Eternals screenwriters Kaz and Ryan Firpo know exactly where they want the franchise to go next. During an interview with CBR, they offered a little insight on where they would take the characters after the film's cliffhanger ending, teasing a trilogy of films and even pitching a Kingo-focused Disney+ series. However, they made it clear that the Eternals' future depends on audiences around the globe.
"There's definitely a Marvel sniper sitting out there watching me," Kaz Firpo told CBR with a laugh. "He's gonna take me out if we say too much here. But I think the short version is, if audiences really love this film, if this incredible number-one-movie-in-the-world weekend that we just had continues, I think there's a very real conversation about telling more stories in the Eternal universe going out into like the weirdest reaches of cosmic space and getting a little weird out there with the Celestials."
"I think that would be a great sequel. I think maybe it's a rescue movie -- an intergalactic rescue from the World Forge might be in order," he continued. "I think that you might get some new characters. You might get to meet the gods of space and time themselves. I think you might get to get out there."
"I think what Michael Waldron and Kate Herron did with Loki is incredible and the way that they were starting to break open the multiverse, and Eternals is more looking at the cosmic side of things and really dealing with space and time," he added.
"But yeah, we've always even joked that there's a incredible prequel series to be made here on Disney+, where 10 episodes, each episode follows one Eternal for an hour," he said. "It's Thena dealing with the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece and being the inspiration for the goddess herself. It's Kingo hanging out with Gandhi in 1920s India, helping broker the peace, the great disentangling of colonialization. It's really diving into these historical stories by the lens of one or two Eternals. Maybe Sprite shows up for a little bit, and each character kind of overlaps, but it's mostly Kingo's story."
"I think it's just an incredibly rich universe, for which there's just so much more. Yeah, if we're lucky, it'll be a trilogy of very special stories," he concluded.
"Kaz really covered it," Ryan Firpo agreed. "Kevin [Feige] and Marvel and everybody there, they're putting the chess pieces -- they're giving them a path to victory -- but they're also reading the climate and making their choices. So I think, like you said, we want to see the Eternals again. We want to see the story continue. A lot will be dictated by how these next few days go, really."
"The door is open!" Kaz Firpo pitched in. "We left the doors open for the story, and I think it's up to the audience to step through."
Although Eternals ended with Sersi and her allies saving planet Earth from being destroyed in the birth of a Celestial, she quickly faced the consequences of her actions. Arishem, the Celestial that created them, arrived soon after and whisked her away into the cosmos, demanding that she prove humanity's worthiness to them. The film also ended with the tagline, "The Eternals will return," confirming that Marvel Studios has more plans for these characters in the pipeline.
Marvel's Eternals is now in theaters.