Cobie Smulders is bringing Maria Hill back for Disney Plus’ Secret Invasion show
Smulders previously played Nick Fury's right-hand S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in numerous MCU projects
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The MCU is in something of a weird place, casting-wise, at the moment. In the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame (which we’re still somehow living in, two-plus years after the grand finale of Phase Three of the MCU came out), it’s not always clear which members of the wider Marvel family are still in play. Some are clearly gone for good (R.I.P./have fun time traveling, Cap.) Others, though, have been less clear: Mark Ruffalo, for instance, has expressed public uncertainty about whether he’d be back as Bruce Banner—before popping up very briefly as Bruce at the end of this fall’s Shang-Chi.
We can now fill in one more data point in that big ol’ graph o’ famouses, though, as Deadline reports that Cobie Smulders will be back for the upcoming Disney+ Secret Invasion show, reprising her role as Maria Hill, the franchise’s primary receiver of Samuel L. Jackson dialogue. News of Hill’s return isn’t wholly surprising; the character has been front and center in Marvel’s low-key Skrull plotline that stretches back to Captain Marvel, and since Secret Invasion takes its name from the massive 2008 comics event about Skrulls trying to take over Earth…
Smulders originally appeared as Maria Hill in The Avengers; she’s reprised the role in four other MCU movies, plus Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., back when Marvel was still trying to pretend that show was actually in continuity. Most recently she showed up on TV screens as part of American Crime Story: Impeachment, playing the show’s version of Ann Coulter.
The Secret Invasion series is being developed by Kyle Bradstreet, who’s fresh off a long run as a writer on Mr. Robot. Ben Mendelsohn and Jackson are expected to star, both in their already established MCU roles; Kingsley Ben-Adir, Olivia Colman, and Emilia Clarke are all expected to show up as well. The series will debut some time in 2022.
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Love herAlso why did Maria Hill not take over SHIELD after Fury died? She was his #2. Coulson was a usurper. She and May were even more fun together
Because she wanted cushy corporate benefits & the ability to spy on the Avengers for Fury from the inside.
🤓Because she went to go, presumably, somewhat undercover at Stark Industries before becoming what seemed to be the Avengers Guy in the Chair.In the AoS universe, she was too high profile in the world to be able to run SHIELD, which was supposed to have been gone because of Hydra, but Coulson could rebuild it because his resurrection wasn’t in SHIELD databases, so he could stay covert.Nerd over.
Plus HIMYM was still on the air, so only time for guest spots. At the same time, Masters of Sex also prevented Lizzie Caplan from continuing on from the Item 37 One Shot as a SHIELD agent, who conceivably could have been a lead for AoS.
Oh yeah … I have not watched Agents of SHIELD s1 for a long time & honestly am not likely to again, as much as it is one of my favorite shows. Maria Hill is supercool though
I still go back and watch clips from the Ghost Rider episodes. But that’s about it.
Probably because the Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD TV series started while she was still attached to How I Met Your Mother, and it needed to cast someone as Fury’s replacement who was available to star in the show.
Private enterprise seems to be all the rage over government jobs these days, unfortunately. Far enough in this case, though given how tenuous the organisation as a whole seems to be. When it’s not battling with avoiding being dissolved, it then has to be dealing with shunted through several different dimensions. Probably had a whole administrative battle with filing the right memo with Kang and Co to avoid being literally dissolved at some point too.
Well, he didn’t technically die. So…
I haven’t watched much ‘AoS’, but one episode has the most blatant continuity error I’ve ever seen. It’s a love scene, and features one of the women taking off some guy’s shirt. Cut straight to the next shot, where they’re in pretty much the exact same position but the angle has changed, and he’s wearing his shirt again. It’s so jarring that I can’t see how nobody in editing noticed it.
I always thought it was weird she wasn’t a regular on Agents of Shield.
She would have still been on HIMYM when the show started.
Similarly to dogs playing basketball, there’s no rule that says you can’t have two shows.
not really practical when they do 20+ episodes/year each. of course HIMYM ended after the first season of SHIELD, so there’s no good excuse for not signing her by season 2…
She didn’t die in Avengers, so she could still show up in nice lucrative films. Worked in her favor, they are 100% for sure never bringing anything from AoS back into continuity, so she’s still getting dat MCU money while Chloe Bennett is shame-walking away from being a Powerpuff Girl.
> shame-walking away from being a Powerpuff Girl1) Anyone who walks away from any ‘Grownup Powerpuff Girl’ project need be ashamed of nothing. Sure, they joined, but they LEFT. When one realizes and corrects a mistake, that is cause for pride.2) Chloe Bennett is a perfectly fine performer, but lets not pretend she was somehow destined for greater things than more or less where she is, career-wise. I peg her as slightly younger Eliza Dushku. ‘Quake’ is her ‘Faith’, and will likely keep her working steadily on middling TV projects and an occasional low/mid budget feature for a while. And good for her.
Hey now, I didn’t say I don’t like Bennett, I’m just saying it looks like Smulders retroactively got lucky.
I hope they find a way to include the long weird history the Skrull Cows.All the way back in Fantastic Four #2, the very first appearance of the Skrulls, Reed Richards is able to trick three Skrulls into not reporting back to their superiors to invade the Earth and they agree to live out the rest of their days believing they’re cows.A couple years later, during the Kree-Skrull War, the Skrull Cow’s hypnotism is undone and they start attacking the Avengers.After the event wrapped up the US Government turned the Skrulls back into cows, lost track of them, and they somehow wound up in a slaughterhouse. Than a bunch of people ate Skrull-tainted burgers, most of them died, but a few of them got powers and an irrational hatred of Skrulls.After the events of Secret Invasion, some Skrulls stayed behind to find as many of the Skrull Cows and Skrull-Cow Hybrids and take them to a sanctuary.
Reed thinks he’s so smart, but he can’t even spell hypnotize right in his own speech bubbles. Pitiful earthling.
I initially misread Skrull cows as skrull crows and thought why would they do that? Then after seeing the panel with the bizarre looking cow realized oh so they didn’t eat crows. Cows not crows.tbf, I was half awake when I saw your post.
That is some fucked up shit!
What a delightfully ridiculous amount of follow up on what was no doubt a stupid joke to end an issue in its initial iteration. That’s the magic of comics!
I hope this means we’re closer to seeing Man-Thing on screen.
Maria can’t just go around name dropping him without any follow up.
There actually is a pre-MCU 2005 Man-Thing movie, it was meant for theaters, but ended up on TV. I haven’t seen it, doesn’t have good reviews.
Awesome. Can they bring Stumptown back also? Please?
Cobie Smulders is welcome anywhere, and I especially like her as Hill. I really really wish we had gotten another season of Stumptown…but failing that, I’m happy to see her show up in a Marvel show.
still pissed about the COVID un-renewal!
Did the TVA prune Cap? Because I liked the idea of him getting a second chance in a new timeline with Peggy, and it would really bum me out if that disappeared.
Maybe we’ll find out in Season 2 of Loki?
Nah. If they’d pruned him, his old self wouldn’t have been around to pass his shield to Sam.
The way I interpret it, Steve had always gone back in time to live with Peggy, so it didn’t create a new branch. Or perhaps it did and the old branch is what got pruned.
Is Skrulls some kind of Canadian dessert?
She should play this and every role hereafter as Ann Coulter.
Admittedly, I had a weird, Bill Maher-like attraction to her in that role.