{"id":107852,"date":"2019-04-08T13:53:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T12:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=107852"},"modified":"2019-04-08T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T12:53:48","slug":"marvels-the-eternals-film-adds-kumail-nanjiani-to-the-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/marvels-the-eternals-film-adds-kumail-nanjiani-to-the-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel&#8217;s The Eternals film adds Kumail Nanjiani to the cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/kumail-nanjiani-talks-marvels-eternals-1199458\">THR<\/a>, the brilliant Kumail Nanjiani has just been added to the cast of\u00a0<em><strong>The Eternals<\/strong><\/em>, one of two Marvel films readying to begin shooting this year.<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with him, Nanjiani is an actor and comedian best known for writing and starring in hit 2017 rom-com\u00a0<em><strong>The Big Sick<\/strong><\/em>, as well as appearing in &#8216;<em><strong>The Comedian<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; episode of Jordan Peele&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>The Twilight Zone\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>reboot, HBO&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Silicon Valley\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and more.<\/p>\n<p>Marvel&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>The Eternals\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is based on the 1976 comic book series by Jack Kirby, which follows a superhero group that goes by the same name. A fictional species of humanity, they each possess powers like flight, superhuman strength, teleportation, forcefield generation, transmuting objects and more.\u00a0Together, they team up to defend the Earth and wage a war against their destructive counterparts known as the Deviants.<\/p>\n<p>Chlo\u00e9 Zhao (<em><strong>The Rider<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Songs My Brothers Taught Me<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0is set to direct from a script by Matthew K Firpo and Ryan Firpo. The only other star currently attached is Angelina Jolie, who is rumoured to be playing Sersi, an immortal member of the Eternals whole lives among humans.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Eternals<\/strong><\/em><strong> doesn&#8217;t yet have a release date. Get all the latest superhero news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumail Nanjiani has joined the cast of Marvel&#8217;s The Eternals <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":107853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[6467],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/kumail-nanjiani.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}