'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Premiere: Plot to Focus on Humans, Not Superheroes
Marvel fans are still wondering what exactly Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D is going to be.
"It's a monster procedural of the week," Clark Gregg, who will reprise his role as Agent Coulson for the ABC show, joked to Collider at the Saturn Awards. "No, I have no idea."
Viewers are generally unsure how the new Joss Whedon-created show will play into the Marvel films, whether or not it will be superhero dominated, and what the show's temporal positioning will be with regard to the last Avengers film.
While Gregg couldn't precisely describe the show, he could explain that the film will follow the events of last year's The Avengers.
"I know in the pilot that it's the world after 'The Avengers' and people have seen Chitauri warriors and Asgardian warriors and a giant green rage monster battling like hell over the city of New York, and a lot of people want those powers and some of them aren't so nice," Gregg said, according to Collider.
With the world exposed to the vast powers of the superhero realm, it appears S.H.I.E.L.D. agents will have their work cut out for them. However, Gregg believes that the Marvel universe and today's world aren't so inherently different.
"I think what's cool about this show is it really focuses on the humans who don't have any special powers, who are just using skill and intelligence and hopefully some courage to protect the world from stuff that's out there now," mused Gregg to Collider. "It's also what to me seems like the great metaphor of this is, I feel like we do live in a world where there's stuff going on that's just -- we shouldn't be trusted with and that were trying to make sense out of, how to still be humans when who we are and what we are is changing all the time."
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D was ordered to series by ABC in May.
