Marvel announced today that Chad Michael
Murray and Enver Gjokaj have signed on to play
series regulars in ABC's mid-season comic book
adventure Marvel's Agent Carter , alongside
Hayley Atwell as the title character. Take a look
at the official press release from Marvel, then
read on for new details on the series from
directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo .
When Hayley Atwell reprises her role as
Peggy Carter in the hotly-anticipated
Marvel's Agent Carter , series debuting on
ABC in 2015, she won't embark on her new
adventures alone!
Marvel is proud to announce the signing of
two key series regulars, as Chad Michael
Murray ( Fruitvale Station, One Tree Hill ) has
been cast in the role of SSR Agent Jack
Thompson, while Enver Gjokaj ( Dollhouse )
will portray Agent Daniel Sousa, both of
whom will meet Carter while she takes on a
new role at the SSR in New York City.
Marvel's Agent Carter , starring Captain
America: The First Avenger 's Hayley Atwell,
follows the story of Peggy Carter. It's 1946,
and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious
blow as she finds herself marginalized when
the men return home from fighting abroad.
Working for the covert SSR (Strategic
Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance
doing administrative work and going on
secret missions for Howard Stark all while
trying to navigate life as a single woman in
America, in the wake of losing the love of
her life--Steve Rogers. Inspired by the
feature films Captain America: The First
Avenger and Captain America: The Winter
Soldier , along with the short Marvel One-
Shot: Agent Carter .
Starring Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy
Carter, Marvel's Agent Carter was written by
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
Executive producers are Tara Butters,
Michele Fazekas, Christopher Markus ,
Stephen McFeely, Chris Dingess , Kevin Feige ,
Louis D'Esposito , Alan Fine , Joe Quesada,
Stan Lee and Jeph Loeb .
Marvel's Agent Carter is produced by ABC
Studios and Marvel Television.
For more information on Marvel's Agent
Carter and the other exciting Marvel
Television series, stay tuned to Marvel.com .
Although the fall TV season will kick off in the
next couple of weeks, Marvel fans will still have
to wait a few more months for ABC's Marvel's
Agent Carter , which is slated to debut sometime
next year with an eight-episode season. We
reported last month that Captain America: The
Winter Soldier directors Anthony Russo and Joe
Russo are directing the second and third
episodes of Season 1, and the filmmakers
offered new details about their involvement in an
interview with Collider.
Before taking on Captain America: The Winter
Soldier , the brothers were best known for their
work on hit TV comedies such as Community
and Arrested Development . However, Anthony
Russo revealed they were asked to direct two
episodes because Marvel's Louis D'Esposito
wanted to bring in filmmakers connected to the
Captain America universe.
"This is very much a baby project of Louis
D'Esposito who's one of the co-heads at
Marvel. He directed the Marvel One-Shot that
the series is based on, so he asked us. It's kind
of nice to get the people who have been
connected to the Captain America storyline
involved in helping to launch that show about a
character who's so critical to this universe."
Joe Russo also spoke about how glad they were
Marvel and ABC decided to go with a shorter
format with just eight episodes in Season 1.
"And we love that they're doing a limited run of
it because it's easier to maintain quality over a
lower amount of episodes. I think everything's
lined up for a really, really good show there. Like
you said, high concept, it only sustains for a
certain amount of episodes then you just start
treading water. So then you just reach a point
where you're like, 'Okay 14 of our episodes are
gonna be great and 8 are gonna be fine,'
because you just can't fill 22 episodes of high
concept... [Eight episodes] is great because it's
a period show so it allows them to have a
larger budget, eight's the right number, eight is
an eight-hour movie. Everything makes sense
about it, I'm glad that it's being done in this
format."
Anthony Russo added how tough it is to deliver
a full season's worth of 22 great episodes.
"We've been saying this for years, because
working in network television it's so hard to
deliver that many episodes; it's brutal-
especially with a show that has an ambitious
production dimension to it. It's crushing."
The filmmakers are currently developing Captain
America 3, which hits theaters in May 2016,
which means they won't be too involved with
the show past the two episodes they're
directing, according to Anthony Russo .
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