Marvel gives first looks at The Eternals, WandaVision

Thanos is dead. Iron Man is dead. Black Widow is dead. Captain America is out of commission. Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is over, and everyone is eager to see what comes next. And while the immediate future will focus on prequels like the upcoming Black Widow movie, rest assured that Marvel chief Kevin Feige is eager to move things forward.

Probably the biggest Marvel movie on the horizon is The Eternals, about an ancient race of beings sworn to protect humanity. The cast is impressive, with Angelina Jolie as Thena, Salma Hayek as Ajak, Richard Madden as Ikaris, Gemma Chan as Sersi, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Bryan Tyree Henry as Phastos, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, Barry Keoghan as Druig, Kit Harington as Dane Whitman, and more. While at the 2019 Comic Con Experience in São Paulo this weekend, Feige debuted some new footage from the movie, and while it’s not being released online, Collider described it in excellent detail:

"The footage began with a shot of Keoghan’s Druig walking out of a door straight into the assembled Eternals, all costumed up in their mythological-looking armor. From there, we got a tapestry of snippets that showed the various Eternals in different locations, showcasing the film’s diversity and international casting.We got some gorgeous close-up shots of Jolie back in blonde, decked out in her white costume. In one shot, she grins — though we have no context why. We also caught a peak at Ajak in action and a sighting of some kind of monstrous army. (The Deviants, or just another classic MCU monster army? TBD.)We also saw what seems to be a romance between Chan’s Sersi and Madden’s Ikarus, holding hands in some sort of fountain-like structure and standing together in a field. We saw Hayek’s Ajak riding a horse in the countryside, heading towards an isolated farmhouse on the horizon. We saw Nanjiani’s Kingo, decked out in colorful garb and makeup, dancing, surrounded by ensemble dancers in a seemingly Bollywood-inspired scene.  We see Druig standing beside a giant temple in glowing orange light (there’s a lot of temple stuff in the footage, giving the whole thing an appropriately mythological feel)."

The Eternals isn’t a very well-known Marvel property, but the same could be said of Guardians of the Galaxy and Black Panther and even Iron Man and that didn’t stop those movies from becoming huge hits. I’d say Feige and his team have more than earned our trust. The Eternals comes out on November 6, 2020.

But movies are only part of the strategy for Phase 4. There will also be a number of Disney+ shows, including The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye, Loki, and WandaVision, about Wanda Maximoff and Vision, her robot(ish) boyfriend.

Now, you may be wondering how a show could star Vision when he died in Avengers: Infinity War. We’re wondering that, too, but that’s only one of many questions the show brings up. I mean, what to make of this poster?

And at CCXP, Marvel debuted a new promotional image:

So somehow, Wanda and Vision will end up in a 1950s-style sitcom, which…sure. It probably has to do with Wanda’s reality-warping powers, which haven’t been explored in detail in the movies but cause all sorts of merry hell in the comics. Apparently, in the new show, she’ll also take up her comic moniker: the Scarlet Witch.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will be the first of the Marvel Disney+ shows to debut, in the fall of 2020. After that, it’s full speed ahead towards WandaVision.

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