Gemma Chan Plays Lead in Marvel's "Eternals"

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed in an interview that Gemma Chan’s character, Sersi, takes a leading role in the highly-anticipated movie "The Eternals".

The movie is directed by Chloé Zhao and written by Matthew and Ryan Firpo.

Filming for Eternals wrapped in February 2020, which was originally slated for release that November, however, the coronavirus pandemic upended those plans.

It will be produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and is intended to be the twenty-fifth film in MCU.

The cast also includes Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Lia McHugh, Don Lee, Gemma Chan, Barry Keoghan, and Kit Harington, and others.

The Eternals are a fictional race of humanoids appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Madden will star as Ikaris, Angelina as Thena, Nanjiani as Kingo Ridloff as Makkari, Henry as Phastos, Salma Hayek as Ajak, Lia McHugh as Sprite, and Don Lee as Gilgamesh, the Forgotten One.

Hayek, whose character is originally a man in the comic, said in a statement that is she “kind of the leader” of the group and has a more motherly role.

Eternals hits theaters on November 5.