Palisadian Kevin Feige Executive Produces ‘Eternals’

By LILY TINOCO | Reporter

Palisadian Kevin Feige—president of Marvel Studios—executive produced “Eternals,” a film set to premiere in theaters Friday, November 5.

Feige first announced the project in 2018, sharing that Marvel was developing “Eternals” based on Jack Kirby’s 1976 comic series. Kirby’s work includes “Captain America” “X-Men,” the “Hulk” and others. Marvel’s 2000 “X-Men” was Feige’s first major film adapting Kirby’s work.

“Marvel Studios’ ‘Eternals’ welcomes an exciting new team of super heroes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe,” according to Disney’s website. “The epic story, spanning thousands of years, features a group of immortal heroes forced out of the shadows to reunite against mankind’s oldest enemy, The Deviants.”

The film’s cast includes Richard Madden as Ikaris, Gemma Chan as Sersi, Salma Hayek as Ajak, Angelina Jolie as Thena, Kit Harrington as Dane Whitman, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari and many more.

“Eternals” is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Four, which kicked off with “WandaVision,” followed by “Black Widow.” The film is also slated to feature the MCU’s first LGBTQ and deaf superheroes.

The film was directed by filmmaker Chloé Zhao, who Feige has praised for her “signature style” and deemed “critical to the longevity of the MCU,” according to Variety.

“These are the kind of filmmakers we want to work with, regardless of the size of the film they’ve done before,” Feige said in an interview with Variety. “Unique voices, with unique things to say. When you get people with unique points of views … and empower them and surround them with the great artists and technicians that can bring spectacle, that can bring the visuals that a Marvel movie requires, they can take you to places you’ve never gone before. And I think you’ve seen that with all of the filmmakers that we’ve worked with, and particularly the filmmakers who have done smaller, more personal things before agreeing to come on board the MCU.

“I’m in my 20-plus years at Marvel. We only want to keep doing this so that we can keep evolving it and changing it and growing it, and doing things we hadn’t done before.”

“Eternals,” rated PG-13, was delayed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic but is slated to premiere with a runtime of two hours and 37 minutes. The film is set to have a theater-only experience before being released on Disney+ after 45 days.