The days of actors being 'too big for TV' are dead and buried folks, and Samuel L. Jackson - arguably the biggest actor on the planet - would work wonders on the small screen.
Everyone wants to know what he's been up to between the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Infinity War, and that's what makes it the perfect setting in which to make a Nick Fury show. Better still, pair him with Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill, and you have the perfect excuse for a series all about the two of them tracking down Skrulls, before it all ends with the snap-based carnage brought about by Thanos' conquest during Infinity War.
SLJ is poised to light up the silver screen once again next March by the time Captain Marvel comes around, so what better way to build on that momentum than to have him feature in a show all of his own? It makes perfect sense, and with the actor having already appeared in one episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., it's not exactly implausible that he gets tempted to launch Disney's streaming service somewhere later down the line.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
