In Eternals, Sersi is a museum curator on Earth, who’s dating a man named Dane Whitman, before she and the rest of the Eternals reunite to fight the Deviants. Sersi, who is love interests with Ikaris, has the ability to manipulate inanimate matter. Gemma Chan, who is best known for her role as Astrid Leong in Crazy Rich Asians, plays Sersi, an Eternal with a strong connection to humans and the Earth. It doesn’t mean we can’t pay tribute to the really iconic version that we’ve all grown to love and has influenced us.” Angelina Jolie as ThenaĬourtesy of Everett Collection. “We’re playing on a genre that draws so much from mythology, and Superman, for example, was created in the comics and also by these brilliant filmmakers along the way-they’re modern reinterpretations of a mythical characters that exist in different cultures,” she said. In an interview with Variety, Zhao explained why she decided to include the scene in Eternals. The parallels are referenced in Eternals when Jack, Phastos’ son, told his father, “Dad, that’s Superman! With the cape, and you were shooting laser beams out of your eyes!” To which Ikaris responds, “I don’t wear a cape.” Ikaris’ powers have some similarities to those of Superman from the DC Comics. Ikaris, who is Sersi’s love interest, can fly and project cosmic energy beams from his eyes. Richard Madden, who is best known for his role as Robb Stark in Game of Thrones, plays Ikaris in Eternals. And Diane Kruger shows an adeptness for playing an alien that she had not shown for playing human beings over the past decade.Image: Courtesy of Everett Collection. At the worst of times, you have the anticlimactic 'The Host' which states in its own less than credible way that what makes us all human is inane soap opera, as expressed by author Stephenie Meyer's awkward sexual politics.(If Saoirse Ronan ends up looking lost, you know there is something seriously wrong with the story.) Even after a bad start, the movie does get somewhat better when William Hurt shows up on the scene.

Melanie has other ideas, however.Įven at the best of times, it can be hard to visualize certain concepts of science fiction for the big screen. For the Seeker(Diane Kruger), that is not out of the ordinary, as she hopes to get Wanderer to provide intelligence on other humans like Melanie's younger brother Jamie(Chandler Canterbury) and friend Jared(Max Irons). But somehow Melanie still resides in the back of her brain. Somehow she survives, even after literally putting a dent into the pavement. Instead of being assimilated into an alien intelligence that has conquered the earth, Melanie(Saoirse Ronan) jumps out of a window from a tall building.

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