“I’m not going to try to do something different for the sake of doing something different-that’s not interesting to me,” Zhao says. Think Tree of Life with swords.) If that sounds like a departure from Marvel’s house style, that’s why they hired her. (This is where the Final Fantasy and Terrence Malick influence comes in. Once Zhao came on board, she reworked the script and made a plan to shoot it in her style: minimal green screen, lots of location shoots, natural light, wide-angle lenses that can capture both close-up intimacy and vast landscapes within the same frame. She spieled her vision, incorporating not just ancient aliens but also manga, Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens, and the visual similarities between Final Fantasy and the films of warrior-poet Terrence Malick.Įternals ventures even further from the Marvel formula.
That’s when Feige, architect of the vast, intertwined Marvel Cinematic Universe, piped up: “I was just watching that the other day!” Spurred on, Zhao hit her groove. Part of her idea for Eternals hinged on a saga of extraterrestrial contact on Earth-just like Ancient Aliens. Just in time, the History Channel show Ancient Aliens came to Zhao’s rescue. The studio’s top brass were there-Kevin Feige, Nate Moore, Louis D'Esposito, and Victoria Alonso-and Zhao was defending her vision like a PhD thesis.
Zhao was in a conference room at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, pitching a Marvel movie. It was summer 2018, the day before the director was supposed to hit the road to film her next small indie film.
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