Eternals Director Chloe Zhao Shares in a Featurette What to Expect in the Upcoming Movie


As the Eternals would be gracing the screens in a few days, award-winning director Chloe Zhao gets a new featurette coming into the project as both a filmmaker and a fan of Marvel and with that scope of her vision, she shares what to expect in the upcoming movie from the story to the stunning places they filmed.

In a new featurette released for Eternals titled Visionary, Kevin Feige started the clip explaining what their plans are after the Infinity Saga concluded and with such high expectations coming up to build the fourth phase and to keep everyone interested with the long line of the franchise, they tapped into the project award-winning director Chloe Zhao.

Zhao explains that she entered the project as a fan and a filmmaker and she married that vision she had in this movie with being epic and intimate all at the same time, putting together two things on the different ends of the spectrum, putting layers into the story, and giving the characters the life that they deserve to have on the big screens.

Brian Tyree Henry calls he a “visionary,” and as for Lauren Ridloff, Zhao has “the eye.” Nanjiani shared how Zhao wanted to use practical sets that it could be seen in the movie that they use nature as the background of scenes, as per Zhao, it is showing how the character is related to the environment he or she is in. Zhao, really, is in for the details, that she wants the viewers to feel as if they are in a different world.

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The Eternals are as follows: Ikaris (Richard Madden) is the Prime Eternal, leader of the team; Thena (Angelina Jolie), squaring off as the other leader of the group; Ajak (Salma Hayek), a Trojan War veteran; Gilgamesh (Don Lee/ Dong-seok Ma), also known as the Forgotten One; and Sersi (Gemma Chan), an enchantress and conjurer.

Other members of the Eternals are Makkari (Lauren Ridloff), the deaf speedster; Sprite (Lia McHugh), an Eternal trapped in the body of an 11-year-old; Kingo Sunen (Kumail Nanjiani), the skilled swordsman; Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), the blacksmith; and Druig (Barry Keoghan), an ominous Eternal.

Marvel’s Eternals premieres on November 5, 2021, exclusively in theaters.

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