Druig and Sersi shared a romance in early drafts of the script

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Kaz and Ryan Firpo, essayists on the Marvel film Eternals, reveal that Druig and Sersi shared a romance in early drafts of the script. After suffering pandemic-related delays and screening for attendees of the Rome Film Festival, the 26th passage in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is currently playing in theaters around the world. Eternals is coordinated by Chloé Zhao, new off her effective Oscar campaign for Nomadland, who shares a writing credit alongside the two Firpo cousins and Patrick Burleigh.

Notwithstanding, in a selective interview with SR, the Firpos reveal that circle of drama initially looked totally different. Ryan portrays early versions of the Eternals script in which Sersi and Barry Keoghan’s Druig also had a romantic past, which moved the circle of drama component from Ikaris’ initial arrival in London to when the saints attempt to enlist a reluctant Druig to their cause. While that created additional tension in that already pivotal scene, he says, the filmmakers are ultimately glad they got away from that dynamic:

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I actually recollect even versions, really early versions, where even Druig and Sersi had a strange easily overlooked detail. So it created an intricacy when they went to get Druig, and he dismissed them, and it created much more tension and there was a little circle of drama thing, yet we got away from that. I’m really happy with the Makkari-Druig science, it’s a really decent addition to the movie.

While it’s only natural that various romantic attachments structure between the immortal aliens during their extended stay on Earth, this particular one might’ve been met with some resistance from fans. In addition to the fact that it is hard to imagine the pairing of Keoghan and Chan eliciting the same sparks as Keoghan and Ridloff, Druig’s criticism addresses almost something contrary to Sersi’s point of view toward human nature, much more so than does Ikaris’ apathy. Regardless of whether the version of Eternals that made it to screens is eliciting blended responses from watchers, most fans are probably going to agree that excising this romance was the right move.

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