"It"s A Jambalaya": Secret Invasion Director Reveals Inspirations For Marvel Series

Though having a full franchise of options to look at, Secret Invasion director Ali Selim reveals his decidedly non-comic book inspirations for the Marvel Cinematic Universe series. Based on the Marvel Comics storyline of the same name, the show finds Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury finally coming back to Earth after learning about a group of renegade Skrulls who are conspiring to take over massive positions of power and claim the planet as their own. Fury teams with Ben Mendelsohn's Talos, Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill and Martin Freeman's Everett K. Ross to save humanity.
Screen Rant recently spoke exclusively with Secret Invasion's Ali Selim to discuss the next Disney+ chapter of the MCU. While reflecting on the development of the series, the director opened up about his biggest inspirations for the espionage-driven show, all of which were far from the comic book genre, namely Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, among others. See what Selim explained below:

I was really excited about the aging Nick Fury who needed to go internal to reveal and get his mojo back and all that stuff. I was really interested in the themes of trust and the themes of suspicion, and identity, and that took me into film noir. So, the creative team and I talked a lot about The Third Man and Coppola’s The Conversation, which is a great piece about suspicion, paranoia. Nick evolves into this series into a very clear, classic American, Western, lone wolf gunslinger. And we talked a lot about John Wolf’s The Searchers and Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven and applied a lot of that, it’s a jambalaya.

How Secret Invasion Can Set Itself Apart In The MCU In addition to his unique range of inspirations for the show, Selim's work at the helm of Secret Invasion marks a return to the early days of the MCU on Disney+ as he directs all six episodes of the series. The first handful of shows, WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki, all were brought to life under the eye of one director whilst subsequent shows Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law had multiple directors.


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