Following in the footsteps of the Agent Coulson solo adventure short film, Item 47, comes Agent Carter, showcasing Hayley Atwell's no-nonsense SSR agent. The short will premiere at the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 19th, and will be available to all with Iron Man 3's home video release on September 24th.
Directed by Louis D'Esposito, who also directed Item 47, Agent Carter may not seem like the most obvious choice for a Marvel short, but given the fact that Captain America: The Winter Soldier looks to be a lynchpin of Marvel Phase Two, Agent Carter may help bridge the gap between the Marvel Universe of the past and that of the present. Dominic Cooper will also pop up as Howard Stark, giving this latest attempt to expand the outskirts of Marvel's cinematic universe another important connection to the central figures.
“It’s a year since Cap plunged into the ocean,” D’Esposito says. “And in our mind, we said there’s a few SSR offices. If you want to relate it to now, it’s like the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. The SSR is the precursor to S.H.I.E.L.D. There’s some satellite offices in New York and right now their primary concern is getting Zodiac... We just want you to know it’s deadly, it’s important, bad guys are guarding it, and it’s imperative she gets it.”
Entertainment Weekly has more images from the film, as well as plenty more from director, Louis D'Esposito!
Source: Entertainment Weekly
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