Kumail Nanjiani – a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, actor, podcast host, and writer who gained rising popularity when he starred in the romantic comedy The Big Sick, is going to star with Angelina Jolie in the upcoming Marvel Superhero movie. He will be playing the character of Starfox, who is an Eternal from Titan (and Thanos’s brother) with the power to control others emotions.
Upcoming Superhero movie Eternals is the second Phase 5 film after Black Widow and the first to feature all-new Marvel comic book characters. Directed by Matthew and Ryan Firpo and directed by Chloé Zhao (The Rider), Eternals is all set to be released on 6th November 2020.
The movie’s cast looks quite promising and inclusive, with Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie as the first LGBTQ superhero in the franchise, an openly gay character, and Kumail Nanjiani, a POC as one of the lead characters.
The story of the film is centered around a group of immortal beings with the duty of guarding the planet from evil.