Why ‘Eternals’ Is Dividing Audiences

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was shaken up this weekend with Chloé Zhao’s Eternals. Based on Jack Kirby’s epic 19-issue series, The Eternals (1976), the film explores a group of immortal aliens’ relationship to the people of Earth, and each other across millennia. Zhao, fresh off Academy Awards wins for best director and best picture for Nomadland (2020), pitched her concept for the film to Marvel Studios in 2018 and the film was developed as a passion project for the filmmaker, whose previous features, Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) and The Rider (2017), were well received indie dramas. So, it came as a surprise ......