Marvel entered into a non-recourse debt structure with Merrill Lynch, under which Marvel got $525 million to make a maximum of 10 movies based on the company's properties over eight years, collateralized by certain movie rights to a total of 10 characters, including Nick Fury. In 2004, David Maisel was hired as chief operating officer of Marvel Studios as he had a plan for the studio to self-finance movies. Feige, a self-professed 'fanboy', envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had done with their comic books in the early 1960s. In the mid-2000s, Kevin Feige realized that Marvel still owned the rights to the core characters, which included Fury. According to the audio commentary of the 2007 film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, director Tim Story said the script originally contained Nick Fury, but the role eventually became that of General Hager (played by Andre Braugher), as having Fury would have forced 20th Century Fox to purchase the rights to that character.

However, Marvel Studios initially discussed a potential film role with George Clooney, who turned it down after reviewing some of the comic book source material and finding Fury to be too violent of a character. In 2002, Marvel Comics designed their ' Ultimate' version of the character Nick Fury after the likeness of Samuel L. In 1998, David Hasselhoff portrayed Fury in the Fox television movie Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., which was intended to be a backdoor pilot for a possible new TV series, which did not materialize. 1 (May 1963), a World War II combat series that portrayed the cigar-chomping Fury as leader of an elite U.S. Created by writer/artist Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee, Fury first appeared in Sgt. Prior to the formation of the MCU, Marvel Comics incorporated Jackson's likeness into the reimagined design of the character for The Ultimates.Ĭoncept, creation, and characterization įury originally appeared in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He will star as the main protagonist of the miniseries Secret Invasion (2023), with his storyline leading into the upcoming film The Marvels (2023), in which Fury is set to return. (2013–14) and three episodes of the animated series What If.? (2021) as different versions of the character, with Jackson reprising the role.

He also appeared in two episodes of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. who creates and enacts the Avengers Initiative after discovering other threats to the Earth.Īs of 2021, Fury has appeared in eleven MCU films, beginning with an appearance in the post-credits scene of Iron Man (2008). Fury is depicted as the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Jackson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Nicholas Joseph Fury, more commonly known as Nick Fury, is a fictional character portrayed by Samuel L.

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