New AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Promo Teases Upcoming Season One Action

ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. got off to a pretty solid start last night. The enjoyable pilot episode directed by Joss Whedon and anchored on-screen by Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson, also boasted a Whedon-penned script that provided plenty of his signature humor, ensemble cast interaction, and fun fanboy references fit for new and old Marvel fans alike. The show's groundwork was firmly set, and even with a weekly TV budget that falls far below the open checkbook big screen Marvel adventures are allotted, the show looked great and pulled off a good run out of the starting gate.

Here is an additional new promo that shows us what else is in store for fans later in the season.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. airs Tuesdays on ABC at 8PM.

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Cobie Smulders Will Appear As Maria Hill in 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Pilot, Possibly More Cameos Down The Line.

We know Agent Coulson lives, but he won't be the only big screen Marvel character to hit the small screen this fall. It looks like Joss Whedon was able to talk CBS and ABC into playing nice regarding How I Met Your Mother and The Avengers star Cobie Smulders. During the Marvel panel at Comic-Con, the first episode was screened for fans in Hall H and Agent Maria Hill in fact makes an appearance in the highly anticipated TV show set to debut on September 24th.

"Due to legal reasons, we can't show you a clip," Joss replied, "so we're just going to show you the episode," Whedon told the Comic-Con crowd. He not only serves as executive producer on the show, but also wrote and directed the pilot.

“I wanted very much to have Cobie in the pilot because as much as anyone else, she IS S.H.I.E.L.D.,” Whedon told Entertainment Weekly. “She’s cool and commanding, and has the dry humor that plays so well with Clark’s. Also, if she’s in it I get to hang out with Cobie.”

With her long-running CBS hit comedy entering its final season, there might be breathing room for more appearances from Cobie down the line, and certainly more if Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. goes into season two.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stars Clark Gregg (Coulson), Ming-Na Wen (Agent Melinda May)and Brett Dalton (Agent Grant Ward), Ian De Caestrecker (Agent Fitz), Elizabeth Henstridge (Agent Simmons), and Chloe Bennet (Skye).

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly

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The First Full Trailer For Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Is Here!

As promised during tonight's season finale for Once Upon A Time, ABC debuted the first look trailer for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which quickly made its way online as well.

Official synopsis:

"Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel’s feature films as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. Together they investigate the new, the strange, and the unknown across the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

Coulson’s team consists of Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), highly trained in combat and espionage, Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) expert pilot and martial artist, Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker); brilliant engineer and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) genius bio-chemist. Joining them on their journey into mystery is new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet)."

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First Image From 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.', Gets Series Green Light From ABC

According to Deadline, ABC has given a series order to Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. starring Clark Gregg reprising his big screen role as the fan favorite Agent Coulson. A sneak peek will air during the season finale of Once Upon A Time.

Joining Gregg in the cast are ER's Ming-Na as Agent Melinda May, Killing Lincoln's Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Gemma Simmons, Ian De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Chloe Bennet as Skye.

Check out the first official pic of the cast line-up for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (which stands for Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistic Directorate).

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Ming-Na Cast In Joss Whedon's S.H.I.E.L.D. Pilot For ABC

Clark Gregg has his first field agent co-star in the proposed S.H.I.E.L.D. television series set for ABC courtesy of The Avengers mastermind Joss Whedon.

According to Deadline, former ER and Stargate Universe star Ming-Na has been cast as Agent Melinda May, described as "soulful and slightly damaged by her combat experiences, Melinda is an ace pilot, a weapons expert and a soldier who can, and has, gone beyond the call of duty."

Earlier this month, casting breakdowns appeared online (check them out here), and according to Deadline's scoop, the character was formerly known as Agent Althea Rice, a.k.a The Calvary.

At New York Comic Con Clark Gregg was the first cast member announced, and would be reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson, the Marvel big screen staple who was featured in Iron Man, Thor, and The Avengers.

Exactly how Coulson would fit into the show has yet to be revealed, if set in a post-Avengers timeline. The popular character could appear in flashbacks who is seen supervising the training or recruitment of the agents appearing on the show, or all events may simply precede this summer's billion dollar grossing big screen adventure.

More casting announcements should be on the way soon, and expect possible cameos by Samuel L. Jackson as director Nick Fury or How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill to be, in all likelihood, kept top secret.

SOURCE: Deadline

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S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents Revealed For Joss Whedon's ABC TV Show

The identities of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents set to appear in the TV series produced by Joss Whedon have been declassified.

TVLine got their hands on the casting details for the pilot regarding the new faces we will see on ABC in the show set in the same universe as The Avengers.

The pilot will be written and likely directed by Avengers mastermind Whedon, and it remains to be seen which, if any, of the familiar faces from the big screen will appear to bridge the movie and TV version closer together. If that would happen, it would be a priority to keep that top secret, as many things are in the live action Marvel Universe.

According to the TVLine casting scoop, here are the Agents Whedon is looking to assemble:

SKYE: This late-20s woman sounds like a dream: fun, smart, caring and confident – with an ability to get the upper hand by using her wit and charm.

AGENT GRANT WARD: Quite the physical specimen and “cool under fire,” he sometimes botches interpersonal relations. He’s a quiet one with a bit of a temper, but he’s the kind of guy that grows on you.

AGENT ALTHEA RICE: Also known as “The Calvary,” this hard-core soldier has crazy skills when it comes to weapons and being a pilot. But her experiences have left her very quiet and a little damaged.

AGENT LEO FITZ and AGENT JEMMA SIMMONS: These two came through training together and still choose to spend most of their time in each other’s company. Their sibling-like relationship is reinforced by their shared nerd tendencies – she deals with biology and chemistry, he’s a whiz at the technical side of weaponry.

“It’s new characters. It needs to be its own thing. It needs to be adjacent [to the MCU] but you don’t want to do a show where you’re constantly going, ‘Iron Man just left, but he was totally here a minute ago.’ You want them to do their own thing,” Whedon told Collider at the Toronto Film Festival last month.

While perhaps the easiest and most logical cross-over would be for Samuel L. Jackson to make an appearance as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury. Cobie Smulders could also suit up for a quick cameo as Agent Maria Hill. But whether CBS would play nice and let her appear in an ABC show while she is still on How I Met Your Mother is an issue for the lawyers to figure out. I wouldn't count out Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson either. Who is to say flashbacks would not factor into the pilot, assuming the series is set in the post-Avengers timeline.

But Whedon assures fans that an underdog factor will be a major theme for the show, as all the agents will not possess superpowers like Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

“Well, what does S.H.I.E.L.D. have that the other superheroes don’t? And that, to me, is that they’re not superheroes. But they live in that universe. Even though they’re a big organization, that [lack of powers] makes them underdogs, and that’s interesting to me,” he also revealed in the Collider interview.

SOURCE: TVLine, Collider

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