Christopher McDonald confirms Secret Invasion will soon undergo reshoots with a new writer attached. As Marvel expands itself into The Multiverse Saga comprising Phases 4, 5, and 6, Disney+ is facilitating its plans to bring to life several comic book characters and arcs. After Black Panther: Wakanda Forever culminates Phase 4 in November, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will usher in a new era for the MCU, followed by a number of new TV projects that will go directly to streaming. One of the most anticipated of these series is Secret Invasion, based on the 2008 comic book storyline of the same name by Brian Michael Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu.
Plot details on the show are decidedly slim. But Kevin Feige has confirmed that Secret Invasion won’t replicate the scale of the original story; rather, the essence of the arc will be captured through the elements of paranoia and political skepticism. With the Earth under threat of a subversive invasion from the Skrulls, Former SHIELD director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and his Skrull associate Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) will reunite after Spider-Man: Far From Home confirmed their continued partnership. Cobie Smulders, Martin Freeman, and Don Cheadle are also reprising their MCU roles, with McDonald, Olivia Colman, Emilia Clarke, Killian Scott, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and Carmen Ejogo appearing as key characters. Kyle Bradstreet serves as the showrunner for Secret Invasion and has contributed to most of the writing.
Now, in a new interview with Awards Focus, Christopher McDonald revealed that reshoots are impending for Secret Invasion, and he will travel to London to work on them. The Hacks star confirmed that the creators have also hired a new writer, who is helping improve the story and giving it more emotional and narrative depth. McDonald didn’t elaborate much on the scope of the reshoots, nor did he reveal how long they would continue. Read what he said below.
We’re actually heading back to London on Tuesday to do additional scenes. They’re doing reshoots in a way that’s making the story better. Apparently, there’s a new writer in there. He’s amped it up, and the series is going so much deeper than before.