Gods among us
ETERNALS
Marvel and Chloé Zhao make a bid for immortality…
DIRECTOR Chloé Zhao STARRING Gemma Chan, Salma Hayek, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie
The Eternals, as seen in Marvel’s recent trailer.
Fresh off her history-making Best Director win for Nomadland, Chloé Zhao is back with Eternals. The brief trailer glimpses so far of Zhao’s first Marvel movie – an adaptation of Jack Kirby’s 1976 comic – look very, well, Zhao-like. Salma Hayek’s wise immortal Ajak, for example, sitting on a horse and looking like she’s straight out of Zhao’s second film, The Rider.
“To me what’s most exciting about Eternals is that world building,” says Zhao. “I love building a world and then you put people in that world and they create this chemistry with each other that you just can never predict, and you have to roll with the punches a little bit once you see that chemistry. It’s exciting for me.”