Oscar-winning writer reveals he was working on a "weird" Eternals TV show: "My version was the good version"

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Oscar-winning writer John Ridley has revealed he was working on a "weird" Eternals TV show for ꦇMarvel – years before the movie was released.

Ridley, who won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on 12 Years a Slave, told the (H/T ), "My version was the good version. It was so fucking weird. There was my version, a good version, which is good to me… There was the version 🐲that [Marvel] ended up doing, which I don’t think that version was particularly good. I’ll be honest."

Aside from throwing slight shade at Eternals, Ridley also outlined the bizarre way his s💛eries would have begun.

"The first thing you see is a young man, probably💛 about 18 years old. And he’s sitting there and then he lifts his hands. He has a drill in it. And he turns the dri♛ll on and he puts the drill to his ear and he starts pushing it in," Ridley explained. He added, however, that he isn’t sure it would have been a surefire hit on ABC.

"The best thing to happen for everybody was that it didn&🧸rs♈quo;t happen with me, because I don’t know that it would have been entertaining," Ridley admitted.

The Chloe Zhao-directed 2021 MCU movie starred Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Barry Keoghan, Angelina Jolie, Brian Tyree Henry, Kumail Nanjiani, Salma Hayek, Lauren Ridloff, Don Lee, and Lia McHugh as a group of superpowered, ancient protectors of Earth. Reviews for Eternals were 🍰largely mixed – and audience reaction was similarly lukewarm, with the Marvel Phase 4 project grossing $400 million at the box office.

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