Marvel’s Eternals First Look Is Full Of Wonder, Love, And Richard Madden

It is the daybreak of a brand new period for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The primary trailer for Chloé Zhao’s Eternals — her first characteristic movie since final yr’s Greatest Image-winning Nomadland — is right here, and it is filled with acquainted faces: Gemma Chan, Recreation of Thrones‘s Richard Madden, Brian Tyree Henry, a swole Kumail Nanjiani, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Lauren Ridloff, Lia McHugh… oh, and Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie, after all. We have lengthy identified that the forged for this specific Marvel film is stacked, however seeing that crew standing collectively on a seashore of their mystical, futuristic garb is an entire new expertise.

The arrival of the movie’s first look feels much more momentous given its delayed arrival. First set to reach in theaters in November 2020, Eternals was pushed as a result of pandemic (like Black Widow) and is now scheduled for a November 2021 launch. That may really feel like a very long time from now. Fortunately, there’s a lot to unpack on this teaser that it ought to assist go the times.

Based mostly on iconic comic-book artist Jack Kirby’s Eternals collection, a few group of immortal aliens who dwell on earth in secret, the movie will see its characters unite as a power to assist shield the planet as soon as once more, set after the occasions of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. Presumably they’ll do that proper after they take that fireside posse shot on the seashore.

A pair fast issues to know: Sure, that is the movie Nanjiani got jacked for. Sure, that’s Package Harington within the trailer, which suggests we could get a pseudo Jon Snow/Robb Stark reunion onscreen. And sure, this would be the third movie within the MCU’s deliberate Section 4, after Black Widow‘s and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings‘s releases in July and September, respectively.

Throughout her massive evening on the Oscars final month, Zhao took residence Greatest Image and have become the primary lady of shade to win Greatest Director. Her movie Nomadland additionally received Frances McDormand her third trophy for Greatest Actress. Zhao’s acceptance speech for her directing Oscar projected the sort of heat humanism that may hopefully turn out to be an indicator of the latest period of the MCU. “Folks at delivery are inherently good,” she stated. “Typically, it might seem to be the other is true, however I’ve all the time discovered goodness within the folks I’ve met in every single place I went on this planet.”

See the primary trailer for Zhao’s Eternals above.