Marvel revealed Patton Oswalt is join Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The comedian/actor will a character named Eric Koenig.
“When they first told me the character’s name, I’ll admit the first thing I did is I went on Wikipedia and looked up the M.O.D.O.K. character to see if Koenig was maybe his name before he became M.O.D.O.K., but it wasn’t,” laughs Oswalt. “They keep on talking about the Clairvoyant in the show and I’m like, ‘is that M.O.D.O.K.? Am I M.O.D.O.K.?”
In comics Koening was part of the original Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos. Oswalt will play the latest in a series of classic Marvel characters (John Garrett, Deathlok, Lorelei and Sif) interacting with the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
“They introduced Agent Garrett, who’s one of my favorite Marvel characters, and I kept asking them on the set, ‘is he going to be an android [like in the comics]?’” says Oswalt. “They’re just like, ‘you’ll have to wait and see.’ They clearly have plans. This is not the mid-‘90s anymore where they just handed comic book properties to anybody, they’re thinking I’m making a comic book [TV series] in this awesome universe and I don’t want to mess it up. And that’s a different motivation than what was happening in the ‘90s, and that’s real cool. I’m glad that changed, that they’re giving them to guys that welcome the tension of, ‘how do I make popular entertainment that still acknowledges this big fanbase that cares about this universe? And if I’m going to change things, can I do it in a way that makes them go oh wow?’”
For more of Oswalt’s interview here’s the Marvel.com link.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns with new episodes April 1.
By Editor