Samuel L. Jackson has said that Nick Fury will not appear in The Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers 4, or Black Panther - and he doesn't seem entirely happy about that.

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Speaking to Yahoo Movies UK , the veteran actor (who hasn't appeared in a Marvel film since 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron) was pretty clear about his status in the next superhero team-up: "I’m not in Avengers 3 and 4. They’re shooting them now - they haven’t called me yet.”Avengers: Infinity War has wrapped, but the untitled Avengers 4 has only recently begun production Jackson seems more irked about being left out of another upcoming Marvel project, however:“They wouldn’t let me go to Black Panther-ville. It’s kind of like: 'How you gonna make a black Marvel movie and not let Nick Fury show up in it?'”He also explained that while rumours have linked him with a return in 2019's Captain Marvel film, he has heard nothing about it himself:"I haven't signed a contract, haven't seen a script. I talked to Brie [Larson] the other day, she didn't say anything. She's the only person I know that's actually in the movie. I've been rumored to be in several different Marvel movies that I haven't shown up in, you know?"It seems Nick Fury may be in filmic deep cover for some time, then. It's likely he'll return, however, given that Jackson signed a nine-picture deal with Marvel , only seven of which have been fulfilled.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and he feels like Jackson would be a bad person to irritate, but that's just him. Follow him on Twitter