Joss Whedon on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Place In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Making a TV series that has to come up with something new, week after week, for something like 24 episodes a season is a lot different that making a movie. But what if that TV show had to co-exist in the same universe as a movie series? It’s not easy. Like trying to explain how Agent Coulson, who was thought to have died in The Avengers, came back to life for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Well, Joss Whedon chatted with The Wrap about how the upcoming ABC series will fit in the grand scheme of the Marvel Cinematic Universe:

“I have to make sure that I don’t overstep…. At the same time, it’s such a different mandate in terms of where we are in the Marvel universe… The Avengers are the epicenter… This is the peripheral. These are the people that don’t get the big hammers or the gamma radiation and deal with things on the human scale.”

One of the benefits that Whedon has in executive producing a series is that it can focus on the now better than a movie that takes years of development. The TV vet explained:

“I think economically and even in the zeitgeist, people are feeling left behind. And someone who represents the underdog — now, obviously we’re talking about an underdog who works with a government agency, but that allows us to deal with [government], as well… We don’t’ want to trivialize it. We don’t want to do an episode in which we solve the NSA. But, we can bring up the feelings we have of disenfranchisement or paranoia or justifiable things that are going on in society.”

Whatever happens with Marvel and S.H.I.E.L.D. we can always rely on a little motto that hasn’t ever let us down: “In Whedon We Trust.”

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premieres on Sept. 24, 2013, on ABC.

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