Back in 2015, it was announced that 12 Years a Slave writer John Ridley was developing a Marvel TV show for ABC. However, by 2019 the project was cancelled as a result of Marvel Television being folded into Marvel Studios. Five years later, Ridley has revealed that he was working on a TV show based on The Eternals, and in the process he threw some shade at the Eternals move released in 2021.
Ridley stopped by ComicBookClub to talk about his new comic book series The Ministry of Compliance, and towards the end of the interview, he shared that he’d been hired to write “a television of The Eternals.” Keep in mind, the Eternals movie wasn’t officially announced until 2018, so it’s not as though there were two different adaptations on these Jack Kirby-created characters in development at the same time. The writer continued:
