Trailer Eternals Movie

[Undrave]

There's constant attempts to make even more content, from the semi-successful (Amazon Prime and Invincible and The Boys and Netflix and Umbrella Academy) to the ... less so (Netflix and Jupiter's Legacy).

Not to mention everything else (LEGION WAS AWESOME!).

Tsuburaya is trying to get Ultraman trending in the west (Ultraman Z was FRICKIN' AWESOME! It won a lot of accolades too) as well, simulcasting their show on Youtube and getting older series released on physical media and Tubi in North-America.

 

[Undrave]

So, they're sure they want to go with the name "deviants" for the bad guys?

Which are what, exactly? Stringy CGI monsters?

MovieBob did a multi-part series of video on the absolutely BONKERS comic book History of the Eternals...

But the concept, from what I understood, is that (some of) the Celestials (AKA Primordial Gods of the Marvel U) created the Eternals as unchanging 'perfect beings' and the Deviant as a rapidly reproducing and rapidly mutating race to see which one would basically "win"... and they got into a war. There's also an evil Celestial or two involved in there. I think the term 'Deviant' is given by the Eternals and they probably call themselves something else?

It's all very New Gods Kirby-esque pseudo-new-age-mythology stuff.

 

[Umbran]

It seems like MCU Thanos isn’t a deviant, I suppose. Either that, or the eternals don’t actually know he is.

Yeah. Note that in the comics, the Eternals and Deviants are both originally from human stock. For the MCU, they've made Thanos an outright alien.

 

[payn]

I started getting burned out on Supers back during Avengers 1. My new method is to only see things that I find really appealing. Id say that's about 1/10 of these flicks. If a movie starts getting rave reviews and great word of mouth I'll check it out. That was Guardians of the Galaxy for me. Otherwise, I wait for streaming on anything thats seems interesting, but not must see. This spot usually fills my show hole. Anything that doesn't look interesting is wait until its on TV while I'm at the gym. It seems like Eternals is at that point.

 

[Ryujin]

I don't expect the big reveal until "Eternals 3." If then. If they do it in the first one, then they aren't really planning on a franchise.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I don't expect the big reveal until "Eternals 3." If then. If they do it in the first one, then they aren't really planning on a franchise.

Which big reveal?

 

[Tonguez]

MovieBob did a multi-part series of video on the absolutely BONKERS comic book History of the Eternals...

But the concept, from what I understood, is that (some of) the Celestials (AKA Primordial Gods of the Marvel U) created the Eternals as unchanging 'perfect beings' and the Deviant as a rapidly reproducing and rapidly mutating race to see which one would basically "win"... and they got into a war. There's also an evil Celestial or two involved in there. I think the term 'Deviant' is given by the Eternals and they probably call themselves something else?

It's all very New Gods Kirby-esque pseudo-new-age-mythology stuff.

Yeah these cgi string monsters in the movie dont look like the comic book deviants at all. So even though they’re using the names it seems likely that they’ve gone and reimagined the deviants as something else other than ‘a mutate offshoot of Eternals”.

 

[Ryujin]

Which big reveal?

Well that would be a spoiler, wouldn't it?

 

[Umbran]

Yeah these cgi string monsters in the movie dont look like the comic book deviants at all. So even though they’re using the names it seems likely that they’ve gone and reimagined the deviants as something else other than ‘a mutate offshoot of Eternals”.

I suspect they are (perhaps wisely) veering away from "attractive people = good, ugly people = violent and evil" trope found in the original source material.

 

[Rune]

I suspect they are (perhaps wisely) veering away from "attractive people = good, ugly people = violent and evil" trope found in the original source material.

Of course, the deviants in that trailer do look ugly, but that’s just because the cgi looks unfinished (to me). The celestials look great, though!