Last month, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. opened a new chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with its midseason finale ‘What They Become’ [read our review here] , which introduced the concept of the Inhumans prior to their big screen outing in 2018. Speaking to Comic Book Resources, Clark Gregg has spoken about the Inhumans and his excitement for the remaining half of the second season…
“Inhumans represents a different chapter [for the show]. At least in the comics, the Inhumans, they’re a race of people who’ve been transformed. They’re mutants, more or less. I’ve always loved that part of the comics. They’re people who have evolved differently, and that generates a lot of fear. Some people want to annihilate them. Some people want to lock them up. Some people want to register them. Some of them become superheroes. Some of them become monsters. I find that particularly germane. Are we going to accept the people who are different, or are we going to try to wipe them out?… I’m excited by it. I think the Inhumans is a big, cool part of the Marvel universe, a great story. And we’ll set up something. We’ll get to explore it. I’m glad they’re entrusting us with it, and I think that they’ll take what they’re going to do with it, and it will connect. And yet, we’ll have the freedom to kind of make our show be our show.”
Coulson has of course been absent from the big screen since his “death” in The Avengers, and Gregg spoke about a potential return to the movie side of the MCU, saying that: “It’s funny: the membrane between me and the character is so thin, I really want to explain to the Avengers, that I didn’t just lie to them. So I would really like it for that reason, yes. But I’m having an awfully good time where I am.”
Are you looking forward to seeing Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. delve deeper into the world of the Inhumans? Let us know your thoguhts…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VuCo68oUI6U&list=PL18yMRIfoszH_jfuJoo8HCG1-lGjvfH2F
Originally published January 17, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
