Disney are said to be filming a new marvel series with Samuel L. Jackson called Secret Invasion this weekend.
Olivia Coleman, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn and Emilia Clarke are all said to be filming across West Yorkshire over the course of the next month.
The new six-part series has chosen Alexander Street in Leeds city centre and the historic Halifax venue, Piece Hall for filming.
MP for Halifax, Holly Lynch shared on Twitter that the celebrity appearances are going to be a great opportunity for Yorkshire.
“Not to coolest quote I’ve ever given but this is awesome! I confess to being a massive Marvel geek and so the prospect of filming taking place here in Halifax is incredibly exciting!”
According to reports, local residents have received letters from the production team and filming will take place this Sunday, 23 January from 8am and work throughout the day until 6pm in the evening.
In Leeds, the filming will take place on Bond Court, with extra filming taking place inside the Gusto Alleyway between Greek Street and Bond Court, Greek Street and Alexander Street.
Over in Halifax, the Piece Hall will be shut from Monday 24 January and Monday 31 January for filming. It is rumoured that there will be 260 members of cast and extras, plus an additional 200 crew members taking part throughout the TV show’s weeklong stay in Halifax.
This is what we know about the series Secret Invasion so far:
“Secret Invasion is an upcoming American television miniseries created by Kyle Bradstreet for the streaming service Disney+, based on the Marvel Comics storyline of the same name“.
Samuel L Jackson will play Nick Fury, the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D who is working with Skrulls in deep space; Ben Mendelsohn will play Talos, the leader of the Skrull sect and an ally of Fury, and Kingsley Ben-Adir has been cast as the lead villain.
At the moment, there’s no further information about the roles of the rest of the cast, only that the series will be six episodes long and all the revealed cast will feature in at least one episode.
We can’t wait to find out what the Marvel cast are filming.
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