Given that Marvel's Agents of SHIELD has featured super-powered 'Inhuman' characters for years, how will the new Inhumans series link up to its MCU stablemate?

Turns out, it's all relative...

Speaking to Digital Spy in a roundtable interview, showrunner Scott Buck explained that the Inhumans featured in SHIELD are "relatives" of the Inhumans cast, who reside on the Moon.

"We had to be aware of what's happening in Agents of SHIELD, because we do inhabit the same universe and our characters do come to Earth," Buck said. "We don't specifically mention characters from Agents of SHIELD, but what has happened there is relevant to what happens in our show."

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Addressing how Inhumans will compare to other Marvel television series, Buck insisted that he and his team had "endeavoured to make it feel as grounded and real as possible".

"When you enter a fantastic world like this, you have to be able to relate to the characters," he said. "All of their emotions, their drives, their thoughts, should feel real and relatable. Yes they do have superpowers, but I tend to think of them more as people with superpowers than superheroes.

"Their superpowers are almost secondary to who they are, it doesn't necessarily define their personality. So tonally I would just say, as far as the rest of the Marvel world, there is always going to be comedy, and emotion, and hopefully just some very strong characters that the audience will find worth watching.

"I don't necessarily come from the world of writing action-adventure, I come from a background of writing more character-driven stuff, so the action is fun – and we certainly have a lot of really cool action and stunts throughout the show – but Inhumans is basically a family drama."

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IMAX Entertainment CEO Greg Foster also revealed to us that he doesn't expect Inhumans to be finished until a week before the first two episodes are released to cinemas.

"My guess is it's not really going to be finished until a week before we actually open it," he revealed. "When we saw it, we were excited, [but] there still are only four sequences with visual effects that are finished.

"There's a lot more – we have 600 visual effects shots in the first two episodes – so the next five or six weeks are going to be a race, but it's exciting obviously."

Marvel's The Inhumans follows the Royal family of a race of super-powered beings, who take a fateful trip from their home on the Moon to the planet Earth.

The series will premiere its first two episodes on IMAX from September 1, 2017, before the entire season of eight episodes kicks off on ABC from September 2.

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