As is the norm for the majority of Marvel Studios releases, Eternals will feature two post-credits scenes (don't worry, we won't spoil them here), but it seems quite a few ideas - and characters - were considered before the writers settled on the sequences that feature in the finished film.
During an interview with Metro, writer Kaz Firpo revealed that ideas for "about nine" different post-credits stingers were discussed, and it sounds like at least a few of them would have taken the story in a completely new direction.
"Well, we can't spoil anything, but the other nine possible versions of these endings, they just told different stories. They chose different characters, they introduced different ideas, and so a big part of it for us was just, where do we want to go next? And when we finally figured that out when the movie was done, that's when we knew, this is the way we're going, we're going out into the stars."
It's difficult to predict what these scrapped scenes may have entailed (especially without spoiling certain things about the movie), but Eternals is an incredibly expansive story that opens the door to whole new corners of the MCU, so there are numerous possibilities.
If you're curious about what happens in the post-credits scenes, spoilers are out there, but if you don't know the details already, we highly recommend waiting until Eternals hits theaters on November 5 to find out.
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