role in the summer’s box office smash MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS, Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) returns to the worldwide law enforcement organization S.H.I.E.L.D. He puts together a small, highly trained, team of Agents to tackle the cases that haven’t been classified yet, the new, the strange and the unknown. That team consists of straight arrow Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), an expert in combat and espionage; pilot and martial artist Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen); and brilliant if socially awkward scientists Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge). They’ll be joined by civilian new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet).
Prepare for an epic adventure that showcases the hope and wonder of the human spirit. This is a world of Super Heroes, aliens and the unusual – of action, spectacle and world spanning stories. The show will speak to the human condition through the lens of our very human, non-powered S.H.I.E.L.D agents – that together we are greater than we are apart, and that we can make a difference in the world.
The pilot episode for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is directed by Joss Whedon (The Avengers), who also served as co-writer and will executive produce the series alongside brother Jed Whedon and sister-in-law Maurissa Tancharoen (Dollhouse). As revealed by Tancharoen on Twitter, the rest of the writing team consists of Jeff Bell (The X-Files, Angel), Paul Zbszewski (Lost), Monica Breen (Fringe), Brent Fletcher (Spartacus: War of the Damned), Lauren LeFranc (Chuck), Rafe Judkins (Hemlock Grove) and Shalisha Francis (Castle).