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Clark Gregg will reprise his Iron Man, Thor and Avengers role as Agent Phil Coulson in the upcoming TV pilot for ABC, Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel Entertainment’s Jeph Loeb announced the news today during the company’s panel at New York Comic-Con. The pilot resurrects the Coulson character, who died in The Avengers. Gregg showed up unannounced to discuss his role as Principal Coulson on Ultimate Spider-Man. He then introduced a video in which Marvel’s The Avengers director Joss Whedon and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige talked about the actor’s participation. Whedon is co-writing the S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot with his brother Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen.
Related: ABC OKs ‘S.H.I.E.L.D’ Pilot, Joss Whedon To Co-Write & May Direct
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Awesome! The Marvel Movie Universe needs more Coulson.
love clark gregg–great role for tv!
Oh my God! yes I totally called this!
Smartest thing they could have done, I’ll go tell the fanboys they can come out of mourning now.
@Sean
Agreed. His death was probably the biggest thing I didn’t like about the movie. I’m never happy when characters I like are killed, but I do understand it has to happen sometimes … in this case I don’t think it was particularly well handled/written and it didn’t really serve any bigger plots or purposes … almost like it was “geez, maybe we should have someone die to make it dramatic”. Welcome back to the living Agent Coulson!
Are you out of your mind??!?!! The Agent Coulson character was the most brilliant piece of story telling surrounding all the Avengers related movies. Not well written? His character and death was planned from the very beginning and Marvel had to incorporate him into their other story lines. Didn’t serve any plot or purpose?? His death was the catalyst. “He (Loki) made it personal.” All the characters, minus Hulk, add some relation with Coulson. He had to die so the heroes knew what they were fighting for, a belief in heroes. The Avenegers is a collection of 6 movies, so try to take a step back and see the story in it’s entirety.
Like you, I as well as 99% of the fans were upset when his character died but 99% of the 99% understood why and didn’t complain. His death marks one of the central themes of the movie – Are you willing to fight and die for something you truly believe in, especially when it’s bigger than you.
It’s because of people like you, movies today are crap. Movies today are geared for entertainment instead of substance because today’s young audience can’t think their way through a movie.
I welcome this, as I think Clark Gregg has been the super glue of the Marvel films. Though my guess this isnt a resurrection, but rather a prequel of how SHEILD got up and running prior to the Avenger Initiative. Coulson’s death was the reason the Avengers ultimately came together, to negate his death would be a cheap soap opera trick. Then again, most Marvel Comic characters have had died multiple times in their print versions, so who knows what they have in mind at this point.
Re: Fake Me Out… Coulson’s death “didn’t serve any bigger plots or purpose..”??!! Did you watch the movie? His death is what ‘pushed’ the team to form. It was a major plot point and end of the second act. Please go back to watching Two & Half Men.
Yeah, because otherwise Iron Man would have just let the aliens kill everyone. Artificial character development at it’s finest.
Nailed it.
Yes, but would he have been there for the initial invasion? How many more aliens would there have been? How much damage would have been caused if the heroes weren’t there at the beginning? Can 6 people stop a full-on alien invasion hours after it happened? Would the nuke have been launched sooner?
Would you have been happier if there were literally 1,000 aliens in front of the heroes and they just mowed through them like it was nothing? No it would have been ridiculous. Sounds like something Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich would do.
Is it a bit cliched? Yea, I’ll give you that. But if you sit back and look at all the Marvel Avenger related movies I think you would have to agree the Coulson character AND death was a brilliant piece of writing and story telling.
Coulson’s death in The Avengers completely had a point to it. It was even stated virtually in the dialogue.
And if there’s one thing I utterly loathe (even though I know it happens all the time in comics and sci-fi shows and it has to be put up with) is when someone gets killed off just to be brought back.
My hope here is that this may be because the SHIELD pilot will be set before The Avengers in the timeline of this universe thus allowing him to ‘live’ for a little bit before his onscreen death is retained.
Coulson didn’t die,all we saw was the cards that Fury spread the blood on to trick IM and Cap,they never say he died,they let you think that he did.
Marvel has an overwhelmingly amazing job creatively rolling out different properties in a larger storytelling way. The cohesiveness makes sense but imaginable until now. Why DC/Warner Bros. doesn’t just take this blueprint for their characters is beyond me.
Now the S.H.I.E.L.D. Show just needs to add some Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman cameo or reference and I’ll be even more happy.
Welcome back Agent Coulson.
Whoa, calm yourself. I agree with the first guy, his death was pointless.
I don’t think he died. We just saw the cards, not his corpse or anything. I’m betting he recovered (somehow) and it’s covered in the series… which would be a way to re-insert him back into Avengers2.
But putting all that aside, here’s what I get: this is a series that is going to go all out to put together something special. It’ll either work or fail, but if it’s done right, it can be a bridge to a lot of movie properties and the two can compliment themselves VERY well.. this could be a potential goldmine for ABC/Disney, and the writing staff they have (Whedon/Tachoren) is a fantastic one.
This is a potential for true integration of TV and Movie Property, which helps build buzz for films and provides counter buzz for the TV property.. it’s a brilliant play by Disney.
People – what part of the concept, LMD do you fail to understand?
LMD = Life Model Decoys. Coulson wasn’t killed. It was a android. They’ve been introduced at the very beginning of the S.H.I.E.L.D. mythos when HYDRA thought they had nailed Nick Fury way back when S.H.I.E.L.D. first debuted in Strange Tales way back in the swinging sixties.
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Coat
This is why superhero stuff sucks… No stakes. Just bribg em’ back from the dead — presented by Wal-mart.
They should bring him back for future Avenger movies, also. My husband and I love the various heros and Avengers, but have not followed the comic books, so he can come back with no shake up in our universes. He’s a great character, done by a great actor.
Bravo. I have to say, this is the most thoughtout and generally most awesome comment on the subject of Agent Coulson’s death. I always felt that if Coulson had to die in any way, this was the way to do it. Make his unfortunate demise into something that ultimately brings all the heroes together. He ready is the thing that brought all of them together. It wasn’t their personality, love, courage or anything remotely major superhero-y; but the death of one man, who was important. With that said, I’m excited he comes back in this new show.