Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter and the Howling Commandos (including Jim Morita and Dum Dum Dugan) from Captain America: The Winter Soldier will appear in the Season Two premiere of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
As Phil Coulson rebuilds S.H.I.E.L.D. producers will take viewers back to the origins of the super spy organization in Agent Carter. Marvel’s head of television and comic book veteran Jeph Loeb discussed the return of Peggy and importance of a Marvel female lead headlining a television series.
“Again, it’s exciting because Hayley Atwell is a spectacular movie star who’s going to explode on television. She’s funny, she’s sexy, she’s smart, and she kicks ass. Those are great elements when you’re going to launch a television series.
The fact that she’s a female hero is important because the show deals with a lot of that, and that character deals with an awful lot of that — but we didn’t set out to say, “Well, look at us, we’re making a show with a female hero.” We set out to say, “Here’s an unusual opportunity for us to be able to have “S.H.I.E.L.D.” season two deal with the challenges that Director Coulson has in rebuilding S.H.I.E.L.D. — what is it, what’s it going to be, why is there a S.H.I.E.L.D. Then we get to go back to the origins of S.H.I.E.L.D., and learn about Peggy Carter, who was one of the founders. And what are the choices that she made at a very difficult time in New York City that will lead us to this organization in the future that needs to be rebuilt again? In some ways, they echo each other,”
he told Comic Book Resources.
“In all fairness, a large part of this came out of listening to our audience. We heard and felt that people’s viewing habits are changing, and it is challenging not to have a new episode on every single week. But it’s also even more challenging to be able to make that many shows in the amount of time that we have. Rather than trying to find a way of more episodes, or, the worst option — less episodes — we came up with a plan, which was for us to have a large chunk of uninterrupted episodes in the fall, and then go into “Agent Carter,” and then have another large chunk of episodes in the spring of “S.H.I.E.L.D.” So Tuesday night, 9 o’clock, our new time slot, if you want Marvel right from the tap, that’s the place to go. Twenty-two episodes of “S.H.I.E.L.D.,” eight episodes of “Carter” — that’s thirty weeks of material, which is unfolding brilliantly.
For the entire interview here’s the CBR link.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns September 23.
By Editor