Eternals’ Kumail Nanjiani Was Supposed To Play Kingo In An MCU Video Game
Eternals Star Signed On To Be In An Unannounced MCU Video Game That’s Probably Been Scrapped
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There’s a very real chance that, thanks to how poorly their movie performed both critically and financially, we never see any of the Eternals in the MCU ever again. That wasn’t always the plan, though, as one of the film’s leads has revealed that when they signed their deal, not only were they going to appear in six MCU movies, but a tie-in video game was also on the agenda.
Kingo From Eternals Was Meant To Appear In An MCU Video Game
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“I was like, ‘This is going to be my job for the next ten years.’ I signed on for six movies. I signed on for a video game. I signed on for a theme park ride,” Nanjiani revealed. The video game part of Nanjiani’s reveal jumps out to me because, well, this is a video game website, but also because whatever that video game is – or was – it was seemingly never announced, and has presumably now been canceled.
There are a lot of Marvel video games in development right now, and it would have been even more had EA’s Black Panther not been canceled before it was ever announced. However, as far as we know, none of them are directly connected to the MCU. Marvel hasn’t bothered with big-budget tie-in games for the MCU for a very long time. It tested the waters with some of its earlier movies, but between those titles not being well received and games taking longer to make, it has stuck to movies and TV shows.
There Have Been MCU Movies In The Past, But They Weren’t Very Good
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Nanjiani’s comment about signing on to play Kingo in a video game suggests Disney has at least strongly considered giving MCU games another try. Signing on to be Kingo in a game could mean any number of things, of course. Anything from Marvel believing the Eternals was going to be such a gigantic hit that it warranted its own spinoff game to Nanjiani voicing Kingo in Marvel Rivals.
Maybe there were plans for Kingo to show up in Marvel’s Avengers. A real movie/video game double whammy for Nanjiani if that was the plan.
Despite Rivals’ success, the foundation of Marvel video games is even shakier than the one its movies are sitting on right now, at least when it comes to big budget, triple-A titles. Even though we’ll get more Spider-Man, Iron Man and Blade games are in development, and Amy Hennig’s Marvel 1943 is still happening (hopefully), Black Panther was canceled, Insomniac’s rumored Venom and multi-player Spidey games are no longer happening. The focus is shifting to games like Marvel Cosmic Invasion and Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls and honestly, I don’t hate it.
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