The final trailer for Marvel's Eternals is here, revealing a little more about the royal-looking heroes introduced months ago in the official teaser. The immortal alien race arrived on Earth 7,000 years ago to protect humans from their evil counterparts known as the Deviants.
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Marvel has dropped the first full trailer for its upcoming cosmic epic, giving us our best glimpse yet at Zhao's superhero saga. Eternals introduces a whole squad of new heroes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Gemma Chan as Sersi, Richard Madden as Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Lia McHugh as Sprite, Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari, Barry Keoghan as Druig, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, Salma Hayek as Ajak, and Angelina Jolie as Thena.
The trailer also answers one important question: If the Eternals are so powerful and have been hanging out on Earth all these years, why didn't they volunteer to help take down Thanos? One human character — Dane Whitman, played by Game of Thrones' Kit Harington — asks exactly that. (Surely Steve Rogers and Tony Stark would've welcomed having a guy who can fly and shoot lasers from his eyes.)
"We were instructed not to interfere in any human conflicts unless Deviants were involved," Sersi says. However, as Hayek's leader Ajak explains, Thanos' little stunt has had a ripple effect, and now, it's up to the Eternals to protect humanity from the Deviants once again.
The trailer gives us a look at these monstrous creatures, and addresses why the Eternals didn't interfere with Thanos. Hold onto your hats, because the trailer also reveals another possible enemy forcing the Eternals to interfere in events on Earth: Celestials, powerful extraterrestrial cosmic beings who first appeared in 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy.
The new trailer also gives a sense of the vast scale and scope of the film, from ancient civilizations to modern-day London to strange, otherworldly vistas in the far reaches of space. It's an epic story spanning thousands of years, but there are also elements that feel similar to Zhao's past work. (The wide-open prairies and images of Hayek on a horse look like they could be outtakes from The Rider or the Oscar-winning Nomadland.)
Eternals is scheduled to be released in theaters on Nov. 5. While Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will head to theaters exclusively in September, it's not clear yet whether Eternals will go the same route or will also head to Disney Plus Premiere Access on release day, just as Black Widow did in July.
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