John Ridley Reveals His Scrapped Marvel TV Series Was Based On ‘Eternals’: “My Version Was The Good Version”
deadline.comJohn Ridley is finally opening up about the Marvel series he was developing at ABC back in 2015. The Oscar winner made an appearance on the Comic Book Club podcast, where he revealed the Marvel property he had been working on, and it had to do with Eternals. “It’s not in the works anymore,” Ridley revealed. “It was a television version of The Eternals… But good.” At the time, Marvel Television was producing shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Netflix’s Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, among others.
The television arm of Marvel Entertainment was incorporated into the Marvel Studios group and the Eternals series was scrapped. “My version was the good version,” Ridley said. “It was so f***ing weird.
There was my version, a good version, which is good to me, which — that doesn’t mean anything. There was the version that [Marvel] ended up doing, which I don’t think… that version was particularly good.
I’ll be honest.” Marvel ended up producing a film in 2021 based on the Eternals, who are immortal alien beings that emerge from hiding after thousands of years to protect Earth from their counterparts known as the Deviants.
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