Eternos (2021): um estudo de caso sobre adaptação de personagens de histórias em quadrinhos para o cinema

Abstract

The Eternals are Marvel Comics characters that for the first time have won a film adaptation in a market that today is full of films based on comic books, bringing numerous characters that are presented in different ways in relation to the platform of origin, where in some cases the inspired materials are from before the end of the twentieth century. Thus, the present research seeks to understand how characters from comic books have been adapted for cinema in the film Eternals (Zhao, 2021). To achieve the goal, concepts about comics and cinema were discussed, understanding how both languages propose to work before a reading public, as well as how adaptations from one platform to another are worked out. In the research's realization, the case study worked by Yin (2001) was used, allied to the comparative method of Fachin (2001) so that the analysis of the Eternal comics compared to cinema could be carried out. As a result, it was realized that the changes made to the characters in the majority, still manage to establish similarities with their counterparts while still managing to renew the visual and narrative identity of such heroes for a new media medium. Therefore, it is found that film adaptations manage to rework old characters while still trying to reach a new audience in modern times allowing the product's market survival over the years.