S.H.I.E.L.D. Casting News: Clark Gregg to Reprise His Avengers Role
By Matt Webb Mitovich / October 13 2012, 2:25 PM PDT
Clark Gregg will appear in Joss Whedon's Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot for ABC, reprising his role as agent Phil Coulson, whom he has previously played on the big screen in the Iron Man movies, Thor and, most recently, Whedon's The Avengers.
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"Did you ever think there would be a S.H.I.E.L.D. show without Agent Phil Coulson?" Marvel Studios President Kevin Feig said in announcing the news Saturday at the New York Comic-Con. (Though the way The Avengers ended raises questions about how the Coulson character could figure into a TV series, Whedon has said the pilot will be "autonomous" from the film franchise.)
Gregg has also voiced Coulson for TV's Ultimate Spider-Man and the Marvel One-Shot video shorts. His most recent regular on-camera TV role was opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus on The New Adventures of Old Christine.
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Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D., as it is now being listed, is being executive-produced by Joss Whedon, his brother Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jeffrey Bell and Jeph Loeb, and written by the Whedons and Tancharoen.
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