The latter half of 2021 sees Marvel Cinematic Universe movies making their comeback with Black Widow and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings already out, followed by Spider-Man: No Way Home and — drumroll, please — Eternals.
The movie is directed by Chloé Zhao, who won a pair of Oscars for her film Nomadland, and is written by cousins Matthew and Ryan Firpo.
The character descriptions are from Marvel’s official synopsis — poor Dane Whitman is apparently too boring for any hype.
I guess that I thought that boat had sailed, and it was an absolute shock,” Salma Hayek said in a May interview with Variety.
“Sersi is not your typical superhero: She’s not necessarily the best fighter, she doesn’t have the most obviously impressive powers.
Separately, she said working on Eternals was a very different experience than on Captain Marvel, which employed more studio work and blue screen.
In December 2019, Nanjiani revealed the fruits of his training — and the intense regime required to maintain it — to play swordsman Kingo in some super-buff Instagram shots.
“I would not have been able to do this if I didn’t have a full year with the best trainers and nutritionists paid for by the biggest studio in the world,” he wrote in his original Instagram caption.
And Lauren Ridloff, whom you might know as Connie in The Walking Dead, will be the MCU’s first deaf superhero.
They were dreamed up by Jack Kirby, co-creator of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, after he created the very similar New Gods for DC six years earlier.
“The whole movie is a love letter to what one man was able to do with a pencil, sitting at a little desk on the East Coast,” Feige said at the Eternals premiere on Oct.
In the comics, they’re an evolutionary offshoot of humanity living on Earth who possess greater powers and have longer lifespans.