John Ridley thinks his model of Wonder’s Eternals is awesome to the 2021 blockbuster that made it to the large display.
“My version was the good version,” Ridley stated all through a Tuesday, January 2, episode of the “Comic Book Club” podcast. “It was so f–king weird. There was my version, a good version, which is good to me, which — that doesn’t mean anything. There was the version that [Marvel] ended up doing, which I don’t think … that version was particularly good. I’ll be honest.”
Ridley, who wrote the screenplay for 12 Years a Slave, defined that he was once running on a Wonder sequence for ABC in 2015. The idea that was once according to the Eternals comedian sequence. The author confessed the speculation were given scrapped and was once “not in the works anymore.”
“My version started with, the first thing you see is a young man, probably about 18 years old,” he defined in regards to the pilot. “And he’s sitting there. He’s sitting there for a moment. And then he lifts his hands. He has a drill in it. And he turns the drill on. And he puts the drill to his ear. And he starts pushing it in. And then it goes from there. That’s the start, right? That’s how it starts. And then I think you see … another kid … He sleeps in the bathtub, covers himself with foil. It’s just a really weird story about these people who are, I mean, it’s just weird.”
The Academy Award winner admitted that his idea had combined opinions and the Eternals comedian was once a “really hard property to develop.”
“The best thing to happen for everybody was that it didn’t happen with me because I don’t know that it would have been entertaining,” Ridley confessed. “And I do mean what’s entertaining to me is often not entertaining. Populist, which is great for a lot of the work I do, but this needed to be a little bit more popular.”
Lengthy ahead of WandaVision, Loki and different MCU sequence on Disney+, Wonder Tv — which was once a separate belongings from the movie studio — produced a number of displays for different networks. Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter ran on ABC, whilst Netflix had Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and others. On the other hand, in December 2019, Wonder Tv merged with Wonder Studios to create cohesive content material in a single shared universe.
As an alternative of transferring ahead with a chain, the MCU introduced the Eternals to the large display. The movie premiered in October 2021 and had an A-list solid together with Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani, Package Harington, Barry Keoghan and Richard Madden. Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao helmed the challenge, which earned $402.1 million on the field place of work. Regardless of its successful run, The Eternals was once the primary MCU movie not to obtain most often certain opinions, incomes 47 % from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.