Ridley was working on an “Eternals” TV series as early as 2019, when Marvel TV was still a more clearly separate entity from Marvel Studios. Marvel TV, as you may recall, was behind shows like “Agents of SHIELD,” “Agent Carter,” and the Netflix shows “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones,” “Luke Cage” and “Iron Fist.” In 2019, Marvel TV was closed and its shows were folded into Marvel Studios. It wasn’t until after the merger that the MCU-connected Disney+ shows, “WandaVision” and “Hawkeye,” emerged. Ridley was apparently working on an “Eternals” spinoff for Marvel TV before the merger, and the project was scrapped at the time. He stated plainly in Comic Book Club that his long-scrapped project “was a TV version of ‘The Eternals.'”‘ …Oh well.”
Perhaps his “but well” was referring to Zhao’s disappointing action; When it comes to heady science fiction concepts, the movie “Eternals” is top notch. However, when it comes to traditional superhero fights and mayhem, it’s lacking. Ridley certainly didn’t think much of Zhao’s film, saying:
«My version was the good one. […] It was so fucking strange. There was my version, a good version, that is good for me, that… That doesn’t mean anything. There was the version that [Marvel] I ended up doing, which I don’t think that version was particularly good. I’ll be honest.”
Ridley revealed that he wanted to take advantage of the weirdness of the “Eternals” concept and that his series would have started with a series of surreal and unpleasant images to establish who the Eternals were. He doesn’t go so far as to describe specific characters, stories or even the premise, but he did point out that one of his first ideas was to start his show with someone drilling into his brain.
2024-01-05 18:17:16
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