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Meet The New Cast Of “The Eternals”
This past weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, Keven Feige, president of Marvel Studios, announced six upcoming Marvel movies, one of which will introduce a new group of superheroes who call themselves “The Eternals.”
The movie will star Angelina Jolie (Thena), Salma Hayek (the gender-swapped version of Ajak), Richard Madden (Ike Harris), Dong Seok Ma (Gilgamesh) and more.
According to Feige when he was describing the new group of super-powered beings, “[They’re] a group of immortals who have been on Earth for 35,000 years. They’ve been there amongst the MCU.”
“The Eternals” was introduced in 1976 as three different groups that were created by celestial Gods: the Deviants (a group that was constantly at war), humans, and the immortal Eternals. The upcoming movie will feature a lot of gender-swapped versions of original characters, but the majority of them will have similar superhuman abilities, including super strength and the ability to fly.
In addition to the above mentioned, the movie will also star “The Walking Dead” actress Lauren Ridloff as a gender-flipped version of Makkari, Kumail Nanjiani (“Stuber”) is playing Kingo, Lia McHugh is playing a gender-swapped version of Sprite, and Brian Tyree Henry (“Atlanta”) is playing Phastos.
There were a few other Eternals who were not announced at Comic-Con, but they are expected to be featured in the movie.
By: Maytinee Kramer
