There’s something about the great open expanse of the American West that captured Chloé Zhao’s imagination.
The endless possibilities, the romance of the untamed wild, the tininess of humanity in the face of the grandness of nature.
It’s something that Zhao has explored in her exquisite award-winning indie films like “The Rider” and “Nomadland.” And it’s a characteristic that Zhao brings over with her to direct Marvel’s “Eternals.”But what could Westerns and superhero movies have in common? More than just a “finite time in popular culture,” as Steven Spielberg has said.
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