Eternals Director Explains Why She Joined The MCU

Chloé Zhao’s first feature film, Songs my Brothers Taught Me was nominated for an award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, and in early 2021 we’ll see Eternals, a brand new chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, debut in theaters. It’s quite a massive shift in a pretty short period of time, especially considering Zhao’s latest film Nomadland, is expected to open in theaters before the end of the year. It’s an obvious question to ask why the director would make the decision to jump into something so different as a Marvel movie. Of course, the answer she gave Indiewire is perhaps not all that unexpected. She did it because she’s a fan. Zhao explains…

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