Secret Invasion Director Speaks up on Strange Ending

Secret Invasion has finished, and its director is finally opening up on the challenges he faced.

Currently, the show is one of Marvel’s lowest-rated projects on Rotten Tomatoes. You could put that down to Marvel fatigue (we had four films and three shows in 2022 alone), or you might make the case Secret Invasion simply wasn’t good enough - especially its divisive final episode.

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR SECRET INVASION

The series killed off a long-running Marvel character in Maria Hill, established Don Cheadle’s popular War Machine is actually a shape-shifting alien Skrull, and set up an overpowered character called G'iah that has literally every superpower of every hero combined.

But perhaps the weirdest moment was how the show ended: with Nick Fury getting on a spaceship and leaving behind the mess he helped make.

Secret Invasion director Ali Selim recently spoke to The Wrap on why he made the decision to have Fury head to space.

The interview

"I didn't feel any constraints. All I was told is, Fury's got to go up. That was it. So we just had to have Fury go up at the end, and it would be great if Rhodey — if his legs didn't work. And that's it."

Marvel wanted Fury to end the show in space because presumably that’s where he starts in The Marvel’s, the next big film from the studio - even if fleeing the scene doesn’t do Samuel L. Jackon’s character any favors. Hopefully he redeems himself in The Marvels. (New images released for The Marvels here.)

Selim is braced for backlash, however. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about making War Machine a Skrull, Selim said: "I'm worried that I will get death threats because of that. And also because I'm the guy who took out Maria Hill. So I'm actually going into hiding now."