It began with a poem.
Chloé Zhao says that when she went into Marvel Studios to pitch her idea for Eternals, she began with a poem by William Blake called “Auguries of Innocence.” No images, no context, just her reciting the first four lines of the poem which are as follows: “To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.” To her, that was what she wanted the movie to be. It worked.
