Sources tellThe Hollywood Reporter that one aspect to the story involves the love story between Ikaris, a man fueled by cosmic energy, and Sersi, who relishes moving amongst humans.

The project also allows Marvel to assemble a diverse cast of various shapes and sizes.

The director search forEternals narrowed in the last few weeks of summer, with a shortlist consisting ofWatchmen pilot helmer Nicole Kassell, Travis Knight (Bumblebee, Kubo and the Two Strings), as well as Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the duo behind Colombian movieBirds of Passage.

Chinese-born Zhao was already well known to Marvel as she went down the road with the company onBlack Widow, the standalone featuring Scarlett Johansson’s spy heroine. That gig ultimately went to Cate Shortland. 

Eternals is a big opportunity for WME-repped Zhao, who will be going from the settings of Native American reservations and American Heartland from her indie festival darlingsThe Rider andSongs My Brothers Taught Me to the epic global, if not intergalactic, scale of this Marvel project.

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