The future of Marvel is bright. The studio has several films in various stages of development and one of those films that is going to be released later this year is Eternals. As a fan of the Jack Kirby comics, this is a movie that I’m extremely excited about. I’ve got high hope for this thing, and one of the film’s stars, Kumail Nanjiani, is here to hype it up as one of the most epic Marvel movies that has been made!
Nanjiani teased new details about the movie In a recent interview with EW, saying:
“It’s really, really an epic. And it’s really such a science-fiction story. It’s a superhero story, but in some ways, it’s the most sci-fi of all the Marvel movies and it’s the most epic of all the Marvel movies. And the story spans thousands of years. So it’s really not like any of the other Marvel movies.”
The actor admitted that he’s a big fan of what Marvel has been doing, and he expressed excitement for being able to work with director Chloe Zhao in a star-studded cast.
“I love superhero movies, but beyond that, this is exactly the type of movie that I love. If someone would say, ‘All right, what kind of movie do you want to watch? What are the things that’s going to have?’ I would say all these things. And that’s what this movie is. It really spans thousands and thousands of years. And the story is just so big and so epic. And I don’t mean epic in the internet way, I mean epic in the old-school way…It doesn’t look like any of the other Marvel movies. I was on set shooting, and the director showed me just a still of all of us together in the scene. And I was like, ‘I mean, look at all of us together.’ We all look so different. It’s me and a huge buff guy from Korea [Ma Dong-seok] and Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie and Gemma Chan and Lauren Ridloff. You don’t ever get to see people like this together in the same room, let alone in awesome superhero costumes.”
In regards to the costume he will be sporting in the film, he talked about it, saying:
“My super-suit is very, very comfortable actually, even though it’s very elaborate. But the other thing is, making this massive movie in many important ways still feels like you’re making an independent movie, in the sense that it really feels like a family and it feels like it’s really about characters and relationships and very small moments. So while you have certain scenes where you’re hanging up on a wire fighting bad guys and you have all these superpowers, the rest of it does feel like you’re making something really small.”
He went on to explain that the creative team behind the creation of the film are so passionate about what they are doing:
“The people who are making it are very very passionate about it and the conversations you have are the [same] conversations when you create anything: ‘Does this make sense? Should we do this?’ Chloe [Zhao], our director, and Nate [Moore], our producer, and Kevin [Feige, Marvel Studios president] — they’ve been just so open to everything and so passionate. I mean, they’ve made 25 of these movies and it still feels like they’re living their dreams every day, which is certainly what I’ve been doing for the last six months,” Nanjiani said.
It seems like a good amount of fans aren’t really excited about this movie, but in the end, I personally think that it will end up blowing audiences away in ways they never thought possible. Think about it… the ancient Celestials and Eternals are going to be in this movie! That’s freakin’ huge for any true Marvel fan!
In the comics, The Eternals were sent to Earth 35,000 years ago by the Celestials to protect humankind from the Deviants. The director, Chloé Zhao, previously explained, “It’s about this group of incredible immortals, but through their journey, we really get to explore what it means to be human and humanity on our time on this planet.” Here’s the synopsis for the movie:
Marvel Studios’ The Eternals features an exciting new team of Super Heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, The Deviants.
Eternals premieres in theaters on November 6th.