Marvel’s Agent Carter is moving to Hollywood, literally! This and more was revealed to Comic-Con attendees today at the Marvel TV Panel at San Diego Comic-Con. Jeph Loeb took the stage, strutting up in Agent Carter’s iconic red hat to moderate the panel. He was joined by cast members Hayley Atwell (who reacquired her hat from Loeb), James D’Arcy, and showrunners Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters, and Chris Dingess to discuss what’s in store for everyone favorite secret agent in the show’s second season.

Before the panel started they treated the audience to a video recap of everything that went on in the first season of Agent Carter. Once that was finished Loeb started asking the panelists some questions about the show.

Panel Highlights

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  The music for Marvel’s Agent Carter is being released for purchase this fall.
• Agent Carter is the one show that is actually made by Marvel Studios.
• Loeb asked the showrunners what it is like for them now that they are a widely recognized show. Fazekas and Butters talked about how nice it was to walk around the convention with Hayley Atwell and see people getting excited, and to see people cosplaying Peggy Carter. They also talked about their love of the fanart for the show and the online fandom presence. Fazekas stated that “It’s the best job we’ve ever had” to which Hayley exclaimed “Me too!”
• D’Arcy talked about getting the script for the first episode and being “slightly worried” because in the script Jarvis is supposed to be making a soufflé and how he can’t make one (though he claimed to be able to make a perfect spotted dick.) “So we had a long conversation about that, then they explained to me what acting is.”
• D’Arcy also told a funny story about how he was initially excited about his character going on the missions with Peggy Carter and how he thought he was going to be able to fight some bad guys. Sadly, he was mostly mistaken.

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  D’Arcy was initially unsure if he could do the more comedic parts of Jarvis’s role: “Having read the script, it was so funny what they had already written for Jarvis. And I’ve never actually had an opportunity to do anything comedic on film before. And I wasn’t at all sure that I could do it. But it turns out all I had to do is be my usual wallian (ie.dorky) self, and it would work out just fine.”
• Season 2 is going to be 10 episodes long.
• Atwell talked about how she was able to take the character out of the movies and into the TV show partly because of the quality of the writing. She was able to bring out more nuances of the character in the show. “She’s just kinda taken over my life in such an amazing way. She’s quite fearless.”
• Loeb told a story about how Atwell had to go to the Marvel offices to read the first episode of the show, and how she had all these questions and requests for the characters prepared. Atwell continued “Well I just loved her, and I really hoped that the writers would get her right. I was really adamant about that. And I think I just came out, after that first time, going ‘Ahhhh, she’s amazing!’ And I had nothing to say but compliments.”

Audience

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  When asked if Atwell thought that it was right that Peggy Carter throw Steve Rogers’ blood in the bay at the end of the first season she replied “Yes, I absolutely thought it was the right decision. In fact, she’d be holding on to him the whole season, not really able to movie on. She was grieving him. By the end of the season she’d grown, it was her way of getting closure and letting him go. It was a burial for her, in a way. And I think, also, she was just concerned that, if it got into the wrong hands, then someone would have used that power. . . and I think that keeping him alive through the work she was doing, the memory of him, served him better. I think it also makes it more bitter sweet, and just make for a better story.”
• They talked about working with Industrial Light & Magic to create the visual effects on the show and how they were able to use ILM’s library of 30 years worth of assets to help make the New York of the forties for the show.
• Atwell’s favorite line from the show is “I know my value. And anyone else’s opinion doesn’t really matter.” It’s the line “that defined Peggy.” She’s had young fans come up to her and tell her “I know my value, too,” which she really enjoyed.

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  Chris Dingess voices the announcer on the “Captain America Adventure Hour” radio series in the show.
• The show will be based out of 1947 Hollywood for the duration of Season 2. It takes place about 6 months after the end of the previous season, so there will be a little bit of a time jump. Relationships and positions are going to be a little different. Agent Carter is being sent out there to help investigate a murder.
• Jarvis and Howard Stark will have all ready been in Hollywood setting up a new estate in Beverly Hills and do some contract with the government. “Also, as a hobby, open a movie studio.”
• D’Arcy asked “When do I get to meet my wife?” The showrunners hinted that he might actually get to this season.
• When asked the showrunners said that the show won’t have many historical people, but as Los Angeles still has a lot of locations that haven’t changed much since the 40s they plan on filming a lot of iconic Los Angeles locations.
• When asked whether or not Peggy will have any romance in the up coming season Fazekas stated “I would say that Peggy has put Steve’s memory to rest, and has a couple of new opportunities.”