Samuel L. Jackson will reprise his role as SHIELD leader Nick Fury in a new Disney+ series. News of the Marvel series broke today in a report by Variety. The article cited several insider sources. Disney didn’t respond to Variety’s request for comment.
The sources confirmed that Jackson will play Nick Fury and the show is in very early stages of development. Kyle Bradstreet is attached as writer and executive producer. Bradstreet has written and produced on TV series Mr. Robot and Copper, and was a writer on the Borgia series.
Jackson has portrayed Director Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his first appearance in Iron Man in 2008. He went on to play the Marvel character in 11 MCU films over 11 years. One wonders how Jackson fits in time to work on other movies, but he does somehow. Jackson also played Fury in two episodes of Agents of SHIELD.
FAR FROM HOME
Spider-Man: Far from Home was the last MCU movie he appeared. In a post-credits scene, Fury was on a Skrull ship where, like Spider-Man, was very far from home. How Marvel will get Fury back to Earth for his series remains to be seen.
It’s possible the series will focus on his time trekking across the galaxy, but that would be expensive if most of the actors are in prosthetic make-up being that he’s surrounded by alien people. However, Lucasfilm/Disney+ made it work for The Mandalorian, but then they had a large budget.
Disney is acting like a dad who just got a new power tool. They have to find projects to work on. Disney is firing on all cylinders with their new power tool — Disney+. There is no shortage of Marvel and Star Wars series in various stages of production, along with all the other content Disney is cooking up for their streaming service. And we cou
