Ridley was engaged on an “Eternals” TV sequence as way back as 2019, again when Marvel TV was nonetheless a extra clearly separate entity from Marvel Studios. Marvel TV, one would possibly recall, was behind exhibits like “Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Agent Carter,” and the Netflix exhibits “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones,” “Luke Cage,” and “Iron Fist.” In 2019, Marvel TV was shut down and its exhibits have been included into Marvel Studios. It wasn’t till after the merger that the MCU-connected Disney+ exhibits “WandaVision” and “Hawkeye” got here into being. Ridley, it appears, was engaged on an “Eternals” spinoff for Marvel TV previous to the merger, and the venture was scrapped within the shift. He mentioned clearly on Comedian Guide Membership that his long-hidden scrapped venture “was a tv model of ‘The Eternals‘ … However good.”
Maybe his “however good” referred to Zhao’s underwhelming motion; in terms of heady sci-fi ideas, the “Eternals” film is first-rate. On the subject of combating and conventional superhero mayhem, nevertheless, it’s missing. Ridley actually did not assume a lot of Zhao’s movie, saying:
“My model was the nice model. […] It was so f***ing bizarre. There was my model, an excellent model, which is nice to me, which … That does not imply something. There was the model that [Marvel] ended up doing, which I do not assume that model was notably good. I will be trustworthy.”
Ridley revealed that he wished to faucet into the weirdness of the “Eternals” idea and that his sequence would have begun with a string of off-putting and surreal photos to ascertain who the Eternals have been. He would not go as far as to explain particular characters, tales, and even the premise, however he did be aware that one in every of his early concepts was to start his present with somebody drilling into their mind.
