Eternals 2 Is Probably Dead, and Kit Harington’s Not Too Bothered About It

In a caller illustration with GQ, Kit Harington seemed to corroborate his little clip successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe arsenic Dane “The Black Knight” Whitman has drawn to a close—and with it, immoderate seeming program to instrumentality to the satellite of Chloe Zhao’s Eternals altogether.

Following the mediocre reception to the 2021 film, the nonfiction notes its sequel has been “reportedly canned” (a Variety report pulling from the illustration further claims that an Eternals sequel was not successful development). His character’s planned instrumentality successful the chronically doomed Blade reboot is additionally improbable astatine this point, either, fixed Harington’s wide feelings astir his clip successful the MCU. “I’m not gonna unreal I took that [role] due to the fact that it was antithetic and interesting,” Harington said of Eternals. “If Marvel calls, you gotta bash it.”

It seems past that the satellite Eternals near down volition conscionable person to beryllium touched connected elsewhere—we already know, for example, that the next Captain America movie is going to beryllium the movie that yet picks up connected that full “so hey there’s the petrified corpse of a half-birthed Celestial conscionable hanging successful the Indian Ocean” plotline, of each films.

But that gives Harington the accidental helium wants arsenic an actor—to turn beyond what defined him in Game of Thrones. “If you’ve been the young antheral pb successful something, and you could reason that I got fixed that accidental because of my appearance. The interest is that that’s each your worthy is. And for me, the older I get, the much that drops away. The much I get to judge [that] no, I’m an actor. And I’ve been astir for a while. And I’m inactive working. And truthful astatine immoderate point, I person to judge that mightiness person thing to bash with my endowment arsenic well.” Whatever that aboriginal holds, it astir apt won’t impact a instrumentality to the MCU immoderate clip soon.

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