Clark Gregg Wants Agent Coulson To Return to Avengers Movies

Actor Clark Gregg wants his Marvel character Agent Coulson to reunite with the Avengers on the big screen.

Speaking ahead of the return of TV series ‘Agents of SHIELD’ in March, Gregg also spoke about the direction of the series after a mid-season finale that had ramifications for the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

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Speaking to Comic Book Resources, Gregg said: “It’s funny: the membrane between me and the character is so thin, I really want to explain to the Avengers, that I didn’t just lie to them. So I would really like it for that reason, yes. But I’m having an awfully good time where I am.”

In the mid-season finale the SHIELD team discovered a lost alien city underground where an event occured (called Terragenesis) that awoke dormant superpowers in series lead Skye (whose real name was revealed to be Daisy Johnson).

She, and the duplicitous Raina who also got a power, are Inhumans, a sub-race of humanity with super-human abilities. It is the start of a storyling that will be incredibly important to the future of the MCU and will culminate with a big screen movie ‘Inhumans’ in 2018.

"I’m excited by it. I think the Inhumans is a big, cool part of the Marvel universe, a great story," said Gregg. "We’ll get to explore it. I’m glad they’re entrusting us with it, and I think that they’ll take what they’re going to do with it, and it will connect."

The 52-year-old actor also alluded to 2016’s ‘Captain America: Civil War’.

"Inhumans represents a different chapter," he said. "At least in the comics, the Inhumans, they’re a race of people who’ve been transformed. They’re mutants, more or less. I’ve always loved that part of the comics. They’re people who have evolved differently, and that generates a lot of fear. Some people want to annihilate them. Some people want to lock them up. Some people want to register them."

One of those people who will want to register them is Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark, whose hope of introducing a “Superhuman Registration Act” kick starts the Civil War storyline that will be adapted in the next ‘Captain America’ film. Cap will be the one leading the fight against Stark.

'Agents of SHIELD' returns in the US on 3 March, and will air in the UK soon after.

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Picture credits: Marvel Studios / ABC.