Nick Fury - Disney + develops the series with Samuel L. Jackson

Late yesterday, Variety reported the news that Disney + would be setting up a TV series dedicated to Nick Fury that would return Samuel L. Jackson as the character he has already played in several films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

For the moment we do not know the details of the plot or the details of the series in development that should have as executive producer and showrunner Kyle Bradstreet (Borgia, Berlin Station, Copper) and former showrunner of Mr. Robot, with whom won an Emmy.



Samuel L. Jackson's first appearance as Nick Fury as head of SHIELD dates back to Iron Man 2008 which was followed by a series of cameos in subsequent Marvel films to be precise in Iron Man 2 (2010), Captain America - The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Captain Marvel (2019), Avengers: Endgame (2019).

The latest is the one in Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) in which we had seen him in the captive space of a Skrull ship.

Nick Fury, the character

Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Nick Fury makes his debut in 1963 in the comic series Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. The character is a secret agent and hero of the US military; his skills lead him to become the leader of a WWII veteran commando first and a CIA agent then, until his entry into SHIELD, of which he will be a top agent and then, as we know, director.



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Recall that in addition to the various animated appearances, Nick Fury was also played in 1998 by the legendary David Hasselhoff (Supercar, Baywatch) in the TV movie produced by 20th Century Fox entitled Nick Fury (Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD in original ) directed by Rod Hardy and written by David S. Goyer.

Buy the volume Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD published by Panini Comics.