Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury has been a central figure of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. From the post-credits scene in Iron Man to even appearances in this season’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Jackson’s Fury is the cinematic staple character that led to the formation of the Avengers.
But Fury is apparently not in the next big Marvel movie: Captain America: Civil War?
Jackson was asked about his Marvel movie history and revealed he’s not in the next year’s follow-up to Age of Ultron.
“It’s an amazing amount of fun. I finally met [comics writer] Mark [Millar], last year, when I was doing Kingsman, ‘cause he was on set one day, and I finally got a chance to thank him for making Nick Fury black and changing the whole dynamic. It’s really great to be the connective tissue between so many different characters in so many different films, that brings those guys together. But I’m not in Captain America 3. I can’t figure that out, but I’m not. I guess I’m still out there, trying to figure out what happened to S.H.I.E.L.D. and who these other people are,” Jackson told Collider.
Millar was the writer who launched The Ultimates, a modern take on the Avengers for Marvel’s Ultimate Universe line, and changed Nick Fury into the Jackson incarnation. Millar later wrote The Secret Service on which Kingsman was based where Jackson played the villain.
Fans may look to comics canon for a reason why Fury is absent from Civil War. During this time period Fury was deposed as head of S.H.I.E.L.D. and replaced by Maria Hill for his unsanctioned invasion of Latveria during Secret War. This is time Fury was recruiting his Secret Warriors, a team of new heroes he could train because he could no longer trust anyone after learning of a Secret Invasion by an alien race. Skye/Daisy (played by Chloe Bennett) on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a member of this rookie team Fury recruited.
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