Agents of SHIELD’sClark Gregg Talks Season 6 and How the Show Is Still Pulling From Marvel’s Comics

While Agents of SHIELD ’s Phil Coulson is , at least currently , quite beat , role player Clark Gregg ’s been spend time get back into hismysterious young role on the showas a character who ’s everything the fallenagent and friend to the Avengerswas not . This new part , Gregg explained , is someone who will terrify SHIELD ’s heroes .

Gregg is adjust to return to Agents of SHIELD ’s 6th season this summer as one of a phone number of enhanced individuals who arrive on Earth and begin wreaking the variety of havoc that only a newly - spring SHIELD is fit out to handle . Because of thelack of limpidity as to when the sixth time of year take place , it ’s unknown how much information the agent are working with regardingthe significant goings - on of the larger MCU .

But when we spoke with Gregg a few weeks agowhile he was promoting Captain Marvel , he was confident in the show ’s ability to keep chug along on the military capability of its own narrative way . As interconnected as Agents of SHIELD was with Marvel ’s films in the show ’s earliest days , Gregg said , it ’s by carving out its out quad within the MCU and drawing on unprotected spell of root material that the series has been able to set itself asunder

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I guess in the former 24-hour interval it was very much an experiment and honestly , Marvel was really one big company , and now it ’s really not . I guess it ’s really two disjoined divisions and there was a tangible desire to thread very carefully what we were doing with the movies . You know , at the remainder of season one with the Hydra discover in Captain America : Winter Soldier , it turned our show upside down .

But I consider when the show started to really find its best tread was when our writers decide “ Eh , chicane it . We ’re going to take what we can get and there ’s a lot of hooey [ Marvel Studios ] does n’t seem to be using . They do n’t seem to be using L.M.D.s , they do n’t seem to be using Ghostrider or the Framework . At first we did n’t think that we were doing surreptitious warrior , but then it became clear—‘Oh , that ’s earthquake . ’ They ’ve ingeniously take the parts of the Marvel macrocosm — which is panoptic — that no one seemed to be interested in , and we ’ve squeezed every drib out of them and really let our wagon train go on its own track .

When we asked Gregg about how season five ’s closing came to be , he was frank about there being a degree in sentence when everyone was certain that the show had been canceled and that it was fitting to give Coulson one concluding goodby and the sendoff he ’d always wanted .

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But then , word about the serial ’ rehabilitation came in , plans shifted , and the idea of let Coulson continue dead and using that to spiel on the emotions of other characters come into sharp focus :

Coulson goes off to Tahiti with Agent May at the end of time of year five without much time leave and it was a very moving , sad matter the show did . We thought we were perchance done . Then they picked us up for two season , and at a sure point they ask me to direct an installment , and sit me down to explain some of this time of year . One of the things we ’re explore is an idea that while half the squad ’s out in outer space trying to find the other timeline cryogenically block Leo Fitz , the other half of the team is here aggrieve and judge to put SHIELD back together with Agent MacKenzie run it , which is exciting to me because Henry Simmons is so amazing .

There ’s some strange anomalousness happen that feels like a very threatening severance every fourth dimension it occurs and there are these the great unwashed , these humanoid people who show up in the footage and one of them looks a lot like Coulson . He ’s bad , he ’s dangerous , and terrifying . He ’s a unlike somebody and it ’s unmanageable for everyone to grapple with , but specially Agent May and Daisy . ”

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