There's just under seven weeks to go before Joss Whedon launches the next stage in Marvel's plans for world domination with the TV show Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and ABC has released three new video featurettes for the upcoming series, the first two spotlighting Chloe Bennet's Skye, and the second featuring Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson introducing his team...
Meanwhile, during an interview with Collider, executive producer Joss Whedon - who is currently gearing up to shoot the eagerly awaited sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron - has spoken about the level of creative freedom afforded to him on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: "We’ve got trust, which is different than freedom. My collaboration with Marvel on the movie was pretty extraordinary and, for me, unprecedented. It wasn’t a question of them getting out of the way. We really worked that story together. ABC and Marvel have been very active in making sure the show is what they want for their company and their network and their audiences and, at the same time, they’re very supportive of the vision that we first laid out to them. The most important thing is that we all are trying to make the same show. It’s not really about 'Oh, we’re past them, and we don’t want have to deal with them.' We’re all on the same page, which has occasionally not happened for me."
Whedon also went on to discuss the show's format, stressing once again that it will focus on the team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, rather than relying on cameos from the super-powered inhabitants of the Marvel universe: "There’s not going to be some new hero, every week. There could be a device. There could be a mystery. There are so many aspects to what’s happened, since everybody in the world found out that there is a superhero team and there were aliens that invaded New York, and we want to be able to change it up, every week. We want to be able to deal with every aspect – the spy stuff, the hero stuff, the heartfelt stuff, the humor. We want to make sure that you get something that feels a little bit different, so it’s not just turkey, every day. The thing that appealed to me about this show, from the very beginning, is the idea of the people who don’t have the superpowers, who didn’t get the hammer and who didn’t, get the super soldier serum, and the idea that everybody matters. There’s very much a sense of, “Well, what about the rest of us? How do we cope with this?” And so, yeah, it was important that our core team, while they are extraordinary and incredibly good at what they do and ridiculously attractive, they don’t fall under the category of super."
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is set to premiere in the States on ABC on September 24th.
Meanwhile, during an interview with Collider, executive producer Joss Whedon - who is currently gearing up to shoot the eagerly awaited sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron - has spoken about the level of creative freedom afforded to him on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: "We’ve got trust, which is different than freedom. My collaboration with Marvel on the movie was pretty extraordinary and, for me, unprecedented. It wasn’t a question of them getting out of the way. We really worked that story together. ABC and Marvel have been very active in making sure the show is what they want for their company and their network and their audiences and, at the same time, they’re very supportive of the vision that we first laid out to them. The most important thing is that we all are trying to make the same show. It’s not really about 'Oh, we’re past them, and we don’t want have to deal with them.' We’re all on the same page, which has occasionally not happened for me."
Whedon also went on to discuss the show's format, stressing once again that it will focus on the team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, rather than relying on cameos from the super-powered inhabitants of the Marvel universe: "There’s not going to be some new hero, every week. There could be a device. There could be a mystery. There are so many aspects to what’s happened, since everybody in the world found out that there is a superhero team and there were aliens that invaded New York, and we want to be able to change it up, every week. We want to be able to deal with every aspect – the spy stuff, the hero stuff, the heartfelt stuff, the humor. We want to make sure that you get something that feels a little bit different, so it’s not just turkey, every day. The thing that appealed to me about this show, from the very beginning, is the idea of the people who don’t have the superpowers, who didn’t get the hammer and who didn’t, get the super soldier serum, and the idea that everybody matters. There’s very much a sense of, “Well, what about the rest of us? How do we cope with this?” And so, yeah, it was important that our core team, while they are extraordinary and incredibly good at what they do and ridiculously attractive, they don’t fall under the category of super."
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is set to premiere in the States on ABC on September 24th.