Oscar-winning writer John Ridley recently confirmed that his cancelled Marvel TV series would have been Eternals, solving a riddle surrounding the Marvel television for over ten years. However, his remarks regarding the Chloe Zhao film have stirred debate. The writer claimed to be “reinventing and existing Marvel superhero character or property” for television in the 2015 leak of plans for a television programme based on a Marvel property for the Disney-owned network ABC. Finally speaking up about the project, Ridley revealed that it was originally going to be an adaptation of Marvel’s Eternals, a show he called “weird” and a little too self-indulgent. In an interview with the Comic Book Club podcast, Ridley stated, “What’s entertaining to me is often not populist.” “This is fantastic for a lot of the work I do, but more people needed to know about this.”
The screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave also shared some information on the unproduced pilot episode of the programme, which purportedly has a man pushing a power drill into his ear and another dozing off in a bathtub. Subsequently, he bemoaned the project’s cancellation while acknowledging that his original idea was probably not what Marvel had in mind when they hired him. Regarding Marvel’s attempt to adapt the Eternals for the big screen, Ridley admitted he wasn’t a fan of it either. The film tanked at the box office and didn’t please reviewers or fans, receiving one of Marvel Studios’ lowest review ratings to date. His explanation for not like director Chloé Zhao’s version, which he gave “all kinds of reasons” for to Comic Book Club, was, “There was my version, a good version, which is good to me, which doesn’t mean anything.” There was the version that Marvel ultimately produced, and I don’t believe that version was really excellent. To be honest, I will.
Fans of Eternals are evident since some of them didn’t hesitate to respond to Ridley’s criticism of the movie. “Chloe Zhao’s Eternals WAS the ‘good version,’ John Ridley,” a fan said on X. Of course. It was shown on a large screen. Yours never made it past the pilot phase, much less the tiny screen. P.S. Can you imagine the uproar on Twitter if a female director discussed the work of a male director in this manner? Longtime Marvel Comics writer and creator Jack Kirby developed the iconic comic book team known as the Eternals, a group of ancient heavenly heroes who dwell among mortals and defend them from supernatural perils. Despite the publisher’s moderate success with his first run of comic books in the late 1970s, the characters did not receive a widespread media adaptation until Marvel Studios’ picture from 2021. Additionally, Ridley stated that Marvel does not have any intentions to bring his version of the IP back, but he added that he is not too upset about this as he doesn’t think he was the correct person to adapt the characters in the first place. For the time being, Ridley is working on an untitled project with TV network Showtime starring Alicia Keys, which is expected to premiere in the next year.
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