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‘The Eternals’ is Finally Kicking Off as Marvel Has Hired A Director for the Cosmic Movie

They are described as an offshoot of the evolutionary process that created sentient life on Earth. The original instigators of this process, the alien Celestials, intended the Eternals to be the defenders of Earth, which leads to the inevitability of war against their destructive counterparts, the Deviants. Yes, you’ve guessed it right; we’re talking about “The Eternals” which were created by Jack Kirby and made their first appearance in The Eternals #1 (July 1976). So, before reading further, we want you to just sit down or make your feet solid as we’re going to tell you something which will make you jump with happiness and joy.

The Eternals Marvel’s long teasing of calling the cosmic-powered characters on the big screen where there wasn’t anything concrete about their approach, that has finally been taken care of. The valley of silence has been blown apart by the news that Chloe Zhao, the director of the movie “The Rider (2007)” was critically acclaimed and received several accolades including nominations for Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Best Director. The talented director has been called up by Marvel to come on-board for bringing The Eternals on the big screen. Reports from both Hollywood Reporter and Variety have suggested that Zhao will direct the film whose script has been penned down by Matthew and Ryan Firpo.

In 1970, it was Jack Kirby who left the Marvel Comics to work with DC Comics, where he began the saga of New Gods, an epic story involving mythological and science fiction concepts, and planned to have a definite ending. However, the saga was left incomplete after the cancellation of the titles involved. Kirby didn’t stop as he began to write The Eternals again when he returned to Marvel.

The Eternals’ saga was thematically similar to the New Gods’ and the series was also eventually canceled without resolving many of its plots. In particular, the Celestials’ experiment on humanity has been used to explain how certain humans can develop super-powers. The Titanians (Created by Jim Starlin) and Uranians (Created by Stan Lee) were later reckoned as being Eternals as well.

There are also reports from the Hollywood Reporter that this film will show the love story of two famous members of the team of Eternals named as Ikaris and Sersi. Ikaris was born over 20,000 years ago in Polaris, in the area now known as Serbia. He is the son of the Eternals Virako and Tulayn. His real birth name is unknown. Ikaris’ mother Tulayn died when he was only 300 years old.

On the other hand, Sersi is a fourth generation member of the Eternals, an evolutionary offshoot of the human race. Sersi is the daughter of the Eternals Helios and Perse and was probably born in Olympia, Greece. Sometimes, after the Great Cataclysm that destroyed the continents of Atlantis and Lemuria because of an extended ice age known as the Hyborean Age. At a young age, Sersi deferred from her fellow Eternals in her desire to live amongst humans.

The addition of Zhao in the list of Female directors of Marvel is really a thing to notice and appreciate just like the female director, Anna Boden was selected for the movie Captain Marvel (Directs with Ryan Fleck) and Cate Shortland for the solo movie of Black Widow. The approach clearly shows that Marvel goes for the brilliance irrespective of anything and that’s what the whole world should learn from them.

But, it seems like Zhao’s job is going to be the toughest one as bringing “The Eternals” on the big-screen is surely a mammoth task because of all the great status and powers they have. And also, presenting the history of Eternals on the big screen just as they have in Comic books is surely going to be her life’s biggest challenge. Marvel Studios hasn’t announced the release date of the movie.

But, they have some big and great movies lined-up for their fans with Captain Marvel who is creating an unimaginable wave of impatience among the hearts of fans and people. It is leading the line with the release date of March 8, 2019. After this wave, here’s coming a whole thunderstorm for the fans as Avengers 4 will be hitting the theatres on May 3, 2019, and last but not the least in terms of an announcement of official release dates is Spider-Man: Far From Home on July 5, 2019.

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Rishabh Naudiyal

"Writing is one of my strengths and all I can say is that I observe things and try my best in order to convert them into words without the pressure of satisfying people's demands."
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