One of the biggest surprises announced during Disney's 2020 Investor Day event was the Secret Invasion series currently in the works for Disney+. Perhaps a bigger surprise, though, was Marvel Studio's choice to bring its event to a series, rather than the big screen.

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige recently explained why the storyline was conceived as a series. "We're interested in the political paranoia aspect of Secret Invasion and really showcasing the stars with Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn, two amazing actors that you want to have in any series, and we're very lucky to have them," Feige told Collider.

RELATED: Secret Invasion: The MCU's Next Big Event, Explained

"That's the sort of primary focus of that and, of course, it will tie into other things and the Skrulls in ways you haven't seen before, but yes, anything could be anything," Feige continued. "Wise words -- but we wanted to do that as a series because it would allow us to do something different than we've done before."

Jackson has appeared in several Marvel Cinematic Universe films as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury. Mendelsohn portrayed the shapeshifting alien Skrull Talos in 2019’s Captain Marvel. Talos was an ally to Fury and Carol Danvers, played by Brie Larson, in Captain Marvel, and was subsequently revealed to have been impersonating Fury in 2019’s Spider-Man: Far from Home while Fury enjoyed some time off aboard Talos' spacecraft.

Marvel's original Secret Invasion event was a 2008 eight-issue series by Brian Michael Bendis, Leinil Francis Yu, Mark Morales and Laura Martin that also crossed over into several other Marvel titles. Events leading up to the storyline had actually started unfolding in other Marvel comics several months earlier. The comic series revealed the Skrulls had secretly been infiltrating the Marvel Universe for years, impersonating several well-established characters.

RELATED: Secret Invasion: 10 Marvel Characters Revealed To Be Skrulls

The covert nature of the original series evoked a sense of paranoia and distrust among Marvel's heroes, as none could be certain who was genuine and who was being impersonated -- the mood Feige is looking to evoke in the Disney+ series. The longer runtime of the six-episode series versus that of the average MCU film would also allow for a deeper exploration of such a potentially large-scale infiltration.

No release date has been announced for Secret Invasion on Disney+.

KEEP READING: Marvel Announces Secret Invasion, Armor Wars Disney+ Series

Source: Collider