Eternals Pitch Meeting
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- Step inside the pitch meeting that led to Marvel’s Eternals!
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After Avengers Endgame, Marvel has the massive task of not only continuing their surviving heroes' stories, but also making audiences care about all new characters and all-new universe-threatening events. Their latest movie Eternals takes on the gargantuan challenge of introducing ten new superheroes AND explaining why they’re only showing up now. This thing’s getting complicated.
Eternals definitely raises some questions. Like should this have been a Disney Plus show? Why do the Eternals only have important conversations at Golden Hour? Why is introducing humans to weapons not considered interfering in their affairs? Wouldn’t the Celestials be interested in stopping Thanos if they need a massive population to birth celestials? Why didn’t Kumail have a shirtless scene after all that work!? What have these post-credit scenes become?!
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Eternals! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
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Marvel: “Now that the Avengers arc has concluded, how many superheroes do you think we can jam into a single film?”
Writer: “Yes.”
Lol
this would've been so much better if this was an mcu series, he's so right about that
Now that Avengers has solidified the cash, lets just start making a bunch of trash.
writers: YES!
More like Disney. Because they want more characters in movies to then make more series for D+
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Well, i think this could be a fantastic series.
""This is a movie."
"I said what i said."
@Enclave Soldier
Having an idea of the vibrations that left my mouth is tight!
i think it maybe could have worked as a trilogy. because let's be honest the main reason this wasn't disney plus was in hopes of more money. but its too rushed in 2.5 hours
@@joshthompson2535 Could they have gotten Angelina Jolie for a series?
Best line
Just thought you might want to know op comment was one of those that scrolled into sight right when they were saying it in the vid. Is there a name for that? Serendipity doesn't seem to fit...
Falcon gets a new suit = needs a mini series
10 new characters no one have ever heard of = 2.5 hour film
In Marvel's defense, Natasha's journey of getting her sister's vest only took 2 hours, so they can clearly do more with less.
Falcon and the Winter Solider should've been the movie and Eternals should've been a show.
@@mrshaheedmalik Yea, I agree. FATWS was not a very interesting show. It just didn't have a very interesting story to tell.
@@mrshaheedmalik Exactly!
I mean Ocean's Eleven did pretty well balancing the focus on the main characters driving the plot and not letting the character-count be a hinderance.
"We will cast Kit Harrington"
"He was Jon Snow!! What will be his role?"
"He will be the guy who knows nothing"
"Until the post credits when he overacts and says something vague that's meant to be shockingly fanbaity."
Who does nothing
Isn’t he supposed to be like a dark knight dude in the future
I felt the urge to mutter 'bastard' in a northern voice whenever the was on screen.
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perfect
Couldn't help laughing during the film when they kept standing in formation for no reason, I knew screen rant would pick up on that 😂
Same!
Lol...my thoughts went to Yelena...:such posers"
They didn’t even earn it like the avengers did. They just did it in the first 2 seconds
@@yolandag8436 Who is Yelena?
You laughed during the film? In the cinema?
I love the fact that he ignores Kit Harington's character just like they did in the movie
LoL
who's that?
I think Dane
U know nothing John Snow!!
@@AshrakAhmed Dane
I feel like the entire reason Kit Harington was in this movie is because one of the writers was into a VERY SPECIFIC type of GoT fanfic and wanted to hear him say "I love you Cersei"
SHE'S MAI KUEENNN
Dont forget robb stark....
dear god, you may be right.
And to tease him as some kind of hero in a future film
Yeah wats up with that? The 2 ex GOT characters are now in love with Cersei
Once again, it’s nice that an Avenger-level threat doesn’t concern the Avengers enough to get involved so the movie can happen. But to be fair, the Avengers are pretty busy with PTSD support groups and finding watches.
As much as I hate the amount of plot-holes, I imagine a cosmic-sized alien robot thingy emerging from underground in a matter of minutes unannounced, would catch virtually everyone off-guard... like who/what would you send in response? Doubt even Captain Marvel would be of much help 🤔
@@Radnick0024 Why would she come? She's all over the galaxy. The one who should have come to investigate was Doctor Strange.
@@Radnick0024 *Captain Whorvel.
@@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031 you say that as if I like that OP bitch, haha
@@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031 was that necessary
I also think it’s interesting how according to Kingo, Thor knows he exists, but he doesn’t take his calls anymore. You think Thor would have mentioned he knew about more massively powerful beings that could have definitely helped in most of the avengers’ conflicts.
eh, not so sure about that. I mean, Thor knows Darryl and didn't mention him even though he is probably worthy. so..
It suffers from "we haven't introduced these characters yet" syndrome "
I just love how the Producer is bringing up the Disney Plus Marvel shows. “You are aware you can have more time to explore this concept, right? There is literally no limit to our power.”
It's sad because it's true. It could've been an awesome tv show. Wtf
This is going to be me in every MCU movie from now on, unless they REALLY nail it down in a single longer shot. Condensing to 2.5 hours might not be enough breathing room anymore. 13 years of continuity and growing.
I feel like this project is something you have to see in theaters tho
Disney did acquire "unlimited power"(from the dark side)
@@duniverse3972 "UNLIMITED POWER! Itty bitty living space"
"If you're gonna have a character named Icarus, you've gotta have that guy fly into the sun."
"Yeah, our hands are tied on that one."
That one got me
I'm dead
Ikarus: Must. Fly. Into. SUN.
Eternals: I knew he should've been named Prometheus.
Prometheus: Must. Create. A L I E N. Prequel.
Eternals: Whoops.
Prometheus: Whoopsies.
That’s actually what Ryan said in the video! Wow!
Careful Icarus
I love that Kingo bails on the 3rd act like a boss and gives zero Fs to his celestial buddies lmao
I can only imagine that they completely forgot about Kingo when writing the final scene and then had to make up an excuse why he wasn't there.
Who tf is Kingo?
@@ElTamex07 he's the Indian guy who's power is to finger-blast things.
@@JWonn Ohhhhh finger blasting Indian guys is TIGHT.
@@haku8135 well then.
"An alcoholic trolls pops out of a space portal and introduces one of the guys from one direction...." I could not have described it any better!!! Great pitch!
“i bet it’s gonna be hard to beat a cosmic celestial being who’s practically god”
“actually it’s gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience”
“oh really?”
“yeah they basically become the power rangers and defeat the celestial with the power of friendship”
“friends are TIGHT”
Actually, its gonna be super easy, barely an i convenience! There just going to turn him into a giant ice skating rink!
Every one needs good friends... So turn this movie to 11!
Starting with with the executive being friendly...
"Hey, we are working all the times together. It's like seeing you more than my own reflection. Wanna grab a beer later?"
"Yeah, sure!"
Writer after the alternate TIGHT scene...
"About the beer thing... i just realized i have an emergency plastic surgery thing. Maybe another time?"
They Guardians of the Galaxy-ed the big bad
The more you know ...
"it could be a fantastic series"
"It's a movie."
"I SAID WHAT I SAID"
ASSERTIVE PRODUCER GUY IS TIGHT
Your commentary is a perfect addition to this video's best exchange. May this comment rocket to the top of comments list.
@@aggielonghorn whut
"Oh, are you two an Item?"
"No, that's not what that meant."
6:03
Insertive producer guy is tight!
The deviant evolving plot line was sooooo interesting they could’ve done so much with that oh my god! When Thena killed him I was like am I supposed to be glad ???? Could he not be reasoned with?? Missed opportunity for something cool!!
The way he was killed was so uneventful, almost as bad as being killed off screen that I honestly thought they were going to show either duplicates of him or more evolved versions of him just like with Ultron, but that wasn't case, I guess.
I think its the biggest misstep of the movie. He should have JOINED them to stop the Celestial. Wasn’t he supposed to be evolving too?
@@jonbodhi that’s what I thought was going to happen! He was like “so we’re both puppets of the celestials” and I was like OMG JOIN THEM and then they just killed him???
@@thatgirl298 Reminds me of that part in The Suicide Squad:
Starro: THIS CITY IS MINE.
Also Starro: I was happy floating in the stars... *dies*
Me: Pick a lane, dude.
Exactly. There are two movies in this film and the deviant was a casualty of their battle. My guess is originally druid sicced the deviants on the others at his camp instead of doing a heel turn.
My favorite part of The Eternals is where they show you things you should care about before showing you why you should care about them.
You know… like Icarus and that other eternal breaking up before we knew they were dating, deviants being able to heal themselfs before We knew they cant do that, that one eternal dying before we knew who tf she was
Kinda sounds like you just want all the answers handed to you buddy... maybe just watch the movie
@@Zalacans I saw the movie before writing that coment I dont get your point
@@EL-ql2fc I meant like.. if a couple breaks up then obviously they were dating, do you really need to be told that beforehand? I feel like you could enjoy the movie without being given all the answers in advance, I can anyway.
@@Zalacans some answers would be nice. Like why Ikarus can blast a ship but barely dent a Deviant? Thena being nerfed for no reason? Or Druig not intervening in Avengers like threats event though he intervened in Tenochtitlan and nothing bad really happened? Or Kingo having his manager around and disappearing at the climax of the movie and rejoining the team like nothing happened? Having 2 Eternals die also kind of defeats the purpose of their name.
As a bonus, why if the sole purpose of the Eternals is to protect the world from Deviants, dont they all have some insane combat skills/powers?
"..it sound like it coul be a fantastic series."
"this is a movie"
"i said what i said"
🤣🤣🤣
Unironically the big finale twist would have worked amazingly as a big one episode backstory like the penultimate episode of WandaVision
that was the funniest part of this for me XDXD
It was still a fantastic film
6:03
Why the emojis though
Making a Free Guy pitch meeting would be super easy, barely an inconvenience
Oh really?
Yeah yeah yeah
No it wouldn't because the movie is actually good and pretty much flawless, this is like saying 'Making a How to Train Your Dragon pitch meeting would be super easy, barely an- ' you know what I mean and Ryan said he'll never do that one
@@ericstorm6582 He also said that he wouldn’t do Back to the future but he did
@@ericstorm6582 I do love the movie but the coding and server logic is really inaccurate so he can just pick on that for 5 minutes.
If she had the power to turn Sprite into a human: a completely other species, then why couldn’t she have changed Sprite’s appearance instead and let her keep her powers?
ig because she wanted to fall in love, raise a family and do human stuff.
I think the Thanos theory is also linked to “he who remains” which shows that the population would be restored by the humans which is why they didn’t have to interfere
Plausible, but I don't think so. He Who Remains knew the outcome before Thanos was even born so didn't need to interfere. But the Celestials don't seem to be time travelers or outside of time. They're also not very worried about halving a population once. They work on galactic timescales so a one-off event that sets the timer back by a few centuries is nothing compared to the millions of years they wait for a species to evolve and hopefully gain intelligence.
I don't think anyone in the universe (other than those at the TVA) knows about him
@@thatnike2604 what and what?
@@rc.... I don't think anyone in the [Marvel Cinematic Universe] knows about *[he who remains]* other than *[Miss Minutes, Ravonna Renslayer, Loki & Sylvie]*
But Ajak, who knew what their purpose was didn't know that the Avengers were going to undo the snap because the blip was what inspired her to switch sides and betray the Celestials. So then why didn't she try and stop Thanos? Also why did the Celestial basically allow Thanos to delay their plan by 5 years? Surely a Celestial wouldn't be afraid of the TVA.
Ryan's pitch for Eternals probably would have been tight if he had pitched it precisely at Golden Hour.
Some missed sloppy cgi opportunity here I feel
@@dkey201 the cgi wasn't bad really
@@TylerMarkRichardson was imagining delibarately sloppy golden hour cgi for Ryan's skit
Pitching things at Golden Hour is tight!
@@TylerMarkRichardson It was PS3 graphics bad.
2:46 Best prank ever!!! LOL!!
I found it funny when in the movie, they mentioned Superman and "Clark" by name and I was wondering, "Are they allowed to say that?" Then I realized the Eternals' powers seem very familiar.
Yeah copyright and all, its so strange they got away with it
don't forget that Marvel is owned by Disney, as they have a crap ton of money
Gilgamesh also mentioned Alfred and Batman.
@@arjunholmie No it's not, DC shows reference Marvel and sometimes Marvel references DC. This isn't shocking or even news.
Introducing The Eternals, a race of eternal beings who drop dead quite easily, designed to kill Deviants while barely killing any of them on screen.
this…this is extremely accurate 🥲
Sounds like the perfect movie to me
I'm glad I didn't see it
It's funny how they even have issues taking down the deviants despite how easy it was to kill a whole ass celestial
Well...they got 2 function. Kill the deviant n progress the sapient species.
Or perhaps I m just filling up the plot holes.
MCU: **Gets first rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes with Eternals**
DCEU: “First time?”
Atleast a DCEU movie never got banned.
@@nicholasseymour7943 That's not a good thing
@@nicholasseymour7943 yeah but still well received by the audience unlike DCEU
@@nicholasseymour7943 yeah but it’s only banned bc those governments of those countries are dumbasses and severely homophobic
@@blowc1612 agreed
So true. We need an Honest Trailer of this where every time one of the Stark brothers mentions Sersi it cuts to Cersei Lannister. Jon Snow saying "I love you, Sersi" was the highlight of the film.
By Stark brothers, I thought you meant Tony Stark oh my god-😭
"Yea then there's batman, aquaman, you're not in the right office my dude" lmaoo
Kumail wasn´t just "pranked" with not having a shirtless scene, he gained all them muscles to be the biggest coward in the movie... They got him twice XD
Thrice, they made him dance as well
@@GauravYadav-bf7qj Well Bully Maguire shouldn't dance alone.
They gave him finger guns.......finger guns....what
He wasn’t a coward. He believed that the Emergence was important but refused to kill his family, unlike Ikarus
Did all those steroids for nothing. Shucks.
"That may as well happen."
Literally heard in every Marvel actual story meeting since 2019.
No one show this poster the comics.....
@@xger21 Please don't.
"But why would Sersi be so nice to offer Sprite a chance to be a human? She literally tried to kill her"
"Oh, well, I think they went on self-preservation mode... Like, they turn Sprite into a human, she grows old, dies and they don't have to worry about her betraying them again"
"Smart Eternals are TIGHT!"
6:05 "It sounds like it could a fantastic series." "This is a movie." "I said what I said."
This resonates with me so much. I had this thought thru the entire movie. That movie had too much going on for me to care about anything after the 1st hour.
"You know how we spent a dozen movies building up the Avengers and Thanos before the final battle? Well, were going to do that again, but you know, in one movie."
That writer really was in the wrong studio
Hahahahahah!
Ah yes, as this movie had a cast of over 70 characters and a villain who’d been causing problems within the world for over a decade, and definitely wasn’t a small group preventing humans from dying to a threat only they knew of.
Writer: You mean Marvel should have done it the Marvel way?
Suit: Marvel is as Marvel does.
Writer: Marvel.
Suit: Marvel Marvel.
Writer: Marvel Marvel Marvel. Marvel Marvel.
Suit: _M A R V E L_
Writer: Pikachu!
Suit: Snarf Snarf.
Writer: Hodor! Hodor!
Suit: I am Groot.
Writer: Chocobee.
Suit: I'm gonna go get the mail... get the mail.
Writer: Leave the milk at the door. Leave the milk at the door.
Suit: Smurfing Smurf Smurf!
Writer: ...
Suit: ...
Writer: What were we talking about?
Suit: I just don't know.
If Ryan was an Eternal, he could do pitch meetings for centuries
Making Pitch Meeting for eternity would be TIGHT!
Well judging by that Dumbo pitch meeting he's already over 100 years old.
I think that might be the case already....., or he's a deviant???
@@matthewpatrick7263 Eternity: “…..How did you get into my Realm?”
Is Ryan secretly a Watcher-?
This is the most spot on pitch meeting I've ever seen. Well done Ryan you're brilliant!
Dude, Eternals could have been so much more. One of the coolest concepts in the MCU. They really shoul'dve made a series instead of a movie.
Tell that to mcu inhumans
“I said what I said” should be a new quote of Ryan’s going forward. Yeah, I said what I said.
And also “that’s fun”
I prefer "I still stand by what I said"
Ryan "well see the thing is, is that I've already got like 15 quotes and mannerisms that I have to incorporate into the video, so I'm going to need you to get aalllll the way off of my back about adding more quotes."
Agreed
@@FizzySplash217 Hashtag me too!
"They do not interfere in humans' affairs."
"They also built this technology which humans use to kill each other."
LMAO 😂😂😂👌🏼
That was part of Arisham's plan, give the humans weapons so they can go to war and improve their medical treatment to help the people who went to war, so with this better medicine they can live longer and increase the population
Pretty sure it was interfering with human conflicts, not affairs.
More like, conflict breed progress.
A healer, mind controller, engineer, alchemist, illusionist story teller, they could all serve for catalyst for progress, of how a village would turn into a city, to a city state, kingdoms, empire, nation , etc.
Oh well, watch too many scishow history.
in that case, Thanos killing half the population was was definitely their concern !
Obviously, the Eternals, while in the MCU, is based on actually history. So, they can't change MCU history in a way that makes MCU alien to modern society. It's kind of limiting for the plot that they're trying to pitch.
I remember seeing this for loki, love the facial expressions, they match the voice so well XD
Eros, Black Knight, and Blade - were all introduced in this movie. That was the best part about it :)
Thanks, I was wondering who Kit Harrington was supposed to be.
@@benjamincoyle5316 Yeah; his name being Dane didn't immediately ring a bell - but I could tell throughout the movie that they were setting him up for something. They gave him all the classic dramatic shots and moments of potential courage they usually get for establishing a character.
Seeing movies only through Pitch Meetings is TIGHT!
and cost effective as well
Wouldn't it be hard to see a movie only through a pitch meeting and then decide not to bother with the movie itself?
@@balrighty3523 Actually it'll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
This is how I've seen all of the Marvel movies. It's been an excellent time choice.
movies actually a good experience. plus if you can afford internet you can afford a movie ticket every couple months
"So there's this guy Dane Whitman and he's in the movie."
"And what's his deal?"
"Well, he eventually becomes The Black Knight. But not in this movie. We're saving that for later."
"So what does he do in this one, then?"
"I just said: he's in the movie!"
"Oh also, were going to introduce Blade."
"Oh really. Mahershala Ali is in the movie?"
" Just his voice."
"This would have been a great role for Martin Lawrence!"
WELL OK THEN
Accurate
@@joemammon6149 what
"If you have a guy named Icarus you gotta fly that guy into the sun" LOL
Watching the movie, I knew Ryan was gonna have something to say about the way they all stand in formation looking in the same direction. There was a lot of that.
“That Cersei character is dating a human professor guy named Dane Whitman! We even got that really popular guy from Game of Thrones Kit Harrington.”
“Oh boy, fans are gonna love seeing him!”
“For sure! So of course he’s barely in the movie,”
“Of course,”
“Then at the end he looks at a sword and a mysterious voice kinda spooks him!”
“Oh. Is that interesting?”
“Maybe! Anyway…”
The Eternal spells her name Sersi.
Gold!
@@carlrood4457 It's Sassy, Licorice, Ajax, Fishtoast, Xena, Druid, Mackarel, Klingon, 7UP, Gilbert Grape. I said good day sir.
"And he says, 'I love you, Sersi', at the end."
"So everyone who's seen Game of Thrones will be incredibly confused?"
"Oh you know it!"
Reportedly the offscreen voice is [spoilers]
Blade.
"I don't even want to be in the third act"
Spot On Kumail Nanjiani impression🔥
I love how Kumail worked to get super jacked for this Marvel movie and then didn't even show up for the final battle
I bet they killed him off in a scene and somebody later decided they liked the character. Presto-chango, get rid of that scene and he suddenly just disappears from the movie.
@@camthur5050 yeah, they could have done that with most of the characters and it would have changed nothing.
KARUN BRING THE CAMERA
Finally got to watch the movie and I am so happy to finally get to watch the pitch meeting. I look forward to these more than the actual movies.
First time I've seen one of your videos and ITS BRILLIANT! Well done! I'm gonna go watch a few more!
Eternals feels like something early DC would do to catch up with Marvel, cramming a bunch of admittedly interesting characters and complex plot points into one gigantic movie that honestly leaves you feeling meh by the end.
Pretty spot on from what I've heard
I liked the movie, but yeah, that's how it feels. The most interesting part is the philosophical debate.
You're trying to explain the Justice league movie...🤣
@@Gabi-ub8md honestly the only reason i cared was because i wanna see more Arishem😂💀
@@_khooman_chronicles_ You mean, Josstice League?
When Kingo left, and I didn't even notice him not coming back lol
Haha sucker. Disney got your money for this trash.
@@wolfura but I liked the movie😂
Who said he watched it legally 🌚
@@kpaigeboz me too ! I really enjoyed the film.
Its so frustrating how much wasted potential is in this film lol even ajak who has like 5 mins and is completely ignored
I love how sometimes hints of Stefon from SNL, whether intentional or not, sneaks into the dialog.
"I said what I said" . my favourite line.
Marvel: is this how getting a rotten score feels?
Dc Comics: PATHETIC.
No no it should be the first time? meme
@@Joseph-cm9og I mean its there 3rd rotten score if you count the shows
@@nicholasseymour7943 dc fan boy so butt hurt 😂
@@nicholasseymour7943 oh dam it you are right hmm
@The Orion Inhumans and Iron Fist
I’ve heard this described as “if Marvel made a DC movie”. Sounds about right.
How?
@John Mateus either or
Eternals are indeed in dc as well since they are higher dimensional entities
@John Mateus no that was Shazam, and Shazam was good
@@TheGreyShaman What? No that's not how it works
This sums up so many of the issues with The Eternals.
I love his description of the end credit scene lol
Eternals was TIGHT ! Because of all the characters shoved in the movie.
sardine can of a movie 😂
I loved it!!
@@billyfarmerii1669 I liked the movie too ! But i really really wish it was a series or a trilogy maybe....The concept is so fascinating !!
@@hitendra_singh I can agree with that!
Hey that's the name of the Mowvvvie!!!
Ryan intensely yelling about trolls and One Direction all in one breath with the deadest wide eyes I’ve ever seen might be one of the funniest things to ever happen in a pitch meeting
Didn't help that the troll CGI looked severely off.
So in Marvel actually had a "swimsuit special" in the early 90s with characters posing and everything. They made the second issue canon by saying that the infinity watch played a game of poker for a chance to use the infinity gems to make a wish. Pip won and used the wish to throw a beach party on Monster Island. After the party Pip wiped everyone's minds but Pip took some photos of the party to keep for himself if you catch my drift. So yeah, that's a "fun" fact about Pip the Troll.
I felt that they did a good job introducing the characters, but yeah, a mini series would have certainly been better for that …
"Well, i think this could be a fantastic series."
"This is a movie."
"I said what i said."
I had an actual spit take on this one.
- Sounds like it could be a fantastic series
- Well this is... a movie
- I said what I said
That was a good one 😂😂
Yep that was my first thought after the end of the movie
My favorite part of the Pitch. LOL
Literally cannot get enough of these! Spot on! 😂
The deviant absorbing eternals reminded me of the Cell Saga. Was looking forward to his transformation when he was about to absorb Athena.
Making a pitch meeting for Dune is super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
Dune seconded!
Writer: So, we have this Si-Fi world that uses swords.
Producer: These people are capable of faster than light travel and they use swords?
Writer: Yeah, because they have these personal force shields that block things that move fast but not things that move slowly.
Producer: Are we going to explain that to the audience?
Writer: No, we expect everyone who watches to to have read the book.
Producer: Are you sure about that...
Writer using the Voice: GET OFF MY BACK!!!
Producer: *Wide eyed*
Typically he only does movies that are poorly written or developed. Don't know if that will work there.
@@jimh472 ....no he literally does everything. And that movie was poorly developed. Nothing interesting happening that entire movie, it was literally a 3 hour trailer for the next movie.
@@jimh472 I disagree with the other commenter's take on Dune, but they are correct that Ryan doesn't necessarily avoid movies that are popular or widely praised. So there's no reason he couldn't do a Dune Pitch Meeting
Producer Guy: So, this is gonna be like the Avengers, where we establish many characters throughout many movies, or Guardians of The Galaxy, where the whole team gets to know eachother in a dire situation and bond after?
Writer Guy: No
The headcount is avengers + guardians, and we're still packing it all in a single movie !
gReAt iDeA !!1!
A whole Eternals arc might have actually been interesting. If not a TV show, they could still have used their formula to build up to an "infinity war/endgame" film.
Right now the post endgame thing seems aimless to me.
@@dakat5131 Exactly. I know after the pitch meeting, it sounds repetitive, but this would fit better as a Disney+ show. Could have 12 episodes, introducing each one of the Eternals. Their past, their beliefs, moral codes, the way they interact with one another, etc, and on the ending have them coming together against a bigger threat. This feels like that Netflix doc about Michael Schumacher. It could've benefitted more from another type of midia. Although Schumacher had much more love and care than Eternals, as I said to my friend, it's like Disney kidnapped Chloe Zhao's family in order for her to direct the movie lol
You deserve every bit of success for these Pitch Meetings.
Thank you for posting this. I only made it 20 minutes into the movie and I was kind of wondering how it ended but didn't want to commit.
Making it a Disney+ series would've made so much more sense.
-1.3K thumbs up!? Wow, thanks all!
I think Disney still hasn't forgotten the disaster which was Inhumans. And then there's the problem of trying to pay Angelina Jolie for a tv show...
But it probably would've made so much less money and you saw all that CGI? I don't think it would be on that level if it was a 8 hours Disney+ series
Honestly. At this point they should do the entire mcu as disney+ series. Comic book stories are long and have a lot going on in them. It makes a whole lot more sense to do them as a series.
@@Shaunks86 In theory it would be much better, but I highly doubt that they would be making as much money an have an CGI on that level with Disney+ series and I really don`t think they would be able to make 2.8 billion dollars with any Disney+ series ever
Angelina and Salma most likely said no to a series and yes to a one-off movie....
"should be a Disney+ series". Ryan's got a point here
Too many A listers for it to turn a profit as a show. You could have like 2 tops. Harry Styles probably takes the whole budget himself.
Well this is probably gonna end Chloe Zhao's career. No idea why they gave a woman who had only made 3 other films a 200 million budget and some massive movie to make. It clearly didn't work.
Eternals as a D+ series would be great
@@Not_Always consider that they kept talking about the director being a woman, I'm pretty sure she was just a diversity hire. And she's Chinese so maybe an attempt to attract the Chinese audience
@@Not_Always you mean Oscar Award winning director Chloe Zhao? I think she'll be ok.
This pitch meeting nailed it! Everything we were thinking all through the movie. Great Job!
This movie reminded me a lot of the story from Watchmen, if that movie had decided to go with TEN main characters instead of six, and was a lot less seedy and bloody.
A group of superheroes has more or less split up after working with each other for years due to their personality flaws and conflicts. They are forced to bring the band back together when it's revealed there's a threat wanting to kill them all one by one. The film's runtime is split between showing them reuniting and flashbacks to their past which reveal why some of them are in disagreement with each other. After successfully reuniting, the group is permanently sundered once again when it's revealed that one of their own members is responsible for the mess they're in which has led to some of their deaths and is part of a plan that will kill millions (or billions) of human lives for the "greater good".
I actually do think this could have worked as a season of a show, each episode looking for the others, fighting deviants on the way, showing flashbacks, then trying to solve how to stop the celestial from rising without going against their duties, let Kit Harrington get some screen time, let the evolving deviant be a bigger threat, let the twists hit harder
That would've been way better
I think they make more money on one crappy movie than an above-average season of tv.
@@seededsoul if that was the case though, they wouldn't keep making the shows. Falcon and the Winter Soldier would have just been Captain America 4.
Disney should have made Falcon and Winter Solider a movie and Eternals a series, I personally really enjoyed the movie but it undoubtedly would have benefited more as a series.
You couldn't properly do the scope of cosmic Marvel as a series, the VFX budget isn't there.
@@ColonelGreen yeah that’s true, the film had crazy visuals
@@DanSan97 And a terrible story
@@ColonelGreen good point on Falcon and Winter soldier. That could have easily just been a movie.
Personally I loved this movie, buy yea a series would have been amzing
I feel like falcon and winter soldier being a movie would work if they gave everyone but Falcon the same lack of attention they did in the show, and it would be a meh movie as a result. As a show Falcon and winter soldier kind of ignored the winter soldier part, and also ignored making the main villains not suck.
Brilliant take! I would also add:
"Lets get Jon Snow in there and make him not know anything the whole movie"
- ok bet
Also i have a question. why is Keanu Reeves listed in the actors cast I NEED TO KNOW!!111
Love how these movies just downplay all the amazing things humans did all those years and took credit of it and in reality no-one holds a candle to the human intelligence.
This video made me feel 100 times better about all the criticism it’s been getting because he genuinely makes better points as a joke than all the critics 😭
Agreed. The concept is great. Shoving it into a 2 and a half hour movie was it's biggest sin.
@@Shaunks86 Honestly, it was still a good movie, even when it was rushed. It just would have been a better series.
i can sum up all criticisms: bad writing.
Made me snore, and i dont even have obstructive sleep apnea
You just only accept criticism in joke form
Producer: "This is a new Marvel series, so let's market this to small children."
Writer: "But I was planning to touch on some adult subjects."
Producer: "Which subjects?"
Writer: "All of them."
For Eternals I was literally sitting next to a family with kids 5 and under. THAT was uncomfortable
@@Evelyn_Rose1151 well kids I guess since the movie is gonna do this for me it’s a great time to tell you how babies are made
@Robert Monroe Why would the kids need therapy? There was one brief sex scene that didn’t show anything.
Y'all are prudes
@@Jingles6466 Says the man with no kids
1:24 I still stand by what I said
Fair enough
You forgot to mention that Thanos kinda helped Earth to not go boom due to the Celestial, but temporarily.
“Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.”
Eternals Plot: “Hold my beer.”
Perfectly balanced, barely an inconvenience
what if Thanos knew all along?
Hold my SPIT beer. Bonus points if you get it
@@ThatOneGuyYouSaw15 they really should made it that Thanos was trying to stop the centriole from being born. But than people would just bitch and say he didn't really stop it he only postpone it for 20 years.
Marvel Stuidos Writer: *Finished off beer, starts abusing keyboard.*
Here’s another one:
“If this god-like being’s plan was to create this perfect super soldiers to help bring the birth of more of his kind, why would he make one deaf and another one a child?”
“I don’t know...”
Makes no sense at all.
So the movie can happen
Maybe Makkari is deaf so she doesn’t hurt her ears every time she breaks the sound barrier
there’s definitely nothing wrong or “less than” if somebody is deaf…..
@@braelynwhiteside5953 He's not trying to deaf shame or whatever he's making a point about; a being that is for lack of better word, a god, and that being creates his perfect soldiers / servants to protect his interests. Why would someone ever consider giving some of them (his soldiers) disabilities, such as being deaf. In the middle of a fight may be a lot more difficult to call for help or warn your team mate of dangers behind them if they are deaf... Not only would it make more sense to give not give any flaw(s) (if that's possible), you would want to make them as powerful as possible, with all the powers, all of them.
"This could be a fantastic series"
"But sir this is a movie"
"I said what I said"
Sums up everything here.
that was amazingly accurate, top work
"So, why didn't the Eternals help with Thanos?"
"Oh, well they're only supposed to get in human conflicts that involve Deviants."
"Hold on a second..." *looks up on his phone* "It says here that Thanos has the Deviant gene!"
"Whoops!"
"Whoopsie!"
I feel like that is addressed in the movie. In the end credits Starfox, an eternal, says Thanos was his brother. Earlier Ajax comments that Thanos delayed the emergence and reveals she has doubts about whether this is the correct course of action. So, I think if Ajax knew about Thanos she'd pressure the eternals into not getting involved to buy time.
@@FurtherReadingTV then they should have said this in the movie
@@romariohenry400 They did say it in the movie. It was just wasn't explicit. People stop relying on being spoon fed information.
@@ImAlsoMerobiba in the end credits.
He has the deviant gene in the comics, maybe not in the MCU. But also, it's just that he has the deviant gene. But not 100% a deviant...
Fun fact: In the comics, the Eternals do have all the powers but each one has a specialty. The movie just gives them their specialty as their only power to maintain tension. That being said, while I loved the movie, I totally agree this would've been better as a Disney+ series with more time to expand on the characters.
Yep. All that time spent with the characters in a series would have added to the epic feeling this idea is trying to evoke.
I haven't watched the movie and don't know anything about the characters but I've got a strong feeling that this guys are just like Shazam's brothers where each one had a power and they all need to work together to beat something.
So I'm with zero hype for these generic heroes and foes.
Shazam worked great 'cause that wasn't the focus, if it started with everyone from the beginning, I think it would suck as well.
Would've worked even better to have that Disney+ series on Netflix about seven years ago, so that whole not fighting half-deviant Thanos wouldn't be a massive plothole sitting on top of the Eternals....
@@berserkasaurusrex4233 Either that, or it's just Kang controlling everything.
Loved the movie 🤦♀️😅 can't imagine what else you watch of you loved this trash
definetly should've been a series
6:02 lol soooooo true.
The point that got me was at the end when the celestial abducts the eternals, rather easily and effortlessly, why didn't he just do that with all the deviants when they started evolving instead of creating the eternals and having this ongoing battle over millennia where that one kid's dad has to get eaten for effect? Poor guy..
I just assume for the same reason the head honcho of a buisness/corporation isn't going downstairs everyday to get everyone's lunch order and then driving to pick up food for the whole company. Because there is important high-level stuff they have to do and there are only so manybhours in the day, so you delegate the less important stuff amd menial chores to the rank and file.
@@bunnywaffles1190 like sitting around in space watching over things? Doesn't sound like power to me. Abduction probably takes the same amount of time as creating eternals... As least in speculation.
While I did like the movie, I actually went and read up on the back story stuff, and it makes a lot more sense in the comics. For one thing, Deviants and Eternals are actually a bit different. Eternals can reproduce, and they really do all have the same powers basically, but some of them specialized a power further. Deviants are actually a lot more similar to the eternals in the comics. In fact, that one deviant you saw in the movie that was evolving? He and Thena have a relationship and CHILDREN in the comics.
So there is WAY more to the Eternals and I do think the writers could have done better in re-imagining them, but overall I still enjoyed the story.
Maybe the recall function got removed when they started evolving by themselves.
@@cameronnebe considering how different the Eternals are in the comics to the movies I don't think that's applicable here. Though I do agree that the celestial not just coming down to deal with the deviants himself makes sense, as it's heavy implied that he's sent thousands of celestials to all different planets
Lol. With nearly 2 years of delays,this could've definitely been a Disney+ series. Juggling 10 characters in a debut movie was impossible from the get go
Eh, it could have worked if done right. You could do the fantastic four versus the Wizard and his crew, intro doctor doom and then drop a professor Xavier cameo at the end (or whomever). 10 main characters, one movie, introduced.
But this was kinda doomed from the get go, the eternal were never that popular, same with Shang-chi.
Blade had a cult following even before the movies, and so does ghostwriter, those will work, especially if we get secret defenders with doc strange, ghost rider, blade, and hulk (maybe wolverine).
@@CannabisDreams I'm not sure marketing is your vocation. Nothing against that, marketing shouldn't even exist. But still. Here are the main problems with your argument:
1) Comic book popularity does not necessarily translate into cinematic popularity. Case in point: Guardians of the Galaxy. Massively popular movies of a team that few people cared that much for. Also, Shang-Chi.
2) Shang-Chi has a 92% critics score and 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes (not so good on IMDB though), and made more than 400 million USD during a pandemic. I don't particularly care about those things nor do I use them to judge a movie, but I'm just bringing them up to ask you wtf are you on about?
3) Cult followings are, by definition, niche followings, and therefore do not, by themselves, make movies "work", especially in what concerns financial and critical success. By all accounts, the Ghost Rider movies were both pretty bad and flopped, and the "cult" status of the character barely helped.
4) To Marvel's standards, The Eternals might not be as successful, but literally the only movies to have topped it this year are other Marvel movies, plus Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which although a Sony movie, still loosely connects to the MCU, and is still a Marvel (or Disney) property with Marvel characters.
5) Despite the obvious fact that there would've been more time to develop all 10 characters in a series, the script did great in juggling them all without making any of them appear one-dimensional (a bit of an accidental pun here) with its natural time constraints. Snyder did much worse in his 4 hour cut of JL, for example. Sure, that's subjective, but I stand by it.
@@RicardoPetinga I think you are smoking crack if you think this movie that only really focused on 2 eternals gave everyone enough screen time. In Justice League the only character who needed more time was Superman, but at least his excuse was he was dead. In this movie some characters didn’t even get their present day characters shown until the last act. One was murdered at the start of the movie and we didn’t see why she was important until the final act! Some things were done well in this movie, like Icarus’ character arc and the actual plot of which way the eternals will side, for earth or the celestials, but unfortunately this 3 hour movie did not do anything to make me care for any character besides Gilgamesh or Kingo’s producer.
This sums things up brilliantly!
0:57 True 🤣
When you realized that Kit Harrington’s real name is Christopher. Another Chris added to the collection
they should've made it into 2 parts.
1st movie: introducing the eternals and vs the evolving deviants. at the end of the movie, it reveals the actual purpose of the eternals. the evolved deviants should live.
2nd movie should be about stopping the emergence of Tiamut. Conflicts among the eternals happen. then Ikarus revealed as the main villain. the evolved deviant return and help the eternal to stop the emergence.
possible 3rd movie is about the return of deviants species but freed from the shackles of the emergence cycles.
Honestly with a cast of 9 Eternals they might need 2 intro movies to do it decently. I mean each of the Avengers got their own intro movie, even Guardians really only introduced 5 “main” characters in one movie.
They purposely did it dirty so nobody cares cuz they’re supposed to represent higher dimensional entities. They’re part of dc too
The first past should gave taken place on a different planet 3 thousand years ago.
And Tiamat should have actually succeeded in being born and destroying an entire planet, the movie ending with their minds being erased and brought to Earth.
Definitely NOT making the Eternals responsible for every religion and technological advancement of humanity.
Then the second movie could have been them rebelling against the big Robot dude and becoming heroes.
Make the 1st movie a D+ series that leads to the 2nd movie back to back. The Series give the time to build the characters up.
Sounds like you’re describing a Disney+ series…
Saw it last night and, yep, that pretty much sums it up. 5/10 but could have been so much more if they'd given us more screen time.
This video encapsulated everything I didn’t like about the film. Thank you Screen Rant!!
Well lads I did it, after countless days I have finally watched every single Pitch Meeting and have fully caught up on this epic Cinematic Universe. But in the end... it was super easy, barely an inconvenience!
Congrats!
Nice!
Oh, binging on Pitch Meetings and living to tell the tale is TIGHT.
Sad you weren't with us from the start
Oh really? That's tight!
The Only Spoilers for A Movie I'm Willing To Accept Is Ryan's Pitch Meetings. Keep it up!!
IKR These guys have saved me thousands of dollars for not seeing horrible horrible films.... Yes I said These guys...
Ryan's pitch meetings are how I determine if I'm even going to bother watching a movie or not. It's saved me countless hours.
@@mikejunior211 Oh, assuming clones of one guy in a comedy skit is TIGHT.
Always on point!
I thought they explained that they built tech for humans, so humans could protect themselves from deviants, but the humans consistently used it against eachother, and after the last deviant fell, the team broke up into seclusion, faithless. They didn't know about Thanos in Infinity War, and probably didn't know about the fight against him in Endgame. It's not like the Avengers put up billboards saying "We're gonna time travel for 6 minutes, then Thanos will come back."
Furthermore, Dr. Strange gave everyone he knew a free ticket to the fight. I don't know if he knew about super powered Earth androids made by God.
The movie probably could have done a lot more with the characters, and especially the smart deviant, if it was a Disney+ show. However, with the time it had, I feel we got to know the personality and history of each character very well. I enjoyed the movie, and it was refreshing to watch.
I'd give it an 8/10. It's a good film that I'd suggest slight edits for.