Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Disney
In honor of the de-aging the studio will bring us with Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Disney used the same technique in this week’s episode of Secret Invasion. If Lucasfilm is given the gift of CGI, Marvel can have a little wrinkle-smoothing effect as a treat too. There’s enough available for every franchise!
The second episode of Secret Invasion opens on a throwback to 1997, where Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, looking younger than he did back then) continues to build his Skrull hub on planet Earth. Following the events of Captain Marvel, Fury and Talos (Ben Mendelsohn, who looks the same here) have teamed up to find the Skrull species a new planet. That mission has proved futile in the present day; back in 1997, the two were still young and hopeful for change.
How ironic is it, then, that Talos’ wife and daughter G’iah (Emilia Clarke) join the Skrull headquarters on Earth at the same time as Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), who later forms an evil Skrull army working against the human race? The revolution goes on to recruit G’iah and kill Talos’ wife, becoming a real sore spot for the poor Skrull.