The Eternals 2

*Andrew NDB* · 08-04-2022, 11:56 AM

If Patton Oswalt is to be believed.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/eternal...ght-s2-coming/

*Coola Yagami* · 08-04-2022, 12:02 PM

Cause the first one wasn't a big enough bomb.

Like guys... you own the X-Men now. You can stop trying to push the Eternals and the Inhumans. You're good.

*Galactus* · 08-05-2022, 01:15 PM

It was financially successful and had a B audience score. Admittedly below Marvel Studio's average but hardly some bomb that needs to wiped from existence. It was only that badly received by critics which is ironic is this felt very much like it was aimed at them. Even more ironic is that despite the attempts to re-imagine the characters in a way more palletteable to audiences the result was the same as it has long been to comic audiences; that the Eternals as characters aren't that interesting but their mythology and how it fits in to the Marvel Universe is what interests people. Even people who didn't care for the movie came away saying they wanted to see the other MCU heroes learn about the Celestials. Allegedly Marvel took out a copyright on the title Celestiais: End Of Time so a follow up may not have the Eternals title.

With the exception of Infinity War, Eternals is the only MCU movie to end on a cliffhanger...two cliffhangers if you think about it. Now not many people may care about Harry Styles and co of the Domo rescuing the kidnapped Eternals but again the Celestials returning to judge Earth is a concept people will get behind. Also while I like the MCU formula it would be good to have a few of these be a bit more serious.

~~ChosenOne~~ · 08-05-2022, 01:28 PM

For all we know, the Celestials will function as the MCU equivalent of the Beyonder(s) in the context of Secret Wars, ie, as the source of Doom's inevitable godhood.

*Andrew NDB* · 08-05-2022, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Galactus

It was financially successful

Not remotely. It didn't even make its production budget (200M) back stateside. Overseas it barely made any ripples, either. This isn't even a "maybe they broke even" situation, this is a the movie landed hard, hard in the red situation.

*Galactus* · 08-05-2022, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Not remotely. It didn't even make its production budget (200M) back stateside. Overseas it barely made any ripples, either. This isn't even a "maybe they broke even" situation, this is a the movie landed hard, hard in the red situation.

Admittedly I haven't followed the financial side of things but I recall when the everyone was making a big deal about the poor critic reviews people were countering it with the numbers that looked healthy at time. I also imagine that if it had lost money we'd never hear the end of it both from the people predicting the MCU is collapsing since Age of Ultron and those who specifically think diversity is killing it.

*Autbot_Benz* · 03-13-2024, 09:44 PM

*neatoman* · 03-13-2024, 11:49 PM

Yeah... Kinda saw that one coming. The Eternals did not break even and everyone hated it, I really don't see why they would make another based purely on reception and box office. However, I'm guessing we are still getting an indirect continuation, what else are they going to do? Pretend there isn't a giant head sticking out of the ocean and a bunch of gods wanting to determine the value earth?

Anyway, while on the subject, does anyone know why they felt the need to turn the Eternals into androids?

*Andrew NDB* · 03-14-2024, 12:15 AM

The general thinking with any movie sequel since forever is that it will bring in less than the original film. Now, big superhero movies that launch fandoms and catch fire with the "moment," they can be an exception, but certainly no one with a brain would imagine that would happen with an Eternals 2 when the first landed with a thud.

*IMJ* · 03-14-2024, 10:22 AM

The only reason the first one made any money at all was because it was on the downward area of the curve of woke $#!( whereas things began bottoming out with the Marvels. That's simply how society follows social-movements your standard Gaussian curve of social onboarding. Which has also followed the production of woke $#!( - ramping up, peaking, and began ramping down around the time of The Eternals.

If the Eternals were released when the Marvels was released it probably would have performed like the Marvels rather than a notch above it.

08-04-2022, 11:56 AM	#1
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08-04-2022, 12:02 PM	#2
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Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 29,279	The general thinking with any movie sequel since forever is that it will bring in less than the original film. Now, big superhero movies that launch fandoms and catch fire with the "moment," they can be an exception, but certainly no one with a brain would imagine that would happen with an Eternals 2 when the first landed with a thud. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

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08-05-2022, 01:15 PM	#3
Galactus Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,949	It was financially successful and had a B audience score. Admittedly below Marvel Studio's average but hardly some bomb that needs to wiped from existence. It was only that badly received by critics which is ironic is this felt very much like it was aimed at them. Even more ironic is that despite the attempts to re-imagine the characters in a way more palletteable to audiences the result was the same as it has long been to comic audiences; that the Eternals as characters aren't that interesting but their mythology and how it fits in to the Marvel Universe is what interests people. Even people who didn't care for the movie came away saying they wanted to see the other MCU heroes learn about the Celestials. Allegedly Marvel took out a copyright on the title Celestiais: End Of Time so a follow up may not have the Eternals title. With the exception of Infinity War, Eternals is the only MCU movie to end on a cliffhanger...two cliffhangers if you think about it. Now not many people may care about Harry Styles and co of the Domo rescuing the kidnapped Eternals but again the Celestials returning to judge Earth is a concept people will get behind. Also while I like the MCU formula it would be good to have a few of these be a bit more serious.

08-05-2022, 01:28 PM	#4
~~ChosenOne~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 3,951	For all we know, the Celestials will function as the MCU equivalent of the Beyonder(s) in the context of Secret Wars, ie, as the source of Doom's inevitable godhood.