Here's everything you need to know about the Domo, the spaceship that brought the Eternals to Earth. In the comics, the Eternals are an evolutionary offshoot of humanity created by a cosmic race of beings known as the Celestials. The Eternals have been reinvented for the MCU, however, transformed into a race of ancient aliens sent to Earth by the Celestials in order to protect the planet from a monstrous race known as the Deviants. They arrived on Earth 7,000 years ago, in the Cradle of Civilization, and they've exerted a profound influence on humanity's culture and mythology.

The Eternals came to Earth in a spaceship called the Domo, and it's unlike anything seen before in the MCU. The name is an amusing comic book Easter egg - there, Domo is an Eternal who uses a highly advanced hoverchair, an analog of DC Comics' Metron. Because director Chloe Zhao prefers physical productions, Marvel Studios constructed a vast physical set of the spaceship's interior, a remarkable feat given the speed of production.

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Screen Rant participated in set visits for Eternals at Pinewood Studios in January 2020, on the last day of filming. There, Marvel Studios revealed the Domo set in all its glory, explaining the inspiration and secrets of its design.

The Domo Is Inspired By Sacred Geometry

Raising ship in Eternals

Production designer Eve Stewart explained that the design of the Domo was influenced by the study of sacred gemoetry. "Because the Celestials are gods and they've created the Eternals, we wanted to... look at symbolism from every religion across the world that kind of means something," she explained. Marvel realized triangles and circles were recurring shapes that recurred in every single religion across the globe, and so they incorporated these into the overall look and feel of the Domo. Property Master Craig Price unveiled a scale model of the Domo, pointing to the circular theme and the gold rings, which transfer into the interior of the Domo - which is dominated by three large, circular rooms.

The textures used in the Domo are inspired by the dust from meteors. "So I went for weeks to the Science Museum here," Stewart said, "looked at meteors, looked at moon rocks, looked at all sorts of stuff. And then in the end... we decided to do it as the kind of dust that you see that trail meteors." Excitingly, just a few weeks before production finished scientists discovered a new kind of material from a meteor that had just landed, and it corresponded with the look and feel of the Domo. "We had a premonition," she quipped.

The Bridge of the Domo

Featured in the final Eternals trailer, the bridge, one of the most important rooms in the Domo and actually constructed by Marvel, is dominated by a model of the Celestial Arishem. It's only a statue - the real Arishem is supposed to be about 200 miles in height - but it stands at the center of a sacred circle around which the Eternals gather. "Because this room became a kind of a cathedral to the Eternals and they come together in here, it sounds like St. Paul's Cathedral," Stewart revealed. The walls are covered with patterns and symbols, representing each of the different Eternals; many of them really do say words like "man," "son," "gods," "planets." "So when they come in and turn into their super suits, they're like here, and the light comes and it comes through them, and it matches the circles," Stewart continued. "And that was a window to Earth and space. So that is bluescreen... Once all lit up from beneath, it became a real kind of a geological, very organic experiment. It was very beautiful."

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The bridge has been designed to look like a deeply spiritual place, with the shapes reminiscent of mosques, synagogues, Christian churches, and other temples. For shooting, it was lit from the bottom, with the lights underneath and a layer of fiberglass on top of it. The bridge was built in just eight weeks, and upon completion of filming it would be taken down again, with the statue and other key items kept for future use. Interestingly, the set was only possible because Pinewood has constructed stages that are 50 feet in height, higher than normal.

Makkari's Room

Movie trailers for Eternals have shown Makkari in a room full of artifacts gathered throughout Earth history, ranging from a pack of Pop-Tarts to medieval British armor. According to Eve Stewart, Makkari has been hiding out on the ship, and she's become an avid reader, collecting books and speed-reading them. "I think she can read through 1200 pages a minute or something," Stewart observed. "So we had to at one stage, this was absolutely full of books and artifacts that piqued her interest."

Craig Price showed off some of the items that had apparently been in the room. "We needed furniture that obviously was conventional furniture, but an unconventional design that's not easily recognizable," he explained, "and so Eve has come up with a design for tables, chairs, things to be dressed into the lab." There are different ball games and dice games, tools supposedly created by Phastos - everything he makes has a golden shimmer of cosmic energy around it - and a life-size model of Angelina Jolie as Thena the warrior. For that, a full-body scan of her was printed and hand-sculpted, designed to look as though it is centuries old. "There are various other bits and pieces in folklore," he added. "There is an emerald tablet, which comes from Sumeria way back when. And so we reproduced copies of those. They were a real thing, but we've obviously taken a little bit of artistic license on them to create them into our film." He pointed to dinosaur skulls, a reproduction of an ancient flask, pottery, and, most curious of all, an obsidian blade, that perhaps foreshadows the Black Knight's Ebony Blade. The rooms are lit by what the crew call "virus lights," glass lights created by a sculptor who patterns them after viruses. The detail doesn't stop there as they're actual scale models of real viruses, meaning they actually have proteins on them.

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All in all, the Eternals sets were remarkable - especially because of the sheer speed with which they were made. Interestingly, Marvel did note that the Domo is dominated by three vast spherical rooms, but only showed Screen Rant around two. The third room - which hasn't been seen in the trailers, either - is clearly still a secret, being kept back for the Eternals movie itself. Only then will all the truths of the Domo finally be revealed.

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