Anthony Michael Hall joins Agents of SHIELD in a guest role for season 6.
Many details are still unknown about what Agents of SHIELD’s sixth season will look like, but details are starting to become clearer as summer 2019 creeps ever closer. In the latest season 6 news, the cast will grow to include Anthony Michael Hall in a currently-unknown guest role.
This news was first reported by Revenge of the Fans.
Hall is best known for his nerdy 1980s film roles as the straight-arrow Brian Johnson in The Breakfast Club and Gary Wallace in Weird Science. He was briefly part of the cast of Saturday Night Live with Robert Downey Jr, played the antagonist Jim in Edward Scissorhands, and starred in the leading role of Johnny Smith in the TV adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone.
Revenge of the Fans also reports that Briana Venskus will be reprising her role of SHIELD agent Piper, and Joel Stoffer will reprise his role of Enoch.
Enoch was a Chromicon, basically a robot from another planet tasked to prevent calamities. As he died returning the team back to the present in “Past Life” (5.10), it seems likely that his role in season 6 will be in flashbacks.
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Here are the key things we know about season 6: It will premiere in July and consist of 13 episodes instead of 22, as has every previous season, and Clark Gregg will sort of return, as he directs 6.01, “Missing Pieces.”
At the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Jeff Ward would be promoted to series regular as Deke Shaw, the time-displaced grandson of Leo Fitz (Iain De Caesticker) and Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) after being a recurring character in season 5.
According to Henry Simmons, his character of Alphonso “Mack” McKenzie will have a rough adjustment to his new role as SHIELD Director in the upcoming season.
It was recently announced that the show was pre-emptively renewed for season 7 to air in 2020.