Marvel Studios originally dated Eternals for November 6, only to be forced to push it to February 12, 2021. After another round of release day delays yesterday evening, the film has now been slotted in for a November 5, 2021 debut (an entire year after it was originally supposed to arrive).
Following the news, star Kumail Nanjiani took to Twitter to share his support for the decision.
"Marvel made the right & responsible decision," the actor, who plays Kingo in Chloé Zhao's film, says. "There’s a pandemic. Nothing is more important than health [and] lives. I can’t tell [people] to go to a movie theater until I feel safe going to one."
Scientific advice does suggest that visiting a movie theater is still unsafe, and his Eternals co-star Barry Keoghan (Druig) was supportive of Nanjiani comments as you can also see below.
These delays hurt, but make sense from a safety and business perspective. Waiting another year for Eternals is a killer, but based on what little we know, it should end up being well worth it.
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