Heaven Certain Feels Like Hell in Afterlife Dramedy ‘Eternity’

Quirky depictions of the afterlife have been well-explored by motion pictures and TV; suppose Albert Brooks’ movie Defending Your Life or Kristen Bell’s sequence The Good Place. However the quandary launched in Eternity is a very prickly one, as a girl who’s lived a protracted life that encompassed two comfortable marriages crosses over… right into a fantastical however weirdly bureaucratic model of purgatory, the place she’s knowledgeable she should choose between her likes to resolve her everlasting companion.

The brand new trailer for Eternity dropped at the moment, and if that premise makes you wish to scream, a minimum of the forged has numerous attraction: Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, Miles Teller, John Early, and Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph.

Who else muttered “Oh, she’s within the Dangerous Place” to themselves whereas watching that? Right here’s the official plot description, which doesn’t actually elaborate extra on what the trailer exhibits: “In an afterlife the place souls have one week to resolve the place to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is confronted with the unattainable alternative between the person she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her old flame (Callum Turner), who died younger and has waited many years for her to reach.”

It’s the afterlife. It’s a magical realm. They don’t say “heaven,” however it appears to be like fairly dreamy other than all that ridiculous romantic drama. Why can’t Joan have it each methods? Who made up these guidelines? ONE WEEK?? Is there any room to barter?

All can be revealed when Eternity, which was written by David Freyne (The Cured), hits theaters in November.

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