News culture It is one of the most criticized Marvel films in recent years and yet the big boss of the MCU is struggling to offer it a sequel
“The Eternals” is definitely a controversial film in the MCU that has sparked a lot of conflicting opinions. While there was recent talk of cancellation, the big boss of the Marvel Extended Universe would be trying to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Not forever
In 2021, the Marvel Cinematic Universe released The Eternals, a film with a five-star cast including Barry Keoghan, Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Gemma Chan and Harry Styles in the lead roles. They put on the costume Eternals, extremely powerful superheroes who watched over the earth in the shadows for millennia and especially had to fend off the monstrous Deviants.
Against a backdrop of cosmic issues and the fact that the Celestials take center stage, the public has often compared Chloé Zhao’s feature film to a DC Comics adventure, an experience that was rather groundbreaking in an often watered-down MCU. And if The Eternals is still controversial today – some love it, others hate it – It seems that the poor box office results didn’t necessarily convince Disney to make a sequel. Well, maybe not.
Back from the dead ?
Essentially, The Eternals 2 was a true Disney project… at least before the MCU more or less collapsed in recent years. Since then, Marvel has revised its plans and would rather release fewer films and series but in better quality. In the stack, Only a few months ago it was said that Bob Igger, head of the big-eared company, had canceled the film (and not only that, by the way). Quite easy.
Although there is nothing official about it, the rumor persisted and was, to be honest, quite believable. But now another rumor, spread by Marvel Updates, counterbalances the whole thing: Kevin Feige, the head of the MCU, would ultimately do his best to make The Eternals 2 possible.
Apparently it is still difficult to provide clarity on this still very vague matter, about which we would like to hear a little less hearsay: Anyway, Marvel’s new guidelines want films that are sometimes more mature and violent (In particular, a label was created for this purpose, which concerns, for example, the future Daredevil Born Again and Blade) could well be in line with the vision of a new adventure for the Eternals. We will see.
