Marvel: How Samuel L. Did Jackson play Nick Fury?

“You know, I’ve been playing Nick Fury for so long… I know what he looks like, how he thinks and how he feels.” said Samuel L. Jackson in an interview with the site Collider last April.

Who has long been nicknamed king cool Hit the nail on the head, the one who has been lending his features to the Marvel superhero for 14 years since Iron Man. To the point where he became one of the fan favorite characters over the years, the actor knew how to appropriate it and shape it brilliantly. This is not the least of his exploits.

“It’s so nice to be a part of a world that I admired for so long as a kid. I still buy comics. I still go to comic shops. I still read them.

Being there is the same to this character as I was to Afro Samurai, or any comic book character. It means being part of a legitimate cultural world that people respect and honor. ” He said, full of respect for his original model.

No wonder he’s so protective of his Marvel icon. To the extent that he doesn’t hesitate for a second to change his lines, even some of them, by getting stuck between the director and the screenwriter, when he feels that his character doesn’t have the right tone. “Look, I know you wrote it, but here’s the best way for Nick Fury to say that line.” he says.

What can we say about Jackson, whose character plays a very important role in the upcoming series Secret Invasion? That he’ll also star in Marvels and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, both slated for 2023? Nothing or very little.

The laudatory comments – and deservedly so – to the point that we almost forget how the actor managed to accurately portray Nick Fury, the atomic memory of David Hasselhoff’s character in the TV movie in 1998.

from white to black

Originally, Nick Fury was a Caucasian character who first appeared in comics. Sergeant Fury and his Howling Commandos #1 In May 1963. African-American Nick Fury is inspired by the series Marvel Ultimates In the 2000s, where screenwriter Mark Millar and cartoonist Brian Hitch chose to portray Nick Fury as… Samuel L. Jackson; The actor is Millar’s favorite actor.

At the time of its creation, Millar did not know then, as he says HollywoodReporter, that the actor was already a big fan of comics. When Jackson discovered Nick Fury’s new face in the comics, he contacted his artistic agents, who spoke with Marvel to get some clarification on this loan without his authorization. Marvel issued an apology and promised that the actor would play the superhero in any big-screen adaptation of the character, should they ever see the light of day.

Three years after the last appearance of this version final By Nick Fury, Marvel began thinking about creating its own film franchise through Marvel Studios, also with the well-thought-out idea of ​​having more creative control: so, still three years later, Iron man. The first phase of the MCU, the outcome of which is still very uncertain.

Here’s the actor’s first appearance as Nick Fury in the post-credits scene…

despiteIron man Being the first MCU installment still in the works, it also functioned – and it’s important to point this out – as a standalone superhero movie. It’s not until the post-credits scene that Tony Stark learns from Nick Fury that he’s actually part of a much bigger universe, and that he’s not the only superhero. And the reason Jackson was able to put his stamp on this look was because he knew he was the model for the version of Fury in the comics.

It was a post-credits scene, more so, respectively Jon Favreau’s terms, is not even provided in the startup script; It is considered an Easter egg. But with the deal between Marvel and the actor on the rise, it was a good opportunity to integrate the character into this first film.

by Nick Fury, “I could be the Alec Guinness of the Marvel movies!” The actor jokes. This is all the harm we wish upon him. The public, of course, is not ready to let go of the role of King of Cool, which he was instrumental in establishing.