Nick Fury won’t be the only S.H.I.E.L.D. agent seen in their early days in next year’s Captain Marvel.
Clark Gregg is returning to reprise his role as Phil Coulson in the upcoming MCU film which takes place in the 90s. In addition to showing the agent’s first major super-powered assignment with the top-secret spy organization, the actor hints that it will also show the beginnings of his working relationship with future SHIELD director Nick Fury.
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“He’s a relatively new S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who is obsessed with MC Hammer and dresses just like him, and it makes Director Fury so angry,” revealed Gregg in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “The genie pants don’t really go with the Armani.”
Similar to Samuel L. Jackson, Gregg’s character will be digitally de-aged by over 20 years to reflect the story taking place decades into the MCU’s past.
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“There was something really special about going back to the early days when he was just kind of coming up the ranks,” admitted Gregg. “I had to take innocence workshops and go back to when he was a little less crusty and jaded!”
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from a script they wrote with Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch, Meg LeFauve, Nicole Perlman, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Captain Marvel stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Jude Law as Mar-Vell, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser, Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer, Gemma Chan as Minn-Erva, Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, and Lashana Lynch as Maria Rambeau. The film arrives on March 8, 2019.