Marvel's Secret Invasion Set Photos Show Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn

By Cameron Bonomolo

Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) are back together — and back on Earth — as filming gets underway on Marvel's Secret Invasion. Last we saw them in 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home, the shape-shifting Skrull Talos was posing as Fury and handling Spider-Man (Tom Holland) while the one-eyed ex-agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. was off-planet with a Skrull sect. Nearly thirty years after their first meeting in the 1995-set Captain Marvel, Fury and Talos reunite to uncover a conspiracy when it's revealed alien invaders have infiltrated all aspects of life on Earth.

With cameras rolling on the Disney+ Original Series in Leeds, England, Jackson and a human-looking Mendelsohn were photographed together on the set of Secret Invasion. See the sneak peek below. 

Returned to Earth after his top-secret space mission in Far From Home, Jackson has teased the super-spy is "back with a fury" and back in action with partner Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders). And much like Fury's assignment, intel on the forthcoming Disney+ series is classified. 

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Named after the Marvel Comics crossover event by Brian Michael Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu, the title Secret Invasion is apropos as producer Jonathan Schwartz (Captain Marvel, Shang-Chi) "can say very little" about the Marvel Studios series expected to premiere later this year on Disney+.

"Like all of [Marvel's] adaptations, it's definitely not a 1:1 adaptation of the comic books, although it takes a lot of that kind of paranoid spirit, and runs with it," Schwartz previously told TheDirect. "I think that's literally everything I can say about it. We're going to leave the secret in Secret Invasion for now." 

Directed by Marvel Cinematic Universe first-timers Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone, Let Him Go) and Ali Selim (Criminal Minds, Manhunt), Secret Invasion also stars franchise newcomers Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Solo: A Star Wars Story), Kingsley Ben-Adir (The OA, Peaky Blinders), Killian Scott (Love/Hate, Damnation), Carmen Ejogo (Fantastic Beasts, True Detective), Christopher McDonald (Family Law, Ballers), and Olivia Colman (Fleabag, The Crown) in undisclosed roles.

Marvel's Secret Invasion premieres on Disney+ later in 2022.

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