The official Marvel site has revealed that actor and comedian Patton Oswalt (King of Queens, Ratatouille) is set to join the cast of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., where he’ll guest star in the role of Agent Eric Koenig, a character who made his comic book debut in the pages of Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos as a wartime associate of Nick Fury. Here’s a look at Oswalt in character….
“I got a call from my agent saying they want you on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and I said ‘hell, yes,'” states Oswalt. “I’m lucky that I’m visible enough that they wanted to bring me in to play this character. I’d worked with [Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Executive Producer] Joss Whedon before on Dollhouse, and I guess I wasn’t too annoying and they decided to put me on another one of his shows. So I was very lucky… When they first told me the character’s name, I’ll admit the first thing I did is I went on Wikipedia and looked up the M.O.D.O.K. character to see if Koenig was maybe his name before he became M.O.D.O.K., but it wasn’t. They keep on talking about the Clairvoyant in the show and I’m like, ‘is that M.O.D.O.K.? Am I M.O.D.O.K.?”
Oswalt becomes the latest name to guest star in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as a Marvel comic book character, with Bill Paxton (Aliens) currently appearing as Agent John Garrett and Adrian Pasdar (Heroes) set to appear in an upcoming episode as Major Glenn Talbot.
