Eternals (2021) Movie | Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani | Review & Facts

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Angelina Jolie in the film The eternals Immortal alien beings emerg from hiding after thousands of years to protect Earth from their ancient counterparts the deviants in April 2018 Marvel Studios president Kevin Fage announced that a film based on the eternals was in development and would explore the group as Ancient Aliens living throughout human history Ryan and C furo were hired to write the script and Xiao was set to direct in September she was given significant creative freedom to rewrite the script taking particular inspiration from Terren Malik's films and to use more locations and natural lighting than previous mchu films had casting began in early 2019 and Burley joined to work on the script ahead of principal photography which took place from July 2019 to February 2020 at Pinewood Studios and on location in England and the Canary Islands eternals premiered at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood Los Angeles on October 18th 2021 and was released in the United States on November 5th as part of phase four of the maku the film grossed $42 million worldwide and received some awards and nominations but it also became the first mchu film to not receive generally positive reviews particular criticism went to the screenplay and pacing with commentators feeling it did not live up to xiao's previous work or to previous maku films it received some praise for its themes and visuals in 5,000 BC 10 superpowered beings known as a eternals AAC Cersei acarus Kingo Sprite fastos marari druig Gilgamesh inthena are sent to Earth by arishem a Celestial on the Starship Domo they are charged with Exterminating invasive entities known as the deviants after the last deviants are killed in 1521 the group's opinions differ over their continued relationship with humankind over the next 500 years they mostly live apart waiting for aram's orders in the the present Cersei and Sprite live together in London after cersei's partner acarus left her without explanation centuries earlier she is now in a relationship with human danne Witman who works at the Natural History Museum when the trio is attacked by the Deviant Crow acarus arrives and chases the creature away the three eternals travel to South Dakota to reunite with their leader AAC only to find her dead Cersei is postumus chosen by ajac as her successor granted her the ability to communicate with arishem Cersei learns that the eternal's mission was actually to prepare Earth for the emergence of a new Celestial arishem explains that for millions of years he has been planting Celestial seeds inside planets where the energy from large populations allows new celestials to be born the deviants were sent to destroy the apex predators of each planet to ensure the development of intelligent life but when they evolved and began hunting the planet's native populations arish created the eternals to counter them with the recent end of the blip restoring Earth's population humankind has reached the necessary size to allow the celestial tiamut to be born which will result in Earth's destruction hoping to delay the emergence the eternals reunite at dug's residence in the Amazon rainforest they are attacked by the Deviant they kill them all except for Crow who kills Gilgamesh before fleeing fastos proposed as they use the uni mind a connection between all the eternals that would give druig enough power to put tiamut to sleep with his mind control abilities however acarus is loyal to arishem and refuses to help stop the emergence he reveals that AAC wanted to stop the emergence and save Humanity so he led her to the deviants and allowed them to kill her Sprite joins acarus due to her unrequited love for him while Kingo chooses to leave marari locates the place of the emergence an active volcano in the Indian Ocean where a carus and Sprite attempt to stop them druig knocks out Sprite and fastos restrains aarth Crow arrives and is killed by Fina druig is unable to put Tia to sleep and Cersei instead attempts to turn him into marble acarus breaks free of his restraints and goes to kill Cersei but is unable to do to his love for her both he and Sprite join with the others in the uni mind and Cersei gains enough power to turn Tiamat into marble guilt ridden acarus flies into the sun Cersei uses the remaining uni mind energy to turn Sprite into a human ending her permanent childlike State Fina druck and marari depart on the doo to warn eternals on other planets of the emergences Whitman professes his love for Cersei and is about to reveal a secret about his family history when she fastos and Kingo are lifted into space by arish displeased with their treason arish says he will spare Humanity if the eternal's memories show that humans are worthy of living He vows to return for judgment and takes the trio into a singularity in a mid-credits scene Thea marari and druig meet the Eternal Aeros and his assistant pip the troll in a post-credit scene an unseen person questions whether Whitman is ready to wield the ebony blade in April 2015 Marvel television was working with screenwriter John Ridley to craft a new television series for ABC Reinventing an existing Marvel character or property which was revealed years later to be the eternals through its development which ultimately had eventually been abandoned during the folding of Marvel television in December 2019 Ridley stated that he was trying to make a superhero television series that viewers had not necessarily seen before with hopes that it could occupy a space that was not currently being filled by Marvel his approach to the characters would have been a really weird story though he stated the characters are a really hard property to adapt while conceding that while he believed his series would have been good it may not have been entertaining for everyone Marvel Studios president Kevin Fage said in April 2018 that the studio was actively developing a film based on the Marvel comics series eternals created by Jack Kirby to be released as part of their phase four slate of film Marvel Studios had met with multiple screenwriters and was believed to be focusing on the character Cersei in the film Marvel set Ryan and Cass furo to write the script A month later with their outline including a love story between the characters Cersei and acarus in June Fage said Marvel was interested in exploring the Ancient Aliens kind of sci-fi Trope by having the eternals be the inspiration for myths and legends throughout the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe during late August Marvel's director search for eternals narrowed to a short list that included Khloe Xiao who had also been in the running to direct Marvel's Black Widow 2021 Nicole Castle Travis Knight and the pair of Christina galigo and syyro Gara Xiao approached Marvel Studios about making the film as she had been a fan of the maku she wanted to work with the studio to bring her own take and World building to the franchise and impressed them with a presentation that Fage described as fascinating with reams of visuals Xiao worked with producer Nate Moore to develop her pitch the presentation left Marvel concerned that she might take on a different big Studio project instead of eternals forcing them to move quickly to secure her and Xiao was hired as director in September Xiao hoped to push the scope of the film further than Marvel's Avengers in game 2019 but also wanted it to have intimacy Xiao described the film as a Melting Pot of influences from Kirby's original work Neil gaiman's to6 run previous mchu projects J's fandom of the mchu and her love of Science Fiction and Fantasy films and manga speaking specifically to her love of Manga she hoped those influences would create a marriage of east and west Xiao cited the TV series Ancient Aliens the Final Fantasy video game series the concepts from yuil Noah hari's book sapiens a brief history of humankind and the films of Terrence Malik as her Inspirations for the film Marvel considered eternals to be a perfect transition into its next phase of films along with projects such as Captain Marvel 2019 allowing the studio to cast a diverse group of actors to portray the various eternals Moore's initial planning documents for the project including the swapping of genders sexualities and ethnicities of some characters from the comic books with xia further advocating for this approach in February 2019 Fage reiterated that Marvel was interested in the eternals due to Kirby's Epic Century spanning story with the film version spanning 7,000 years and exploring Humanity's place in the cosmos Xiao noted that the eternals have lived Among Us for so long they have the same struggles like identity purpose Faith personal freedom versus greater good all the Duality and flaws that make us human when trying to develop a story that spans so many years Marvel realized that the characters would likely be a family unit with a friendship that would turn into Frenemies and then turn into enemies and then come back to Friendship Xiao also looked to the Earth as an 11th character in the film chronicling its Journey alongside the Eternal characters Marvel also wanted to create more Ensemble films that were not crossover films like Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 while introducing relatively unknown characters to audiences as they did with that film's title characters and the Avengers throughout early 2019 Xiao began working on a draft of the script building upon the multiple drafts submitted by the furos approximately 4 months ahead of filming the script was not finalized so Moore introduced Patrick Burley who had been part of Marvel's writers program to Xiao in the hopes he could assist with the writing Xiao hired him to work on the screenplay which he did for about 3 months ahead of filming Burley believed Xiao needed to write on the film as well as direct to process the film through her own filter and noted her draft showed she was trying to make the Terren Malik version of a Marvel film jao citing his film The Tree of Life 2011 as an inspiration Burley called his work with Xiao on the script mostly structural to find the flow of the film likening The Story to a road trip film Angelina Jolie joined the cast in March 2019 reportedly as Cersei with Cel nuni and Don Lee cast in undisclosed roles the next month at that time the film was expected to feature Marvel studios's first gay superhero in May Richard Madden entered negotiations for the role of aurus and Salma Heek had entered early negotiations for an undisclosed role the following month in July variety reported that the cast included Jolie Madden and Millie Bobby Brown but Brown denied that she been cast at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con Fage officially announced the eternals with a release date of November 6 2020 he officially announced the casting of Jolie astha nanini as Kingo Lee as gilgames Madden as a carus And he as AAC along with Lauren ridof as mcui Brian Tye Henry as fastos and leam mchu as Sprite Xiao looked for actors for each role that could find a bit of themselves in their character Fage added that one of these actors was portraying an lgbtq character with actor H slamman later revealing that fastos is depicted as gay in the film slaman portrays the character's husband and the pair have a child in the film slamman felt it was important to depict how loving and beautiful a queer family can be rather than the sexual or rebellious depiction in some previous media Fage said the relationship was always sort of inherent in the story and he felt it was extremely well done in the film while slamman said it was a thoughtful depiction eternals is set around eight months after the events of Avengers in game and addresses why the eternals did not interfere in any past conflicts in the muu both Fage and Moore said the film would have major Ripple effects on the future of the maku and at times it was a challenge to balance the grounded nature of the maku with the Mythic grandor of the et's property by the film's official announcement in July 2019 principal photography had begun at Pinewood Studios in buckinghamshire England Ben Davis served as Director of Photography after doing so on several previous maku films Jiao said Marvel Studios allowed her creative freedom to shoot the film on location exactly the way she wanted to shoot it she was able to use a similar style to her previous films including 360° shots and working with the same camera and rigs as were used for her film Nom Medlin 2020 which Yao was set to complete backto back with the eternals Xiao felt that she got lucky in that Marvel wants to take risks and do something different Xiao cited the Revenant 2015 as a primary influence when composing the film's action sequences Jemma Chan and Barry Kagen were in talks to join the cast in August 2019 Chan previously portrayed Min irva in Captain in Marvel but reports noted that she was potentially being looked at by Marvel to play a separate character in this film since Min irva dies in that film Chan had felt that it was unlikely she would return to the mchu but after working on the film she was told by Fage that the studio wanted to make better use of her in a future project this led to Chan auditioning for Cersei one of the last actresses to be considered for the role Chan later described Cersei as the most difficult role for the film to cast Chan and Kagen were confirmed to be cast in the film at the d23 Expo in August in the roles of Cersei and druck respectively along with kit Harrington as danne Whitman Chan said she and Marvel Studios were surprised by how soon after Captain Marvel her new mchu role came with both assuming that it would have been a project further in the future Harish Patel was cast at the end of August as karon kingo's manager and filmed his role from sep member 2019 until January 2020 by early November filming took place in the Canary Islands the filming cast and crew including Jolie and Madden had to be evacuated from a shooting location on the island of FL Aventura when an explosive device was found there the device was thought to be a Remnant Armament from a Nazi base later that month zann Al Rafia joined the cast in early January 2020 filming took place outside the o Oxford University Museum of Natural History in Oxford England as well as Hamstead Heath and in Camden in London under the working title sack lunch Chan said the filming process felt very different from what she experienced on Captain Marvel explaining that Eternal shot more on location and utilized natural light while Captain Marvel had more Studio work and blue screen filming wrapped on February 4th 2020 in March 2020 scanline VFX one the companies working on the film's visual effects confirmed that they would be working remotely due to the covid-19 pandemic industrial Light and Magic Luma pictures rise and wed digital also worked on the film's visual effects in early April Disney shifted much of their phase for slate of films due to the pandemic moving the eternals release date to February 12th 2021 in August the film's title was officially shortened from the eternals to eternals and the next month the release date was pushed back to November 5th 2021 reshoots had taken place by mid November 2020 additional filming occurred in Los Angeles in early February also under the working title sack lunch Dylan tier and Craig would serve as co-editors of the film titchener said Xiao usually edits her own films and has strong opinions but on eternals she was relying on tier and would due to the size of the production and the ongoing award season for nomadland titchener added that Xiao respected the pair's editing experience and point of view and they made their first cut of the film without much input from her they began adjusting the film based on jiao's feedback and were still working on the editing in April 2021 at the end of the month Xiao said editing for the film was in its final stretch and joshan St John was revealed to appear in the film after previously starring in xiao's film songs My Brothers taught me 2015 at the end of May 2021 with the release of the first teaser trailer and poster for the film the official writing credits were revealed Xiao was credited as the screenwriter both as a solo contributor and as part of a writing team with Burley while Ryan and Cass furo received story credit additionally Gil Birmingham was revealed to have been cast in the film although he was absent in the final film in July 2021 writer's Guild of America West presented the film's final writing credits awarding Ryan and Cass furo screenplay credit along with jaia and the team of Xiao and Burley in addition to their story credit Moore believed the studio had bit off as much as we could chew with the film creating one that felt urgent and present and had a fast pace but also took time to reflect back over the centuries at the film's world premiere Matt Donley of variety tweeted that Harry Styles made an appearance in in a post credits scen as AOS thano's brother in the comics which was not shown in early press screenings of the film jaia later revealed that she kept tabs on Styles since his appearance in Dunkirk 2017 believing that he makes me think of AOS as a character WWE wrestler Becky Lynch had a role in the film for a planned post credits scene that was intended to set up a future project the scene was removed for being reportedly too depressing r jawat composed a score for the film after previously doing so for Marvel's Iron Man 2008 two songs from the film soundtrack across the oceans of time and eternal's theme were released as singles on October 22nd 2021 while the full album was released on November 3rd the first footage of the film was released in May 2021 as part of a promotional video from Marvel Studios celebrating their films and a return to movie theaters though the footage was limited and vague Hoy Tran buy at/ film still felt it was very exciting chain gardberg of The Verge felt one of the biggest moments of the footage was seeing Jolie wielding a sword made of light he was also encouraged that eternals appeared to be one of Marvel's first films to deliver on their years long promise of creating films with more diverse cast Nerdist Michael arbat said the footage was quick but felt that it manages is an air of wonderment the first teaser for the film was released on May 24th 2021 gartenberg felt the teaser was light on plot elements with it instead focusing on the civilization spanning scope of the superhero team and its members throughout human history he also believed the film was a big swing from Marvel Studios to entice audiences with a lesser known Comics property but believed that it would succeed due to its diverse cast of well-known actors and J's status as one of the most exciting directors around e 9's Charlie pulum Moore felt the trailer was a multiple Millennia spanning recap of Earth's history and said it was unclear how much the larger mchu would impact on the film outside of a brief reference to the Avengers at the end of the trailer writing for Entertainment Weekly Nick Romano felt the teaser was a combination of thrilling Goosebump inducing moments and some jokes Eric Adams of the a Club felt the spot tease some fresh angles for the maku in a similar way to Thor Ragnarok 2017 and Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 and he enjoyed the images of kingo's Bollywood dance Sprite performing karaoke and the end scene of the eternals eating together and joking about the Avengers after seeing the teaser variey Adam B very described the film as unquestionably a Khloe Xiao movie but wished more action set pieces were featured in the teaser to to see how Xiao would approach them in the film Adele ankors ofine discussed the poster that was released at the same time as the trailer highlighting how the eternals appear in silhouette against a sunlet background which she described as another taste of Khloe xiao's signature filming style and the use of natural light to illuminate a frame that would be seen in the film upon release the teaser quickly became the number one trending video on YouTube and amassed 77 million Global views in its first 24 hours Disney's president of marketing Assad AZ said the teaser was designed to just be an introduction to the characters in tone and not give much of the film away adding the marketing team would be very judicious on when more material would be revealed while also using the releases of Black Widow and shangai and the legend of the 10 Rings before eternals to help expose audiences to the characters the final trailer was released in August 2021 with Ethan Shan Feld and manori ravenden of variety feeling it was more serious in tone than the teaser with the eternals grappling with the prospect of emerging after centuries living apart in order to help humans entertainment weeklys Devon Kagan felt that the trailer was the best Glimpse yet of the film and gave a sense of the vast scale and scope of the film while answering one important question about the absence of the eternals during the conflict against Thanos and Avengers Infinity war and Avengers in game Aaron couch at The Hollywood Reporter said the trailer reveals much of the film's plot as well as its character's Powers teasing the answers to key questions about who the eternals answer to their relationship to Earth and why they ultimately didn't intervene in the conflict against Thanos in October 2021 Lexus released a commercial promoting the film and its Lexus is 500 Sports sedan starring nanen as Kingo with frequent mchu Direct Joe and Anthony Russo guiding its development and frame store working on the visual effects Lexus created 10 concept cars based on the 10 eternals characters from the film The ls500h and NX are featured in the film beginning on November 20th 2021 select costumes from the film were part of the Futures exhibit at the Smithsonian institution's arts and industries building which ran through July 2022 behind the scenes content looking at the evolution of the film's visuals as well as an augmented reality experience were also included in the exhibit eternals had its World premiere at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood Los Angeles on October 18th 2021 and was screened at the Rome Film Festival on October 24th the film was released theatrically in many European countries on November 3rd and in the United States and the United Kingdom on November 5th in real 3D and 4dx in September 2021 Disney announced that the film would have an exclusive theatrical release for a minimum of 45 days eternals was previously set for release on November 6th 2020 before it was shifted to February 12th 2021 and then to the November 2021 date due to the covid-19 pandemic it is part of phase four of the mchu in May 2021 a Chinese State media report excluded eternals as well as Shang Kai and the legend of the 10 rings from its list of upcoming maku films releasing which variety noted added to rumors that the films would not be released in China especially since Xiao had become an unexpected persona non grata in the country after she was scrutinized by Chinese neens over her remarks in a 2013 interview with filmmaker magazine in which she described China as a place where there are lies Everywhere by September 2021 deadline Hollywood reported it remained an open question if the Chinese government or Xiao would attempt to rehabilitate the situation but it seems likely the film would not be released in China following the country's response to nomadland as well as Shanghai and the legend of the 10 Rings likely not being released in the country either following backlash to comments made by star simu in 2017 the film was not released in Saudi Arabia Kuwait Qatar Bahrain and Oman due to the depiction of of a gay couple theaters in the United Arab Emirates Jordan Lebanon and Egypt were set to show an edited version of the film which is missing all the love scenes Angelina Jolie criticized the country's decision to ban the film saying I'm sad for those audiences and I'm proud of Marvel for refusing to cut those scenes out I still don't understand how we live in a world today where they still would not see the family fastos has and the beauty of that relationship and that love how anybody is angry about it threatened by it doesn't approve or appreciate it is ignorant Lebanese actor H slamman who played faso's husband Ben in the film also voiced the same reaction towards the matter they stood their ground and said nope we are not going to compromise the Integrity of our film it made these Arab countries look so ignorant and pathetic I have no respect for those governments they have displayed to the world that they are not only a disgrace to humanity but to God hopefully this will inspire the Saudi people the Kuwaiti people and the people in Qatar to fight back Marvel later agreed to cut any kind of love scenes including the gay couple kiss for the film's release in Indonesia which received praise from the Indonesian film censorship board lsf eternals began streaming on Disney Plus on January 12th 2022 with the option to view the theatrical version of the film or an Max enhanced Version audio commentary and additional bonus features for the film were added to Disney Plus in March 2022 it was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray Blu-ray and DVD on February 15th the home media includes audio commentary deleted scenes a gag reel and various behindth scenes featurettes according to samb TV eternals was watched by two million s households during its first 5 days on Disney Plus eternals was also the top streaming film for viewers in the United States for the week ending January 16th 2022 according to whip media's TV time in the United States and Canada eternals earned $30.7 million on its opening day which included $9.5 million from Thursday night previews marking the third largest opening day of the pandemic behind Black Widow and Venom Let There Be Carnage its opening weekend earned 7 $1.3 million from 5.5 million theater admissions making it the top film of the weekend IMAX accounted for over $7.6 million over the weekend this marked the fourth largest opening weekend of the pandemic the domestic opening weekend gross was lower than various pre-release projections deadline attributed this to the film's overall mixed reception from critics and audiences in its second weekend eternals remained the top film grossing over $27.5 million eternals became the sixth highest grossing film of 2021 in the United States the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 47% based on 47 reviews with an average rating of 5 610 the website's critical consensus reads an ambitious superhero epic that Soares as often as it strains eternals takes the mchu in intriguing and occasionally confounding new directions on Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 52 out of 100 based on 62 critics indicating mixed or average reviews upon release it became the lowest rated mchu film on both websites and the first installment to be classified as rotten on Rotten Tomatoes audiences pulled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of B on an A plus to f scale the lowest grade for a mchu film and postra reported 78% of audience members gave it a positive score with 60% saying they would definitely recommend it Charlotte O Sullivan of the evening standard described the film as lavish and ambitious and praised the fight sequences as astounding beautifully paced and crammed with detail Robert Abel of thrap commended the cinematography and felt an earnestness to the operatic Stakes Oliver Jones of the Observer called it full of wonder and romance and fueled by an agenda and audacity all its own Owen gaberman was disappointed over xiao's missing filmmaking style that shaped her films the riter 2017 and Nadin 2020 to embrac the straightup expository conventionality of Marvel film making but felt that the film was a squarely fun and gratifying watch Moira McDonald of the Seattle Times thought it's got some pretty slow spots mid-film and it's desperately in need of a bit more wit what it does have is a palpable Artful mood this is a movie full of superheroes who spend time thinking and feeling and of special effects that aren't just Zippy but often delicately elegant Linda Merrick of the Jewish Chronicle described it as a mish mash of well-meaning yet jarringly verbose and bafflingly incoherent nonsense which is only just about saved by some half decent performances Nicholas Barber of BBC culture called jia's Direction workmanlike and Claris Luffy of the independent said that it strives for the same expansive soulfulness as nomadland but discovers there's room enough only for the occasional burst of it Brian trud of USA Today pra jia's pensent for naturalistic environments but wrote that the narrative struggles to juggle its many subplots and tries to do too much Mark Kennedy of the Associated Press criticized the dialogue and fight scenes but praised the visual effects and non J's performance surely lie of the Atlantic felt that xiao's delicate examination of her characters outshines eternals dollar and more convoluted moments Robbie Collin wrote the film was constantly engaged in a kind of grit toothed authenticity theater going out of its way to show you it's doing all the things proper Cinema does even though none of them bring any discernible benefit Kevin mayher felt a strange self-sabotaging energy at the heart and Steve Rose of the Guardian Mist the Breezy wit of Marvel's best movies like coming into Avengers in game cold without having seen any of the preceding installments K Austin Collins of Rolling Stone felt that the film was good at telling us where to look at impressing us with its manufactured sense of grandeur but lacked any credible sense of what's actually worth seeing Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times had a depressing realization that you've just seen one of the more interesting movies Marvel will ever make and hopefully the least interesting one Khloe Xiao will ever make Brian Lori of CNN F the movie's structural flaws offset its stunning visuals and strong performances Kyle Smith of National Review was harsher describing it as one of the dumbest cheesiest most trite and least human of the maku films the mixed reception surprised some commentators given the maku's positive track record and the ACC claim of xiao's previous work Richard newbie of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that much of the criticism of Kirby's work which was divisive for its subject matter and relationship to the wider Marvel Universe has followed Xiao in her adaptation he compare the divisive response to that of Zack Snider's DC extended Universe films Man of Steel and Batman v Superman dawn of Justice 2016 writing that they and eternals share a deconstructive approach to superhero hero es and force them to question their purpose in the world through meditative and Melancholy narrative beats and a tragic yet hopeful ending this approach he felt subverted critics and audien's expectations which made them review the film more harshly Xiao addressed some of the criticisms of the film believing some of the divisiveness came from everyone having an existential crisis because of the covid-19 pandemic and the film being an existential crisis both for Humanity and God she also felt the reactions to how the film Incorporated her filmmaking sensibilities with Marvel's were a testament to how much we had merged with each other how uncomfortable that might make people feel the film was given the Seal of authentic representation from the rudderman Family Foundation for rid loff's role as marari the seal is given to films and series that feature actors with disabilities who have at least five lines of dialogue eternals was also one of 28 films that received the reframe stamp for 2021 awarded by the gender Equity Coalition reframe for films that are proven to have gender balanced hiring in February 2021 the documentary series Marvel Studios assembled was announced the special on this film The Making of eternals was released on Disney Plus on February 16 2022 in October 2021 Xiao said she was open to making a sequel the next month Cass and Ryan furo expressed interest in making a prequel series for Disney plus that would focus on one Eternal in a different time period each episode such as an episode about Thea in ancient Greece and one about Kingo in 1890s Mumbai where he balances his life as a film star with Mahatma Gandhi's campaign for India's independence from British rule they also felt there were opportunities to continue the film Story by further exploring danne whitmann and showing the eternal confronting the celestials Chan said in January 2022 that she would reprise the role of Cersei in the future Fage was asked about Styles's future in the maku that July and said Marvel Studios was excited to further explore the characters AOS and pip as part of the mcu's more Cosmic stories a month later Oswalt said a sequel had been confirmed by Marvel Studios and Jiao was returning to direct he hoped it would further explore Aeros and pip and express interest in a spin-off film for the characters in October Moore said Marvel intended to bring back the eternals characters in the future of the maku nanan said the following month that he was unaware of a sequel and believed Oswalt was mistaken but expressed interest in reprising his role as Kingo Don Le's talent agency indicated in December that he would reprise his role as gilgames in an eternal sequel Oswalt clarified his statements in February 2023 saying a sequel was not in development at that time and that he had been misled in July 2024 Fage said there were no plans for a sequel at the time review of eternal's film director CH Jiao applies her distinctive aesthetic imprint to eternals but she can only do so much to bend the Marvel Cinematic Universe to her will the result is a blockbuster of unusual gentle beauty that also strains to fulfill the gargantuan requirements of a massive action spectacle it is in short a bit of a mess it is also and I cannot stress this enough 2 hours and 37 minutes long and yet because The Talented eclectic cast is so enormous and so much World building must occur eternals ultimately feels rushed and unsatisfying the mythology here is both dense and frequently silly with the movie grinding to a halt around the 1hour mark for an extensive information dump by the end you may still be unclear clear as to what's going on but you also may not care Xiao the newly minted Academy Award winner for best picture and director for the spare and intimate nomadland does offer a great deal of her signature style though for those of you who found the choice of Xiao a fascinating one and wondered what her version of the maku might look like you'll be happy to learn she manages to find magic hour wherever she goes from a breezy sunset on the shores of ancient Babylon to ominous storm clouds gathering on the plains of present day South Dakota working with cinematographer Ben Davis who also shot Guardians of the Galaxy doctor strange and Captain Marvel she consistently provides opportunities to let us slow down take a breath and enjoy a moment of naturalism and Stillness you can feel the sunbaked heat of the windy Australian Outback an action scene set in a torch lit forest at night is especially stunning Unfortunately they don't last long because there is a big noisy comic book Beast to feed Xiao and her fellow screenwriters Patrick Burley and Ryan furo and Cass furo Lurch around in time in an ungainly fashion to tell the story of a group of immortal beings living secretly on Earth each has his or her own specific abilities but collectively they share the quippy humor that's become so typical in Marvel movies the casting and characteristics on display here are revolutionary and at first cause for inspiration that we might be in for something totally different there's a natural diversity at work in ways we haven't seen from The Avengers for example from the leadership of Salma hex AAC and Gemma Chan Cersei to Brian Tyrie Henry and hos slaman as a gay couple with a young son to Lauren ridof marari whose hearing impairment is her superpower the inclusive nature of eternals feels both exciting and effortless Angelina joliea is a ferocious Warrior who also suffers from mental illness which the film handles sensitively conversely leam mchu livens things up as the androgynous for every young Sprite perhaps most striking of all two characters have actual sex which is unprecedented and long overdue in a cinematic world where everyone is super hot and muscular and dressed in form-fitting costumes the scene is brief but it accomplishes so much to indicate a deeper and more vulnerable sense of humanity in these comic book figures Tony Stark and pepper pots probably did it Clint Barton definitely did because he had kids but most other romantic relationships have featured benign flirting at most so to see these characters behaving like grown people in this manner is yet another example of the potential lurking within eternals there is also a plot however which will escape your mind as quickly as it entered briefly the eternals have scattered across the globe in the centuries since they arrived on Earth in a spaceship that resembles a behemoth black marble Dorito all along they've been stealthily guiding humanity and fighting ravenous seny monsters known as deviants but a potentially cataclysmic event forces them to leave the comfortable lives they forged for themselves reassemble if you'll forgive the word choice and use their combined superpowers to stop what is essentially the apocalypse again you don't need to be deeply steeped in Marvel lore in general or Jack Kirby trippy comic series specifically to follow eternals aside from a brief reference to Thanos and why these Heroes didn't step in to stop the events of Avengers Infinity War this feels more like a standalone film than most Inu having said that of course you'll get more out of the movie if you're a fan and the obligatory end credit sequences will mean more to you to Chan Cersei with her transmutational abilities and Richard Madden zakaris a versatile Superman type figure prominently as centuries old on and off again lovers charismatic as Madden is though Chan enjoys greater Sparks with kit Harrington as her mortal london-based boyfriend danne Whitman who shares cersei's interest in archaeology whatever emotional Stakes may exist between any of these characters eventually take a backseat to flying around and zapping monsters with I lasers you can feel the struggle in trying to juggle at all and the climactic action extravagant ganza is so glossy and cacophonous it could have been plucked out of any number of soulless sci-fi spectacles over the past decade smothering all the smaller charms we'd enjoyed along the way a newly buffed cumil nanen offers some laughs as a pompous Bollywood star Don Lee provides a kind presence despite his hulking power and Barry Kagen merely has to show up to make us feel his unnerving Vibe all of these actors prove they're up for the challenge of trying to establish complicated characters within the frenzy of the mchu Machinery frustratingly they and Xiao can only serve as cogs related information the superheroes and khlo xiao's eternals are bound to each other by many things starting with the interlocking rings and shafts and bolts of golden light that emanate from their very being the light a cosmic energy they share is the piping that lines their uniforms and it's the shape shifting Weaponry they conjure to battle the deviant nashing fast break monsters that resemble dinosaurs with everything but their senu and Bone Stripped Away that filigreed network of light floating and darting through the air serves many purposes and it's the most tangible figment of cla's artistry her way of grabbing hold of the vast Machinery of a $200 million comic book franchise movie and turning it into something elegant and aesthetic with visual effects that dance before your eyes the film presents the eternals who have have spent 7,000 years saving life on Earth as an organically unified Army of noble Warrior Souls unlike say the X-Men who are boldly demarcated in their powers this one catches fire that one has metal claws this one makes the best chocolate safle you ever tasted the eternals while they do have individual talents such as the ability of one of them to shoot golden rays of light there it is again out of his eyes all share powers like super strength and the gifts of flight and teleportation their free flowing all for one Unity extends in spirit to the diversity of the characters which is something the film presents with a no big deal ephenry that makes them a winning prototype of a more dynamically inclusive superhero world four of the eternals are white three are Asian two are black and one is Latina one is gay one is deaf and one is an androgynous tween who never grows up any troll who surveys this Lively medly of backgrounds and temperaments only to gripe that the movie is too woke might have lodged the same complaint about Star Trek 55 years ago jaia is far from the first director to take the leap from ardently crafted medium budget independent cinema to the corporate Stratosphere of helming a superhero movie that she's one of the first women and one of the first Asians to do so is a landmark worth celebrating yet as I approached eternals the question I was most curious about was weather Jes who in nomadland and the writer defined her filmmaking style in a unique poetic way would carry any remnants of that mode over to the Blockbuster Universe her previous films are raw and real enough to feel like stage documentaries yet they're cut together image by image with a gripping polistic exactitude eternals has none of that it's clear that Xiao in signing up for this project made a decision to put her highly expressive and IDI syncratic Style on the shelf and to embrace the straightup expository conventionality of Marvel film making that's something of a disappointment yet xiao's sensibility to a degree comes through in the Casual Humanity of the characters in the flow of Quip and conflict and passion at times romantic in the beauty of the effects in the no sweat way that Xiao scales up her logistical skills she's a master craftswoman and eternals while two long 157 minutes is a squarely fun and gratifying watch yet one has to say the film feels very standard it's in the genre of Team superhero movies and at this point between the Avengers and the X-Men the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Justice League The Suicide Squad and the Fantastic Four there have been more than 20 of those they have their tropes the camaraderie and the back bidding the falling apart and the coming together Xiao Works within those tropes lending them sturdy drama and dimension and springing some major Twist on the audience the eternals have lived through most of human history and the film keeps flashing back to key episodes of it in Mesopotamia Babylon Hiroshima they show up whenever the deviants do slaying the beasts so that the human race can go on and sometimes though they're not supposed to nudging the evolution of civilization along they introduce the plow and will tend to hypnotize a group of Fighters into laying down their arms in the Contemporary World each Eternal has a home but they're a bit like vampires ageless impersonators of normality though as we learn they can die cers played with a Serene three-dimensional command by jeach Chan is our heroine a London museum curator who has carried on a love affair across the centuries with the dashing acarus Richard Madden though that ended and now she's involved with the merely human Dane kit Harrington Kingo played by the droll Cale nanini as the most amusingly off-kilter superhero since Deadpool is an acerbically vain Bollywood star gilg gamish Don Lee is an affable strongman living in isolation in the Aussie Outback and fastos played with a scene stealing quarrelsome magnetism by Brian Tyre Henry is a Suburban dad in Chicago with a husband and an adorable son the other eternals include mcari Lauren ridloff an abant de speed Dasher anthena Angelina Jolie a fierce Warrior who has succumbed to mod wiry pronounced mad weary that is she's cracking up as a result of having collected Too Many Memories the only cure which she rejects is to have the Slate of your mind wiped clean when summoned the eternals are better than good at defeating deviants who are now attacking them directly but there's a wrinkle in the Cosmic Sphere AAC Salma Heek the wise and seemingly benevolent leader of the eternals has been guarding a secret and when we learn it it elevates the drama to a rather intriguing moral plane ajac communes with a Celestial one of the Majestic beings that keep the universe going he's portrayed as a kind of Iron Giant in the sky and has revealed the eternal's true purpose to her it is not what it seems but is he a dark force like Thanos or a benevolent God maybe both speaking of which how exactly does the plot of this movie intersect with the Avengers Saga if you want to give yourself a case of mod wiry discuss it turns out that Earth has been serving as a giant seed pod to hatch a new Celestial and if the eternals are to support that mission it means well Darkness can they come together to defend their adopted home the suspense will not be killing you though the final battle summons aspects of grandeur to me there are three top tier team superhero movies the first Guardians of the Galaxy Zack Snider's Justice League and Avengers Infinity war eternals is a fluid and sometimes bedazzling entertainment I place on the next tier because it never transcends its conventionality and makes you go damn maybe next time Xiao can raise the stakes on the heroic Vibes by mixing in a drop of nomad reality more details of eternal's film the 26th movie in the overall Marvel Cinematic Universe and third of phase 4 eternals introduces an entirely new team of superheroes to Marvel Studios franchise world the film is directed by CL Xiao Nadin from a script she co-wrote with Patrick Burley Ant-Man and the WASP Ryan furo bet Ray's fold and Cass furo refuge and based on a story by the furos eternals adapts the Marvel Comics characters of the same name which were created by Jack Kirby in 1976 bringing the alien Heroes to the world of the maku while eternals has most of the benchmarks of a Marvel movie xiao's sprawling superhero epic is unlike anything the maku has produced before the story of the film kicks off in 5,000 BC showing how the eternals are sent to Earth to protect the planet and the humans who live on it from the evil aliens called deviants throughout time the Team battles the deviants until they're all but extinct though the eternals are forbidden from getting involved in any human conflict the movie picks up in present day with a team having split up Cersei gachan is living in London with Sprite leam McHugh and dating the human Dane Whitman kit Harrington when a deviant attacks acarus Richard Madden arrives and the eternals realize they must reassemble their team the three of them travel the world to visit their former team members Ajax Salma Heek Kingo nanini Fina Angelina Jolie gilgames Don Lee druig Barry Kagen fastos Brian Tyrie Henry and marari Lauren ridloff to together they must figure out why the deviants are back and come up with a plan to protect the Earth despite the number of characters included in eternals jiao's movie does an excellent job of weaving their stories together and showing the various ways each hero is affected by their time on Earth however a central thematic storyline is achieved by focusing much of the plot around Cersei and acarus their romantic relationship has ended by the time the film picks up in the present day but it works at is an emotional core to eternals their romance is genuinely sweet if rushed with a montage that includes a marriage scene that is followed shortly by the miku's very first sex seen doing most of the work to establish Cersei in a carus relationship their Dynamic is much more complicated in the present day storyline and the tragedy of their failed romance gives eternals much of its heart providing a depth to the story while Cersei and aurus receive much of the movie's attention it eternals also gives the other characters their due Sprite has her own tragic storyline as she struggles to fit into a world that sees her as a child and McHugh fantastically pulls off the delicate balance such a character Arc needs nonanes Kingo often acts as comedic relief in eternals which the actor is well suited for though the third act seems like it doesn't know what to do with him Thea and Gilgamesh have their own deep connection that's not quite as explored as Cersei and acarus but Jolie and Lee are an immensely fun Duo to watch Kagen Henry ridloff and Heek are all given something to work with even if their characters are slightly more one note still there is a surprising amount of depth to druy fastos marari and AAC that is either explicitly laid out for viewers or hinted at through the characters actions and interactions with the other eternals overall the film was given the Monumental task of introducing 10 completely new characters to the m and developing them enough to ensure audiences would root for them all and Jiao definitely pulls it Off cast directed by CL Xiao screenplay by Khloe Z Patrick Burley Ryan furo C furo Story by Ryan furo Cass furo produced by Ken Fage Nate Moore starring Jamma Chan Richard Madden Salma Heek Angelina Jolie cinematography Ben Davis edited by craigwood Dylan titcher music by rammen jawat production company Marvel Studios distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release dates October 18th 2021 running time 156 minutes country United States language English budget $236.8 million box office $ 42.1 million eternals is a 2021 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics race of the same name produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures it is the 26th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe maku the film was directed by CL Xiao who wrote the screenplay with Patrick Burley Ryan furo and Cass furo it stars an ensemble cast including Jemma Chan Richard Madden Cil mangery leam McHugh Brian Tyree Henry Lauren ridof Barry Kagen Don Lee kit Harrington Salma Heek and Angelina Jolie in the film The Eternal Immortal alien beings emerg from hiding after thousands of years to protect Earth from their ancient counterparts the deviants in April 2018 Marvel Studios president Kevin Fage announced that a film based on the eternals was in development and would explore the group as Ancient Aliens living throughout human history Ryan and Cass furo were hired to write the script and Xiao was set to direct in September she was given significant creative freedom to rewrite the script taking particular inspiration from Terren Malik films and to use more locations and natural lighting than previous mchu films had casting began in early 2019 and Burley joined to work on the script ahead of principal photography which took place from July 2019 to February 2020 at Pinewood Studios and on location in England and the Canary Islands eternals premiered at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood Los Angeles on October 18th 2021 and was released in the United States on November 5th as part of phase 4 of the maku the film grossed $42 million worldwide and received some awards and nominations but it also became the first mchu film to not receive generally positive reviews particular criticism went to the screenplay and pacing with commentators feeling it did not live up to xiao's previous work or to previous mchu films it received some praise for its themes and visuals and in 5,000 BC 10 superpowered beings known as eternals AAC Cersei acarus Kingo Sprite fastos marari druig Gilgamesh inthena are sent to Earth by arishem a Celestial on the Starship Domo they are charged with Exterminating invasive entities known as the deviants after the last deviants are killed in 1521 the group's opinions differ over their continued relationship with humankind over the next 500 years they mostly live apart waiting for aram's orders in the present Cersei and Sprite live together in London after cersei's partner acarus left her without explanation centuries earlier she is now in a relationship with human danne Whitman who works at the Natural History Museum when the trio is attacked by the Deviant Crow acarus arrives and chases the creature away the three eternals travel to South Dakota to reunite with their leader AAC only to find her dead Cersei is uously chosen by ajac as her successor granting her the ability to communicate with arishem Cersei learns that the eternal's mission was actually to prepare Earth for the emergence of a new Celestial arishem explains that for millions of years he has been planting Celestial seeds inside planets where the energy from large populations allows new celestials to be born the deviants were sent to destroy the apex predators of each planet to ensure the development of intelligent life but when they evolved and began hunting the planet's native populations arish created the eternals to counter them with the recent end of the blip restoring Earth's population humankind has reached the necessary size to allow the celestial tiamut to be born which will result in Earth's destruction hoping to delay the emergence the eternals reunite at dug's residence in the Amazon rainforest they are attacked by the Deviant they kill them all except for Crow who kills Gilgamesh before fleeing fastos proposes they use the uni mind a connection between all the eternals that would give druig enough power to put tiot to sleep with his mind control abilities however acarus is loyal to arishem and refuses to help stop the emergence he reveals that AAC wanted to stop the emergence and save Humanity so he led her to the Deviant and allowed them to kill her Sprite joins acarus due to her unrequited love for him while King chooses to leave marari locates the place of the emergence an active volcano in the Indian Ocean where acarus and Sprite attempt to stop them druig knocks out Sprite and fastos restrains aarth Crow arrives and is killed by fena druig is unable to put Tia to sleep and Cersei instead attempts to turn him into marble aaras breaks free of his restraints and goes to kill Cersei but is unable to do to his love for her both he and right join with the others in the uni mind and Cersei gains enough power to turn tiamut into marble guilt-ridden acarus flies into the sun Cersei uses the remaining uni mind energy to turn Sprite into a human ending her permanent childlike State Fina druck and marari depart on the Domo to warn eternals on other planets of the emergences Whitman professes his love for Cersei and is about to reveal a secret about his family history when she f Asos and Kingo are lifted into space by arish displeased with their treason arish says he will spare Humanity if the eternal's memories show that humans are worthy of living He vows to return for judgment and takes the trio into a singularity in a mid-credit scene Thea marari and druig meet the Eternal Aeros and his assistant pip the troll in a post-credit scene an unseen person questions whether Whitman is ready to wield the Ebony Blade in April 2015 Marvel television was working with screenwriter John Ridley to craft a new television series for ABC Reinventing an existing Marvel character or property which was revealed years later to be the eternals through its development which ultimately had eventually been abandoned during the folding of Marvel television in December 2019 Ridley stated that he was trying to make a superhero television series that viewers had not necessarily seen before with hopes that it could occupy a space that was not currently being filled by Marvel his approach to the characters would have been a really weird story though he stated the characters are a really hard property to adapt while conceding that while he believed his series would have been good it may not have been entertaining for everyone Marvel Studios president Kevin Fage said in April 2018 that the studio was actively developing a film based on the Marvel comic series eternals created by Jack Kirby to be released as part of their phase four slate of films Marvel Studios had met with multiple screenwriters and was believed to be focusing on the character Cersei in the film Marvel set Ryan and Cass furo to write the script A month later with their outline including a love story between the characters Cersei and acarus in June Fage said Marvel was interested in exploring the Ancient Aliens kind of sci-fi Trope by having the eternals be the inspiration for myths and legends throughout the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe during late August Marvel's director search for eternals narrowed to a short list that included Khloe Xiao who had also been in the running to direct Marvel's Black Widow 2021 Nicole Castle Travis Knight and the pair of Christina galigo and syro Gara Xiao approached Marvel Studios about making the film as she had been a fan of the maku she wanted to work with the studio to bring her own take and World building to the franchise and impress them with a presentation that Fage described as fascinating with reams of visuals Xiao worked with producer Nate Moore to develop her pitch the presentation left Marvel concerned that she might take on a different big Studio project instead of eternals forcing them to move quickly to secure her and Xiao was hired as director in September Xiao hoped to push the scope of the film further than Marvel's Avengers in game 2019 but also wanted it to have intimacy Xiao described the film as a Melting Pot of influences from Kirby's original work Neil gaiman's to6 run previous mchu projects jia's fandom of the mchu and her love of Science Fiction and Fantasy films and manga speaking specifically to her love of Manga she hoped those influences would create a marriage of east and west Xiao cited the TV series Ancient Aliens the Final Fantasy video game series the concepts from yuil Noah Harari book sapiens a brief history of humankind and the films of Terren Malik as her Inspirations for the film Marvel considered eternals to be a perfect transition into its next phase of films along with projects such as Captain Marvel 2019 allowing the studio to cast a diverse group of actors to portray the various eternals Moore's initial planning documents for the project including the swapping of genders sexualities and ethnicities of some characters from the comic books with Xiao further advocating for this approach in February 2019 Fage reiterated that Marvel was interested in the eternals due to Kirby's Epic Century spanning story with the film version spanning 7,000 years and exploring Humanity's place in the cosmos Xiao noted that the eternals have lived Among Us for so long they have the same struggles like identity purpose Faith personal freedom versus greater good all the Duality and flaws that make us human when trying to develop a story that spanned so many years Marvel realized that the characters would likely be a family unit with a friendship that would turn into Frenemies and then turn into enemies and then come back to Friendship Xiao also looked to the Earth as an 11th character in the film chronicling its Journey alongside the Eternal characters Marvel also wanted to create more Ensemble films that were not crossover films like Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 while introducing relatively unknown characters to audiences as they did with that film's title characters and the Avengers throughout early 2019 Xiao began working on a draft of the script building upon the multiple drafts submitted by the fur poost approximately 4 months ahead of filming the script was not finalized so Moore introduced Patrick Burley who had been part of Marvel's writers program to Xiao in the hopes he could assist with the writing Xiao hired him to work on the screenplay which he did for about 3 months ahead of filming Burley believed Xiao needed to write on the film as well as direct to process the film through her own filter and noted her draft showed she was trying to make the Terren Malik version of a Marvel film Xiao citing his film The Tree of Life 2011 as an inspiration Burley called his work with Xiao on the script mostly structural to find the flow of the film likening The Story to a road trip film Angelina Jolie joined the cast in March 2019 reportedly as Cersei with cuml nuni and Don Lee cast in undisclosed roles the next month at that time the film was expected to feature Marvel studios's first gay superhero in May Richard Madden entered negotiations for the role of acarus and Salma Heek had entered early negotiations for an undisclosed role the following month in July variety reported that the cast included Jolie Madden and Millie Bobby Brown but Brown denied that she had been cast at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con Fage officially announced the eternals with a release date of November 6th 2020 he officially announced the casting of Jolie as theena nanini as Kingo Lee as gilgames Madden as a carus And he as AAC along with Lauren ridof as marari Brian Tye Henry as fastos and leam mchu as Sprite xia looked for actors for each role that could find a bit of themselves in their character Fage added that one of these actors was portraying an lgbtq character with actor H slaman later revealing that fastos is depicted as gay in the film slamman portrays the character's husband and the pair have a child in the film slamman felt it was important to depict how loving and beautiful a queer family can be rather than the sexual or rebellious depiction in some previous media Fage said the relationship was always sort of inherent in the story and he felt it was extremely well done in the film while slamman said it was a thoughtful depiction eternals is set around 8 months after the events of Avengers in game and addresses why the eternals did not interfere in any past conflicts in the Miku both Fage and Moore said the film would have major Ripple effects on the future of the maku and at times it was a challenge to balance the grounded nature of the maku with the Mythic grandor of the eternals property by the film's official announcement in July 2019 principal photography had begun at Pinewood Studios in buckinghamshire England Ben Davis served as Director of Photography after doing so on several previous maku films Xiao said Marvel Studios allowed her creative freedom to shoot the film on location exactly the way she wanted to shoot it she was able to use a similar style to her pre previous films including 360° shots and working with the same camera and rigs as were used for her film Nom Medlin 2020 which Xiao was set to complete backtack with the eternals Xiao felt that she got lucky in that Marvel wants to take risks and do something different Xiao cited the Revenant 2015 as a primary influence when composing the film's action sequences Jemma Chan and Barry Kagen were in talks to join the cast in August 2019 Chan previously portrayed Min irva in Captain Marvel but reports noted that she was potentially being looked at by Marvel to play a separate character in this film since Min irva dies in that film Chan had felt that it was unlikely she would return to the mchu but after working on the film she was told by Fage that the studio wanted to make better use of her in a future project this led to Chan auditioning for Cersei one of the last actresses to be considered for the role Chan later described Cersei as the most difficult role for the film to cast Chan and Kagen were confirmed to be cast in the film at the d23 Expo in August in the roles of Cersei and druck respectively along with kit Harrington as Dane Whitman Chan said she and Marvel Studios were surprised by how soon after Captain Marvel her new mchu role came with both assuming that it would have been a project further in the future Harish Patel was cast at the end of August as Caron kingo's manager and filmed his role from September 2019 until January 2020 by early November filming took place in the Canary Islands the filming cast and crew including Jolie and Madden had to be evacuated from a shooting location on the island of for Aventura when an explosive device was found there the device was thought to be a Remnant Armament from a Nazi base later that month zann Al Rafia joined the cast in early January 2020 filming took place outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in Oxford England as well as Hamstead Heath and in Camden in London under the working title sack lunch Chan said the filming process felt very different from what she experienced on Captain Marvel explaining that Eternal shot more on location and utilized natural light while Captain Marvel had more Studio work and blue screen filming wrapped on February 4th 2020 in March 2020 scanline VFX one of the companies working on the film's visual effects confirmed that they would be working remotely due to the covid-19 pandemic industrial Light and Magic Luma pictures rise and wetted digital also worked on the film's visual effects in early April Disney shifted much of their phase for slate of films due to the pandemic moving the eternals release date to February 12th 2021 in August the film's title was officially shortened from the eternals to eternals and the next month the release date was pushed back to November 5th 2021 re- shoots had taken place by mid November 2020 additional filming occurred in Los Angeles in early February also under the working title sack lunch Dylan titchener and Craig would serve as co-editors of the film tier said Xiao usually edits her own films and has strong opinions but on eternals she was ring on tier and would due to the size of the production and the ongoing award season for nomadland titchener added that Jiao respected the pair's editing experience and point of view and they made their first cut of the film without much input from her they began adjusting the film based on xiao's feedback and were still working on the editing in April 2021 at the end of the month Xiao said editing for the film was in its final stretch and joson St John was revealed to appear in the film after previously starring in xiao's film songs My Brothers taught me 2015 at the end of May 2021 with the release of the first teaser trailer and poster for the film the official writing credits were revealed Xiao was credited as the screen writer both as a solo contributor and as part of a writing team with Burley while Ryan and Cass furo received story credit additionally Gil Birmingham was revealed to have been cast in the film although he was absent in the final fin film in July 2021 writer Guild of America West presented the film's final writing credits awarding Ryan and Cass furo screenplay credit along with Xiao and the team of Xiao and Burley in addition to their story credit more believed the studio had bit off as much as we could chew with the film creating one that felt urgent and present and had a fast pace but also took time to reflect back over the centuries at the film's world premiere Matt donelly of variety tweeted that Harry Styles made an appearance in a post credits scen as AOS thano's brother in the comics which was not shown in early press screenings of the film Xiao later revealed that she kept tabs on Styles since his appearance in dunker 2017 believing that he makes me think of AOS as a character WWE wrestler Becky Lynch had a role in the film for a planned post credits scene that was intended to set up a future project the scene was removed moved for being reportedly too depressing Ramen jaati composed the score for the film after previously doing so for Marvel's Iron Man 2008 two songs from the film soundtrack across the oceans of time and eternal's theme were released as singles on October 22nd 2021 while the full album was released on November 3rd the first footage of the film was released in May 2021 as part of a promotional video from Marvel Studios celebrating their films and a return to movie theaters though the footage was limited and vague Hoy Tran buy at/ film still felt it was very exciting chain gardberg of The Verge felt one of the biggest moments of the footage was seeing Jolie wielding a sword made of light he was also encouraged that eternals appeared to be one of Marvel's first films to deliver on their yearslong promise of creating films with more diverse casts Nerdist Michael AR said the footage was quick but felt that it manages an air of wonderment the first teaser for the film was released on May 24th 2021 gartenberg felt the teaser was light on plot elements with it instead focusing on the civilization spanning scope of the superhero team and its members throughout human history he also believed the film was a big swing from Marvel Studios to entice audiences with a lesser-known Comics property but believed that it would succeed due to its diverse cast of well-known actors and jia's status as one of the most exciting directors around EO 9's Charlie pum Moore felt the trailer was a multiple Millennia spanning recap of Earth's history and said it was unclear how much the larger mchu would impact on the film outside of a brief reference to the Avengers at the end of the trailer writing for Entertainment Weekly Nick Romano felt the teaser was a combination of thrilling Goosebump inducing moment moments and some jokes Eric Adams of the a club felt the spot tease some fresh angles for the maku in a similar way to Thor Ragnarok 2017 and Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 and he enjoyed the images of kingo's Bollywood dance Sprite performing karaoke and the end scene of the eternals eating together and joking about the Avengers after seeing the teaser varieties Adam B very described the film as unquestionably a khlo Xiao movie but wished more action set pieces were featured in the teaser to see how Xiao would approach them in the film Adele ankors ofine discussed the poster that was released at the same time as the trailer highlighting how the eternals appear in silhouette against a sunlet background which she described as another taste of Khloe xiao's signature filming style and the use of natural light to illuminate a frame that would be seen in the film upon release the teaser quickly became the number one trending video on YouTube and amassed 77 million Global views in its first 24 hours Disney's president of marketing Assad a said the teaser was designed to just be an introduction to the characters in tone and not give much of the film away adding the marketing team would be very judicious on when more material would be revealed while also using the releases of Black Widow and Shang Kai and the legend of the 10 Rings before eternals to help expose audiences to the characters the final trailer was released in August 2021 with Ethan shanfeld and manori ravenden of variety feeling it was more serious in tone than the teaser with the eternals grappling with the prospect of emerging after centuries living apart in order to help humans entertainment weeklys Devon Kagan felt that the trailer was the best Glimpse yet of the film and gave a sense of the vast scale and scope of the film while answering one important question about the absence of the eternals during the conflict against BOS in Avengers Infinity war and Avengers in game Aaron couch at The Hollywood Reporter said the trailer reveals much of the film's plot as well as its character's Powers teasing the answers to key questions about who the eternals answer to their relationship to Earth and why they ultimately didn't intervene in the conflict against Thanos in October 20121 Lexus released a commercial promoting the film and its Lexus is 500 Sports B starring nanen as Kingo with frequent mchu directors Joe and Anthony Russo guiding its development and frame store working on the visual effects Lexus created 10 concept cars based on the 10 eternals characters from the film The ls500h and NX are featured in the film beginning on November 20th 2021 select costumes from the film were part of the Futures exhibit at the Smithsonian institution's arts and industries building which ran through July 2022 behind the scenes content looking at the evolution of the film's visuals as well as an augmented reality experience were also included in the exhibit eternals had its World premiere at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood Los Angeles on October 18th 2021 and was screened at the Rome Film Festival on October 24th the film was released theatrically in many European countries on November 3rd and in the United States and the United Kingdom on no November 5th in real 3D and 4dx in September 2021 Disney announced that the film would have an exclusive theatrical release for a minimum of 45 days eternals was previously set for release on November 6th 2020 before it was shifted to February 12th 2021 and then to the November 2021 date due to the covid-19 pandemic it is part of phase four of the mchu in May 2021 a Chinese state media report excluded eternals as well as Shang Kai and the legend of the 10 rings from its list of upcoming maku films releasing which variety noted added to rumors that the films would not be released in China especially since Xiao had become an unexpected persona non grata in the country after she was scrutinized by Chinese netizens over her remarks in a 2013 interview with filmmaker magazine in which she described China as a place where there are lies everywhere by September 2021 deadline Hollywood reported it remained an open question if the Chinese government or Xiao would attempt to rehabilitate the situation but it seems likely the film would not be released in China following the country's response to nomadland as well as Shanghai and the legend of the 10 Rings likely not being released in the country either following backlash to comments made by star simu in 2017 the film was not released in Saudi Arabia Kuwait Qatar Bahrain and Oman due to the depiction of a gay couple theaters in the United Arab Emirates Jordan Lebanon and Egypt were set to show an edited version of the film which is missing all the love scenes Angelina Jolie criticized the country's decision to ban the film saying I'm sad for those audiences and I'm proud of Marvel for refusing to cut those scenes out I still don't understand how we live in a world today where they still would not see the family fast has in the beauty of that relationship and that love how anybody is angry about it threatened by it doesn't approve or appreciate it is ignorant Lebanese actor hos slaman who played Fasto husband Ben in the film also voiced the same reaction towards the matter they stood their ground and said nope we are not going to compromise the Integrity of our film it made these Arab countries look so ignorant and pathetic I have no respect for those governments they have displayed to the world that they are not only a disgrace to humanity but to God hopefully this will inspire the Sai people the Kuwaiti people and the people in Qatar to fight back Marvel later agreed to cut any kind of love scenes including the gay couple kiss for the film's release in Indonesia which received praise from the Indonesian film censorship board lsf eternals began streaming on Disney Plus on January 12th 2022 with with the option to view the theatrical version of the film or an aax enhanced version audio commentary and additional bonus features for the film were added to Disney Plus in March 2022 it was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray Blu-ray and DVD on February 15th the home media includes audio commentary deleted scenes a gag reel and various behind the scenes featurettes according to samb TV eternals was watched by 2 million house holds during its first 5 days on Disney plus eternals was also the top streaming film for viewers in the United States for the week ending January 16th 2022 according to whip media's TV time in the United States and Canada eternals earned $30.7 million on its opening day which included $9.5 million from Thursday night previews marking the third largest opening day of the pandemic behind Black Widow and Venom Let There Be Carnage its opening weekend earned $ 71.3 million from 5.5 million theater admissions making it the top film of the weekend IMAX accounted for over $7.6 million over the weekend this marked the fourth largest opening weekend of the pandemic the domestic opening weekend gross was lower than various pre-release projections deadline attributed this to the film's overall mixed reception from critics and audiences in its second weekend eternals remained the top film grossing over $27.5 million eternals became the sixth highest grossing film of 2021 in the United States the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 47% based on 4177 reviews with an average rating of 5 610 the website's critical consensus reads an ambitious superhero epic that Soares as often as it drains eternals takes the mchu in intriguing and occasionally confounding new directions on Metacritic the film has awaited average score of 52 out of 100 based on 62 critics indicating mixed or average reviews upon release it became the lowest rated mchu film on both websites and the first installment to be classified as rotten on Rotten Tomatoes audiences pulled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of B on an a plus to f scale the lowest grade for a mchu film and postra reported 78% of audience members gave it a positive score with 60% saying they would definitely recommend it Charlotte O Sullivan of the evening standard described the film as lavish and ambitious and praised the fight sequences as astounding beautifully paced and crammed with detail Robert Abel of thp commended the cinematography and felt an earnestness to the oper ertic Stakes Oliver Jones of the Observer called it full of wonder and romance and fueled by an agenda and audacity all its own Owen glaberman was disappointed over xiao's missing filmmaking style that shaped her films the writer 2017 and Nadin 2020 to embrac the straightup expository conventionality of Marvel filmmaking but felt that the film was a squarely fun and gratifying watch Moira McDonald of the Seattle Times thought it's got some pretty slow spots midf film and it's desperately in need of a bit more wit what it does have is a palpable Artful mood this is a movie full of superheroes who spend time thinking and feeling and of special effects that aren't just Zippy but often delicately elegant Linda Merrick of the Jewish Chronicle described it as a mish mash of well-meaning yet jarringly verbose and bafflingly incoherent nonsense which is only just about saved by some half decent performances Nicholas Barber of BBC culture called xiao's Direction workmanlike and Claris Luffy of the independent said that it strives for the same expansive soulfulness as nomadland but discovers there's room enough only for the occasional burst of it Brian trud of USA Today praised xia's pensent for naturalistic environments but wrote that the narrative struggles to juggle its many subplots and tries to do too much Mark Kennedy of the Associated Press criticized the dialogue and fight scenes but praised the visual effects and nonen performance surely lie of the Atlantic felt that xiao's delicate examination of her characters outshines eternals duller and more convoluted moments Robbie Collin wrote the film was constantly engaged in a kind of grit toothed authenticity theater going out of its way to show you it's doing all the things proper Cinema does even though none of them bring any discernible benefit Kevin mayher felt a strange self-sabotaging energy at the heart and Steve Rose of the Guardian Mist the Breezy wit of Marvel's best movies like coming into Avengers in game cold without having seen any of the preceding installments K Austin Collins of Rolling Stone felt that the film was good at telling us where to look at impressing us with its manufactured sense of grandeur but lacked any credible sense of what's actually worth seeing Justin Chang of the Los Angeles times had a depressing realization that you've just seen one of the more interesting movies Marvel will ever make and hopefully the least interesting one Khloe Xiao will ever make Brian Lori of CNN F the movie's structural flaws offset its stunning visuals and strong performances Kyle Smith of National Review was harsher describing it as one of the dumbest cheesiest most trite and least human of the maku films the mixed reception surprised some com commentators given the maku's positive track record and the Acclaim of xiao's previous work Richard newbie of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that much of the criticism of Kirby's work which was divisive for its subject matter and relationship to the wider Marvel Universe has followed Xiao in her adaptation he compared the divisive response to that of Zack Snider's DC extended Universe films Man of Steel and Batman v Superman dawn of Justice 2016 writing that they and eternal share a deconstructive approach to superheroes and forc them to question their purpose in the world through meditative and Melancholy narrative beats and a tragic yet hopeful ending this approach he felt subverted critics and audiences expectations which made them review the film more harshly Xiao addressed some of the criticisms of the film believing some of the divisiveness came from everyone having an existential crisis because of the covid-19 pandemic and the film being an existential crisis both for Humanity and God she also felt the reactions to how the film Incorporated her filmmaking sensibilities with Marvel's were a testament to how much we had merged with each other how uncomfortable that might make people feel the film was given the Seal of authentic representation from the rudderman Family Foundation for rid loff's role as Mari the seal is given to films and series that feature actors with disabilities who have at least five lines of dialogue eternals was also one of 28 films that received the refrain stamp for 2021 awarded by the gender Equity Coalition reframe for films that are proven to have gender balanced hiring in February 2021 the documentary series Marvel Studios assembled was announced the special on this film The Making of a tels was released on Disney Plus on February 16th 2022 in October 2021 Xiao said she was open to making a sequel the next month Cass and Ryan furo expressed interest in making a prequel series for Disney plus that would focus on one Eternal in a different time period each episode such as an episode about Thea in ancient Greece and one about Kingo in 1890s Mumbai where he balances his life as a film star with Mahatma Gandhi's campaign for India's independence from British rule they also felt there were opportunities to continue the film story Story by further exploring danne whitmann and showing the eternals confronting the celestials Chan said in January 2022 that she would reprise the role of Cersei in the future Fage was asked about Styles's future in the maku that July and said Marvel Studios was excited to further explore the characters AOS and pip as part of the mcu's more Cosmic stories a month later Oswalt said a sequel had been confirmed by Marvel Studios and Xiao was returning to direct he hoped it would further explore Aeros and pip and expressed interest in a spin-off film for the characters in October Moore said Marvel intended to bring back the eternals characters in the future of the maku nanan said the following month that he was unaware of a sequel and believed Oswalt was mistaken but expressed interest in reprising his role as Kingo Don Le's talent agency indicated in December that he would reprise his role as Gilgamesh in an eternal sequel Oswalt clarified his statements in February 2023 saying a sequel was not in development at that time and that he had been misled in July 2024 Fage said there were no plans for a sequel at the time review of eternal's film director CL Jiao applies her distinctive aesthetic imprint to eternals but she can only do so much to bend the Marvel Cinematic Universe to her will the result is a blockbuster of unusual gentle beauty that also strain s to fulfill the gargantuan requirements of a Massive Action spectacle it is in short a bit of a mess it is also and I cannot stress this enough 2 hours and 37 minutes long and yet because The Talented eclectic cast is so enormous and so much World building must occur eternals ultimately feels rushed and unsatisfying the mythology here is both dense and frequently silly with the movie grinding to a halt around the 1-hour mark for an extensive information dump by the end you may still be unclear as to what's going on but you also may not care Xiao the newly minted Academy Award winner for best picture and director for the spare and intimate nomadland does offer a great deal of her signature style though for those of you who found the choice of Xiao a fascinating one and wondered what her version of the muu might look like you'll be happy to learn she manages to find magic hour wherever she goes from a breezy sunset on the shores of ancient Babylon to ominous storm clouds gathering on the plains of present day South Dakota working with cinematographer Ben Davis who also shot Guardians of the Galaxy doctor strange and Captain Marvel she consistently provides opportunities to let us slow down take a breath and enjoy a moment of naturalism and Stillness you can feel the sunbaked heat of the windy Australian Outback an action scene set in a torch lit forest at night is especially stunning Unfortunately they don't last long because there is a big noisy comic book Beast to feed Xiao and her fellow screenwriters Patrick Burley and Ryan furo and Cass furo Lurch around in time in an ungainly fashion to tell the story of a group of immortal beings living secretly on Earth each has his or her own specific abilities but collectively they share the quippy humor that's become so typical in Marvel movies the casting in characteristics on display here are revolutionary and at first cause for inspiration that we might be in for something totally different there's a natural diversity at work in ways we haven't seen from The Avengers for example from the leadership of Salma hex AAC and Gemma Chan Cersei to Brian Tyrie Henry and hos slaman as a gay couple with a young son to Lauren ridof marari whose hearing impairment is her superpower the inclusive nature of eternals feels both exciting and effortless Angelina joliea is a ferocious Warrior who also suffers from mental illness which the film handles sensitively conversely leam McHugh livens things up as the androgynous Forever Young Sprite perhaps most striking of all two characters have actual sex which is unprecedented and long overdue in a cinematic world where everyone is super hot and muscular and dressed and formfitting costumes the scene is brief but it accomplishes so much to indicate a deeper and more vulnerable sense of humanity in these comic book figures Tony Stark and pepper pots probably did it Clint Barton definitely did because he had kids but most other romantic relationships have featured benign flirting at most so to see these characters behaving like grown people in this manner is yet another example of the potential lurking within eternals there is also a plot however which will escape your mind as quickly as it entered briefly the eternals have scattered across the globe in the centuries since they arrived on Earth in a spaceship that resembles a behemoth black marble Dorito all along they've been stealthily guiding humanity and fighting ravenous seny monsters known as deviants but a potentially cataclysmic event forces them to leave the comfortable lives they forged for themselves reassemble if you'll forgive the word choice and use their combined superpowers to stop what is essentially the apocalypse again you don't need to be deeply steeped in Marvel lore in general or Jack Kirby's trippy comic series specifically to follow eternals aside from a brief reference to Thanos and why these Heroes didn't step in to stop the events of Avengers Infinity War this feels more like a standalone film than most Inu having said that of course you'll get more out of the movie if you're a fan and the obligatory end credit sequences will mean more to you two Chan Cersei with her transmutational abilities and Richard Madden zakaris a versatile Superman type figure prominently as centuries old on and off again lovers charismatic as Madden is though Chan enjoys greater Sparks with kit Harrington as her mortal london-based boyfriend danne Whitman who shares cersei's interest in archaeology whatever emotional Stakes may exist between any of these characters eventually take a backseat to flying around and zapping monsters with ey lasers you can feel the struggle in trying to juggle at all and the climactic action Extravaganza is so glossy and cacophonous it could have been plucked out of any number of soulless sci-fi spectacles over the past decade smothering all the smaller charms we'd enjoyed along the way a newly buffed Cale nanen offers some laughs as a pompous Bollywood star Don Lee provides a kind presence despite his hulking power and Barry Kagen merely has to show up to make us feel his unnerving Vibe all all of these actors prove they're up for the challenge of trying to establish complicated characters within the frenzy of the mchu Machinery frustratingly they and Xiao can only serve as cogs related information the superheroes and Khloe xiao's eternals are bound to each other by many things starting with the interlocking rings and shafts and bolts of golden light that emanate from their very being the light of cosmic energy they share is the piping that lines their uniforms and it's the shape shifting Weaponry they conjure to battle the deviants nashing fast break monsters that resemble dinosaurs with everything but their senu and Bone Stripped Away that filigreed network of light floating and darting through the air serves many purposes and it's the most tangible figment of cla's artistry her way of grabbing hold of the vast Machinery of a $200 million comic book franchise movie and turning it into something elegant and aesthetic with visual effects that dance before your eyes the film presents the eternals who have spent 7,000 years saving life on Earth as an organically unified Army of noble Warrior Souls unlike say the X-Men who are boldly demarcated in their powers this one catches fire that one has metal claws this one makes the best chocolate safle you ever tasted the eternals while they do have individual talents such as the ability of one of them to shoot golden rays of light there it is again out of his eyes all share powers like super strength and the gifts of flight and teleportation they're free flowing all for one Unity extends in spirit to the diversity of the characters which is something the film presents with a no big deal ephenry that makes them a winning prototype of a more dynamically inclusive superhero world four of the eternals are white three are Asian two are black and one is Latina one is gay one is deaf and one is an androgynous tween who never grows up any troll who surveys this Lively medley of backgrounds and temperaments only to gripe that the movie is too woke might have lodged the same complaint about Star Trek 55 years ago jaia is far from the first director to take the leap from ardently crafted medium budget independent cinema to the corporate Stratosphere of helming a superhero movie that she's one of the first women and one of the first Asians to do so is a landmark worth celebrating yet as I approached eternals the question I was most curious about was whether Jes who in nomadland and the rider defined her film making style in a unique poetic way would carry any remnants of that mode over to the Blockbuster Universe her previous films are raw and real enough to feel like stage documentaries yet they're cut together image by image with a gripping pointal listic exactitude eternals has none of that it's clear that Xiao in signing up for this produ project made a decision to put her highly expressive and idiosyncratic Style on the shelf and to embrace the straightup expository conventionality of Marvel film making that's something of a disappointment yet xiao's sensibility to a degree comes through in the Casual Humanity of the characters in the flow of Quip and conflict and passion at times romantic in the beauty of the effects in the no sweat way that Jia scales up her logistical skills she's a master craftswoman and eternal while two long 157 minutes really is a squarely fun and gratifying watch yet one has to say the film feels very standard it's in the genre of Team superhero movies and at this point between the Avengers and the X-Men the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Justice League The Suicide Squad and the Fantastic Four there have been more than 20 of those they have their tropes the counter radie and the back bidding the falling apart and the coming together Xiao Works within those tropes lending them sturdy drama and dimension and springing some major Twist on the audience the eternals have lived through most of human history and the film keeps flashing back to key episodes of it in Mesopotamia Babylon hoshima they show up whenever the deviants do slaying the beasts so that the human race can go on and sometimes though they're not supposed to nudging the evolution of civilization along they introduce the plow and will tend to hypnotize is a group of Fighters into laying down their arms in the Contemporary World each Eternal has a home but they're a bit like vampires ageless impersonators of normality though as we learn they can die cers played with a Serene three-dimensional command by jeach Chan is our heroine a London museum curator who is carried on a love affair across the centuries with the dashing acarus Richard Madden though that ended and now she's involved with the merely human Dane kit Harrington Kingo played by the droll Cale nanini as the most amusingly off-kilter superhero since Deadpool is an acerbically vain Bollywood star gilg gamish Don Lee is an affable strongman living in isolation in the Aussie Outback and fastos played with a scene stealing quarrelsome magnetism by Brian Tyrie Henry he a Suburban dad in Chicago with a husband and an adorable son the other eternals include mcari Lauren ridof and a bullant de Speed Dash anthena Angelina Jolie a fierce Warrior who has succumbed to mod wiry pronounced mad weary that is she's cracking up as a result of having collected Too Many Memories the only cure which she rejects is to have the Slate of your mind wiped clean when summoned the eternals are better than good at defeating deviants who are now attacking them directly but there's a wrinkle in the Cosmic Sphere a jaac Salma Heek the wise and seemingly benevolent leader of the eternals has been guarding a secret and when we learn it it elevates the drama to a rather intriguing moral plane ajac communes with a Celestial one of the Majestic beings that keep the universe going he's portrayed as a kind of Iron Giant in the sky and has revealed the eternal's true purpose to her it is not what it seems but is he a dark force like Thanos or a benevolent God maybe both speaking of which how exactly does the plot of this movie intersect with the Avengers Saga if you want to give yourself a case of mod wiring discuss it turns out that Earth has been serving as a giant seed pod to hatch a new Celestial and if the eternals are to support that mission it means well Darkness can they come together to defend their adopted home the suspense will not be killing you though the final battle summons aspects of grandeur to me there are three top tier team superhero movies the first Guardians of the Galaxy Zack Snider's Justice League and Avengers Infinity war eternals is a fluid and sometimes bedazzling entertainment I place on the next tier because it never transcends its conventionality and makes you go damn maybe next time Xiao can raise the stakes on the heroic Vibes by mixing in a drop of nomad reality more details of eternals film the 26th movie in the overall Marvel Cinematic Universe and third of phase 4 eternals introduces an entirely new team of superheroes to Marvel Studios franchise world the film is directed by CL Xiao Nadin from a script she co-wrote with Patrick Burley Ant-Man and the WASP Ryan furo bet Ray's fold and C furo refuge and based on a story by the furos eternals adapts the Marvel Comics characters of the same name which were created by Jack Kirby in 1976 bringing the alien Heroes to the world of the while eternals has most of the benchmarks of a Marvel movie xiao's sprawling superhero epic is unlike anything the maku has produced before the story of the film kicks off in 5,000 BC showing how the eternals are sent to Earth to protect the planet and the humans who live on it from the evil aliens called deviants throughout time the Team battles the deviants until they're all but extinct though the eternals are forbidden from getting involved in any human conflict the movie picks up in present day with a team having split up Cersei gachan is living in London with Sprite leam McHugh and dating the human Dane Whitman kit Harrington when a deviant attacks acarus Richard Madden arrives and the eternals realize they must reassemble their team the three of them traveled the world to visit their former team members Ajax Salma Heek Kingo cumil Nini Fina Angelina Jolie gilgames Don Lee druig Barry Kagen fastos Brian Tyrie Henry and mcari Lauren ridof together they must figure out why the deviants are back and come up with a plan to protect the Earth despite the number of characters included in eternals jiao's movie does an excellent job of weaving their stories together and showing the various ways each hero is affected by their time on Earth however a central thematic storyline is achieved by focusing much of the plot around Cersei and aurus their romantic relationship has ended by the time the film picks up in the present day but it works as an emotional core to eternals their romance is genuinely sweet if rushed with a montage that includes a marriage scene that is followed shortly by the miku's very first sex scene doing most of the work to establish Cersei in a carus relationship their Dynamic is much more complicated in the present day storyline and the tragedy of their failed romance gives eternals much of its heart providing a depth to the story while while Cersei and acarus receive much of the movie's attention eternals also gives the other characters their due Sprite has her own tragic storyline as she struggles to fit into a world that sees her as a child and McHugh fantastically pulls off the delicate balance such a character Arc needs nonanes Kingo often acts as comedic relief in eternals which the actor is well suited for though the third act seems like it doesn't know what to do with him Thea and Gilgamesh have their own deep connection that's not quite as explored as Cersei and acarus but Jolie and Lee are an immensely fun Duo to watch Kagen Henry ridloff and Heek are all given something to work with even if their characters are slightly more one note still there is a surprising amount of depth to druy fastos marari and ajac that is either explicitly laid out for viewers or hinted at through the characters actions and interactions with the other eternas overall the film was given the monumental task of introducing 10 completely new characters to the mchu and developing them enough to ensure audiences would root for them all and Xiao definitely pulls it Off cast directed by CL Xiao screenplay by Khloe Z Patrick Burley Ryan furo Cass furo Story by Ryan furo Cass furo produced by kin Fage Nate Moore starring Jamma Chan Richard Madden Salma Heek Angelina Jolie cinematography Ben Davis edited by Craig Wood Dylan titcher music by rammen jawat production company Marvel Studios distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release dates October 18th 2021 running time 156 minutes country United States language English budget $236.8 million box office $2.1 million so friends this was the review of today's film eternals 2024 and 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