ETERNALS: Kevin Feige Shares Some Very Exciting Updates On The MCU's New Cosmic Super-Team
During a new interview, Marvel's Kevin Feige provided some updates on the status of the Eternals movie, and it sounds like fans of Jack Kirby's original comic run are in for a treat. More past the jump...
Specific details on the plot of Marvel's planned Eternals movie remain under wraps for now, but we are slowly beginning to get a better idea of what to expect from The MCU's new assemblage of space-faring heroes.
While chatting to Collider, Kevin Feige shared some exciting updates on the project, which will be helmed by The Rider director Chloe Zhao. The Marvel Studios chief reveals that, unlike the individual movies that led to The Avengers, the core group of heroes will be introduced in Eternals together as a full ensemble in much the same way as Guardians of the Galaxy's group of A-holes were in James Gunn's first film.
That's hardly surprising (it's not as if anyone was expecting a Sersi solo movie first, after all), but Feige then goes on to suggest that the movie - or at least, the franchise - could "span tens of thousands of years."
"Eternals are one group, but we like the idea of introducing an ensemble, doing an ensemble movie from the start, as opposed to building up as we did with the first Avengers. More like Guardians, not tonally, but in terms of introducing a new group of people. You were asking about ’60s, and ’70s before. Jack Kirby did an immense, amazing epic with Eternals that spans tens of thousands of years, and that’s also something we haven’t really done, which is why that among many other things post-Endgame, we find appealing.”
While Feige's comments are still a little on the vague side, it certainly sounds as if the studio is committed to doing something very different with this property.
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