Do you remember the time when Marvel wanted to make the ‘Black Widow’ movie and contacted the most unlikely director, Lucrecia Martel, to direct it? In the end, she did not enter the project because they were not going to allow her to do the action scenes, but she opened the ban: the company started going after directors with personality. And that’s how they turned to Chloe Zhao, director of intimate, slow and very personal films to make her own version of ‘The Eternals’. Risks sometimes go wrong, and the failure of the film made many of us think that the franchise was dead and buried. Nothing is further from reality.
Pip and Starfox are back
‘Eternals’ was not a perfect movie, but it took aesthetic risks perhaps too daring for the MCU while still being a film of the saga: in the end, it was neither a Chloe Zhao film nor a Marvel one, but something in between that did not please a large part of the public. Nevertheless, its ending left three half stories (eye, spoilers): The return of Arishem after the trial of humanity, the appearance of Pip the troll and Starfox and the nod to the Black Knight and Blade.
Nevertheless, It barely grossed $400 million worldwide., which added to the lukewarm reaction of the public led to the thought that the saga was dead and buried, resolving the open plots in other films. However, we know from filming footage that some character will appear in season 2 of ‘Loki’… And now Patton Oswalt has confirmed on the Today Show that there will be a second part.
“They have announced that there will be a sequel to ‘Eternals’ and Chloe Zhao is going to direct it. So hopefully there will be more adventures of Starfox and PipPatton Oswalt may have noticed something warm on his forehead as he spoke: It was the telescopic sight on Kevin Feige’s rifle.