Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Patrick Brennan Cast As Blackout

Marvel Entertainment has announced that Patrick Brennan has been cast as Marcus Daniels, a.k.a. Blackout in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Brennan, who has appeared in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 and The Black Donnellys, will make his debut in the eighteenth episode, which is titled "Providence." Brennan will have an even larger role in the nineteenth episode. In the comic books, Marcus Daniels first appeared in NOVA #19 in 1976. The TV version of Daniels will have slightly different powers than in the comics and will have the ability to suck the energy out of anything around him. "I had been in for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. several times for other things, for other parts, and I know that they liked me so this came along and they actually offered it to me," said Daniels to Marvel.com. "I didn't have to go in and read for it, which was a first for me. I didn't know anything about the part, they kind of gave me the gist of it and then I had an in-depth conversation with a couple of the [producers] on the phone. And the whole time, I'm like, 'You guys are putting me on, right? This is ridiculous. It's so cool.'" In describing how producers explained the character Blackout to him, Daniels said, "This guy, Marcus Daniels, a.k.a. Blackout, was shrouded in darkness, his soul, everything about him was shrouded in darkness until he comes across this Cello player. And the music was the only light that came into his soul, and it gave him hope and it gave him some sense of what light was." Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. next airs on Tuesday, April 1 at 8 PM ET on ABC.