Did you know James D’Arcy, who played Anthony Perkins in 2012’s “Hitchcock” and Rufus Sixsmith in 2012’s “Cloud Atlas,” plays Howard Stark’s butler Edwin Jarvis in ABC’s “Marvel’s Agent Carter”?
A report on the Marvel TV panel at New York Comic Con:
Attended the “Marvel Agents of SHIELD” panel with my PhantasticGeek.com podcast co-host Matt in Main Stage 1-D at New York Comic Con yesterday for which all the wristbands vanished earlier in the day. Marvel’s Head of Television Jeff Loeb, who had been at Marvel’s booth earlier for autographs, came out and wound up the crowd with the burgeoning New York-San Diego Comic Con rivalry, especially on the heels of New York being on pace for 150,000 in attendance this year after utilizing Thursday with premium panels (“Tomorrowland” and George Clooney’s surprise appearance) and content for the first time.After Loeb had stoked the crowd and done the whole secrecy disclaimer, he acknowledged New York’s place in Marvel TV -- “Agents of SHIELD,” known around his office as the “Mothership,” was first announced at the con, Netflix’s “Daredevil” is currently shooting there -- and then revealed himself to be wearing a Hydra T-shirt beneath his button-down. Out came “Agents of SHIELD” star Clark Gregg (Director Phil Coulson) to thunderous applause, though he had also been at the Marvel booth autographing with Loeb some 90 minutes earlier.
Gregg demanded Loeb make up his Hydra misstep by giving us something nobody had seen, to which Loeb responded by... showing this coming Tuesday’s episode, which had long been announced on the con’s schedule. I’m not going to tell you about episode 204 “Face My Enemy,” except that it is the most character-driven and action-packed of the young second season with some excellent twists. Easily the best episode of the series for Ming-Na Wen, whom I interviewed Wednesday: http://bit.ly/1xCuOXd
After screening the episode, Loeb said how great it was listening to us react backstage. Cue Gregg back on stage, saying that was fine and all, but Loeb still owed us on the Hydra faux pas. He wanted us to see something from the upcoming “Agent Carter” pilot airing in January. Loeb protested but quickly relented and Gregg produced a DVD from his leather jacket. Loeb claimed the scene we were about to see was shot Monday, which seemed a bit of a stretch as it was fully edited with music but, given that Dominic Cooper was just confirmed to reprise his “Captain America: The First Avenger” role as Howard Stark Sept. 30, it was filmed relatively recently.
The footage takes place at night as a vintage sedan rolls up to a pier, giving an instant noir-ish feel. An overhead shot sees three figures exit the car, two males and a female. Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) follows Stark to a wood-paneled speedboat where he tells her he is off to Europe to track down the paper containing his formula for a substance powerful enough in small doses to level city blocks from the handful of fences he knows capable of peddling it.
Atwell returns to the car, where Stark’s butler Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy), who had apparently already sustained a concussion by Carter’s hand, promises to help her after explaining he and his wife have to be in bed by 9 p.m., though he says he did catch the help pocketing the good spoons after bedtime once.
Flash to a quickly-cut sequence of Carter in a kitchen, kicking the crap out of a mustachioed bad guy, culminating in his ejection out a window, before the “Agent Carter” title card.
Thanks,
Pieter J. Ketelaar
Phantastic Geek.com
@PieterJKetelaar on Twitter
