A new poster has been released to celebrate the upcoming Disney+ debut of Marvel Studios' Eternals.
The poster features Gemma Chan's Sersi, Richard Madden's Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani's Kingo, Lia McHugh's Sprite, Brian Tyree Henry's Phastos, Lauren Ridloff's Makkari, Barry Keoghan's Druig, Don Lee's Gilgamesh, Angelina Jolie's Thena and Salma Hayek's Ajak, along with confirmation that Eternals arrives on Disney+ Jan. 12, 2022.
Eternals has one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's largest casts of main characters outside of an Avengers film, with 10 immortal heroes all balancing screentime. "I think all these stories, like every story in the MCU begins with characters, finding 10 -- in this case -- 10 characters that you love, that you want to spend time with, that you want to get to know," co-screenwriter Kaz Firpo recently told CBR. "I think this has been reported on, but there we wrote drafts of the movie with 12 characters, that had even more Eternals. So for sure, the challenge is to lay out this mythology, to have this big emotional, existential question at the heart of a movie."
"Yeah, and I think, just from a craft perspective, just balancing the pacing, basically, between a save-the-world, present day storyline that has a very clear and urgent ticking clock, and then flashing back to these different points in time that could be as long as 5000 years previously," fellow screenwriter Ryan Firpo added. "That was definitely a challenge, of giving the flashbacks a reason for being. Then, on top of that, I'd say like just preserving and emphasizing the love story between Sersi and Ikarus in the middle of all this craziness that's going on. Those were the two biggest challenges, I think, in constructing the script."
While Eternals performed well at the box office, it has the unfortunate distinction of being the worst-reviewed film in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with a 48% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. "An ambitious superhero epic that soars as often as it strains, Eternals takes the MCU in intriguing -- and occasionally confounding -- new directions," the critics consensus reads.
Eternals arrives on Disney+ Jan. 12, 2022.
Source: Disney+