Secret Invasion Disney Plus series casts Kingsley Ben-Adir in lead role

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Ben-Adir will reportedly play one of the main bad guys in the Marvel series

Kingsley Ben-Adir in One Night in Miami
Kingsley Ben-Adir in One Night in Miami (Image credit: Amazon Studios)

Kingsley Ben-Adir has been cast alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn in the Disney Plus series Secret Invasion, reports Variety.

Ben-Adir will reportedly play one of the primary antagonists in the Disney Plus series, though Marvel and Disney Plus are staying tight-lipped about further character details. Ben-Adir is perhaps best-known for playing Malcolm X in the Oscar-nominated 2020 drama One Night in Miami.

Disney Plus's Secret Invasion brings back Jackson's Nick Fury from the MCU Avengers movies, as well as Mendelsohn's Talos from Captain Marvel and Spider-Man: Far From Home. The series is adapting a comic book crossover storyline that explores the invasion of Earth by the Skrulls, a species of shape-shifting aliens taking the appearance of several superheroes as impostors. Reports surfaced that a Disney Plus series based on the story arc was in development in September, and Disney Plus confirmed this to be true in December during its investor's day event.

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