Kumail Nanjiani Reveals His ‘Eternals’ Future That May’ve Been

It’s no secret the MCU entered the 2020s with some growing pains. A pandemic will try this to you, ditto a spottier output, and one of many extra divisive initiatives was Eternals. On the time, it appeared Marvel had some plans for the immortal beings, and due to Kumail Nanjiani, we now know what that may’ve seemed like.

In a current episode of Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out podcast, the one-time Kingo revealed he signed on pondering he’d be a longterm MCU participant and alternate between that and non-blockbuster work. In response to him, Marvel Studios had him enroll “for all these items. I signed on for six films, a online game, [and] a theme park experience. I used to be like, ‘That is gonna be my job for the subsequent 10 years.’” These plans, which possible additionally utilized to costars like Angelina Jolie and Brian Tyree Henry (and might be customary throughout all MCU actors), seem to have fallen via, for the reason that Eternals have been MIA for almost 4 years and Marvel’s not stated a lot about them since. And the one different time they’ve been introduced up was a season three episode of What If…? that noticed Nanjiani voice an alternate model of Kingo.

Breaking down the completely different elements of Nanjiani’s assertion, his point out of six movies possible applies to at the very least two Eternals sequels and three visitor appearances in different characters’ films. The theme park experience in all probability pertains to his likeness, and the online game is somewhat trickier to find out. Nanjiani’s completed voice work for video video games earlier than, so it might be he would’ve performed Kingo throughout one among Marvel’s cellular titles like Strike Force, and even Fortnite, since each have seen Ryan Reynolds reprise his function as Deadpool. (Hell, in the event you wanna actually get on the market, possibly they thought he’d be such a fan-favorite to land a spot in Marvel Rivals.)

Regardless, Nanjiani nonetheless has satisfaction in Eternals, even whereas acknowledging its “actually dangerous critiques” affected him a lot he went to remedy, the place he realized “an excessive amount of of my shallowness was tied up in different folks’s response to my work.” Given Marvel’s current strikes up to now yr, although, possibly the studio will convey Kingo and his fellow Eternals again for one thing within the subsequent few years.

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