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Gay Asian Actor to Play Lead Role in MCU’s The Eternals – Successor to The Avengers

With Avengers: Endgame right around the corner, it becomes imperative that Marvel Studios thinks about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The world’s most profitable movie franchise has released blockbuster after blockbuster and they are looking for the next generation of superheroes that will replace the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. For long, Marvel looked for a replacement only to come back empty handed. But they have finally found their champion in The Eternals, a group of superhumans living in another part of the Solar System that will be the focus of Marvel Studios in the coming times. And they have recently decided to rope in an actor to play the lead role in a movie that will set the tone for the MCU for the next decade to come. Presenting – Gay Asian Actor to play the lead role in MCU’s The Eternals – successor to The Avengers!!

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Marvel has done a wonderful job when it comes to world-building. They have space-faring superheroes in the form of Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel, they have earth bond heroes like Captain America, Iron Man and the rest of the Avengers and they even have dimension hopping heroes in the form of Ant-Man. But even for such a huge array of diverse protagonists, Marvel has stagnated over the years.

They have been feeding us the same heroes doing the same adventures over the years. To add some spice to this plain broth, The Eternals are a welcome gesture. They will help expand the MCU in ways untold of. A part of the Marvel mythology that had remained unexplained and unexplored in the movies will soon find their thunder in The Eternals movie. The fact that they have found the criteria for a lead actor says a lot about their commitment to this agenda.

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Marvel Studios has already started the casting process for the role of James in The Eternals movie. They have brought down their search radius to a select few actors that fit the part of James – a character that is not only an intellectual but also emotional and favors the familial bonds over anything else. While the actor has not been decided yet, Marvel Studios claims that they are looking for an actor who is Asian by heritage and is openly gay or bisexual.

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The actor who is at the forefront of the race to play James in the movie is Conrad Ricamora of How to Get Away with Murder fame. He is also an esteemed theatre artist. We know for a fact that Angelina Jolie is playing Sersi in the movie and the Eternal Makkari is being supposedly played by Kumail Nanjiani.

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In an earlier statement, Joe Russo, co-director of Infinity War and the upcoming Endgame movie claimed:

“The future of these movies will be an inclusive one. Diversity, both in front of and behind the camera, will be its gold standard.” 

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In the comics, the Eternals are actually descendants of human beings. They were a group of humans that were experimented upon by the Celestials, cosmic Gods of huge power and stature after the discovered the human gene has a knack for developing superpowers. The sworn enemies of the Eternals are the Deviants – a group of demonic creatures that are also malevolent by trade and were also the result of the same cosmic experimentation on the human gene by the Celestials.

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It will be interesting to see how Marvel moves forward with the storyline! The Eternals have never been part of any live action production. If Marvel can really hit a home run with this one, we will have another glorious decade of Marvel movies to look forward to. Let us not hope that it ends up in the same fate as The Inhumans did.

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Avengers: Endgame is set for release on 26th April 2019. The official film synopsis of the movie has been recently released and it states:

“After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos’ actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.”

Bibhu Prasad

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