Kevin Feige on Chloé Zhao’s ‘Spectacular’ Approach to ‘Eternals’ and Who the Film’s ‘Lead’ Character Is

Extra wokey! Wonder who the writers are?

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/kevin-feige-chloe-zhao-eternals-1234962496/

“Eternals,” is part of the MCU’s Phase Four, which kicked off with “WandaVision” on Disney Plus; the first Phase Four film will be “Black Widow” in July. “Eternals,” delayed a year because of COVID-19, is set to be released on Nov. 5, with a large international cast, including Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Richard Madden, Kit Harington, Brian Tyree Henry and Kumail Nanjiani, and featuring the MCU’s first LGBTQ and deaf superheroes.

“Eternals” expands the MCU in terms of representation, with its large international cast, its first LGBTQ superhero — I know some of those things are baked into the “Eternals,” but how many of those expansive ideas came from Chloé?

Well, the notion of switching up the genders, sexualities and ethnicities of the characters from the comics, was baked in initially — that was part of what Nate Moore was really advocating for in moving “Eternals” to the top of the list for us to start working on. What exactly the makeup was between when Nate put together his internal discussion document, which is how we always start on all of our projects, and what she came in and did, I don’t recall exactly.