SecretInvasion director Ali Selim explains how he made an MCU show for fans and newcomers ...
For the new MCU show Secret Invasion, Marvel brought in director Ali Selim not to helm an episode or two but the entire six-episode series. Collider’s Perri Nemiroff talks with Selim about making a series that feels like a film, bucking traditional MCU vibes and leaning towards film noir, and loads more.
PERRI NEMIROFF: With a new Marvel show or movie I always feel like one of the hardest things to do is to make it feel like it fits the MCU but also has your own stamp on it. Can you tell me one specific thing you did to make sure it feels like the MCU we know and love, but then also something you did on Secret Invasion to make it feel like your own?
SELIM: I think less about the style and more about the storytelling. I had to watch Captain Marvel because that was the beginning of this relationship between Talos and Fury, and a lot of references to [Captain America] The Winter Soldier. But I also went back and watched a lot of the Marvel world because I had to understand the relationships and where they came from, and where they started.
This feels a little unfair because it feels like I'm asking you to pick a favorite child, but going into filming Secret Invasion, which Marvel character were you most excited to get to work with, but then also, on the other hand, which character proved more creatively fulfilling than you ever could have imagined to explore with the actor?
SELIM: I don't know. I don't know that I can say it wasn't in the original plan because these things evolve constantly, and there's not one turning point that says, “Oh, now it's this.” But I do think the scene with Martin Freeman and Richard Dormer in the very beginning really sets the tone for the theme and the look and the feel and the octane, and I love that scene.
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