Warning: this article contains spoilers for Eternals!

Kaz and Ryan Firpo, writers on the Marvel film Eternals, pitch their idea for a Disney+ series to SR. The two cousins own the story credit on the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to hit theaters, while they share authorship of the screenplay with director Chloé Zhao and Patrick Burleigh. After having its official premiere in October, Eternals finally opened for audiences worldwide this past weekend.

In terms of its storytelling, Zhao's film covers an extensive amount of ground. Not only does Eternals feature an ensemble cast bringing the titular team of immortal aliens to life, causing the script to develop multiple key characters at once, but the plot stretches across their 7,000 years on planet Earth, shifting between the present and various moments in the past. While the movie approaches this challenge by mostly focusing on scenes that impact the group as a whole, the individual Eternals have lived eventful lives of their own in various pockets of the world, with various props and lines of dialogue offering only the slightest hints at these backstories.

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In an exclusive interview with SR, the Eternals screenwriters say this unexplored material would be perfect for a Disney+ MCU series. Kaz envisions each episode dedicated to one of the team members, focusing on a key moment in their histories with humanity. The show would take Marvel fans to places as disparate as Ancient Greece, medieval England, colonial India, and Fiji. Check out Firpo's quote below:

I would do a ten-part Disney+ series and the first episode would be Kingo in 1920s India, hanging out with Gandhi, working on the decolonization of India from the British... Each episode would tackle a really big moment in time, but it would also be like, maybe Sprite would show up for a little bit, Gil comes and says he's put Thena to sleep so I could go to Fiji. I would love to do an episode with Gilgamesh in Fiji just for an hour when he takes his little vacation. And I would do an episode with Thena in ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War, and I would love to take these stories, these one lines that we have... Or Sprite, working as Merlin in King Arthur's court, and it wasn't actually Merlin, it was actually Sprite dressing herself as this old man because no one would take her seriously. [...] That would be a dream project.

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While this concept sees the Eternals intimately intertwined with the course of human history, the future of the characters in the MCU is unlikely to be so earthbound. While some of the group don't survive to the end credits, those that do are set on two distinct paths: Sersi, Phastos, and Kingo, who were attached enough to their mortal lives to remain, are taken by their Celestial creator Arishem for the purpose of examining their memories to determine whether humanity deserved the sacrifice required to save them. Thena, Makkari, and Druig, meanwhile, had already left the planet to search for and reveal the truth to more Eternals, when their ship is boarded by the new MCU hero Starfox (Harry Styles). Both of these developments suggest that the future of Eternals is likely to be more cosmic than Firpo's Disney+ pitch.

Regardless of what comes next for the immortal characters, a series dedicated to their past adventures would be a fascinating way to flesh them out. The handling of Eternals' ensemble has earned it a mixed reception so far, but handing each of the talented performers an hour-long solo-story would both allow them to shine properly and give fans the chance to form a deeper connection with their respective characters. In fact, this might've been a better way to introduce them, setting them up individually before revealing their big team-up movie, but fans can only hope that whatever Feige and Co. have planned for the Eternals reveals more of their intriguing backstories.

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