John Ridley says he wrote the ‘good version’ of Marvel’s ‘Eternals’
John Ridley.
Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SCADJohn Ridley thinks his version of Marvel’s Eternals is superior to the 2021 blockbuster that hit the big screen.
“My version was the good version,” Ridley said during a Tuesday, January 2 episode of the “Comic Book Clubpodcast. “It was so damn weird. There was my version, a good version, which is good for me, and that one – that doesn’t mean anything. There was a version that [Marvel] I ended up doing it, which I don’t think…that version was particularly good. I will be honest.”
Ridley, who wrote the screenplay 12 years slaveexplained that he was working on a Marvel series for ABC in 2015. The concept was based on the Eternals comedy series. The writer confessed that the idea was scrapped and “no longer in the works.”
“My version started with: the first thing you see is a young man, probably about 18 years old,” he explained of the pilot. ‘And he’s sitting there. He sits there for a moment. And then he raises his hands. There’s a drill in it. And he turns on the drill. And he puts the drill to his ear. And he starts pushing it in. And it goes on from there. That’s the beginning, right? This is how it begins. And then I think you see… another child… He sleeps in the bathtub and covers himself with foil. It’s just a really weird story about these people, I mean, it’s just weird.
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The Academy Award winner admitted that his concept received mixed reviews Eternals comic strip was a ‘very difficult feature to develop’.
“The best thing that could have happened for anyone was that it didn’t happen to me because I don’t know if it would have been entertaining,” Ridley admitted. “And I 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 more popular.”
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Long ago WandaVision, Loki and other MCU series on Disney+, Marvel Television – which was a separate property from the film studio – produced several shows for other networks. Agents of SHIELD And Officer Carter ran on ABC, while Netflix had that Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and others. However, in December 2019, Marvel Television merged with Marvel Studios to create cohesive content in one shared universe.
Instead of continuing with a series, the MCU released the Eternals to the big screen. The film premiered in October 2021 and had A-list success, among others Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani, Kit Harington, Barry Keoghan And Richard Madden. Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao helmed the project, which grossed $402.1 million at the box office. Despite its profitable run, The Eternals was the first MCU film to receive no positive reviews overall, earning a 47 percent from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.