As Spider-Man: No Way Home continues to dominate the box office, Marvel Studios' Eternals is now available to stream at no extra cost on Disney+. This is just two months after it was released in cinemas.
Eternals, from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), is arguably the most divisive Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movie to date. However, it may yet find an audience on Disney+.
I'll be watching out of curiosity (I'd never heard of the Eternals before) as I wait for the home release of Spider-Man: No Way Home on Netflix.
Have you seen Eternals on Disney+? Let me know in the comments below.
Marvel Studios has dropped the second and final trailer for Eternals from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland). It explains why they didn't help the Avengers in their fight against Thanos.
Here's the official synopsis:
"The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations. They have hidden themselves for thousands of years, must re-unite to protect Earth from their enemies, the Deviants."
"I'm a big fan of the MCU. So when they come knocking it's very exciting," Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), who plays Dane Whitman AKA Black Knight, told Sirius XM. "The character, I won't go into why he interests me, because it's more than my life is worth to tell you. But what did interest me about that piece was that it as Chloe Zhao directing. I met her and spoke with her and was so impressed by her. The cast was sort of phenomenal and wide-ranging and diverse. It just looked like they were doing something really different with this movie. I can't tell you much about it but we filmed it pre-pandemic. And it's coming out finally, it was sort of frustrating that it got pushed back so much. But now I'll be going on and doing some press for that soon and it's really exciting."
In related news. Spoiler for the second episode of What If...? on Disney+. Josh Brolin reprises the role of Thanos in a poignant instalment starring the late Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa's Star-Lord.
Eternals will be in cinemas on 5th November.
Are you looking forward to the Eternals? Let me know in the comments below.
Marvel Studios has dropped an official teaser trailer for Eternals from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland).
Read the official synopsis:
"The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations. They have hidden themselves for thousands of years, must re-unite to protect Earth from their enemies, the Deviants."
The Eternals, god-like creations by Jack Kirby after he returned to Marvel Comics following a stint at rival DC Comics where he created the supervillain Darkseid, have never interfered in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Seemingly the Thanos Blip wasn't a big enough issue for them until the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame.
“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,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said previously. “More like Guardians, not tonally, but in terms of introducing a new group of people… 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.”
Unlike Marvel Comics superheroes Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk and the X-Men. The Eternals are an unknown quantity to me. However, I was ambivalent about Guardians of the Galaxy and won over.
Phase 4 continues with Black Widow and Loki on Disney+, followed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in September.
Eternals will be in cinemas this November.
Are you looking forward to the Eternals? Let me know in the comments below.
