Marvel Studios Boss Kevin Feige Admits Defeat On ‘Eternals’, Says There Are “No Immediate Plans” For A Sequel
In a development that absolutely every movie goer could have seen coming, Kevin Feige has revealed that Marvel Studios currently has “no immediate plans” to produce an Eternals sequel.
(Oh no! Anyways.)
The eternally-baseball cap’d producer provided this update on the future – or rather, lack thereof – of MCU’s black sheep superteam while speaking to Inverse’s Dais Johnston and Jake Kleinman.
Pressed on the matter by his hosts, Feige admitted, “There are no immediate plans for Eternals 2.”
“There are, and I think you’ve seen maybe in a trailer we’ve released recently, an acknowledgment of some of those events,” he added, referring to the upcoming appearance of the half-emerged Celestial Tiamut, which became a permanent fixture of Earth-19999’s surface at the end of Eternals, as a set piece in the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World. “Certain giant things came out of the ocean.”
It should be noted that though Marvel Studios has no current plans to revisit the Eternals, at one point, they very, very clearly did.
Case in point, the film’s ending and mid-credit scenes.
In the first, those Eternals who rebelled against Arishem are whisked away by the Celestial to serve as ‘character witnesses’ against his pending judgement of humanity.
In the second, the Eternal Eros and his companion Pip the Troll, as portrayed by Harry Styles and Patton Oswalt, respectively, appear before those Eternals who were left on Earth and offer to help them retrieve their lost companions.
Seems like a sequel set-up, if ever there was one.
Further, according to a previous rumor, not only was an Eternals 2 once being actively considered for development, but its biggest proponent was none other than Feige himself.
The only reason audiences were spared? Supposedly Disney CEO Bob Iger.
In a March 2024 a post to his personal Patreon account, noted scooper Daniel Richtman reported that though Feige was apparently gung-ho on pushing through with a second Eternals film despite the poor reception of the first, he was ultimately overridden by Iger and his assumption that the sequel would likely turn out to be yet another Marvel box office disaster.
Ultimately resulting in a financial loss for Disney and Marvel, Eternals pulled in just $402.1 million worldwide against a massive reported budget of $236.2 million.
Taking into account the standard ‘true budget’ equation of ‘twice what was publicly reported’, this means the widely-panned film cost at least $472.4 million dollars to make and fell short $70 million short of breaking even.
Instead of Eternals 2, Marvel Studios’ next big cinematic big will be the similarly overpriced Captain America: Brave New World, which is currently set to spread its wings in theaters on Valentine’s Day 2025.
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