Marvel has free ACCESS over what years it can set its next group of movies in. And if you’re thinking the 20th century is a great place to start, you’re not thinking far back enough.YOU NEED TO STRETCH YOUR MINDS TO THE DEPTHS OF IMMORTALITY,WAY 10,000 YEARS BACK!
Marvel movies have typically all taken place in the present day, starting withIron Man, up to its latest movies like Avengers: Infinity War. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t seen what the Marvel world was like in the past.
Early on, we saw the MCU’s version of World War II with Captain America. And soon, we’ll see what the totally awesome ’90s were like in Captain Marvel.
However,this is not the end. And now that Marvel Studios is moving on to other heroic stories after Avengers: Endgame, they’ve got a world of history to cover — especially when it comes to the Eternals.
♦ One of the more low-key (not Loki) exciting projects being discussed is Eternals, a big-screen adaptation of the Jack Kirby-created celestial beings that count Thanos the Mad Titan as one of their own.♦
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“Everything after Endgame, and after Spider-Man: Far From Home, will be different and be unique, as we try to make every film. But seeing returning characters is certainly something we’re gonna do and want to do. But also introducing characters that the majority of the world has never heard of, much like Guardians, much like Avengers before we made Avengers. And there are lots of them. Eternals are one group, but we like the idea of introducing an ensemble, doing an ensemble movie from the start, as opposed to building up as we did with the first Avengers. More like Guardians, not tonally, but in terms of introducing a new group of people. You were asking about ’60s, and ’70s before. Jack Kirby did an immense, amazing epic with Eternals that spans tens of thousands of years, and that’s also something we haven’t really done, which is why that among many other things post-Endgame, we find appealing.”
-KEVIN FEIGE
MARVEL FANS WAITED FOR AVENGERS: ENDGAME, BUT ARE SERVED WITH EXTRA VISUAL TREATS
With Avengers: Endgame looming on the horizon to put an epic end to Marvel’s 22-movie Infinity Stones storyline, it’s hard to comprehend the fact that the MCU will, in fact, continue right along once the dust has settled into a Phase 4.
Not much has been said since the studio set screenwriting duoMatthew and Ryan Firpo on the case last May and The Rider helmer Chloe Zhao to direct last September, but our own Steve Weintraub managed to get a bit of an update from Marvel president Kevin Feige during an interview at the press day for Captain Marvel. According to Feige, the plan is not only to introduce the Eternals as a full ensemble Guardians of the Galaxy-style, but to also lean into what made Kirby’s run in the 1970s so complex.
ETERNALS:WHAT IS TO COME?
In an interview with Collider, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige hinted at what’s to come in the planned Eternals movie. According to him, we just may see the comic book heroes fight battles long before Hank Pym became Ant-Man or Steve Rogers became Captain America. Speaking to the interviewer, Feige said
You were asking about ’60s and ’70s before. Jack Kirby did an immense, amazing epic with Eternals that spans tens of thousands of years, and that’s also something we haven’t really done, which is why that among many other things post-Endgame, we find appealing.
Seeing returning characters is certainly something we’re gonna do and want to do. But also introducing characters that the majority of the world has never heard of, much like Guardians, much like Avengers before we made Avengers. And there are lots of them. Eternals are one group, but we like the idea of introducing an ensemble, doing an ensemble movie from the start, as opposed to building up as we did with the first Avengers. More like Guardians, not tonally, but in terms of introducing a new group of people.
