Following a group of ancient superbeings who protect humanity from the Deviants, Eternals features an incredible cast and it will soon be available to watch from home!

To celebrate the movie’s digital, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD release, we have TWO DVDs to give away…

Marvel Studios’ Eternals follows a group of ancient heroes from beyond the stars who had protected Earth since the dawn of man. When monstrous creatures called Deviants, long thought lost to history, mysteriously return, the Eternals are forced to reunite in order to defend humanity once again.

The outstanding ensemble cast includes Gemma Chan (Humans), Richard Madden (Cinderella), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), Lia McHugh (The Lodge), Brian Tyree Henry (Godzilla vs. Kong), Lauren Ridloff (The Walking Dead), Barry Keoghan (The Killing Of A Sacred Deer), Don Lee (Train To Busan), Kit Harington (Game Of Thrones), Salma Hayek (Bliss) and Angelina Jolie (Maleficent).

“I was stunned at the ambition of it and the vision that Chloé and Nate had brought to it,” Kumail Nanjiani told us of Eternals when we spoke to him about it. “I was really surprised at how different it was going to be from the other Marvel movies, and just how big it was going to be. I don’t mean just in terms of scale, I mean in terms of time. The movie spans 7000 years. We haven’t had another Marvel movie that does that!”

Now Marvel fans can enjoy never-before-seen bonus material as Eternals heads to home video, including four deleted scenes and a gag reel…

Bonus Features*

• Audio Commentary – View the film with audio commentary by Chloé Zhao, Stephane Ceretti, Mårten Larsson
• Immortalized – Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe launches into the cosmos with the Eternals. In this behind-the-scenes documentary, dive deep into the reasons why Marvel wanted to immortalize these superheroes for the MCU.
• Walks of Life – Eternals unveils Marvel’s biggest and most diverse lineup of Super Heroes in one film. Hear reactions from the cast on being involved in the film and the instant sense of camaraderie that was felt on the day they all joined each other in their costumes.
• Gag Reel – Watch some of the hilarious mishaps of the charming cast and crew.
• Deleted Scenes:

• • Gravity – Phastos and Jack have a conversation that leads to a breakthrough.
  • Nostalgia – Sprite and Makkari reminisce about humankind while overlooking the ruins of Babylon.
  • Movies – Gligamesh and Kingo connect over movies while crossing the Amazon River with the rest of the team.
  • Small Talk – Sprite confronts Dane in the museum about his interactions with Sersi.

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Add Eternals to your digital collection and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD now. Read the SciFiNow review here. 

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Directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Gemma Chan as humankind-loving Sersi, Richard Madden as the all-powerful Ikaris, Lia McHugh as the eternally young, old-soul Sprite, Brian Tyree Henry as the intelligent inventor Phastos, Lauren Ridloff as the super-fast Makkari, Barry Keoghan as aloof loner Druig, Don Lee as the powerful Gilgamesh, Salma Hayek as the wise and spiritual leader Ajak, Angelina Jolie as the fierce warrior Thena and Kumail Nanjiani as cosmic-powered Kingo, this is a complex superhero family who has traversed the world over eons, protecting humanity.

We spoke to Kumail Nanjiani about playing the heart of the Eternals family with Kingo…

When did you first get involved with Eternals?

I found out that I was meeting with Nate Moore, who’s the producer of Eternals and of some fantastic movies like Civil War and Black Panther (he’s currently doing Black Panter 2) and Chloé Zhao. I am big fan of Chloé’s and I knew that she was directing Eternals so I was like: ‘Oh wow, is this something to do with Eternals?’ Then when I met with them and they gave me this 40-minute pitch of the whole movie, I could see that they had the entire movie in their head.

They kept mentioning this character Kingo, and at the end they said ‘okay, so what did you think?’ and I said: ‘What are you asking me right now?’. They said: ‘Do you want to play Kingo?’. I was like: ‘Really?!’ and no one ever does this, no one ever says yes in the room. Even if you want to say yes you’re like ‘okay yeah let me consider that’ but I was just like ‘YES! I’ll do it’ [haha]. That’s how I got involved, with just them asking me and me saying yes immediately. I was like yeah, I will pay YOU for me to do this movie!

What were your first thoughts when you read the Eternals script?

I was stunned at the ambition of it and the vision that Chloé and Nate had brought to it. I was really surprised at how different it was going to be from the other Marvel movies, and just how big it was going to be. I don’t mean just in terms of scale, I mean in terms of time. The movie spans 7000 years. We haven’t had another Marvel movie that does that.

It goes all over the world. Also, philosophically, it really explores some complicated things that I really think superhero movies have the power to do –  mainstream movies that people called ‘popcorn movies’ really have the power to muddle and tackle with some really complicated issues that concern humanity right now. So I was really really surprised at just how integral these complicated philosophical ideas were to this big, fun, epic sci-fi movie.

A lot of superhero movies traditionally have good versus bad. Those lines are very clearly delineated and this movie really gets into some morally grey areas. It’s a movie where good and bad aren’t as easily defined as they have been traditionally in superhero movies. We really get into our responsibility as humans, our responsibility to other humans, and our responsibility to Earth itself. It’s messy, it’s complicated. There are 8 billion people on this planet so how do we deal with different cultures and different morality systems and different points of view? There’s no real easy answer to that and the movie really gets into all that.

My first impression was my head just kind of spinning. I was like ‘oh wow, if they can pull this off this is really something I’ve never seen’. It was just a combination of all my favourite genres. I couldn’t believe they were asking me to be in it.

Can you tell us more about the Eternals themselves and their relationships with each other?

They are at least 7000 years old and they’ve been on Earth for 7000 years. There are ten of them, and they were given a specific task. That task is now over and now they’ve just been kind of hanging out on Earth for that long.

If you think of a family, if you think of your family, there’s so much history, there’s so much drama, there’s so much tension because of decades of baggage. They have 7000 years of baggage! So they’ve all sort of gone their separate ways and they have just so much history with each other that even though there’s love, it’s really complicated.

So to me what was really exciting was each of these ten people have completely different relationships with one another and relationships that have really evolved and changed and gotten worse and gotten better and gotten worse again over millennia.

It really is a family that knows each other too well, that’s been with each other for way too long. In some ways, the last thing they want to do is see each other again.

The fact that each character has a different relationship with all the other Eternals was really the fun of it for me too. It was like writing down every character and going, ‘okay, how is Kingo’s relationship with this character? How is his relationship with this character?’ Because there are ten new characters in a movie, all these things have to be completely defined when you go in. So to me, there was a lot of prep doing this movie, not just getting all the physical aspects right but really getting 7000 years of history mapped out!

What are Kingo’s powers and what part does he play in this family dynamic?

So his powers are he can shoot energy beams from his hands and he’s also very strong. He really is the young kid of the family. So everybody else are like older brothers or sisters or parents, all these different roles. He’s definitely the young kid of the family and he’s the one who’s really missed his family the most.

All the other characters have different levels of excitement at seeing each other or lack of excitement at seeing each other but he’s the one who’s definitely like ‘oh my god the family is back together, this is amazing!’ He is a character who really just loves being an Eternal, he loves his powers, he loves the other Eternals, he loves his life.

He’s become a Bollywood movie star and he loves that. He’s really fallen in love with the trappings of humanity, all the good and the bad of that. He’s fresh, he likes being rich, he likes buying stuff for himself. He’s arrogant in many ways, but then also selfless. He’s sort of a mix of a bunch of weird things. He’s really sarcastic but also very sincere and very sensitive but pretends to be badass. He’s basically everything that I ever wanted to play in characters. I was like ‘oh, I’m gonna put this into Kingo, and hopefully I’ll get to play him a few times’.

What was it like putting on your superhero costume for the first time?

I think every single one of us had a really emotional moment when we put it on. They built the suit piece by piece. So when we first went in, there were little strips of it, and we sort of saw it over months. We shot all the non-superhero suit stuff first and we were already a couple of months into filming when we first had the suit ready and put it on. It was amazing. I remember wearing it looking in the mirror and being like ‘wow, I am a Marvel superhero’.

This character has been wearing this suit for 7000 years, so to him it’s not special, so I sort of had to have that moment of like, ‘okay, this is amazing. I look really cool right now. Now I have to forget that and go to work!’.

I think what really helped is that over the years Marvel has gotten really good at making the costumes. The material is better, it moves a lot more, it’s not as heavy, it’s not as thick, it’s not as hot. So it was actually comfortable to wear the suit. I could move around and jump in it. It looks beautiful. My friends asked me if it was uncomfortable but no, it was great, I’d be wearing it right now if I could!

What are the main themes and takeaways from Eternals?

When I watch old Hollywood movies like Casablanca, and stuff like that, they’re very hard to categorise. Casablanca is one of my favourite movies (I know, what a unique opinion haha!) but it’s just a great movie! It’s really funny, it’s got drama, it’s got suspense, it’s got romance, it’s got everything. You can’t put it in a genre box. But I think over the years recently movies have really become genre-specific. It’s all got to fit in this specific box.

I think the Marvel movies are a throwback to those old Hollywood movies that would contain every genre, every tone and I think that’s what Eternals is too. It’s got so many different genres in it. It’s a historical epic, its sci-fi, it’s got romance, it’s funny, it’s got action, it’s got drama, it’s got truly everything. That’s why I love going to these Marvel movies because you really feel every emotion there is to feel. It feels to me like watching those old movies where tones would shift and stakes would shift and they just have room for everything.

Eternals is out in cinemas now.

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As the date for audiences being allowed back into the cool darkness of cinemas (for the UK) gets tantalisingly closer, Marvel has released a video celebrating the love of storytelling and the MCU’s most memorable moments… and they also give a hint of what’s to come in Phase Four, including a first look at Eternals PLUS the name for the new Black Panther movie!

Check out the video below and try not to shed a tear during the audience reaction for Avengers: Endgame…

The video opens with the late Stan Lee stating: “I love being with people; it’s the most incredible feeling in the world. That world may change and evolve, but the one that will never change – we’re all part of one big family,” as scenes from Marvel Studios’ Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Avengers, and Black Panther play, and so much more.

“That man next to you; he’s your brother,” continues Lee. “That woman over there; she’s your sister. We’re all part of one universe that moves ever upward and onward to greater glory.”

The video then centers on the magical viral moment of a movie theater audience erupting in cheers and excitement during the scene all of Marvel’s superheroes emerge from portals to fight against Thanos and his forces in Avengers: Endgame (the team at SciFiNow cannot either confirm or deny that perhaps they may have had a similar reaction during that scene…).

We then dive into footage of the upcoming Black Widow and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, as well as a first look at the highly-anticipated Eternals!

So, what have we got to look forward to for Phase Four? Let’s have a quick run down shall we…?

Black Widow: July 9, 2021

In the action-packed spy thriller Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger. Find out more here.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: September 3, 2021

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, who must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organisation. The film also stars Tony Leung as Wenwu, Awkwafina as Shang-Chi’s friend Katy and Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan, as well as Fala Chen, Meng’er Zhang, Florian Munteanu and Ronny Chieng. Find out more here.

Eternals: November 5, 2021

Eternals features an exciting new team of superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ancient beings who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, the Deviants.

Spider-Man: No Way Home: December 17, 2021

Director Jon Watts returns to direct Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon in the follow-up film, Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: March 25, 2022

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, directed by Sam Raimi, will see the return of Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Benedict Wong (Wong), Rachel McAdams (Christine Palmer), and Chiwetel Ejiofor (Mordo), as well as the addition of Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch) and newcomer Xochitl Gomez who will portray America Chavez, a new fan-favorite from the comics.

Thor: Love and Thunder: May 6, 2022

During The Walt Disney Company’s Investor Day late last year, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed Christian Bale joined the cast of Thor: Love and Thunder as Gorr the God Butcher, alongside Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Natalie Portman (Jane Foster), and Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie) returning to their roles.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: July 8, 2022

The sequel to the history-making Black Panther, written and directed by Ryan Coogler, will explore the incomparable world of Wakanda.

The Marvels: November 11, 2022

The sequel to Captain Marvel flies higher, further, faster with director Nia DaCosta as Brie Larson (Captain Marvel) is joined by Teyonah Parris (Monica Rambeau) and Iman Vellani (Kamala Khan).

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania: February 17, 2023

Also highlighted in last year’s The Walt Disney Company Investor Day, Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) and Evangeline Lilly (Wasp) return in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania with Kang the Conqueror, played by Jonathan Majors. Peyton Reed returns to direct the Marvel Studios film. Kathryn Newton joins the cast as Cassie Lang, while Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer return as Hope’s parents, Dr. Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, respectively.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3: May 5, 2023

Our ragtag bunch of space misfits will return as James Gunn is penning and directing the third film in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.

Fantastic Four

Make way for Marvel’s First Family as Jon Watts is set to direct Fantastic Four, as announced by Feige last year!

For more on Feige’s plans for our next foray in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, check out our interview with him right here for SciFiNow+ (don’t forget to use our special code SciFiNow20 to get 20% off!).

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