Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
is set to return on September 23rd for its second season, so in a recent
interview the show's executive producers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen
offered a few pointers as to where the show might go.
The couple talked about the
integration of Lucy Lawless to the cast, as well as other characters, and Easter
Eggs. The executive producers also revealed that they are planning to revisit
the Cavalry story, explain it, and more.
As cryptic as you have to be
about it, what can you say to get fans excited about Season 2?
WHEDON: It’s gonna be awesome!
TANCHAROEN: So awesome!
WHEDON: One thing we can say is that we did ask
a lot of questions in Season 1, and some new ones at the end of the year, and
those will be answered. Fans will not have to wait long to get some of
the answers they’ve been craving.
TANCHAROEN: We left our first season with a very
interesting image of Coulson standing in the middle of the wall, carving
on it. In the center of our new season, that his something that we’ll be
exploring. What does it mean for the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. to be this
wild card? That will be a fun journey.
People were really excited
about the addition of Bill Paxton in Season 1, and they’re now equally as
excited for Lucy Lawless in Season 2. What made you want to bring her in,
and what will she add?
WHEDON: We’re big fans. We got to work
with her on Spartacus. She’s a pleasure to work with, and a massive
talent. So, with the new paradigm of S.H.I.E.L.D. rebuilding, Coulson has
to reach into his bag of tricks and out of his comfort zone to find people to fill
his ranks, and Hartly is an example of that. She’s someone who is a
S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, but she was out in the world and she was undercover, so
she’s made some unsavory connections and he’s going to have to use that to his
advantage.
Are you thinking about adding
more Easter eggs this season? How much thought do you put into that, as
far as keeping it organic and not obvious?
TANCHAROEN: As far as Easter eggs and
connections to other properties, it’s not at the forefront of our creative
process. It’s very much a nice added bonus to the process. We shape
our story first. We’re very aware of the content that they have on the
feature end of things, and vice versa. Wherever we can nod and wink to
things, we will, but our show is its own thing.
WHEDON: We don’t want to become an Easter egg
farm.
TANCHAROEN: We embrace it, but we just don’t
obsess about it.
TANCHAROEN: Yeah. That’s what Season 2 is
all about!
WHEDON: We’ve touched on The Cavalry story, and
that’s something we plan to get to. It works into our Season 2
nicely. There’s always stuff that gets pitched in the room where you go,
“Oh, we’ve gotta do that some day!” And the more seasons we get, the more
chances we’ll have for those things to come out.
TANCHAROEN: One thing that’s nice is that we
seem to have an abundance of story, which is a good thing. I’m gonna
knock on wood now, though.
WHEDON: Yeah, as soon as you said that, we ran
out.
At this point, do you make a
list of the comic book characters that you want to bring in, and then have to
double check that with Marvel, or do they give you a list of who they want to
see on the show? You’ve already announced a number of characters for this
season, so is that stuff you pushed for, or did they push for it, or is it a
balance of the two?
TANCHAROEN: It’s a
balance of the two. There is a list that we’re aware of, of the
characters that we can and cannot use. And then, as we dive into the
comics, if there’s a character that we’d like to bring into the mix, we have to
run it by everyone. Everyone is aware of what everyone else is
doing. We just make sure that it’s a harmonious situation that ebbs and
flows between all aspects of the Marvel universe.
Source - Collider
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