Eternals Teaser, My Thoughts

The Mighty Marvel Cinematic Universe marches on! In April 2018, it was announced that the Eternals would get their own film, which would be the MCU's 26th movie. Created by Jack Kirby and first appearing in Eternals #1 (July 1976), the Eternals are an offshoot of humanity given godlike power to protect the Earth. 

Written by Ryan and Matthew K. Firpo, and directed by Chloe Zhao (Zhao and Patrick Burleigh had re-written the script), the film was originally intended to have released in November 2020, but got delayed to this upcoming November due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, we finally got the long-anticipated teaser for this movie. Let's take a look! 

A good day for a bit of spear fishin'.

Man, the prototype for the B-2 Bomber was weird.

"...Sersi, there's sand here!"

I like that shot of the hand in the plants. It's paralleling the shot of Thanos's hand in the farm. Also, the water coming from that hand looks like beer. I'm gonna pretend it's beer. The Eternals are DRINKING TONIGHT!

From what I understand, that dagger in that shot is meant to resemble the Ceremonial Golden Dagger, an artifact that was found in the tombs of royalty in the ancient city of Ur. Ur is, I think, one of the world's first ever major cities, so it's a nice nod here. 

That city...could it be Atlantis, pre-sinking? People have joked about the narration saying the Eternals "never interfering", but a shot showing one handing someone a knife. Maybe they did try to guide humanity more directly in the past, but it led to disaster. As such, they decided to be "hands off". Would also help explain why they weren't around to help deal with Thanos. Heck, maybe this is the reason why Atlantis is underwater in the MCU. 

Also, I would not be surprised if this film draws on the 2006 Eternals miniseries written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by John Romita Jr to help explain why the Eternals are emerging now. In that miniseries, they were rendered amnesiac and believed that they were regular people. 

There's a new Fastest Woman Alive in the MCU!

I will laugh so hard if we get a full-on Bollywood musical number in this flick.

Sprite is legendary at karaoke. And the old Captain America shield in the background!

I think a certain man named Sam and a certain woman named Carol would disagree with you there, Ikaris.

This teaser doesn't really reveal much, but...I kind of liked that. I like the mystery of what this film is about. We know the Deviants will be involved. After all, can't have the Eternals without Deviants for them to fight. I admit, the film looks rather unique compared to the rest of the MCU. Likely due to Zhao using more naturalistic lighting. It's an MCU film, so you bet I want to see this. 

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