Following on from yesterday’s news that the award-winning Olivia Colman has joined the cast of the MCU’s upcoming TV series Secret Invasion, comes word via Variety that fellow Brit Emilia Clarke is also set to star.
Clarke will be most familiar to us for portraying such major genre characters as Sarah Connor in Terminator: Genysis, Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, and the double-crossing Qi’ra in Solo, a role that she is almost certainly destined to reprise in one of the hundred-or-so Star Wars shows Disney+ has in production. Given that Clarke also managed to win us over in that super-sappy Holiday-themed tear-jerker Last Christmas a few years back, consider us very happy with this new development!
With Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn reprising their roles as Nick Fury and Skrull leader Talos respectively, and Watchmen’s Kingsley Ben-Adir locked as a key villain, Secret Invasion is shaping up to be one of the most exciting projects Marvel Studios have got lined up.
That unfathomably awesome roster, while we’re on the subject, currently looks like this:
2021
- Loki – (Disney+) June 11th
- Black Widow – (in cinemas) July 9th
- What If…? – (Disney+) August
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – (in cinemas) September 3rd
- Eternals – (in cinemas) November 5th
- Hawkeye – (Disney+) TBC
- Marvel – (Disney+) TBC
- Spider-Man: No Way Home – (in cinemas) December 17th
2022
- Thor: Love and Thunder – (in cinemas) February 11th
- Moon Knight – (Disney+) TBC
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – (in cinemas) March 25th
- She-Hulk – (Disney+) TBC
- Black Panther II – (in cinemas) July 8th
- Captain Marvel II – (in cinemas) Nov 11th
- The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special – (Disney+) December
2023+
- Secret Invasion – (Disney+) TBC
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – (in cinemas) TBC
- Ironheart – (Disney+) TBC
- Armor Wars – (Disney+) TBC
- I Am Groot – (Disney+) TBC
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – (in cinemas) TBC
- Blade – (in cinemas) TBC
- Fantastic Four – (in cinemas) TBC
- Deadpool 3 – (in cinemas) TBC
- Untitled Wakanda Series – (Disney+) TBC
Wow. Between this and Disney+’s Star Wars projects, we best all get clearing our viewing schedules for the next few years at least…
