Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Coulson, Story And Effects

With Comic-Con at our doorstep, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will have the majority of their targeted audience in a single room, so in preparation for possible questions Joss Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen (co-creator) and Jeph Loeb (Marvel’s Head of TV) got busy talking to EW.

One of the main questions that is on everybody’s mind is Agent Coulson sudden resurrection, well according to EW “his S.H.I.E.L.D. colleagues say he must ‘never know the truth’ about his death.” and Whedon added "We can't wait to pull the curtain back on that, but we're going to take our time." So it seems that Agent Coulson's return to land of the living won't be explained right off the bat.

One other question that has popped up, is the timeline where the story is set, and the answer that Whedon gave might surprise you;

“We plan on trying to weave in between the films and try to make them more rewarding on both ends,”

“will pick up a storyline that’s familiar from one of the Marvel hits— and it's not The Avengers."

So it will pick up after Iron Man 3? If Coulson died, then it’s after The Avengers but if it won’t pick up after The Avengers than it must be after Iron Man 3, right?

Well let’s continue.

Whedon also talked about trying to make sure fans won’t obsess about things like “Why don’t they just call Iron Man?", well "but they do have their own lives"

In the interview, co-creator Maurissa Tancharoen was massively vague about the rumor that J. August Richards is playing Rage and a few other questions. “We’ll finally be able to answer some questions,” said the co-creator. "Though I'm sure we'll have to stay on the vague end of the spectrum." until at least Comic-Con where apparently there will be a video with some new footage and some concrete answers

Now to the business side of things. As one can expect Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will have a substantial budget so it can sustain not only great actors but also great effects, for instance if Iron Man decides to suddenly appear flying with guns blazing, the effects should be as close to the ones in the film as possible, but by focusing the story on “regular” people and having superheroes sort of in the sidelines, the cost should be more manageable, “The magic of television is that it’s about characters,” said Jeph Loeb, "and fortunately that's what Marvel is also about. We're not built around a cape and a cowl."

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will air this Fall on ABC.

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