IGN Interview: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

WHY AGENTS OF SHIELD IS GOING TO SPACE FOR SEASON 5

The Season 5 premiere of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD will air this Friday on ABC, so IGN attended a press event to talk to the producers and cast about what to expect from the upcoming season that takes Agent Coulson and his team into space.

This article will not divulge any spoilers from the two-hour premiere and will just feature talk about the season in a general sense based on what has already been publicly revealed. However, keep an eye out for our full-spoiler chat with the producers and cast after the episode airs on Friday.

Producer Jed Whedon explained how after the team was splintered in Season 4, their first goal was to get everyone back together. As we saw in the Season 4 finale, the entire team is together in a diner, and form there they’re rounded up and sent on their space journey… except for Fitz, who gets left behind for mysterious reasons.

“Last year was about tearing everybody apart. We spent a lot of time doing that. We started the year with everybody on different job assignments, Daisy was off on her own, we brought them together again but only to break them apart again in the Framework. They were not only losing each other but losing themselves,” Whedon said. “So our goal this year was, okay, we know all these people, we end the last year with them all going to get food and just being like, Daisy makes this speech that says, ‘If we go down, we go down together. We’re in this together.’ We wanted to create a situation where that would occur. And then, putting that family together in an intense situation will end up causing drama internally, inevitably. That was out goal, what can we do with our people? We know them so well, we’ve spent this many years with them, let’s throw them on the craziest roller coaster adventure we could think of.’

Each season, Agents of SHIELD finds a way to connect to what’s going on in Marvel’s movies. Given that Avengers: Infinity War will be taking Earth’s Mightiest Heroes on a cosmic adventure, Season 5 is tying into that theme by sending the team on a space adventure.

“We try to a little bit follow in the wake of the films as they plot new territory in the MCU,” Whedon said. “And this is expanding out even further into the world of space which they very much are living in now in the features. It’s the great unknown and we hadn’t explored it yet.”

Even though the show is now in space, Whedon emphasized how that doesn’t mean the show will be all CGI and special effects.

“I would actually say this year, we’ve fleshed out the world in a real way much more than usual. [The actors are] acting with real people, the sets are totally different, the set dec. They’re immersed in the world, so they don’t have to imagine it that much. They’re on those sets, so in a way, we put it a lot more to our production team to build it and so the actors had fun. It’s good for them to do something fresh,” he explained. A majority of the premiere takes place on a space station called the Lighthouse, which is where they first encounter deadly blue aliens nicknamed “roaches,” Clark Gregg, who plays Coulson, was over the moon for the direction of this season, likening it to the ever-changing, ever-surprising comics he used to read.

“I just stand in awe of the way our writers and our producers just, even after our most successful season by most accounts, in Season 4, just tear the whole thing apart and just take us to an entirely new universe. It reminds me of comics, when one rolls over it’s a whole new ballgame and it’s really thrilling because I think if we were still basically doing the same thing as we were doing in our first 10 episodes, we’d probably be a little bored by now,” Gregg said.

At the end of Season 4, Coulson made a pact with the Ghost Rider spirit, although we never heard the terms of that deal. Gregg confirmed that the pact will indeed be hanging over Coulson’s head in this season, but he’ll have plenty of other drama to contend with until that debt comes due.

“They’re suddenly thrown into this world that they don’t know anything about, that seems kind of savage,” Gregg explained. “One of the reasons I love this season is I love sci-fi and I feel like we get into a world that has elements of everything from Snowpiercer to Delicatessen and Silent Running and a lot of cool sci-fi like that. So they’re suddenly in a world that they don’t run and they don’t have those kind of powers and have great limitations and they’re separated to a certain extent, so finding a way to reestablish themselves as a team is a big, big part of the beginning.”

Original article at IGN

Author: Cider

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