Kevin Feige Says The Marvel's Eternals Pitch Was the Best He's Ever Heard

Kevin Feige Says The Marvel's Eternals Pitch Was the Best He's Ever Heard

IGN·2021-01-29 14:00

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has packed on the praise for Eternals filmmaker Chloé Zhao and, more specifically, the pitch that she delivered for her upcoming MCU Phase 4 movie.Rolling Stone magazine recently published a profile piece on Zhao, featuring insight from Feige and others in the industry about the process of bringing her visions to life on the big screen. Feige commended the Eternals helmer for catching his attention with her ideas for the upcoming MCU entry, as he apparently referred to "Zhao's pitch for the movie the best he'd ever heard.""Not only does Chloe make remarkable, small, personal movies in a remarkable, small, personal way, but she thinks in grand, cosmic, gigantic terms, which fit perfectly with what we wanted to do," Feige explained, speaking about Zhao's journey to the MCU. "Eternals is a very big, sweeping, multimillennial-spanning story. And she just got it."During last year's D23 Marvel panel, Disney officially revealed the celestial costumes for Thena, Ikaris, Ajak, Phastos, Kingo, and the rest of the Eternals. Despite being a clan of god-like beings, Rolling Stone says Zhao wanted to keep the story grounded and experimental, "like you're right there in this space with these characters," so she shot the movie with the same rig she used for her indie film Nomadland.Marvel's Eternals, the third film in the MCU's Phase 4, features a stellar cast consisting of Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kit Harington. Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, and Salma Hayek. Reportedly the most "sci-fi" movie of the MCU, Eternals follows the exploits of an immortal alien race created by the Celestials as they reunite to protect humanity from their evil counterparts, the Deviants.Sadly, Eternals was part of the huge slate of Disney movies that were delayed towards the end of last year, with the movie now scheduled to arrive on November 5, 2021. For more on Marvel Studios' future slate of projects and releases, read our breakdown of the biggest and most noteworthy developments in the MCU, on Disney+, and in Marvel's comics this year.Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

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